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Clip Studio Paint by Example

By : Ludovico Serra
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Clip Studio Paint by Example

By: Ludovico Serra

Overview of this book

Clip Studio Paint is powerful art software that can help you create artistic work with its in-built material organizer, 3D integration, and group work features. It also provides other features that can speed up the workflow of illustrators, concept artists, and comic artists. With Clip Studio Paint by Example, you’ll learn how to use CSP effectively for a wide variety of artistic purposes. The book starts by helping you create the right workspace for concept art, illustration, and comics. You’ll create a brush, set up a canvas, and develop an auto-auction. Along with covering how to work with CS Modeler that comes bundled with CSP, this book shows you how to import and rig characters easily. You’ll then create reusable changeable scenes and a 3D human character in Blender before exploring concept art, illustrations, comics, and how to create your own portfolio. The book features a glossary with brief explanations of all the main CSP functions. The focus of the book is not on drawing or painting but on helping you enhance your artistic skills using Clip Studio Paint to create an impressive portfolio. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use the impressive capabilities of CSP to create beautiful digital art in a productive way.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this brief chapter, you learned some tricks to create a portfolio in CSP. First, you saw how to create a guideline using the Grid and the Rectangle tools. After that, you learned how to create an online comic portfolio that can be easily implemented on your website or social network. Finally, you learned how you can easily arrange various elements inside a page using the Convert Layer feature.

Now, as a final word, I really recommend that you use CSP for printing only when you don't have other options, or only use it for things that are not a comic or a single illustration. If you need to show a single image, this is not a problem. But CSP lacks some features that will help you during your portfolio creation, such as snapping to a grid, being able to align elements inside your canvas, master pages, some typography options, and so on. It's usable and you can produce some good results, but I don't recommend it for a fully professional portfolio. For that, I...