Navigating the brushes
In the world of analog art, a brush is a very specific tool. In Clip Studio Paint, however, the word brush can refer to several different tools. Usually, we use the term brush to refer to a digital tool that is used with a stylus or mouse to draw lines, as opposed to other tools that fill colors or select or perform the other operations that can be performed in digital art.
Most of the tools that we will refer to as brushes can be found in one section of the toolbar in the user interface. These tool icons are labeled as Eraser, Pencil, Pen (aka Inking tools), Brush, Airbrush, Decoration, and Blend. The icons for these tool categories are shown in the creenshot on the left:
Figure 4.1: Toolbar and art samples
Clicking on one of these icons in the toolbar results in a change in the Sub Tool palette.
In this chapter, we’ll be closely looking at the most important paintbrush tools – in this case, Pen tools. When we click on the...
