Learn Clip Studio Paint: A beginner's guide to creating compelling comics and manga art, 3rd Edition

554 Pages·2021·29.89 MB·english

by  Inko Ai Takita

Learn Clip Studio
Paint
Third Edition
A beginner's guide to creating compelling comics and
manga art

Inko Ai Takita
Liz Staley
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
Learn Clip Studio Paint
Third Edition
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To my dear parents, Miyako and Kazuo, my friends, and the memory of my
grandparents, for their unconditional love and support. To all comic and
manga lovers.
– Inko Ai Takita
Contributors
About the authors
Inko Ai Takita is an award-winning UK-based Japanese manga artist. Her visual works
were built from her studies at Kyoto Zokei University of Art and Design in Japan and
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in the UK.
She has delivered manga talks and workshops at Westminster Library, for the Guardian
children's books online, and the V&A Museum. Through horror, folklore, and social
issues stories, she continues to deliver high-quality manga. Portrait of Violence (New
International) won an Independent Publisher Book Awards medal in 2018.
Her dark but fascinating manga adaptations Manga Yokai Stories (Tuttle) and Tam
O'Shanter (Cranachan) are also available.
Inko's artist website: http://dokoteiinko.wix.com/inkoredible
I want to thank all of the Packt team for guiding and supporting
me patiently and kindly, especially Aamir, Pratik, Aaron, Sofi, and
Mrudgandha. I also want to thank Michael Rhodes and Liz Staley for
allowing me to update this book to a new version.
Liz Staley is a writer and digital artist with nearly 10 years of experience creating
independent comics. Learn Clip Studio Paint is her third book with Packt Publishing.
She has also written Mastering Manga Studio 5 and The Manga Studio EX5 Cookbook.
Teaching other artists about the benefits of Clip Studio Paint is one of her true passions.
Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Liz currently lives in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania,
with her husband and her horse.
About the reviewer
Damien Barban is a storyboard artist, illustrator, teacher, tutorial creator, and e-learning
specialist. Over more than 18 years, he has created hundreds of courses in the field of
illustration and comic books and has worked on many projects. He also trains companies'
staff in the domain of e-learning.

Table of Contents
Preface
1
Image Gallery of Manga and Illustrations Created by Clip
Studio Paint
Black and White illustration 3D Figures 6
gallery 2 Shape tools 6
Pencil Tools 2
Color illustration gallery 7
Inking tools 3
Bucket tool 7
Brush tools 3
Pastel tools 8
Decoration tools 4
Brush tools 8
Manga gallery 4 Layer blending mode 9
Manga panels 5 Using textures 9
Manga creation process 5
Summary 10
Special tools 6
2
Installing Clip Studio Paint Pro and Interface Basics
System specs, installation, and Installing on a Windows computer 16
your Installing on a Mac computer 17
serial number 12 Starting the program for the first time 18
System requirements 12 Registering for a trial version of Clip
Windows system requirements 13 Studio Paint 18
macOS requirements 13 Registering for a licensed version of
Clip Studio Paint 19
Installing the program 14
Changing a license 19
Downloading the trial version 15
Downloading additional materials 20
Purchasing Clip Studio Paint 15
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About graphics tablets 20 Moving a palette 28
What is a graphics tablet? 20 Closing a palette 31
What type of tablet should I buy? 21 Collapsing and expanding palettes 32
How large of a tablet should I buy? 22
The tool palette and
What tablet brand should I buy? 22
Command Bar 33
Where can I purchase a graphics tablet? 22
The tool palette 34
Taking a look at the Customizing the tool palette 36
default interface 23 The primary Command Bar 38
Moving, collapsing, and
Summary 39
closing palettes 28
3
Pages and Panels to Shape Manga
Making and saving workspaces 42 Making Comic Panels 58
Saving a workspace 42 What are frame border layers? 59
Switching between workspaces 44
Creating, editing, and using
Managing and deleting workspaces 44
template panels 62
New files and templates 45 Dividing and editing panels 74
The New file window – explained 46 Dividing existing frames 76
Using Framing template materials 78
Creating a custom-sized page
and saving a preset 53 Summary 82
Adding templates to a new file 56
4
Introducing Clip Studio Paint Brushes
Technical requirements 84 Correction 95
Starting and ending 97
Navigating the brushes 84
The brush engine 86 Playing with brush settings 100
Accessing the brush options 86 Exporting and loading brushes 102
Brush size 88 Exporting a tool 102
Ink 90 Importing a tool 104
Color Jitter 91
Summary 106
Anti-aliasing 93
Watercolor edge 94
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5
Penciling: Layer and Layer Property Palettes
Technical requirements 108 Tone 117
What is a layer? 108 Layer color 119
Expression color 120
Introducing the Layer Palette 110
The Layer Property palette 113 Working with Layers 120
Border effect 114 Summary 125
Extract line 115
6
Erasers, Selections, and the Sub View Palette
Technical requirements 128 The Selection Launcher 138
Eraser Tools and The Lasso and Polyline
Transparent Color 128 selection area tools 138
Using the Tool property palette
The Eraser Tools 128
for scaling or rotating a selection 141
Hard eraser 129
Selection pen 144
Soft eraser 130
Shrink selection 146
Rough eraser 130
Clear selection 147
Vector Eraser 131
The Sub View palette 149
Multiple Layers Eraser 131
Snap Eraser 132 Loading images into the
Kneaded Eraser 132 Sub View palette 150
Zooming, rotating, and picking
Using Transparent "Color" 133
a color from the Sub View images 151
Lassos and other selection tools 135
Using Layer Color to
The Rectangle and Ellipse selection
prepare a sketch for inks 153
area tools 136
Summary 156
7
Using Text and Balloon Tools
Technical requirements 158 Exploring advanced
Understanding the basics text settings 159
of the Text tool 158 Font settings 160