Digital painters, what’s your layer situation?
Entirely one layer. If traditional painters have to, so do I!
Mostly one layer, but I keep some separate for things like details or lighting.
A few layers for distinct segments like skin, clothes, eyes, etc.
Several layers organized into groups, but I keep them small and merge often.
Many layers organized into groups, and they can get bloated (100+).
An extreme amount of layers organized into groups (200+). Merging is scary.
Several layers for various things, but no need to keep them organized.
Many layers with no organization; it’s pretty messy but it’s my process.
Born to die world is a fuck I am trash man 410,757,864,530 disorganized layers
Something… else?
I like to upset my roommate by showing them how I paint with less than ten layers because I merge stuff once I’m confident with it. Meanwhile I don’t know how they don’t get lost in their 300 layers with like 2 paint strokes on some of them!
What do you do when you digitally paint? As in rendering, not lines/flats/cel style. I guess this poll is also a bit more for figure artists, but not entirely I suppose.
(Disclaimer: None of these answers are right or wrong)
i am said roommate and I will say it gives me primal monkey anxiety when I see @owlpellet and their single fucking paint layer
I’ve got like 100 layers because someone might say “I need refs but can you give me something without shading?” and I just wanna back out all of the shading so I’ll just go and:
