Book Image

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)

Using Layer Color to prepare a sketch for inks

We're going to wrap up this chapter by learning about one way that Clip Studio Paint solves a common digital art problem. Those of you reading this book who have done digital art in the past might be familiar with the following scenario.

You get your sketch finalized and create a layer for your final inks. You ink for a bit and then realize that something in the sketch needs to be changed. You switch back to the sketch layer and make the correction, then continue inking. It isn't until you finish inking that you realize you never switched back to your ink layer, and now you have your inks on the same layer as the pencil sketch and must start over.

This is an extremely frustrating and common problem when working with digital layers. Thankfully, the makers of Clip Studio Paint gave us a feature that makes this a thing of the...