What this book covers
Chapter 1, Image Gallery of Manga and Illustrations Created by Clip Studio Paint, showcases a few examples of Clip Studio Paint artwork, to get you thinking about what styles and tools will be interesting to you.
Chapter 2, Installing Clip Studio Paint Pro and Interface Basics, walks you through the work of installing Clip Studio Paint and picking the right graphics tablet. It then guides you through the software preferences, the default interface, and how to make workspaces.
Chapter 3, Penciling: Layer and Layer Property Palettes, gets you started on the first stage in making digital art, penciling. Along the way, you will be introduced to the important concept of layers, layer menu options, and the Layer palette icons.
Chapter 4, Introducing Clip Studio Paint Brushes, gets you started with a few different brushes and what sort of marks they make. You’ll also learn how to edit your brushes by customizing the brush engine and configuring the tool properties. Finally, you’ll learn how to save and restore brush configurations.
Chapter 5, Pages and Panels to Shape Manga, revisits the concept of layers and applies it to an integral part of writing comics: how to make comic pages and panels.
Chapter 6, Erasers, Selections, and the Sub View Palette, teaches you about the various erasers and selection tools and how to use the Sub View palette. You’ll learn how to use these erasers and selection tools for artistic effect as well as to correct mistakes.
Chapter 7, Using Text and Balloon Tools, aids comic writers by teaching you how to add text and speech bubbles to your comics.
Chapter 8, Getting Started with Inking Tools, goes over the next stage in making digital art after penciling: inking. You’ll learn a few artistic techniques, as well as encountering a few inking pens, brushes, and markers that come included in Clip Studio Paint.
Chapter 9, Material Palette and Inking Special Effects, shows you how to create special effect brushes, textured brushes, and brushes with patterns such as foliage, as well as how to use the Material palette.
Chapter 10, Exploring Vector Layers, steps into geometric art by exploring how to create vector images, edit vector lines, and use the Material palette to add a design created by a vector.
Chapter 11, Creating Your Own Sound Effects, covers creating specialized text, adding strokes and gradient to text, and how to use Mesh Transformation to morph text into punchy sound effects and manga titles.
Chapter 12, Making Layer Masks and Screentones, covers the use and creation of layer masks, how to apply screentones to black and white manga by using selections and layer masks, and how to use the clipping layer function.
Chapter 13, All About Rulers, covers the myriad ruler tools in Clip Studio Paint. We will cover basic rulers, as well as symmetry rulers, focus and parallel line rulers, and perspective rulers.
Chapter 14, Using 3D Figures and Objects, teaches you how to use the 3D materials in Clip Studio Paint. Placing characters, posing them, customizing poses, importing poses from photos, and importing poses from Posemaniacs are all topics covered in this chapter.
Chapter 15, Color Palette, covers color selection and mixing palettes such as the Color Wheel, Color Set, Intermediate Color, Approximate Color, Color History, and Color Mixing. Creating a color palette from the Sub View palette is also covered.
Chapter 16, Using Clip Studio Paint to Color Your Manga, discusses the use of reference layers, how to create a flat color layer, the use of layer blending modes, and changing the line art color. It also covers how to use Shading Assist, Color Match, some great filters, and the Liquify tool to edit your art.
Chapter 17, Auto Actions and Your Workflow, covers auto actions and how to use them to make recurring parts of your setup process easier.
Chapter 18, Exploring the Clip Studio Assets and Animation, covers how to download new assets and materials using the Clip Studio Assets. You’ll also take your first steps into creating simple animations in Clip Studio Paint, looking at how to create animation timelines and cels.
Chapter 19, Exporting, Printing, and Uploading Your Manga, covers how to use the print preview and print settings to create a physical copy of your manga. It also looks at exporting your work in various formats: for printing, display on the web, Webtoon exports, and Clip Studio SHARE.
