Six Ways to Zoom
How many different ways can you zoom in on something? Six, by my count. I have video to prove it.
10 Sites With Free Fonts for Lettering Your Comics
Whether doing simple gag panels, comic strips, or comic books with Clip Studio Paint, you’ll eventually be looking for some good fonts to fill those word balloons, caption your art, or complete some signage somewhere. Here are a dozen resources for finding free fonts to use on your CSP projects. Before using one, be sure…
“Do I Need a Wacom Cintiq to Use Clip Studio Paint?”
No, you don’t. There are people who even use CSP with a mouse. I wouldn’t recommend that, but it’s been known to happen. I have some options…
Drawing Word Balloons from the Center
Drawing word balloons is easier when you can drawn them from the inside out. I’ll show you where to find that option.
How Do I Create a Title Image?
You know those images on websites everywhere with the headline sitting on top of a photograph? You can do that in Clip Studio Paint. Let me show you how.
Three Places To Slide in Clip Studio Paint
Unless you have one of the higher end Wacom Cintiqs, you’re not drawing on your computer screen with your finger. You’re still point-and-clicking or tapping with your stylus, not tapping with your finger. One of the touch screen things that occasionally comes in handy is the ability to slide across a screen for various effects….
The Blue Line Trick
If you’re going through a process of penciling and then inking your work, you might have come across the problem where you miss inking a spot. You mistook your pencil line for an ink line. That’s because all the black lines are blending together. Blue line art can help you with this. The traditional way of…
Know Your Tools
Yes, DaVinci could probably make amazing art with a box of eight Crayolas. You’re not DaVinci. Your tools are important.
30 Sets of Free Brushes You Can Download Now!
Everybody loves to play with brushes in Clip Studio Paint. Today, I’ve compiled links to more than 25 FREE sets of brushes, pens, and pencils to download!
Off-Register Artwork
If you want to create an image that looks like a comic that’s been printed off-register, it’s an easy trick. Just move the color layer a few pixels. I’ll show you how.
Add Copic Markers to Your Toolkit
Everyone wants to color their sketches with Copic markers, right? But they aren’t necessarily cheap, especially if you want to buy the whole set. There has to be a better way! Certainly, Clip Studio Paint can emulate them, right? Of course it can! There are two parts to getting there, though. The first is to create…
How Do I Pick the Right Skin Tone?
Choosing a good skin color just got easier — thanks to a Skin Color palette that’s freely available from the makers of Clip Studio Paint.
How to Add a Brush (or Pen or Pencil)
Clip Studio Paint breaks your art creation tools into three categories: Pens, Pencils, and Brushes. It’s completely arbitrary, but it is suggested that you organize your tools along those lines just for sanity’s sake. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add a brush, move a brush around to a different category, create and delete a…
How To Flip An Image
It’s awkward to hold your computer screen up to a mirror to see its reverse, so Clip Studio Paint has a tool to help you with that. Actually, it has two. Make it three, if you want to create a shortcut!
Quick Tip: Slide to Hide Layers
Here is a neat trick you can do to show or hide a bunch of layers with one stroke of the stylus!
