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Using the Clip Studio Paint Screentone option can be very interesting! The use of tones is very common in manga books and illustrations, especially in black and white. It can also be something that an artist can adopt into their own style. With it, you can even help shade your drawings and give different effects …
You’ve probably already meddled with and used gradients or gradient maps in Clip Studio Paint. Gradients are something that I only use from time to time and recently I realized I didn’t know how to use them as much as I thought. There’s actually a whole lot you can do with them, including creating your …
Mesh transform is the tool we use in Clip Studio Paint to distort or warp an image or selection. Sometimes while drawing this is very useful, because we can just edit some lines or parts of a piece without having to erase and redo everything. So how can you use Mesh Transform in Clip Studio …
A reference window or secondary window in Clip Studio Paint is very easy to use. This way you can split screen your work! You’re able to either use a reference image or preview the overall changes you’re making in your current drawing in real-time. If you draw using reference images, which I always recommend, especially …
This might come as a surprise, but you can actually use Photoshop brushes in Clip Studio Paint and I’m going to explain how! When I first started to use Clip Studio I was rather sad I couldn’t find a lot of brushes for it nor use the ones I used in Photoshop. It’s not like …
Vector layers in Clip Studio Paint are very good to use, so I really recommend anyone to use them. If you tend to draw line art, it is especially important to draw them in a vector layer, this way you can edit them easily and there are also settings that you can use to help …
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 around my work a lot! …
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 Grid if you’re using perspective. …
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 new things. I like to …
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 need to make small selections …
