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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

Making a broken glass shard brush

By utilizing the features of Clip Studio Paint, we can save time with a brush that will make applying an otherwise tedious-to-achieve special effect a simple affair. 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 beneath the outline layer. In 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 in the File menu and clicking on Merge visible...
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