Mistakes are inevitable. One of the best things about drawing digitally, though, is that you can undo your mistakes. You are already familiar with the power of CMD-Z (CTRL-Z on Windows) from a lifetime of computer use, I’m sure. It works the same way in Clip Studio Paint. CSP remembers a bunch of your most…
(Updated October 2021 to remove broken links and provide a couple of new ones.) Everyone wants to color their sketches with Copic markers, right? But they aren’t necessarily cheap, especially if you want to buy the whole set. There has to be a better way! Certainly, Clip Studio Paint can emulate them, right? Of course…
How many different ways can you zoom in on something? Eight, by my count.
Clip Studio Paint has a trick to switch to a new tool temporarily, giving you a quicker way to go back and forth between tools. It’ll speed some things up for you.
What size do you want to draw at? First, you’ll need to pick the right canvas size and resolution. There’s a simple trick you can use for this.
Picking a font in Clip Studio Paint is not terribly easy, but you can narrow down your choices with some up front work to prepare font lists. You may have seen these in font manager programs. I use the one that comes with the Mac OS, called Font Book, for example. As you can see…
Choosing a font in Clip Studio Paint can be a pain. But with two simple tricks, you can make it a little easier.
When the black lines around a character’s head are too distracting, you have two ways to change the lineart color with CSP.
Occasionally, you draw something on the wrong layer and can’t figure out which layer it’s on. How can you remove that mistake? I’ll show you two ways.
Drawing word balloons is easier when you can drawn them from the inside out. I’ll show you where to find that option.