Painting the Interdimensional Traveler - ZBrush Creature Design: Creating Dynamic Concept Imagery for Film and Games - page 267

2. Press Ctrl + T to transform this skin swatch layer. Scale it up to cover the entire body. Set the layer
blending mode to Overlay.
3. Ctrl + Click on the figure layer to select the pixels of the figure. With the skin swatch layer selected,
press Ctrl + Shift + I to invert the selection and then press delete to clear any image that does not cover
the figure ( Figure 5-40 ).
4. Zoom into the head and select the eraser tool. Dial down the opacity and erase out areas of the face. We
are doing this because we want there to be texture variation in the figure and some areas will be textured
by different overlay images than others ( Figure 5-41 ).
Figure 5-40: Set the skin swatch layer as overlay and delete any pixels not covering the figure.