The artist shows you how the layout of a traditional manga works and how to work on your pages individually.
Comic Creation
Comic Artist Whyt Manga covers some quick basics of Clip Studio Paint, including making a new page, basic tool navigation, storyboarding a page, layer management, creating panels, perspective ruler, inking, making selections, transforming, making speed lines, working with screentones, and more! This is a great “general info” video for someone who has worked with digital art programs before but needs an introduction to the workflow and tools for making a comic in CSP.
Jake Hercy Draws
Webcomic artist Jake Hercy shares time-saving tips and tricks for creating a webcomic using Clip Studio Paint. Topics included are page formatting, storyboarding, panel creation, sketching, inking, using 3D models for backgrounds, and other time-saving tips that will help you keep your webcomic schedule on track!
Lettering
Confused Muse Artist
Confused Muse Artist provides a great overview of the Text Tool, its options, and how to use it. Rasterizing and using transformation and lasso tools is also covered. This is a fantastic, clear, and concise introduction to the text options in Clip Studio Paint.
How to Create Comic Word Balloons with Clip Studio Paint
Robert Marzullo
Artist Robert Marzullo shares some general lettering tips, as well as how to create and edit word balloons in CSP. He also shares some general text tool tips as well!
Clip Studio Paint Basics
This comprehensive tutorial is 35 minutes long and will take you through the basic mechanics of the program.
It’s perfect for artists who know some basics of digital painting and are eager to dive into more details with CSP.
The tutorial starts off with the basic interface, canvas settings, and where to customize brush options.
Next the artist sketches a simple dinosaur head from start to finish highlighting the smooth feel of the pencil tool and razor-sharp pen tool.
He dives deeper into how colors can be naturally blended with the blend tool, showing multiple examples with many different types of brushes and blend patterns. Finally you’ll learn how to use different layers(ink and flat) to manipulate your drawings without merging layers.
More CSP Basics
If you are new to digital painting this tutorial is what you need.
In under 20 minutes all the essential tools are covered along with a basic “how to” explanation of how digital drawing/painting works.
To get you acquainted with the inner workings of Clip Studio Paint the artist goes over the interface showing you where everything is and how to use the selection and shape tools.
He also demonstrates the powerful default brushes, how to customize them to your needs, and what sort of textures they can create.
After an overview of the lasso tool you’ll finish up by learning how to use Clip Studio’s 3D template characters to draw awesome characters quickly.
How To Draw Digitally
If you plan on drawing in a manga style or creating your own manga from scratch then you may need a quick tutorial to get you started.
Well look no further!
This artist keeps it need-to-know and doesn’t overwhelm you with too many small details.
Drawing a cute anime character while she explains the tools, you’ll learn how to sketch and create line art for your pieces following that classic manga style.
