[0:00] hi I'm Mary U and as you may know V
[0:03] models are notorious for needing to be
[0:05] separated in parts and layers often
[0:07] hundreds of them but today that 40 layer
[0:10] limit in PR crate is not going to stop
[0:11] me from achieving greatness and it will
[0:13] not stop you either I'm showcasing some
[0:16] of my recent models that I drew with
[0:18] procreate and rig and live 2D I have
[0:20] been a loyal procreate user since the
[0:23] beginning of my aring career all my
[0:25] models are drawn completely in prr never
[0:27] changed even at the toughest times never
[0:30] doubted you want te my G so if I can do
[0:32] it you can also create models of this
[0:35] quality and I will show you how the
[0:37] general solution is to sever your model
[0:39] into Parts usually two to five files
[0:42] export them as psds then piece them
[0:44] together at the end on the computer
[0:46] using Photoshop or Clips paint I'll show
[0:49] you the complete process and things you
[0:51] need to look out for please watch until
[0:53] the end because there is one big common
[0:55] problem with exporting psds from
[0:58] procreate if this is your first try
[1:00] making VOR models I recommend starting
[1:02] off with a chibi or a half body model to
[1:04] keep things easier and to get familiar
[1:06] with the overall workflow
[1:10] first okay let's start with per cre
[1:13] setup when you first create a canvas
[1:15] preferably make the width more than
[1:17] 3,000 and the length according to your
[1:19] character's height I usually give myself
[1:21] 4 to 5,000 but try to have more than 10
[1:24] layers available then go to settings
[1:27] canvas toggle drawing guide edit drawing
[1:31] guide and go to Symmetry and done now
[1:35] your current layer should stay assisted
[1:37] and everything you draw is symmetrical
[1:39] you can go back to settings and toggle
[1:41] off the drawing guide to get rid of the
[1:43] line and as long as your layer still
[1:45] says assisted it's still going to be
[1:47] symmetrical but when you make a new
[1:49] layer normally you have to turn on and
[1:51] off the cyst by clicking on the layer
[1:54] but I find it much more practical to
[1:56] make this button a shortcut so to do
[1:58] that go in settings preps gesture
[2:01] controls and in assisted drawing turn on
[2:05] the first tap Square setting and it
[2:08] might conflict with your default
[2:09] shortcut but screw whichever shortcut
[2:11] you previously had and now that this
[2:13] button is drawing assist you can sketch
[2:15] your model out way easier hopefully I'm
[2:19] going to put my sketch time lapse as
[2:21] examples it's just a sketch but try to
[2:24] include all the details and colors you
[2:26] need this is because it will be much
[2:28] harder to adjust these things later on
[2:30] while seeing how the entire model looks
[2:33] since your model will be severed when
[2:35] you're done with your sketch you can
[2:37] merge all the layers by pinching them
[2:39] together I mean if you want to preserve
[2:41] them you can duplicate your file but
[2:43] before we move on I found out that life
[2:46] 2D actually desaturates the PSD exported
[2:49] from procreate by like 10% so I'm going
[2:52] to turn the saturation up in the sketch
[2:55] beforehand to compensate for that and
[2:58] since everything's one layer it's it's
[2:59] easier to do color adjustments and this
[3:01] was my final color adjustment and to
[3:04] move on to the detailed model going to
[3:06] duplicate my file just going to one of
[3:09] them and going to crop tojust the
[3:15] head and I can turn on snapping to
[3:18] center it and crop out all the empty
[3:20] space to save more layers similarly if
[3:24] you want to move onto the body or legs
[3:26] just duplicate the original sketch and
[3:28] then crop to get more layers now for the
[3:30] reference layers I duplicated to have
[3:33] two one on low opacity and one on 100%
[3:36] opacity the lower one is for tracing and
[3:38] the higher one for color picking so I'm
[3:41] going to demonstrate I'm going to make
[3:42] some new layers turn on our assisted
[3:45] with our short cut and you can watch me
[3:47] struggle with line art I do find that my
[3:49] line art looks very pixelated a lot of
[3:52] times you can turn on anti- aazing in
[3:54] your brush settings find a smoother
[3:57] brush or make the canvas bigger but I
[3:59] just Incorporated it with my sketchy art
[4:00] style my first tip is that lufy is your
[4:04] best friend is my best friend anyway and
[4:07] once you have an enclosed line art you
[4:09] can go to select in
[4:12] automatic click the outside of the line
[4:15] art hold and drag left and right to
[4:17] adjust the threshold and to further
[4:19] avoid the type of overfilled
[4:22] border we can click on feather and have
[4:25] around
[4:26] 3% and click invert then go into layers
[4:30] make a new layer underneath toggle on
[4:32] the 100% reference layer hold to pick
[4:35] the color turn it off and then color
[4:37] drop on our current layer when you color
[4:40] drop don't let go and then hold to drag
[4:42] left and right for the threshold again
[4:44] that's what the feather is for and
[4:46] utilize your appropriate shortcuts like
[4:48] if I want to Alpha lock this layer I can
[4:51] swipe to the right with two fingers on
[4:53] the layer and now I can change the color
[4:55] of my line art without the color
[4:57] spilling outside
[5:00] also I have this life-saving hair brush
[5:03] Auto line art that I'm going to upload
[5:05] along with my whole favorite brush set
[5:07] on COI for free Link in the description
[5:09] most brushes are not created by me I
[5:11] just stole them from different free
[5:12] brush sets Okay so the way you use this
