What this book covers
Chapter 1, Image Gallery of Manga and Illustrations Created by Clip Studio Paint, showcases visual examples of Clip Studio Paint creations, showing ideas for people who are new to Clip Studio Paint or benchmarks for those who have already started digital art creations.
Chapter 2, Installing Clip Studio Paint Pro and Interface Basics, covers setting the software preferences, an introduction to the default interface, making workspaces, and creating new files.
Chapter 3, Pages and Panels to Shape Manga, takes a close look at your Clip Studio Paint workspace, then prepares it for a new file, finally setting up panels on the new pages.
Chapter 4, Introducing Clip Studio Paint Brushes, covers how to make digital marks and introduces us to customizing the brush engine, the tool properties, and saving and restoring brushes.
Chapter 5, Penciling: Layer and Layer Property Palettes, covers the different properties of digital layers, layer menu options, and the Layer Palette icons.
Chapter 6, Erasers, Selections, and the Sub View Palette, teaches you about the various eraser tools and selection tools and how to use the Sub View palette.
Chapter 7, Using Text and Balloon Tools, teaches you how to navigate the world of text and its options. Creating word balloons is also covered.
Chapter 8, Getting Started with Inking Tools, goes over the inking pens, brushes, and markers that come included in Clip Studio Paint. Some basics of inking are also covered.
Chapter 9, Inking Special Effects, covers the creation of special effect brushes, textured brushes, and brushes with patterns such as foliage.
Chapter 10, Vector Layers and the Material Palette, covers how to create vector images and using the Material Palette to add textures, patterns, and more to your images.
Chapter 11, Creating Your Own Sound Effects, covers creating specialized text, adding strokes and gradient to text, and how to use Mesh Transformation to morph text into punchy sound effects.
Chapter 12, Making Layer Masks and Screentones, covers the use and creation of layer masks, and also how to apply Screentones to black and white by using selections and layer masks.
Chapter 13, All About Rulers, covers the myriad of ruler tools in Clip Studio Paint. We will cover the basic rulers, as well as symmetry rulers, focus and parallel line rulers, and perspective rulers.
Chapter 14, Using 3D Figures and Objects, teaches you how to use the 3D materials included with Clip Studio Paint. Placing characters, posing them, and customizing poses and characters are all topics covered in this chapter.
Chapter 15, Color Palette, covers the color selection and mixing palettes such as the Color Wheel, Color Sets, Intermediate Color, Approximate Color, and Color History.
Chapter 16, Using Clip Studio Paint to Color Your Manga, discusses the use of reference layers, how to create flats using the Bucket Fill and Paint Unfilled Area tools, layer blending modes, and how to create colored line art.
Chapter 17, Auto Actions and Your Workflow, covers the benefits of auto actions, how to use default actions, and how to record and play back custom actions.
Chapter 18, Exploring the Clip Studio Assets and Animation, covers how to download new assets and materials using the Clip Studio Assets, and how to create animation timelines and cels to animate your drawings.
Chapter 19, Exporting, Printing, and Uploading Your Manga, covers how to use the print preview and print settings to create a physical copy of your manga. Exporting your work in various formats for printing and display on the web and Webtoon exports and Clip Studio SHARE are also covered.
Chapter 20, Finding Your Own Manga Look, covers how to choose drawing tools and colors and how to keep consistency and create a unique look for your manga.