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Learn Clip Studio Paint - Second Edition

By : Liz Staley
Book Image

Learn Clip Studio Paint - Second Edition

By: Liz Staley

Overview of this book

Clip Studio Paint, the successor to Manga Studio, is used by over four million illustrators and comic creators around the world. This book will guide you through every step of learning this software, from system requirements and installation, all the way through to exporting your work for print or the web. Learn how to create new documents, customize tools to fit your working style, use ruler tools to create anything from straight lines to intricate backgrounds, add 3D elements, create comic panels using the specialized panel tools, utilize screentones and materials, add text and word balloons to your comics, create sound effects, easily flat and color your comics using reference layers, and bring your drawings to life using the animation features. By the end of this book, you will be able to navigate the Clip Studio Interface and program preferences, customize the various tools, and be able to create your own black-and-white and color illustrations and comics from start to finish.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Navigating the brushes

Out in the world of analog art, a brush is a very specific tool. But in Clip Studio Paint, the word brush can refer to several different tools. Usually, we use the term brush to refer to a digital tool that is used with the stylus or mouse to draw lines, as opposed to other tools that fill colors, or select, or perform the other operations that can be performed in digital art.

Most of the tools that we would refer to as brushes can be found in one section of the toolbar in the user interface. These tool icons are labeled as Pen, Pencil, Brush, Airbrush, Decoration, Eraser, and Blend. The icons for these tool categories are shown in the following screenshot:

Clicking on one of these icons in the toolbar makes a change happen in the Sub Tool palette. For instance, when we click on the Pencil icon in the toolbar, we can see the categories of pencils in the...