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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)

Being unique by dropping some manga elements

There are certain elements in manga that artists put in for readers to be able to follow the story without losing their way and to help them understand what is happening. But there are also artists who make brave decisions not to put certain elements that seem vital to manga, because they are aiming for a specific atmosphere they want to create.

In this section, we are going to learn what will happen if we drop some manga elements with examples.

Not using screentones

Screentones are a great tool for expressing gray tones and patterns, and Clip Studio Paint offers many different types of screentones to use. But they might get in our way if we would like to create an intense high-contrast look in black and white. Let's have a look at the example in the following figure:

Figure 20.14 – Screenshots of images with and without using screentones

The preceding figure shows a comparison of the same panel...