I’m currently working on an animation right now. The line work is completed and on its own layer, so I’m trying to add base colouring on a new layer.
Normally, When that layers is created, it is above the line work giving me the ability to see the line work and where to put the colours etc…
For some reason, when I add a layer, and place it on top of the line work, the colouring is showing on top making it impossible to see the line work.
I don’t think I did any adjustments to Krita, it just started not working.
Should I try adding a new layer of the layer panel or on the animation panel?
Please help, and thanks for future updates and answers:)
Since it’s about animations, I’m actually out, I don’t know anything about that. But maybe the following will help…
Have you switched Krita to display only the selected layer? This happens when you press and hold the ALT key while clicking on a layer, the same way you turn this off again.
Or have you switched on (clicked on) the little Icon showing the “Alpha”-Symbol you can find after the layers name between the two other symbols?
It’s only a speculation, but who knows…
Michelist
Add: Whenever it comes to animation, I realize I’m a very big dummy with a lot to learn. Still, it seems so to me.
Well, to have the color appear under the line art layer it must be under that layer. You wrote that the color layer is “above” / “on top” and that’s why the color goes over the line art, that’s just how it always works, except when you use behind blending mode on a top layer but that’s not a recommended workflow. So, simply just drag the line art layer over the color layer in the layer docker and it should work. In Krita the layers on top will always cover the ones below them (except for the transparent parts of course).
When nothing appears than that’s probably because the line art is on an opaque layer instead of a transparent one (e.g. a layer completely filled with white). Generally if you want something to appear under the contents of another layer, that new layer must be under it, so basically all layers are like a stack of transparent paper and the sheets on top of the stack go over the ones further down.
Since you mentioned animation, I can only assume that you maybe got the timeline with the keyframes confused with the layers (or animated and static layers).
Perhaps you could post a full screen screensshot of Krita where the issue is happening, that way we can see for yourselves what’s going on.