I draw right from the start when it's a small area which is easy to control. The solid color is to create mask. The color just makes it easier to see. You can also create selections with lasso tool or magic wand. When a layer have a mask, you can't color on the part that is masked. The watercolor brushes will create overlap stroke, not an even area if not drawn in one stroke. After masking, you can just increase the brush to be very big then wing it in one stroke. It's like using masking fluid on real life watercolor drawing, but in reverse. You can see my other written tutorial I pinned for an easier explanation with image.

I'll go take a look now!

please update me the result!

Thank you my friend, hope to see your drawing soon <3

default csp realistic watercolor brushes

uh mình là người Việt ^^ gửi lời chào đến meo meo nhà bạn nhé

@@meomeongungu wao quá dữ!

sorry for the late reply. The layer mask created like that for two reasons: - easy to control borders, - and can be reused to create the same mask later with another layer, if needed. (CSP doesnt have a way to directly copy/paste mask yet) Clipping mask won't show through, you are left with whatever color in the layer you clipped to and as such the drawing wont be transparent, watercolor-like. Lock alpha pixel often works well for smaller brush strokes, it'll be hard to cover a wide, united surface. Not to mention some user-made watercolor brushes wont work with lock alpha pixel (will just be flat area without texture, unlike the official csp brushes).

If you plan to print out the artwork or use it for hi res game/live2d/vtube assets, sure. If you only post to social apps you can draw in lower res. Beware that some brushes/textures look different on different res.

@@meomeongungu Thank you so much! Your tutorial was so very helpful!

Please see this tutorial for the paper texture: tips.clip-studio.com/en-us/articles/5651#519c1a1f

@@meomeongungu thank you so much ♥️

on a colored layer: create selection. Hide that colored layer (the eye icon on the left) then create a new layer while the selection is still active (that's why it "went white", i just hide the colored layers' folder so they turned off at once). Create the mask on the newly created layer. about "masking the highlight: use a spray brush to draw the highlight on a separate layer. Right click > create selection. While the selection is still active, click on the mask (black rectangle on the right), hit delete. If you look closely you can see that I hit the delete button on the bar in the middle.

Thank you! Hope you can have a good result with this!

Thank you!

You can download them from Clip Studio Asset. I've included the link in the tutorial in the video description, along with every brush and material used in the clip.

@@meomeongungu thank you very much !

yes that was exactly that. Plus if you use the textured pen, the border will look more natural with jagged outer.

@@meomeongungu Ooh that's interesting, gotcha! And thank youuu <3

I "erased" the color using the layer mask. Look at the layer panel, the mask icon is to the right (black one). Use any brush, pick "transparent" as the "color" and draw on the mask to hide what's on the layer. Pick any other color to reveal it again. See my simplified tip for the detail on how to use layer mask: tips.clip-studio.com/en-us/articles/5651

thanks for the nice reply ^^

Thank you so much!

please see the other video in the description, or my tutorial: tips.clip-studio.com/en-us/articles/5651#7f9482a8

glad it helped fellow Vietnamese :))

@@meomeongungu ôi mê style quá ạ :( thấy tên kênh là nghi nghi rồi bồ ơi <3

@@MrZet124 chờ xem sản phẩm của bạn :D

twitter.com/chatte_rose Thank you ^^

If you don't intend to print out the drawing, you can skip the dpi (do not set it too low or too high otherwise the brushes' texture may not work properly). Typically my drawing are around 2000x3000px only (144dpi) For printing and some work requirements like gaming assets, the size can go as high as 7000x12000px, 300 (colored/greyscale) or 600dpi (black and white) (this is for books and magazine. Real-life size banners and billboards require just 72dpi and lower pixel size accordingly) Just for watercolor pieces like this, I don't recommend using a too large canvas, since irl you often can't stuff too many details in an analog watercolor painting. In fact you should do it as little detailed as possible so your drawing looks more convinced ^^ (also digital watercolor drawing still relies on scanned real-life watercolor textures. If your drawing is too big the textures can look fake)

@@meomeongungu That is fantastic info, I will put it to good use. Thank you so much!

The solid color blocks were to create masks. I didn't remove them, use them to create selections (right-click on the layer > Create selection). Make a new layer then create a layer mask using the selection (click the circle inside a square button on layer panel). This way you can't go outside of the mask and can fill the layer with 1 stroke. The watercolor brush itself is multiply mode; normally if you don't have very steady hand it'll be hard to draw a flat watercolor wash. Since CSP doesn't have a way to copy&paste masks, I keep the solid color block in case I need to create the same mask. Using some custom brush you can get away with multi strokes and still have flat surface. But it'll be harder to create gradient.

I don't blend in this tutorial. I just use airbrush on watercolor texture and/or layer mask. The default brush set does include an okay-ish blender brush if you want one.

they are all default brush, under realistic watercolor sub tool. Except for one, you can go to the tutorial link under the description to find it.

thank you!

đầu tiên em chọn model nam/nữ trước, kéo từ bảng material thả vào chỗ vẽ. Sau đó mới chọn pose mong muốn, kéo thả đè vào model đó nhé.

Thank you very much <3

Thanks for the comment! I don't draw with watercolor these days so I doubt it, but I'll consider some more digital watercolor videos in the future ^^

@@meomeongungu sure there's no need to do it haha btw it doesn't have to be watercolor you can upload whatever you like even if it's just a sketch :)