A manga like "BLAME!" might fit

For that lesson, it was more to show off how you can use blending modes vs showing what the most effective approach is. Jon wanted to show a technique that could help students understand the different photoshop options and there are a lot of artists who use blending modes in that manner. There are instructors in the second half of the course who paint in normal mode just like you mentioned! Hope that helps

Selection tools allow you to select an area. There are many selection tools: rectangular, circle or in this case the Magic Wand tool. The Magic Wand tool tries to select an area that you clicked on. In this video he selected an area outside of the character. The selected area is indicated by the black and white border line that appeared around the character. If he were to use the paint bucket tool to fill the area it would have painted everything around the character to that color. But he wanted to create a silhouette of the character so he needed the "inverse area" of the background. Thus he used inverse to invert the selection area. It's hard to notice because nothing changes visually as the black and white border of the selected area remains the same, just different side is selected. Now using the paint bucket tool fills the characters area, not the background. You might ask: But why didn't he immediately just click on the character with the magic wand tool to get a selection of it? The magic wand tool only selects similar pixels into one selection. So it would work if the character was all painted in one color. But he already painted in different values thus the Magic Wand tool would not select the entire character, only the single value area. That's why digital artists use this hack of selecting the background and inverting the selection to get the entire area of the character.

Contact customer support. They were rally nice about it and helped me.