December 2018
Beginner
448 pages
11h 4m
English
A layer in a piece of digital art is a magical thing that can make our workflow smoother and easier, and can also save a lot of headaches in the future when we go from pencils to inks to colors. Okay, so maybe it's not actually magic. But it's pretty darn close!
But what is a layer and how do they work? Let's look at the following example image. The drawing in this screenshot is made from five layers:

What exactly are those layers? In the following screenshot, we can see exactly what they are:

The white background is a paper ...
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