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Learn Clip Studio Paint - Third Edition

By : Inko Ai Takita, Liz Staley
Book Image

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)

Chapter 7: Using Text and Balloon Tools

Lettering for comics is a complex and nuanced topic that could take an entire book of its own. The rules and conventions for lettering a comic are varied, and lettering in and of itself is a skill that takes lots of time and practice to master. Back in the day before computers, a comic would have a dedicated letterer who would draw all of the dialog boxes, balloons, and words by hand using various tools. Thankfully, we can letter using Clip Studio Paint and the fonts installed on our computer rather than having to draw every letter on our own!

In this chapter, we are going to concentrate not on the theory and how-tos of lettering for comics specifically, but on how to use the text and balloon tools in Clip Studio Paint. Since Clip Studio is made for comic book artists, it has tools to make the creation of speech balloons easy, as well as tools to create different balloon tails and more.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter...