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[00:00] hi I'm Mary U and as you may know V

[00:03] models are notorious for needing to be

[00:05] separated in parts and layers often

[00:07] hundreds of them but today that 40 layer

[00:10] limit in PR crate is not going to stop

[00:11] me from achieving greatness and it will

[00:13] not stop you either I'm showcasing some

[00:16] of my recent models that I drew with

[00:18] procreate and rig and live 2D I have

[00:20] been a loyal procreate user since the

[00:23] beginning of my aring career all my

[00:25] models are drawn completely in prr never

[00:27] changed even at the toughest times never

[00:30] doubted you want te my G so if I can do

[00:32] it you can also create models of this

[00:35] quality and I will show you how the

[00:37] general solution is to sever your model

[00:39] into Parts usually two to five files

[00:42] export them as psds then piece them

[00:44] together at the end on the computer

[00:46] using Photoshop or Clips paint I'll show

[00:49] you the complete process and things you

[00:51] need to look out for please watch until

[00:53] the end because there is one big common

[00:55] problem with exporting psds from

[00:58] procreate if this is your first try

[01:00] making VOR models I recommend starting

[01:02] off with a chibi or a half body model to

[01:04] keep things easier and to get familiar

[01:06] with the overall workflow

[01:10] first okay let's start with per cre

[01:13] setup when you first create a canvas

[01:15] preferably make the width more than

[01:17] 3,000 and the length according to your

[01:19] character's height I usually give myself

[01:21] 4 to 5,000 but try to have more than 10

[01:24] layers available then go to settings

[01:27] canvas toggle drawing guide edit drawing

[01:31] guide and go to Symmetry and done now

[01:35] your current layer should stay assisted

[01:37] and everything you draw is symmetrical

[01:39] you can go back to settings and toggle

[01:41] off the drawing guide to get rid of the

[01:43] line and as long as your layer still

[01:45] says assisted it's still going to be

[01:47] symmetrical but when you make a new

[01:49] layer normally you have to turn on and

[01:51] off the cyst by clicking on the layer

[01:54] but I find it much more practical to

[01:56] make this button a shortcut so to do

[01:58] that go in settings preps gesture

[02:01] controls and in assisted drawing turn on

[02:05] the first tap Square setting and it

[02:08] might conflict with your default

[02:09] shortcut but screw whichever shortcut

[02:11] you previously had and now that this

[02:13] button is drawing assist you can sketch

[02:15] your model out way easier hopefully I'm

[02:19] going to put my sketch time lapse as

[02:21] examples it's just a sketch but try to

[02:24] include all the details and colors you

[02:26] need this is because it will be much

[02:28] harder to adjust these things later on

[02:30] while seeing how the entire model looks

[02:33] since your model will be severed when

[02:35] you're done with your sketch you can

[02:37] merge all the layers by pinching them

[02:39] together I mean if you want to preserve

[02:41] them you can duplicate your file but

[02:43] before we move on I found out that life

[02:46] 2D actually desaturates the PSD exported

[02:49] from procreate by like 10% so I'm going

[02:52] to turn the saturation up in the sketch

[02:55] beforehand to compensate for that and

[02:58] since everything's one layer it's it's

[02:59] easier to do color adjustments and this

[03:01] was my final color adjustment and to

[03:04] move on to the detailed model going to

[03:06] duplicate my file just going to one of

[03:09] them and going to crop tojust the

[03:15] head and I can turn on snapping to

[03:18] center it and crop out all the empty

[03:20] space to save more layers similarly if

[03:24] you want to move onto the body or legs

[03:26] just duplicate the original sketch and

[03:28] then crop to get more layers now for the

[03:30] reference layers I duplicated to have

[03:33] two one on low opacity and one on 100%

[03:36] opacity the lower one is for tracing and

[03:38] the higher one for color picking so I'm

[03:41] going to demonstrate I'm going to make

[03:42] some new layers turn on our assisted

[03:45] with our short cut and you can watch me

[03:47] struggle with line art I do find that my

[03:49] line art looks very pixelated a lot of

[03:52] times you can turn on anti- aazing in

[03:54] your brush settings find a smoother

[03:57] brush or make the canvas bigger but I

[03:59] just Incorporated it with my sketchy art

[04:00] style my first tip is that lufy is your

[04:04] best friend is my best friend anyway and

[04:07] once you have an enclosed line art you

[04:09] can go to select in

[04:12] automatic click the outside of the line

[04:15] art hold and drag left and right to

[04:17] adjust the threshold and to further

[04:19] avoid the type of overfilled

[04:22] border we can click on feather and have

[04:25] around

[04:26] 3% and click invert then go into layers

[04:30] make a new layer underneath toggle on

[04:32] the 100% reference layer hold to pick

[04:35] the color turn it off and then color

[04:37] drop on our current layer when you color

[04:40] drop don't let go and then hold to drag

[04:42] left and right for the threshold again

[04:44] that's what the feather is for and

[04:46] utilize your appropriate shortcuts like

[04:48] if I want to Alpha lock this layer I can

[04:51] swipe to the right with two fingers on

[04:53] the layer and now I can change the color

