Lassos and other selection tools

One of the most useful features of creating art in a digital space is the ability to move, scale, rotate, flip, and otherwise transform all or parts of the drawing to obtain exactly the right look. In this section, we will use selection tools to clean up and correct a sketch with several errors in it. You can follow along with a sketch of your own or use the following sketch as a reference. These tools can be used with any sketches on your canvas.

The following is the sketch that we will be looking at in this section:

Figure 6.10: A sketch with the Clip Studio Paint interface

There are several issues with this drawing, and we will use the selection and transformation tools to correct them. The character’s left hand is a little too big, the bunch of hair on top of the head needs to be a different shape, and the headdress ribbon needs to be shaped better. Let’s use the selection area and other selection tools to fix these...