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Learn Clip Studio Paint - Second Edition

By : Liz Staley
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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)

The 3D Material Palette

The Material Palette is what we call the digital library of assets that are available through Clip Studio Paint. Clip Studio comes with a huge library of brushes, images, screentones, 3D poses, and objects and more are already available inside. More assets can be easily downloaded through the Clip Studio App, which we will cover in Chapter 19, What is the Clip Studio App And Getting Animated. You can also save your own artwork to the Material palette, which will be covered in Chapter 8, Vector Layers and the Materials Palette.

For now, we will just concentrate on the 3D categories of the materials palette.

To access the Material Palette, locate the appropriate palette location in your interface. If you cannot locate the Materials Palette, you can click on Window in the File Menu and then navigate down to Material. From the menu under the Material option...