You're speaking to exactly me sir!! 😢😢 Thank you so much for the advice and talking through, I'm just gonna safe this to come back to whenever I'm feeling this stress again, or to remember the tips! 🙏💚
Really nice to see your workflow! Small quite insignificant tip: You can just left click the lock icon once on the background layer to unlock it without going through double clicking and closing the pop-up window. This can save you 10s of your life throughout your art career, which is probably less than you spend reading this comment and trying it out.
My go to motto has always been "everytime when feeling negative feelings while painting create a new layer to ease the pain". I painted this big worldmap once and by the end of the project I started having layers named "Layer 489" and so on. This video was definitely pointed at me :D
Damn brother! I think I needed this one. I have been using your Gauntlet method because, in part, I like the adrenaline rush it brings. The other part is it means I can concentrate on brushwork, value, shapes etc. Recently I've been using a multiply layer for a sketch over the top until I don't need it anymore. Also layers makes me think more in the "playing chess" space than the "make cool stuff" space. Lastly I'm inherently lazy and a degenerate procrastinator and layer management requires me to do the hours of courses I'm enrolled in where I have to learn actual things that would make things easier rather than just have fun but not progressing. In writing, I play in both head spaces. I'm in "make cool stuff" mode on first draft and then in "playing chess" mode in subsequent drafts, rearranging scenes, editing and applying "values" in emotion and mood. Then I thought layers is just an analogy for chapters and scenes and I really should learn something about them. Your merging methodology is really just drafts in a novel if you get what I mean. This is what I really needed to see. I will get to those courses and drag myself out of noob stage, but this video is a cool bridge in my understanding. I was actually thinking about this yesterday. Sorry to get all philosophical on you, but on so many of your commentaries and tutorials talk to me on a multitude of "layers" in terms of art forms... music, art, writing etc. Peace man and thank you 🤘
Thank you tons, brother, I appreciate you Brent! Yeah, I find I always try to balance the whole "mechanics vs. theory" stuff during every session I sit down and paint, so it was my goal early in the career to get a very fast, very repeatable method for working (no matter the program or assignment). It'll be something I always try to refine, but I'm feeling good and comfortable with where it's at right now! It's always nice when I can do things to "get out of my own way", if that makes sense LOL. You got this!
Breaking down this video into personal and client perspective views is perfect. Thanks Wes ! I have a more freestyle way of merging layers: - Click on the first layer you want to merge, then shift+left click on the last one (or ctrl+left click on the particular layer you want). - Then ctrl+ j (duplicate the selection) and press ctrl+e (merge selection). I think it works for every layer's properties: hidden, group, or locked. And if you want to merge everything visible in one trick: ctrl+ shift+ e
You're speaking to exactly me sir!! 😢😢 Thank you so much for the advice and talking through, I'm just gonna safe this to come back to whenever I'm feeling this stress again, or to remember the tips! 🙏💚
Really nice to see your workflow! Small quite insignificant tip: You can just left click the lock icon once on the background layer to unlock it without going through double clicking and closing the pop-up window. This can save you 10s of your life throughout your art career, which is probably less than you spend reading this comment and trying it out.
OH MAN THAT'S RAD! I had no idea LOL, like I said, I've used this dang software for like two decades and there's still stuff I have no idea about!
My go to motto has always been "everytime when feeling negative feelings while painting create a new layer to ease the pain". I painted this big worldmap once and by the end of the project I started having layers named "Layer 489" and so on. This video was definitely pointed at me :D
THANK YOU!!!
never thought Nick Frost would be my favorite art teacher
Ha! I'll take it!
Damn brother! I think I needed this one. I have been using your Gauntlet method because, in part, I like the adrenaline rush it brings. The other part is it means I can concentrate on brushwork, value, shapes etc. Recently I've been using a multiply layer for a sketch over the top until I don't need it anymore. Also layers makes me think more in the "playing chess" space than the "make cool stuff" space. Lastly I'm inherently lazy and a degenerate procrastinator and layer management requires me to do the hours of courses I'm enrolled in where I have to learn actual things that would make things easier rather than just have fun but not progressing. In writing, I play in both head spaces. I'm in "make cool stuff" mode on first draft and then in "playing chess" mode in subsequent drafts, rearranging scenes, editing and applying "values" in emotion and mood. Then I thought layers is just an analogy for chapters and scenes and I really should learn something about them. Your merging methodology is really just drafts in a novel if you get what I mean. This is what I really needed to see. I will get to those courses and drag myself out of noob stage, but this video is a cool bridge in my understanding. I was actually thinking about this yesterday. Sorry to get all philosophical on you, but on so many of your commentaries and tutorials talk to me on a multitude of "layers" in terms of art forms... music, art, writing etc. Peace man and thank you 🤘
Thank you tons, brother, I appreciate you Brent! Yeah, I find I always try to balance the whole "mechanics vs. theory" stuff during every session I sit down and paint, so it was my goal early in the career to get a very fast, very repeatable method for working (no matter the program or assignment). It'll be something I always try to refine, but I'm feeling good and comfortable with where it's at right now! It's always nice when I can do things to "get out of my own way", if that makes sense LOL. You got this!
Breaking down this video into personal and client perspective views is perfect. Thanks Wes !
I have a more freestyle way of merging layers:
- Click on the first layer you want to merge, then shift+left click on the last one (or ctrl+left click on the particular layer you want).
- Then ctrl+ j (duplicate the selection) and press ctrl+e (merge selection).
I think it works for every layer's properties: hidden, group, or locked.
And if you want to merge everything visible in one trick: ctrl+ shift+ e
Oh man, that's WAY faster. I need to buckle down and really learn some hotkeys instead of fiddling around with clicking menus!
@@ArtOfWesGardner ahah yea, shortcuts are incredible for gain times, you're welcome!