[5:15] brush is that first you draw the hair
[5:17] out it's going to be white don't worry
[5:20] okay then duplicate the layer so swipe
[5:23] left on the layer and duplicate set the
[5:26] top layer mode to multiply Alpha lock
[5:28] the bottom layer
[5:31] and color pick the color you want color
[5:33] it in and just continue rendering on the
[5:36] same layer now I usually do all the
[5:39] shading
[5:41] everything oh but one thing to note is
[5:43] that the outline brush doesn't work if
[5:45] the color you pick is completely black
[5:48] yeah but just choose a color that's
[5:49] close to it there is so much potential
[5:52] with this brush if you're not that py on
[5:54] line art consistency I also love the
[5:57] fact that you can lufy multiple layers
[5:59] together together by swiping right on
[6:01] the layer to select multiple and if your
[6:03] primary layer which is the one in the
[6:05] deeper blue is assisted then your
[6:07] liquify is also going to be assisted if
[6:10] not then it's not going to be
[6:14] assisted when you're done the hair
[6:16] layers you can merge those together and
[6:18] I'm going to teach you a quick Shadow
[6:20] trick which is to duplicate the layer
[6:22] select the bottom one go to adjustments
[6:25] Hue saturation brightness lower the
[6:27] brightness to none
[6:29] click on the cursor to select your layer
[6:31] move it downwards then go to adjustments
[6:35] CAU and blur swipe left and right to
[6:38] adjust the blur then go to adjustments
[6:40] curves and I usually just turn the red
[6:44] up then I can Alpha lock the layer turn
[6:47] the opacity down select a bluish color
[6:52] and airbrush it on the shadow to give it
[6:54] a secondary color for like a cooler
[6:57] sense of depth okay it's hard to
[7:00] visualize on my balding head so these
[7:02] are actual examples of how my bangs
[7:05] would turn out using this
[7:06] method also if I want to separate these
[7:09] two hair strands I can just select swipe
[7:12] down with three fingers select cut and
[7:15] paste it's really nice quick menu
[7:18] shortcut so let's say if I move on to
[7:21] the body I would want a copy of my
[7:24] rendered head on top of it so that I can
[7:26] visualize everything better but I don't
[7:28] want to save my severed head as a PNG in
[7:31] my album so I can import it into my
[7:33] other file so I can just go to actions
[7:36] copy canvas go back to my body file and
[7:39] I can paste and there it is my head also
[7:43] turn on snapping magnetics so that your
[7:46] parts move in a straight line and now
[7:49] that you have all the tools and
[7:50] shortcuts you can continue drawing the
[7:52] model I have a cutting guide for you to
[7:54] follow some general tips for the art is
[7:57] that first try to avoid es pointing
[8:00] outwards they're going to look like
[8:02] their gaze is not focused and then
[8:04] second I recommend drawing some extra
[8:07] hair layers on the sides at the back and
[8:09] covering the forehead just so that
[8:11] there's more volume when rigging and you
[8:13] know so that your character doesn't
[8:14] accidentally look Bold and the last one
[8:17] I found out recently is underfills so
[8:19] it's basically instead of line art you
[8:21] have a solid color it's great for chest
[8:25] torso and hair to give that 3D outline
[8:28] disappearing effect if interested you
[8:30] can look more into this from other
[8:31] artist and riggers they explain it more
[8:34] in detail than I do so last thing when
[8:37] you're exporting when you're done
[8:39] everything you named all your layers
[8:41] you've grouped everything into proper
[8:43] folders you still need to separate left
[8:45] eye to right eye and all the symmetrical
[8:48] but non-connected Parts you can separate
[8:50] these later in Photoshop but I will just
[8:53] go in and select half the face erase a
[8:56] half of it because I can just copy paste
[8:58] it and flip it in live 2D in fact if
[9:01] you're plenty of layers away from your
[9:03] layer limit you can even just duplicate
[9:05] the folder and flip it in
[9:08] procreate so now to export you can go to
[9:12] actions a share PSD I'm just uploading
[9:15] it onto drive you can also upload
[9:17] multiple psds at the same time by going
[9:20] back to gallery and click select select
[9:22] your psds and Click Share so there's one
[9:25] last big important thing it's like a bug
[9:28] when you open and exported PSD from
[9:31] procreate in life 2D it has this
[9:34] invisible border around all the layers
[9:36] like right now it's supposed to show me
[9:38] the layer's boundaries right but it's
[9:40] showing me the whole canvas and that
[9:42] will mess up the auto matching by a lot
[9:44] because it will not be able to give a
[9:46] very detailed mesh and the solution to
[9:49] this problem is just to crop your PSD in
[9:52] Photoshop or Clips you to a paint so I
[9:55] can crop the whole canvas outwards and
[9:57] it'll still work technically if you're
[9:59] assembling a full body you'll need to
[10:01] extend the canvas anyway and the problem
[10:03] is fixed so remember never send the raw
[10:07] PSD from procreate and crop to a riger
[10:09] with the Border because it will mess up
[10:11] Auto meshing and trust me I have been
[10:13] there in pain and confusion also if your
[10:16] PSC does not open in live 2D there is a
[10:18] manual page that I recommend you search
[10:20] up so yeah now that the art is completed
[10:24] if you want to rig the model I got a
[10:25] full step-by-step tutorial and if you
[10:28] have any questions this discussions and
[10:30] want to share your art feel free to join
[10:31] my Discord server and I wish you get to
[10:34] create the YouTuber of your dreams