Clip Studio Paint is one of those applications that I have seen but never really taken the time to learn properly. This year that is going to change!
I have set myself a personal goal, a new years resolution so to speak, of learning the application from the ground up.
I have already been exploring custom brushes, various tools like the pencils, airbrush, blenders and transformation tools.
Below is one of the first few images created with this software.
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SO, you might be wondering why start learning yet another application? Well, it comes down to something I have been thinking about lately, and that is...
"every time we switch between applications, we are faced with a learning curve"
It may only be a short time to get back up to speed, a 'refresher' if you will, but still it takes away from doing what we actually want to be doing, and that is drawing.
With Photoshop now a subscription model, I wanted to purchase and own my applications once. NOT have to re-buy every month!
Clip Studio Paint is a cheap, fully featured digital painting application. Primarily aimed at comic artists, but also more than capable of creating digital paintings.
It has a limited number of tools (more than enough for most) and has a really great UI. It also supports 'stabilization' which is a feature that 'smooths' your strokes as you draw.
Over the coming weeks, I will be focusing more on creating my images using CSP instead of PS. I hope you will follow me on this journey.
Catch you soon!