Should I switch to Clip Studio Paint?

[drawnbyyannan]

I currently use Procreate on an iPad and while I love it, there are certain functionalities that it lacks in making it an efficient comic-making program. Adding text, for example, is really annoying, because you can't input the font size, you have to drag a slider bar until it matches what you want.

I've seen a lot of people using Clip Studio Paint, and I downloaded a trial version to play around with it, and because of the learning curve, I'm still 10x faster on Procreate. With Procreate, because I've been using it for three years, I know where everything is, what my favorite brushes are, etc etc. With Clip Studio Paint, I'd need to invest the time into figuring all of that stuff out again before I can start efficiently making comics... So, do you think it's worth the time and money investment to make the switch?

[artamazon]

I've used both, and I'd say the more programs you know the better off you are. Procreate is amazing and possibly unmatched for painting and sketching. Clip Studio is a very powerful program that is built for making comics. There's no reason you can't still draw in one program and polish it off in Clip until you are ready to start doing everything in Clip. Work however you want, but Clip is very cool.

[Pandastrophic]

You can always use both? I use clip for lineart, sai for colouring and photoshop for text and other touch ups, i save my files as .PSD since all 3 programs can open it. I'm hoping to move to clip for everything eventually but that'll take some time and practice.
Maybe start with the main thing that clip will make easier for you in terms if making comics, like if its making the panels and adding text then do that on clip while the rest is on procreate? Do this while experimenting with lineart and colouring, trying different brushes, etc on clip. Maybe try to find brushes that are similar to your procreate brushes and slowly transition to using clip more and more.

I wanted to move to clip bc all the assets as well as 3D background to lineart seemed very appealing to me, so my priority was finding a lineart brush similar to the one i use on photoshop, i found something close and its been pretty fun to use so far.

[Maps]

I use Procreate as well. I really love it (it's my favorite app to draw with), but I have also downloaded Clip Studio Paint for what it lacks.

Usually I draw on Procreate, then I export the image to Clip Studio Paint to add panels and text. From there I use Clip Studio Paint to save it as a JPEG and use that to upload.

You can always save what you added from Clip to your Procreate app and make little edits that you might need (For example: I recently noticed something I wanted to blend a little better, but I'd already added my text in Clip. I just saved it from Clip to Procreate and use the blender to fix it).

[emvink]

I switched from using procreate for my webcomics to clip studio paint and I do not regret it!

The things I do miss from procreate:
-better textured brushes (technical pencil, charcoal block, etc)
-liquify tool

advantages of csp:
-panels
-vector layers
-superior bucket fill tool
-superior text tool
-assets!
-imo, better blending

There was definitely a bit of a learning curve but i watched some webtoon making videos on youtube and that helped a lot!

[e] another procreate pro: the price and it does have a simpler interface

[Shanny8]

My situation is the opposite...I've been using CSP for a while, so when i bought an iPad a few yrs back, that was my intent. I got Procreate, but I feel like it's more difficult to use while I've learned to use CSP on my iPad quicker.

[GesuGesu]

Yes. Once you're over the learning curve, it's well worth the money and a huge time saver.

I started from Photoshop > SAI > Mixture of SAI + PS, then SAI + CSP > Pure CSP

[drawnbyyannan]

I get that! A lot of the procreate features are hidden. Like you wouldn't believe how long it took me to figure out how to use the "fill bucket" tool in procreate.

[drawnbyyannan]

Thanks, this was super helpful! If you don't mind sharing, what do you use the vector layers for? Does it save time in some way?

[emvink]

vector layers are amazing bc you can scale them up however much you want without it becoming all pixelated! I usually do my lineart in a vector layer so if I ever need to resize, I can do it freely

[whiskeyjack]

To add on to what emvink said, vector layers also allow you to erase 'stray' lines, and you can manipulate points in a line individually. If you've ever used lines in Adobe Illustrator, it's kind of like that.

See here for an explanation: https://professorfaf.tumblr.com/post/178217756155/using-clip-studio-paint-vector-layers

[toonben]

I've been an avid CSP user for five years already (originally named Manga Studio) back then. This software is made for making comics and I'm happy with it. I'd say give it a shot. I don't know much about procreate, but I'm fine that you can use both.