Clip Studio tips and resources

[whyfish]

So, Clip Studio Paint has been my go-to art program since [USER=2]@katimus[/USER] got it for me a few years ago, and I’m still finding out about new features and tools I didn’t know it had. Feel free to drop your favorite assets, tutorials, questions, advice, WIPs, and other Clip Studio-related discussion in this thread!

I’ll start with a few of my favorite downloads.

hard block brush (my current favorite for lineart)
glitch brushes, more glitch brushes, glitch clone tool
grunge cardboard brush
hair highlight, more hair highlights, even more hair highlights
heart bokeh
prism glitter
circuit board pattern
clothes/skin texture highlight
dandelion brush
blend/blur tools

bonus: DataErase has some groovy pixel glitch assets for Clip Studio and/or Photoshop (not for free but hella worth paying for). My signature graphic was heavily inspired by her aesthetic.

[Winter_Uzuki]

@whyfish

So, Clip Studio Paint has been my go-to art program since [USER=2]@katimus[/USER] got it for me a few years ago, and I’m still finding out about new features and tools I didn’t know it had. Feel free to drop your favorite assets, tutorials, questions, advice, WIPs, and other Clip Studio-related discussion in this thread!

I’ll start with a few of my favorite downloads.

hard block brush (my current favorite for lineart)
glitch brushes, more glitch brushes, glitch clone tool
grunge cardboard brush
hair highlight, more hair highlights, even more hair highlights
heart bokeh
prism glitter
circuit board pattern
clothes/skin texture highlight
dandelion brush
blend/blur tools

bonus: DataErase has some groovy pixel glitch assets for Clip Studio and/or Photoshop (not for free but hella worth paying for). My signature graphic was heavily inspired by her aesthetic.

So I’m not an artist, but I nabbed a tablet on Black Friday I’m hoping to give it a whirl so this thread is probably going to be pretty helpful.

[Winter_Uzuki]

@whyfish

BTW, if you’re not sure about Clip Studio yet and just want to play around with a basic digital art app to get a feel for it, I also recommend MyPaint, which is free

Well, I’ll be honest being a “not artist” I was actually buying the tablet for “not artist” reasons, but it’s a pretty fancy tablet and supposedly Clip Studio is supposed to come pre-installed on it.

[jessiray]

This thread is clutch and I’m definitely gonna have to download some of the stuff you’ve posted and check it out. Like that glitter _!

Thank you for sharing!

[LEGOdawg2001]

I’ve been using Clip Studio for 2 years now and I feel like I’ve barely scraped what it can do. So here’s hoping I learn stuff

[katimus]

Erin asked me to cross-link this here! It looks to be a life-changer but I haven’t actually used it myself due to my terrible time management skills

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[Winter_Uzuki]

@whyfish

Android version of Clip Studio,

I’m kinda miffed by it. Apparently for a while it was exclusive to the Galaxy Tab S7/S7+, which I have the S7+ and I don’t know if it’s still exclusive or not. The real killer is that you have to pay a subscription rather than a one time fee to use the software which is bogus.

[Winter_Uzuki]

@whyfish

Blegh, that’s annoying. I have an LG phone and was able to download it at least, but it wouldn’t let me use my login to register (something about it not being allowed on that device, idk). I thought maybe it was because I technically have my desktop version of Clip Studio Paint registered on two different operating systems (I had it running on Linux for a while, but my Linux install magically bricked itself over the summer and I am too dumb and short of attention span to remember how I got it to run on there in the first place). I haven’t figured out yet if there’s a way to un-register it remotely or if that would even make it possible for me to use the mobile version. On the other hand, I only really use mobile art apps when I’m away from my desktop, and I’m pretty much at home all the time now. :S Oh well. If anyone does get it to work I’d love to hear your thoughts!

I’m pretty sure they are billing the mobile and desktop versions separately with the mobile version requiring a subscription to use which is downright Adobe levels of evil.

[katimus]

As much as I like the pay once model on PC, the mobile ports costing anything seem like a huge faux pas. I don’t think my phone would be able to run it since I only have a Galaxy S6 that I really should just give in and upgrade but I can’t imagine trying to do art on it outside of frying the pictures I take on my phone in Pixlr filters or DotPict doodles. It is very cool to have almost the same functionality from iPad to desktop, and I have enough money that I can afford it, but I understand that not everyone can and it sucks to see the paywall.

[Radiotanuki]

I am a very lazy artist and am very bad at clean line art so a lot of my stuff comes out kinda sketchy. Clip has been like a life saver for that because luckily for me, I like really sketchy looking shit. I am just bad about jumping into a project on a whim and not looking at options or brushes a whole lot… so this thread will probably help me with reccs. If anyone has any good graffiti brushes I would loves something like that! I do like to experiment here and there!

[katimus]

Not a graffiti brush but I usually get a lot done with Bit Husky under Pens!

Also, brushes my friend Enkou uses!
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[Radiotanuki]

ooh thanks that looks great! I will defs be trying it out!

[QueenieBeeToni]

Ohhh this thread is great! I’ll be sure to grab some brush recommends when I’m off mobile!!

[katimus]

I’m just scribbling down any brush Enkou finds interesting! This one is one I want to try out ASAP!!
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[jessiray]

@whyfish

I made some brushes out of the city textures that are visible through Helmer’s office window on Second Miltia in XSII, so I thought I’d share them here in case anyone else can make use of them.

Basically, I was doing a fanfart (which I guess I’ll post in my actual fanart thread later, whenever I get my crap together to do a Xenotober summary) and I wanted to recreate this view of the skyline:

So I used the texture maps from that scene, which look like this:

Each building (or group of buildings for the smaller ones) was a separate image texture that I set as a brush tip shape in grayscale, so that it paints at varying levels of opacity in whatever the paint color is. At some point I’d like to do something more like a stamp brush that preserves the original colors, but this worked pretty well for the effect I wanted.

I think this brush format (.sut) only works in Clip Studio, but it might be possible to convert it to a Photoshop-compatible format if anyone’s interested. Feel free to use it for whatever!

This is an awesome resource! Thank you for sharing. Would you like to upload it to the resources section?

I can see this being really useful for xenosaga art!