I've begun to experiments with creating Custom Apparel, and since there don't seem to be many guides on the subject yet, I have a question I think a more experienced CA artist might be able to help me with. More specifically, this question is aimed at people who have made "skin" type custom apparel, aka the type that's meant to look like markings or patterns on the wolf: how do you ensure your markings don't overlap with the base lineart, since CA is layered on top of the base art? I mean, I guess you could go around the template, painstakingly erasing all the parts that would go over the lineart by hand, but I feel like there has to be a simpler and more accurate way to do it using some layering trick or something.

I have some ideas of how I could do it, but I figured I should check and see if someone who already knows what they're doing has a better solution. Also, I should say that I'm using photoshop, so explanations from people who use that or similar programs would be best (though any help is appreciated). Thanks.

@gayrurumon

After downloading the skin templates for wolves on the CA page, you will get 3 layers: lineart, shadows and a base of the wolf. For skins/markings you make yourself a new layer, make a mask of the base so your drawing doesn't go out of the base wolf image and then clip the lineart and shadows on your design to include the wolf lineart on your design! Hope this helps :)

@JavaMP ohhh okay, that makes sense. I'm a bit out of practice with photoshop, and I also wasn't sure if it was okay to include parts of the lineart in the submission. Thank you so much for the explanation, I really appreciate it!