hi! i love your work, your textures and lighting are always so beautiful. i wanted to ask— when working digitally, what sort of layer setup do you have? do you paint all on one layer or do you separate stuff out more? i love seeing your progress shots and i’m curious to learn more about your process!

hi, thank you!!

my layer setup is fairly simple! more often than not the base consists of only three layers:

these are the layers on my Marion painting! i sketch on the lineart layer and refine the sketch to cleaner lines; this is what the lineart looks like here (it’s fairly light!)

then i paint underneath the lineart. the signature is usually on a separate layer cause i can never figure out where to put it right away, so i move it around quite a bit haha.

more complex paintings usually have more layers. i might sketch a certain complicated element on a separate layer before working on the lineart; some painted elements get their own layer too (for example, i often do body hair on a separate layer to make sure i get it right without messing up the main color layer). but the base is always lineart on top + colors underneath.