Need help with clip studio paint

[woven raft]

I've tried searching this up on google but it only tells me to go to the animation menu to activate onion skin but i've seen people draw illustrations without having to go to the animation menu. I want to use this feature because if I can have see-through layers I can draw way more efficiently.

[summer basalt]

I don't get it. Are you talking about layer modes?

Onion skinning is purely an animation feature. It doesn't exist for illustration

[woven raft]

i most likely am, i only referred to it as onion skin because i dont know the proper terminology.

[summer basalt]

Okay let's make sure first. What's supposed to happen when you use this feature?

[woven raft]

The layer you just drew becomes translucent and you can draw over it and you can get rid of the translucent layer for a cleaner drawing

thats how i remember it anyways, sorry that im being vague

[summer basalt]

If you're talking about opacity, it's the slider at the top of the layer menu

Then you can hide it with the eye icon

So to break it down a bit more, you draw on 1 layer than lower the opacity. Then if you wanna make a cleaner pass, you can add another layer on top, draw, and then hide the first layer afterwards

[woven raft]

yeah thats it, thank you

[summer basalt]

Np, just go play around with the layer stuff. And maybe brush settings. Those are the main things that can really help your workflow