Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Clip Studio Paint: Featuring tutorials by expert professional artists - PRE-ORDER!
Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Clip Studio Paint: Featuring tutorials by expert professional artists - PRE-ORDER!
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Beginner’s Guide to Digital Painting in Clip Studio Paint equips artists of all abilities with the knowledge and skills needed to get the most out of this highly accessible and versatile software. From creating your first canvas to exporting your final image, you will find all the steps, tips, and techniques you need inside. Featuring instruction from industry-leading artists – including Devin Elle Kurtz, Simone Ferriero AKA Simz, and Mmumechii – you will learn how to navigate and master Clip Studio Paint’s various tools, menus, and palettes to create impressive artwork that stands out from the crowd.
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Step into the inspiring world of digital painting in Clip Studio Paint with this comprehensive Beginner’s Guide. Written by professional digital artist Nimrod Villar, the all-encompassing Getting Started section covers the basics, with essential chapters on navigating the user-interface, basic actions, drawing tools, and colour, followed by an exploration of the creative potential of layers, filters, drawing guides, materials, and more. Each technique is explained with screengrabs of the software in use, detailed written steps, and art in progress. Next up, eight digital-painting experts share detailed step-by-step tutorials demonstrating the breadth of Clip Studio Paint’s capabilities in action. They create brand-new pieces of art that span a range of engaging styles, genres, and formats.
• Detailed and fully illustrated introduction to the core tools, menus, and palettes.
• Model workflows and expert tips from industry-leading artists.
• Eight easy-to-follow tutorials covering manga, character and creature design, landscapes (real and fantasy), picture-book illustration, and comics.
• A gallery of professionally created Clip Studio Paint artwork to inspire you.
Product details
Softback 264 pages
Dimensions: 270mm x 230mm
Paper quality: Full-colour premium paper pages
ISBN: 978-1-912843-96-1
Contents and contributors
INTRODUCTION
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
GETTING STARTED
The User Interface
Create a New File
Navigation Tools & Basic Actions
Tool, Sub Tools & Tool Properties
Drawing Tools
Layers
Colour
Selection
Fill & Gradient
Figure Tool
Comics, Manga & Webtoons
Drawing Guides
Tonal Correction
Filters
Materials
Using Clip Studio Paint on a Tablet
TUTORIALS
Fantasy Scene by Devin Elle Kurtz
Manga Character Design by Mmumechii
Fantasy Creature by Stefan Kostic
Character Design by Dadotronic
Real-World Scene by Orenjikun
Picture-Book Illustration by Simone Ferriero AKA Simz
Comic by Dylan Teague
Managa Webtoon by Lolita Aldea
GLOSSARY
DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
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