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Learn Clip Studio Paint

You're reading from   Learn Clip Studio Paint A beginner's guide to creating compelling art in manga, comics, and animation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835886588
Length 440 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Inko Ai Takita Inko Ai Takita
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Liz Staley Liz Staley
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Image Gallery of Manga and Illustrations Created by Clip Studio Paint FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Clip Studio Paint Pro and Interface Basics 3. Penciling: Layer and Layer Property Palettes 4. Introducing Clip Studio Paint Brushes 5. Pages and Panels to Shape Manga 6. Erasers, Selections, and the Sub View Palette 7. Using Text and Balloon Tools 8. Getting Started with Inking Tools 9. Material Palette and Inking Special Effects 10. Exploring Vector Layers 11. Creating Your Own Sound Effects 12. Making Layer Masks and Screentones 13. All About Rulers 14. Using 3D Figures and Objects 15. Color Palette 16. Using Clip Studio Paint to Color Your Manga 17. Auto Actions and Your Workflow 18. Exploring Clip Studio Assets and Animations 19. Exporting, Printing, and Uploading Your Manga 20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index

Adding screentones

We’re looking into how to use screentones with a layer mask to control shades of black and white for a manga.

In the old days, printers could only print black ink writing and drawings on paper. This meant that older printed illustrations didn’t have gray tones. Artists had to draw detailed dots and line patterns using black ink in order to express gray tones for printing. But it’s time consuming to do that! To make the process faster, people invented screentones.

Screentones, or halftones, are made of a pattern of dots that provide shading. Back in the days before digital art, these tones would be printed on a big sheet of sticky-backed plastic. Artists would apply this large, clear sticker over their art and then carefully use a sharp knife to cut out the areas that didn’t need tone on them and peel away the excess. The downsides to this method were that you had to keep buying new screentone sheets and that, sometimes, a careless...

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