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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)

Summary

Wow, that was a lot of information about rulers! I hope that you learned some great new tips and tricks that will help you with your digital art creation in the future.

In this chapter, we learned how to work with the basic rulers of Clip Studio Paint, as well as the radial, parallel, and symmetry rulers. We created one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective rulers, and learned how to use the direct drawing tools with them. We learned how to make rulers active or inactive and how to use the snapping settings. Finally, we learned about grids and guides. In this chapter, you gained skills such as creating various rulers by yourself, then manipulated and used perspective rulers, as well as using them with Figure tools, and used grids and guides, even organizing them as you want. Background drawings won't scare you anymore now that you know about rulers.

In the next chapter, we're going to enter a new dimension: the third dimension! Keep reading to learn...