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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)

Playing with brush settings

Now that we have an idea of what these brush settings do, let's play around with some brushes and the different settings to see what they do when they're in action. One of the best things about digital art is that almost nothing is permanent. If you make a mark with a pen, you can almost always undo it (or erase it). With Clip Studio Paint, if you make a change to a tool that you don't like, you can always revert the tool to its initial settings. That said, let's learn how to make a copy of an existing brush tool and then make changes to the brush tool and make marks with the copy to see what some of the brush options do when utilized.

Follow these steps to create a copy of a brush tool and change the settings:

  1. Select the tool to be copied. For these instructions, we are going to use the G-pen sub tool tool.
  2. In the Sub tool palette, which appears as in the following screenshot, click on the icon that is the second from...