[04:55] of my line art without the color

[04:57] spilling outside

[05:00] also I have this life-saving hair brush

[05:03] Auto line art that I'm going to upload

[05:05] along with my whole favorite brush set

[05:07] on COI for free Link in the description

[05:09] most brushes are not created by me I

[05:11] just stole them from different free

[05:12] brush sets Okay so the way you use this

[05:15] brush is that first you draw the hair

[05:17] out it's going to be white don't worry

[05:20] okay then duplicate the layer so swipe

[05:23] left on the layer and duplicate set the

[05:26] top layer mode to multiply Alpha lock

[05:28] the bottom layer

[05:31] and color pick the color you want color

[05:33] it in and just continue rendering on the

[05:36] same layer now I usually do all the

[05:39] shading

[05:41] everything oh but one thing to note is

[05:43] that the outline brush doesn't work if

[05:45] the color you pick is completely black

[05:48] yeah but just choose a color that's

[05:49] close to it there is so much potential

[05:52] with this brush if you're not that py on

[05:54] line art consistency I also love the

[05:57] fact that you can lufy multiple layers

[05:59] together together by swiping right on

[06:01] the layer to select multiple and if your

[06:03] primary layer which is the one in the

[06:05] deeper blue is assisted then your

[06:07] liquify is also going to be assisted if

[06:10] not then it's not going to be

[06:14] assisted when you're done the hair

[06:16] layers you can merge those together and

[06:18] I'm going to teach you a quick Shadow

[06:20] trick which is to duplicate the layer

[06:22] select the bottom one go to adjustments

[06:25] Hue saturation brightness lower the

[06:27] brightness to none

[06:29] click on the cursor to select your layer

[06:31] move it downwards then go to adjustments

[06:35] CAU and blur swipe left and right to

[06:38] adjust the blur then go to adjustments

[06:40] curves and I usually just turn the red

[06:44] up then I can Alpha lock the layer turn

[06:47] the opacity down select a bluish color

[06:52] and airbrush it on the shadow to give it

[06:54] a secondary color for like a cooler

[06:57] sense of depth okay it's hard to

[07:00] visualize on my balding head so these

[07:02] are actual examples of how my bangs

[07:05] would turn out using this

[07:06] method also if I want to separate these

[07:09] two hair strands I can just select swipe

[07:12] down with three fingers select cut and

[07:15] paste it's really nice quick menu

[07:18] shortcut so let's say if I move on to

[07:21] the body I would want a copy of my

[07:24] rendered head on top of it so that I can

[07:26] visualize everything better but I don't

[07:28] want to save my severed head as a PNG in

[07:31] my album so I can import it into my

[07:33] other file so I can just go to actions

[07:36] copy canvas go back to my body file and

[07:39] I can paste and there it is my head also

[07:43] turn on snapping magnetics so that your

[07:46] parts move in a straight line and now

[07:49] that you have all the tools and

[07:50] shortcuts you can continue drawing the

[07:52] model I have a cutting guide for you to

[07:54] follow some general tips for the art is

[07:57] that first try to avoid es pointing

[08:00] outwards they're going to look like

[08:02] their gaze is not focused and then

[08:04] second I recommend drawing some extra

[08:07] hair layers on the sides at the back and

[08:09] covering the forehead just so that

[08:11] there's more volume when rigging and you

[08:13] know so that your character doesn't

[08:14] accidentally look Bold and the last one

[08:17] I found out recently is underfills so

[08:19] it's basically instead of line art you

[08:21] have a solid color it's great for chest

[08:25] torso and hair to give that 3D outline

[08:28] disappearing effect if interested you

[08:30] can look more into this from other

[08:31] artist and riggers they explain it more

[08:34] in detail than I do so last thing when

[08:37] you're exporting when you're done

[08:39] everything you named all your layers

[08:41] you've grouped everything into proper

[08:43] folders you still need to separate left

[08:45] eye to right eye and all the symmetrical

[08:48] but non-connected Parts you can separate

[08:50] these later in Photoshop but I will just

[08:53] go in and select half the face erase a

[08:56] half of it because I can just copy paste

[08:58] it and flip it in live 2D in fact if

[09:01] you're plenty of layers away from your

[09:03] layer limit you can even just duplicate

[09:05] the folder and flip it in

[09:08] procreate so now to export you can go to

[09:12] actions a share PSD I'm just uploading

[09:15] it onto drive you can also upload

[09:17] multiple psds at the same time by going

[09:20] back to gallery and click select select

[09:22] your psds and Click Share so there's one

[09:25] last big important thing it's like a bug

[09:28] when you open and exported PSD from

[09:31] procreate in life 2D it has this

[09:34] invisible border around all the layers

[09:36] like right now it's supposed to show me

[09:38] the layer's boundaries right but it's

[09:40] showing me the whole canvas and that

[09:42] will mess up the auto matching by a lot

[09:44] because it will not be able to give a

[09:46] very detailed mesh and the solution to

[09:49] this problem is just to crop your PSD in

[09:52] Photoshop or Clips you to a paint so I

[09:55] can crop the whole canvas outwards and

[09:57] it'll still work technically if you're

[09:59] 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