Clip Studio Paint for Beginners: Learn Digital Illustration in a Day

1. Introduction: Hello askew share students. My name is T0 and I have been creating art with traditional media as well as digital tools for more than ten years. In this class, I'm going to teach you basic digital illustration with clips studio paint. And we're gonna talk about a software, what you can do with it. I'm going to show you how you can create a sketch from start to finish and then color it and also share it online. So this course is for beginners, so don't worry if you don't have any knowledge when it comes to drawing because I'll be drawing something really simple, a very angular boxy truck that anyone can do. And if you think you can draw, you will realize that you can draw and up this lesson. So let's jump right in. 2. CSP Installation: In order to follow this class, you obviously need to have clips, studio paint. And if you already have the app installed, you can skip this video and go into the next lesson. Now eclipse Do D0 is available on Windows, Mac OS, iPad, iPhone, and Galaxy tablets. So if you happen to be using a computer, you can go to their website, clip studio.net slash EN for English on their website, you will be able to find links to download the software. So here are two links. One is for the free trial and one is to bite a license for the software. My class is for students who have already purchased a license where you get all the features with the free trial, there are some limitations. Sama features are actually not available. If you know you're going to be drawing a lot very frequently, is actually buying trip studio. So these are the prices at the time of this video. If you are using flip studio on Windows or Mac OS, basically on desktop, that's a onetime purchase. If you are using clip studio on the tablet, it's a monthly subscription. Again, I think it's if it if you are going to be drawing very frequently. So that's how you would go about finding and installing clips studio on a desktop. If you happen to be using a tablet, if you are using i hat, you can download the app from the Apple app store. If you are using a Samsung Galaxy tablet, you can download the app from Samsung Galaxy store. At the time of this review, clip studio is not available from the Google Play Store. So to search for the app, just type in Eclipse studio and just install it. So once you have the app installed, just launch it. This is where they will ask you whether you want to go for the free trial or if you already have the license, just sign back in. Now there are two versions of clips due to pin that eax and probe. The Pro has most other features that majority of people will need. Yaks has some extra features. Pro is the one that you should go for unless you do need the extra features. So I already have the license I'm going to sign in. Alright, so now I have clips to your on my tablet. In the next lesson, we will go through the user interface of Phipps studio paint. 3. CSP User Interface: In this first video, I'm going to show you how to set up the interface and preferences so that you can have the most efficient workspace for drawing. The eclipse studio I'm using is running on Android. Studio is available on Android, iPads, Mac OS, and Windows, and the user interface is pretty similar across their platforms. There are some minor differences. So for example, with Android, there is this each he bought here with shortcut buttons so that it's easier for you to use your fingers. We've just shortcuts the menus here pretty similar to the desktop version, except here on Android, they have split their preferences into this button here. On the desktop. The preferences is grouped under the File menu after launching clips studio, this may be the interface you see. There's the menu bar, the two bars on the side, pallets on the left and right side. Now if your interface is different from my, you can go to the menu bar, click Window, Workspace, and click comic. So this is the default comic, drawing Lee out. We have the color wheel here and a different pans and brushes here, and the brush sizes here that Cleopatra is on the right side. So let's go ahead and create a new file, File, New, or if you're using a keyboard, just hit Control. N. Pip studio actually provides many presets depending on the type of work and that you are creating. So if you're just creating a very simple illustration, you can just go for illustration. Here I have selected four K. If you are drawing comics, you can choose comics and you can choose the page size. This is A4. They have so many different sizes and resolution you can choose. And for comics, you can actually create multip ages, multiple pages, and you can also create animation. Some other features may or may not be available depending on which version of clips studio you're using. So let's just create a 4K resolution foul and make sure that width is wider than the height. If not, you can click this button here to swap. You can also see Tom knew there. So I want horizontal and thus, OK. Flip studio is best used with a keyboard so that you can have access to keyboard shortcuts. That alternative to shock us when you are using, in this case, a tablet is to go into the menu and