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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)

Lassos and other selection tools

One of the most useful features of creating art in a digital space is the ability to move, scale, rotate, flip, and otherwise transform all or parts of the drawing to obtain exactly the right look. In this section, we will use selection tools to clean up and correct a sketch with several errors on it. You can follow along with a sketch of your own, or use the following sketch as a reference. These tools can be used with any sketches on your canvas.

The following is the sketch that we will be looking at for this section:

Figure 6.12 – Screenshot of a sketch with the Clip Studio Paint interface

There are several issues with this drawing, and we will use the selection and transformation tools to correct them. The character's left hand is a little too big, the bunch of hair on top of the head needs to be a different shape, and the headdress ribbon needs to be shaped better. Let's use the selection area and other...