Learning what a value drawing is and how to use one will be very important to grow as an artist and to learn new and different techniques. I remember learning and working a lot with it in school and other drawing classes. With it, we can have a better understanding Read more…
If you want to improve your artwork quickly, you must learn what is a light box and why you should use one for drawing! The light box is also called a light table when the entire surface is used and is very useful for tracing drawings. What is a light Read more…
Still Life Drawing and Painting is very important to practice and learn. Even though it’s something I don’t do as much today, it was definitely part of my learning as an artist. It’s a great way to improve our drawings and style and I’m going to be talking and showing Read more…
You can very easily rotate, invert, flip, zoom and others in Clip Studio Paint. These are very useful tools and actions that I almost subconsciously do all the time. I zoom in and out to add details or to see how the whole illustration looks from a distance. I pan Read more…
Some artists like to make a grid in Clip Studio Paint to better organize their composition. After thumbnailing for a bit and choosing a final sketch, it feels good to have a grid, so we can nail everything down as we want! It is especially useful to have an Isometric Read more…
You can use and install materials in Clip Studio Paint. You can find brushes, textures, color sets, gradient sets, and even animations! There are a lot to choose from in their Assets app and I do recommend you to use it, in case you’re feeling like trying and experimenting with Read more…
Free Transform in Clip Studio Paint is very simple. With it, you can scale your image, rotate it, flip your selection horizontally or vertically and even distort it a bit! I don’t use it for very complex actions, but I still use the Free Transform mode a lot! Constantly I Read more…
It is important to know how to install new brushes in Clip Studio Paint. After all, we just got some new and good looking brushes to have some fun with and we need to add them to the software! There aren’t as many Clip Studio Brushes around as we wish, Read more…
Using shortcuts on Clip Studio Paint or any other software while drawing is very common. It makes everything faster and we don’t need to break our flow to go find the tool we need. Sometimes shortcuts change from software to software. Other times I just don’t like the shortcut assigned, Read more…
If you’re just starting out with cartoon drawing, I have some great tips that I wish I knew when I was a beginner. In fact, a lot of these I’ve learned along the years, and have done wonders to speed up my drawing skills into a successful cartoon artist. Today Read more…
