Penciling: Layer and Layer Property Palettes
Most people have probably heard the word penciling before. Penciling is a stage of the manga or comic creation process in which an artist sketches out a layout of the page with their pencil before they move on to the “inking” stage. In Clip Studio Paint, we have a great function for it! One of the best features of working in a digital art program is the ability to work in layers. We can use layers to edit and separate finished pencil artwork from ink artwork, and you will find tons more benefits as we read through this chapter!
Layers are like stacks of transparencies used for projection: every transparency carries a bit of text or an element of the image, so that we can separate the pencil sketch layer from the inked art layer, and when all the transparencies are stacked on top of each other, they form the complete image. You can make each layer visible or invisible with only one click, and manipulation of one layer doesn...
