Put line art on a transparent background in Procreate in 40 seconds #shorts

In this video, I'll explain how to put your imported line art onto a transparent layer in Procreate. I did a video on this a while back, but here's the microwave version. Line art by Rebekah Isaacs!

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Steps:
Add a layer on top. Fill with black.
Add mask to black layer.
Copy the line art layer.
Select the mask on black layer, 3-finger swipe down, paste.
Invert the mask & merge into the black layer. (Pinch the layers!)

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[dr.j]

THIS VIDEO HAS SINGLE HANDEDLY REVIVED MY DIGITAL ART CAREER FROM NOTHINGNESS

i CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH

[innerchildstyle]

Thank you so much! For those that don’t know, to merge the two layers together just pinch both highlighted layers tougher and they will merge!

[nazal]

Best tutorial on the internet. Hands down. Short, informative, to the point.

[xyeoshq]

u literally revived my art career, for a hot minute i was pondering on how to do this because of my strong pencil work on paper and lack of solid sketching in digital, u a Godsend thank you!

[flynndaniels]

i spent countless hours playing with the automatic selection tool as my project has a lot of motion blur and noise to add effects to the design and couldn't figure this out. this has given me the most amazing amount of relief thank you so much!

[Imperfect_Animations]

Oh my god, thank you so much 😭 like actually, I cannot describe how much this saved my butt

[twitchly]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I do a lot of coloring using Procreate, and up until now I’ve had to redraw every single drawing on a new transparent layer. This is a HUGE time saver!

One suggestion: if your file has a background layer, fill it with black also. Otherwise your line drawing will be too light.

[sekainotamago]

THANK YOU! This tutorial needs to have more visibility. You’ve just improved my workflow 1000x ❤️

[rayleighleavitt]

Thank you!!! I accidentally filled my line art with white without realizing it until after I’d closed procreate (which saved it) and I didn’t know how to get my lines back to being just lines. I appreciate this tutorial so much!

[LaughterOnWater]

Putting this in my reference links. Making this the reference layer for colorfill makes things pretty speedy. Thank you!

[brithegoddess]

This is the opposite of what I was trying to do but somehow I managed to do it with your help. Tysm!!!

[joharper]

OMG!!! I have spent weeks trying to find out how to do this, and have almost bought specific (and pricey) software for this purpose! Thanks so much for posting this! Am subscribing, liking and promoting!!!

[hennyjones]

Been searching for months for how to do this, thank you for sharing this technique!

[KRG]

OMG i would never find out by my self!! I almost threw that sh** away! Thank you so much!!!

[drwcomics]

OH MY GOD THANK YOU. THANK YOU!!! I'm currently not in a position to renew my CSP license and am only able to work with procreate (budgeted down to the penny, quite literally lmao) and while I use procreate for my linework, I was using CSP for colors, and the inability to do this is one of the big reasons why I ultimately was using CSP for rendering. Knowing how to do this will speed up my workflow immensely, and allow me to finish my pages with the sort of speed that will allow me to finish issues on a time table that will make publishing on a consistent schedule a lot easier. I know this is a little thing, but it makes a giant impact in my art process.

[marutchayali.]

The tutorial I’ve been looking for and it was made two years go! 😂😂 Thank you so freaking much for this!!!

[julijalesyk]

You’re an actual lifesaver, thank you so much!

[EngineerRon]

Thanks Kurt! Procreate needs to add the “convert brightness to opacity” feature, like Clip Studio Paint.

[collineaton]

I was trying to figure this out on my own for so long, but thank God we have you!! Thank you so much for sharing!

[kodyduncan]

THANK YOU! Exactly what I needed and you did it in literally one minute. Seriously appreciate it! Worked like a charm.