An Introduction to Clip Studio Assets
Clip Studio Assets is the new way of finding and downloading new materials, brushes, etc. for Clip Studio Paint. In this video, I’ll show you how to register, download, and organize these materials.
8 Keyboard Shortcuts to Clip Studio Paint Happiness
Keyboard shortcuts are the key to a more fluid experience in using Clip Studio Paint. Here are eight I couldn’t live without.
Remove Stray Line From an Unknown Layer
Occasionally, you draw something on the wrong layer and can’t figure out which layer it’s on. How can you remove that mistake? I’ll show you two ways.
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.
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!
