Masking off protected areas

Sometimes when you're working, you'll want to protect an area from changes.…Maybe you really like the sculpting in a particular area and you want to make…sure that nothing accidentally ruins it.…In this video, we'll use Masking as a way to do just that.…So, we have our seal here and let's say I'm really happy with how the nose looks.…But, I want to do a lot of sculpting around the nose without changing the nose itself.…All I have to do is hold down Ctrl key while I brush, and it will paint a mask…over any areas that I want to protect.…So, I'm just going to shrink the brush size a little bit, and hold down Ctrl.…

So, you can see it's painting it a little bit of a darker color.…That means that it's masked off.…Then, I'll just switch to my Draw tool and I will shrink the brush size a little bit.…You can see as I brush around here, I can affect anything else, but I can't…affect whatever is masked off.…I'm just going to hit Ctrl+Z to undo that.…So let's say I masked a little bit too much and I want to erase part of it.…