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Learn Clip Studio Paint - Third Edition

By : Inko Ai Takita, Liz Staley
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Learn Clip Studio Paint - Third Edition

By: Inko Ai Takita, Liz Staley

Overview of this book

Clip Studio Paint is a versatile digital painting program for creating manga and illustrations, helping artists expand their digital portfolio. This software is packed with tools that make panel laying, speech adding, toning, and editing much easier. This easy-to-follow guide is clearly divided into chapters covering drawing tools, interface customization, and using various visual effects so you can focus on specific techniques in detail one at a time. Learn Clip Studio Paint is a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to Clip Studio Paint that will have you up to speed in no time. You'll start by experiencing what it's like to create manga digitally and find new ways to shape your drawing. Next, using practical tips and rich visual references, the book shows you how to apply techniques to your creations, giving you the opportunity to expand your range of visual expression. As you advance, you'll explore how to create special effect brushes using an in-depth example, along with discovering how to color, blend, and edit your art digitally. Finally, you'll find out how to print, use the Clip Studio Paint Assets, and learn how to create unique and inspiring art that stands out from the rest. By the end of this Clip Studio Paint book, you'll have gained a clear understanding of its tools and be able to start telling your own manga story using your improved digital drawing skills.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

Loading a 3D object onto the canvas

Now you know there are many 3D assets available in Clip Studio Paint, but you need to import them onto your canvas to work on! In this section, we will learn how to import those 3D assets from the Material palette to your canvas, so that you can start to move or manipulate them.

Follow these easy steps to add a 3D asset to a canvas:

  1. Open a new canvas, if one is not already open. Material assets can only be added to a currently opened document.
  2. In the 3D Material palette, click on the 3D asset to be added to the canvas. In this example, we are using the 3D drawing figure-Ver.2 (Male) asset.
  3. Once the material is selected, click on the Paste selected material to canvas icon at the bottom of the Material palette, which looks like the following screenshot:

    Figure 14.3 – Screenshot of the Paste selected material to canvas icon

  4. The asset will be pasted to the canvas. Note that depending on your computer's specifications...