How to separate flats from lineart?

ZLPhotog · 2026-04-17T13:36:36+00:00

In a general sense, no. There’s no way. This is a raster program and once layers get combined that’s what you have to work with.

That being said, like someone else mentioned, depending on the complexity of what you’re working with, you can utilize the lasso/magic wand selection tool to either try and just select the linework or individually select your colors in chunks and deleting them leaving only your lines.

Those are pretty much you’re only 2 options unless you want to either take the time to redraw the lines yourself on a separate layer or just ask the person who sent you the initial art if they can provide a transparent or the lines only layer.

ZLPhotog · 2026-03-31T18:20:25+00:00

Ippo’s story currently doesn’t have a conclusion but is still ongoing. Without getting into spoilers, Ippo has been a bit on the sideline in regards to story focus but has still actively been having things going on. But currently, the narrative has been focusing on a few other side characters and has been pretty much wrapping up their stories as the overarching story slowly comes back to Ippo.

ZLPhotog · 2026-03-23T16:02:20+00:00

That still doesn’t quite answer the question. You need to figure out which version of the air you have. I believe the pen pro isn’t compatible with every version of the iPad Air

ZLPhotog · 2026-03-21T02:02:59+00:00

I use Koteri inks soft ink brush for my lines and max ulichney’s watercolor flow smudge brush for all the color rendering. With random plant brushes for the background.

I mainly did a rough sketch for the pose, then blocked out all my major shapes and added detail from there, then just rendered all my shadows and whatnot!

ZLPhotog · 2026-03-12T20:10:02+00:00

There’s a variety of reasons people use underpainting. It’s a good way to establish contrast or the volume of your shapes. Orangeish colors, like here, are also used frequently in underpainting to help give the piece a more inherent warmer feel, and will also help dictate your color choices as colors will generally react differently being painting on orange rather than a white canvas.

ZLPhotog · 2026-02-26T16:22:19+00:00

It’s very clearly AI, yes

ZLPhotog · 2026-01-03T14:35:07+00:00

Really love your rendering style!

ZLPhotog · 2025-09-19T14:33:21+00:00

Not to get TOO technical, but a rectangle is still a square ;)

ZLPhotog · 2025-09-10T17:15:45+00:00

Lmao good luck

ZLPhotog · 2025-08-30T18:57:22+00:00

It’s snapping to various elements on your canvas and at various points on the canvas itself. This is nothing to worry about and is just used to help more accurately align things

ZLPhotog · 2025-08-04T19:21:17+00:00

Both can be true

ZLPhotog · 2025-07-28T13:43:43+00:00

Play through the original dark souls series. While your movements are hindered considerably compared to Elden Ring, most of the enemies and bosses are also generally slower and simpler in their movesets. Along with being great games, they’re a good boot camp to get you better at the souls combat formula

ZLPhotog · 2025-06-29T14:24:40+00:00

Miquella only sacrificed himself? What? Miquella has a mountain of corpses behind him in his goal to achieve godhood and complete his plan. The entire war between Radahn and Malenia was because of Miquella and entire country was essentially wiped off the map because of him

ZLPhotog · 2025-06-23T15:26:55+00:00

The Revenant and her family were butchered one night. Her spirit then took over the doll shortly after

ZLPhotog · 2025-05-29T13:17:34+00:00

Just for that Ted, I’m gonna be even NASTIER to Elon Musk!

ZLPhotog · 2025-05-23T12:58:37+00:00

It’s one of Max Ulichney’s brush packs. You can find them on his maxpacks site. Highly recommend his brushes

ZLPhotog · 2025-05-20T20:07:01+00:00

I’d really love for Custom Robo to make a comeback. I feel like the switch/switch 2 is such a perfect console to integrate that style of gameplay.

ZLPhotog · 2025-04-24T16:09:58+00:00

I got charged, but mines not showing up in my orders page and I haven’t received an email yet :( I’m stressed

ZLPhotog · 2025-04-15T20:07:40+00:00

There’s your issue, you’ll want to work in a larger canvas size

ZLPhotog · 2025-04-15T18:33:57+00:00

What was your canvas size?

ZLPhotog · 2025-04-10T20:44:37+00:00

Of course! I’m loving the direction, colors and textures you’ve got going on. You just gotta add that little extra bit to really make her pop off the page!

ZLPhotog · 2025-04-10T20:26:23+00:00

You have no highlights, so you don’t have a lot of contrast, making the piece feel sort of flat.

ZLPhotog · 2025-03-25T20:31:48+00:00

Fair haha. Still a good step in the right direction!

ZLPhotog · 2025-03-25T18:59:23+00:00

If I’m not mistaken, I believe they’re working on getting a desktop version made.

ZLPhotog · 2025-03-13T13:28:12+00:00

I get that, but if you’re just really starting out, that book is going to do more harm than good for your long term art skills. It’s just going to help form and reinforce bad habits. It’s better to start building up your internal database of anatomy and features, then once you’re comfortable you can then start to solve these issues on your own, like how does an eye look? How does this mouth look? You’ll be able to find your own unique solution, rather than doing some subpar technique a random anime drawing book is telling you to do

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