Hey, what's up? Give me just one second, I'm
finishing up the line drawing for this stencil.
Just take a second. Done.
Uh, I drew it on the wrong layer.
Son of a #@%!
Hey, welcome to the Fireside Tattoo Network.
My name is Jake, and this is three minutes to better tattooing.
If you draw on these new fangled digital jobs, I guarantee
you've made the same mistake that I just made.
You spent about 30 minutes or more on a line
drawing only to realize that you drew it on the underlying layer
so you can't separate it out and make a clean stencil.
Super frustrating. I've got a solution for it today.
I want to welcome my buddy Million McGough from South nope North Dakota,
almost said South Dakota. Fargo, North Dakota.
Million is a good friend of mine for several years now.
I met him through Fireside.
He's one of the great people that we met through Fireside
and he reached out with this little procreate hack.
And I thought it would be perfect for for three minutes to tattooing episode.
So I'm going to get out of his way and let him teach you how to solve this problem.
Normally what you'll do when you're making a stencil,
you're going to pick the color that you normally want to use
or a color that is
going to stand out when you're drawing your stencil in procreate.
So you go through and make your lines
so that they show up all nice and pretty.
And you want to use a color,
of course, that isn't in your design
or even if the hue is still in the design,
you picked a version of that color that is going to stand out.
Obviously, black, most reds and
things won't work that well.
So this bright green should stand out fairly well.
So as you're running along making all these
little lines, you start really filling up with a lot of stuff.
And normally this takes, I take quite a bit more time doing this
so I could have up to a half hour into doing
a really nice clean stencil
that has got all the lines just where I want to be.
And once you get all that done, you realize that
not only do you have a nice stencil, but you have it on the same layer
as the image that you originally were stenciling.
When this happens, there's this is the trick.
You tap the wrench icon to bring up the actions menu
and you click Copy Canvas.
And so copy it to the clipboard itself.
Now, we use undo or two finger undo, press and hold
until it gets back to your original image
before you started doing the stencil.
Now we add a new layer.
Tap the wrench icon again and click paste on the action menu.
And that's going to paste the image that we already used.
Now we're going to set this to Difference
and see, it shows up.
Now, The only thing that's different is the stencil that we drew.
But we're not done yet.
So now we click the wrench icon again.
Copy canvas again.
And then, we are going to paste it again.
Now, if you noticed, the new layer is actually a normal layer
rather than our difference blend mode layer.
So we can go in and select
automatically all our black.
We may have to go in and tap some of these areas that aren't catching.
Otherwise we tapped it and then we click invert,
add a new layer and fiil layer.
Now we can delete our
two pasted two layers that we pasted in,
and we have our original image and our stenciled image.
On separate layers.
So you don't have to go back and start all over again.
That's a pretty cool little hack from Million, definitely
one that I will use in the future
because I make that mistake all the time, constantly drawing on the wrong layer.
Be sure to give @ArtOfMillion some love.
Give them a follow we've linked to his Instagram
in the show notes below, he's based out of Fargo, North Dakota.
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