Using Text and Balloon Tools
One of the brilliant things about manga and comic creations is you can make your characters have dialog! Lettering for this media can be a complex and nuanced topic that could fill an entire book of its own. The rules and conventions for lettering a comic are varied, and lettering in and of itself is a skill that takes lots of time and practice to master. Back in the days before computers, a comic would have a dedicated letterer who would draw all the dialog boxes, balloons, and words by hand using various tools. Thankfully, we can use Clip Studio Paint and the fonts installed on our computer to handle lettering, rather than having to draw every letter on our own!
In this chapter, we will take this basic theory of speech in comics and learn how to apply it using the Text and Balloon tools in Clip Studio Paint. Since Clip Studio is made for comic book artists, it naturally has tools to make the creation of speech balloons easy, as well as tools to create...
