How To Add Shadows To Your Krita 5 Animations

[@TonyGaddisToons]

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[@Munkaa]

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[@victorraymond4464]

Your tutorials are always amazing, Thank You.

[@mehrabahmedhasam5998]

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[@brandon_4902]

Sorry, I still don’t know how you added your shadow with the fill tool, without it overriding your line art. Even when I add another layer, it just ignores the fact that my line art is there, and completely fills the entire frame. Help from a noobey.

[@Munkaa]

No problem. I will try to help... So every tool in Krita has tool options, first make sure you see your window with the tool options somewhere on your screen when you open Krita ( Settings-Dockers-Tool Options) So after you have that window you simply select your fill tool and check the reference in the tool options if it selected to: fill regions found from the mergings of all layers, it's the second box (the middle one if you will). So with that selected now every layer will be visiable for the fill tool. Let me know if it helps. Good luck!

[@brandon_4902]

@@Munkaa Thank you so much! I actually can’t express to you how much this helped me. I was a bit worried that if I drew a shadow line on the line art in a separate layer, and filled it in, it wouldn’t count the inclusion of the line art. But it did! Which I’m happy about. This is something I probably would have never found out about on my own, especially with the many searches I did, and no answers. Thank you🙏.

[@brandon_4902]

Also one last thing. I was wondering how other animators add a shadow line art, then use the fill tool for the shadow, but yet you still notice the outline. Is there a way to also over lap it without the need for the grow x2 adjust usage. Especially when they use a certain line art with different colors as a way to know which colors should be used, it just seems there’s only so much the fill tool can do for those situations.