Making a broken glass shard brush

By utilizing the features of Clip Studio Paint, we can save time with a brush that will make a tedious special effect into a simple matter. We will create a brush that will make shards of broken glass rain down on our images.

Follow these steps to create this brush:

1. Open a blank canvas, preferably at least 300 dpi. You do not need to use the Paper option in this canvas, in fact, we want a transparent background.
2. Using your preferred drawing tools on an empty layer, draw the outline of several jagged, broken glass shapes. Use black or dark gray for the outlines.

3. Create a new layer behind the outline layer. On this layer, fill the glass shapes with solid white.
4. Lower the opacity of the white layer to 50% by using the slider at the top right of the Layer palette.
5. Merge the outline layer with the 50% transparent white layer by clicking on Layer...