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Learn Clip Studio Paint - Third Edition

By : Inko Ai Takita, Liz Staley
Book Image

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)

Creating colored line art

It's OK when you draw black and white art with a solid black line, but once you start coloring the image, don't you think the black line color can be too harsh on the eyes? We are going to explore how to change the line art color in this section.

Colored line work, or color holds, can be used for a variety of effects. It can highlight an area, make it blend more with the coloring, or make a background element face away to leave the foreground in the spotlight. Colored line art can make an image look much softer by not having harsh black lines in it. This is a very easy technique to use to really add punch to an illustration.

In order to follow the steps in this section, you will need line art done on a transparent layer, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 16.14 – Screenshot of a line drawing

The preceding image is an ink drawing scanned from paper, with the white taken out automatically using Clip...