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Clip Studio Paint by Example

You're reading from   Clip Studio Paint by Example Understand how to use CSP in a faster and more productive way for concept art, illustrations, and comics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800202726
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ludovico Serra Ludovico Serra
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Up and Running with CSP 2. Chapter 2: Adding Brushes to CSP FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Creating 3D Backgrounds in CSP 4. Chapter 4: Using Your 3D Props to Create a Scene 5. Chapter 5: Implementing 3D Characters in CSP 6. Chapter 6: Importing 3D Characters in CSP 7. Chapter 7: Making Your Own Illustration 8. Chapter 8: Creating Your Own Comic 9. Chapter 9: Building Your Own Concept Art 10. Chapter 10: Creating Your Own Portfolio 11. Chapter 11: CSP Vocabulary 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction to comics

Making comics is a really hard job, and completely different from making illustrations. Why?

I can quote Scott McCloud in his Understanding Comics book, which is a book that every serious comic artist needs to read. McCloud defines comics as:

"Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer."

This quote means that you create two or more images that are in a sequence, but not entirely for narrating a story. For example, the artist Moebius sometimes doesn't narrate a story, strictly speaking, but still makes comics. To help you understand this concept a little better, silent books are not regarded as comics, but we can all agree that we read the book by looking at images juxtaposed in a deliberate order. If you put multiple images on a single page, it's definitely a comic, and I'm certain of that, but if it's only one image per page...

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