Tips for Clip Studio Paint

KennethLopezJr921 2023-11-05 21:20:58 UTC #21

Because it works. Doing it this way allows me to shade over multiple areas without it looks sloppy and tones going into wrong areas. Ive used this method for pretty much everything, from comic pages to illustrations.
I get the feeling what Im doing is unusual and I guess wrong because of it, but its what I've come up to make this process functional and it works well for what I do

KennethLopezJr921 2023-11-05 21:22:25 UTC #22

I'll give that thread a look at! Thank you!!!

KennethLopezJr921 2023-11-05 21:26:18 UTC #23

That's the one phrase I can summarize CSP with. It is certaintly a lot more jampacked with more features than I ever could've imagined. I haven't even scratched the surface of the feature rabbit hole CSP has. I do want to learn it but it can feel very intimidating, especially if you wanted to draw your next chapter in it and its definitely going to take me some time to adjust to it and understand it better.

Shanny8 2023-11-05 22:00:36 UTC #24

Yeah I dropped PS in 2021 and then pulled out my [ARRR] copy coz I needed to convert/format pages from CSP so that I could convert them to other formats once I finished coloring, using FX, and lettering(I letter with Illustrator).

I used vector layers on some standalone pieces that I did back in 2020, but since I dont make one continuous line(my lines consist of a million mini lines) the vector layers exposed a lot of that- especially when I zoomed in...so I went back to raster layers.

As for coloring I've been doing my coloring a certain way for some years, so the process I use pretty much carried over from PS to CSP with very little changes. The last comic I fully colored in PS was a "print only" comic I did back in 2019, so I was elated that I used CSP to fully color the following issue this year- and I feel like I leveled some of my skills a bit.

Colored in Photoshop in 2019:

Colored this year in CSP:

Lensing 2023-11-06 05:12:45 UTC #25

Yep, I would also prefer to flat in Photoshop, the price is my only reason not to use it.

Clip did a good job on marketing and promoting their program as a comic creation / drawing
program but it´s inpractical in many ways, it slows down the working process when you
compare it to photoshop and autodesk sketchbook. Then you have the CMYK problem.
How can you put out a comic drawing program and not give the option to work in CMYK?
None of my pro illustrator friends works in clip and that´s already a bad sign, they all
use Photoshop

Shanny8 2023-11-06 05:17:39 UTC #26

Legit question. Also why when you save works as JPG and PNG does it use more KB than Adobe? Why can you not save work directly as a PDF in CSP? So many questions...