This beginner-friendly colored-guide to Clip Studio Paint, by award-winning artist Inko Ai Takita, equips you with all the essential tools to tell your own manga story and develop your digital drawing skills.
Key Features
- A comprehensive guide by an award-winning artist for creating manga and comics digitally
- Explore essential drawing, inking, and coloring techniques to create captivating characters and stories that pop off the page
- Take your first steps into animation with Clip Studio Paint, and learn how to bring your artwork to life
Book Description
Ever dreamed of creating your own manga art or comic books? Learn Clip Studio Paint, Fourth Edition, is your roadmap to becoming a digital artist! This beginner-friendly guide takes you on a step-by-step journey of digital illustration.
You'll get to grips with one of the essential features of digital illustration, layering, as you go through the process of penciling and inking your art. If you're interested in creating a webtoon graphic novel or web comic, you'll be happy to learn about comic-making essentials such as panels, sound effects, and speech bubbles.
In this edition, you'll learn artistic techniques alongside Clip Studio Paint features, including a new focus on how to bring your artwork to life with proportions and perspective. You'll learn how to draw characters with various brushes and brush customizations, as well as exploring coloring methods and rulers to make your stories pop.
This edition also dives into exciting new features like using 3D models to draw poses and the basics of creating animations. Packed with clear instructions and illustrated examples, this book is your one-stop shop for learning Clip Studio Paint. If you dream of creating your own manga art or comics, this guide equips you with the skills required to achieve your goals.
What you will learn
- Organize layers to make your artwork easy to edit
- Customize tools and brushes to draw compelling characters
- Implement inking and coloring techniques in your art
- Craft engaging comic panel layouts
- Employ layer masks and screentones for professional results
- Use 3D models to learn poses for your characters
- Explore animation basics to bring your artwork to life
- Leverage Clip Studio Paint's vast library of assets
- Export your creations for various platforms, including print and web
Who this book is for
If you're just starting out as a digital artist or want to switch to Clip Studio Paint from a different graphics software package, then this book is for you. While this book is designed for those with no prior knowledge of digital art, intermediate-level users looking to explore the unique features of Clip Studio Paint will also find this book useful.
Table of Contents
- Image Gallery of Manga and Illustrations Created by Clip Studio Paint
- Installing Clip Studio Paint Pro and Interface Basics
- Penciling: Layer and Layer Property Palettes
- Introducing Clip Studio Paint Brushes
- Pages and Panels to Shape Manga
- Erasers, Selections, and the Sub View Palette
- Using Text and Balloon Tools
- Getting Started with Inking Tools
- Material Palette and Inking Special Effects
- Exploring Vector Layers
- Creating Your Own Sound Effects
- Making Layer Masks and Screentones
- All About Rulers
- Using 3D Figures and Objects
- Color Palette
- Using Clip Studio Paint to Color Your Manga
- Auto Actions and Your Workflow
- Exploring Clip Studio Assets and Animations
- Exporting, Printing, and Uploading Your Manga
Inko Ai Takita, also known just as Inko, is UK based Japanese manga artist / illustrator. Her visual works often imply cross overs of modern & traditional Eastern and Western cultures, which comes from her studies undergraduate and master at Kyoto Zokei university of Art & Design in Japan (gained scholarship on the second year) , and BA Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design in UK before she kicks off her career as a manga & comic artist in 2009. She has been working with: Guardian Children's book, British Museum, V&A, British Library, TFL, Sony Entertainment Japan. A comic anthology Portrait of Violence (New International, also available on amazon) she took part as a main artist has won The 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards medal. She joined as an illustrator for an interactive web-theatre Flight Paths, and it was awarded the P.K. Walker Innovation in Craft Award from Superfest Disability Film Festival 2021. A manga adoptation of Robert Burn's dark poem Tam O'Shanter (Cranachan) is published in 2019, and available on amazon too. Manga Yokai Stories: Ghostly tales from Japan is just released by Tuttle in Sep 2020 and sold worldwide. Yokai Trail exhibition, a part of House of Setting Sun exhibition at Blackwell the Arts & Crafts center is open from July – October 2021. Learn Clip Studio Paint (Packt) published in September 2021. Her manga adaptation of the first Japanese novel from 1st century Tale of Genji (Tuttle) released in April 2022.
Liz Staley is a visual artist and blogger who loves horses, animation, comics, and true crime. She began her digital art journey using Adobe Photoshop and then learned how to use Clip Studio Paint. She currently writes a weekly blog for Graphixly with art and Clip Studio Paint tips. Although she still loves the medium of comics and animation, her personal art now mostly consists of animal portraits that combine education with conservation. Liz loves horses, dogs, horror movies, anime, and learning the Japanese language.