click functions, the commands, which can be rather inconvenient when you are drawing. So when you have a keyboard, you can just do your commands, your shortcuts, and continue drawing. There is no break in the workflow. Take a look on the right side, add layers palette, make sure you have layer one selected. Here. I want to rename the layer two ink. So this layer is where I'm going to draw all the lines and not from the left side from the two balance, choose a brush. This are the different drawing 2s we have Penn, brush, pencil and spray. So let's choose brush. And I wanted to choose bit husky. That's actually one of my favorite brushes because it has. Texture on the ages, it's a bit difficult to see here because the lines are quite thin. So let's try and increase the thickness water lines. If you're using a keyboard, you can use the square brackets. This is to increase and this is to decrease the brush size. So I'm going to increase the size and you will be able to see the cursor increasing in size. All right, now it's much better. And you can see that additional texture, which is really nice. If you are using a tablet and you don't have access to a keyboard to increase or decrease brush size. I highly recommend you use each keyboard here, go to Preferences, shortcut settings, and under shortcuts settings from this setting, a dropdown menu and choose options and look for brush size pallet so that he fought a shortcut for select a smaller preset than current debts, the square bracket, and select larger, that's the yellow square bracket. So here I have a sine and additional shortcut, which is T1 and T2. So for T2, basically, select the shock i1 and click at shortcut. So press T2 and heat. Okay, so now when you press T1, the brush size will increase and t2 to Prussia size, we'll decrease. The attendance area is to click on this brush sizes here. The other alternative is to go into windows and look for tool property. Click it and drag this pellet down here, plays it beside the other pallet. So here you can also change the brush size this time by dragging the slider. Personally, I prefer keyboard shortcuts. If you happen to be using our stylers that has the whole capability, that means minor pan is close to the display and you see the cursor. Sometimes you may have to lift your pen away from the display in order to change the brush size. Undo and redo is also very important to undo the key Bosch Hawkeye is control z. And if you are using a finger gestures, it's double finger tap on the display. The last preference I want to change is penn pressure setting. So we'll go into the provinces, look for Penn pressures settings. And this is where you can adjust the pen pressure, that mean reset to default. So this is the default pleasure curve. I'm going to move pen pressure so that it looks something like this. This means that when I am drawing with very light pressure and the line is going to be even thinner. And when I draw with more pressure, the lines will be even thicker. The last thing I need to show you is how to move around a canvas. So there are several ways to do it with the keyboard. You can press control space to zoom in and out. So when you press control space and click, you're gonna zoom in. Press control space, a tenet, going to zoom out. And when you press spacebar, you're going to be able to move this left to right anywhere. And if you take a look at the Navigator, you will be able to tell where is this window. So this window is looking at the bottom right side of the letter a. If you are using a tablet, you can just use your finger gestures to zoom in and out and rotate. So it's very convenient. 4. Let's Draw Line Art: And now in this lesson we are going to draw so mixture that you have the brush beat husky selected and I have a RED color selected, so I one and black color. So let's draw the front of the truck. Don't worry about getting the accuracy. Here just as a bar, three parts, this is about one parts. So you can actually just follow my line drawing rather than following the photo because the photo can be quite detail. So this will be the bottom of the truck. We have license plate. If you're using a pressure sensitive scholars, you can press Dao harder for their lines. So what I'm doing here is basically drawing the beak shapes and then drawing the smaller ships we've been. I find it to be much easier. And we have decide window here. So don't worry about accuracy, just focus on the workflow. Focus on what you can actually do with this software. And I'm going to draw the top here. There is this protrusion is could be refrigerated truck and this is the back of the truck. There is some perspective going on. So let me just move this line at an angle. And this line will be at a slight angle as well. If you are using a keyboard or you are using the desk top version of clips, or you can press Tab to height the pallets. But if you are using a tablet to Haida Pelosi actually had to go into the manual, which is rather inconvenient, which is why I lived. Keyboard. Ok, let's draw the site DAW. So this is very basic ink drawing. Oops, once that let me delete that. This is the site off or the truck. I can add some details here. The hinge and for the bottom as stroller wheels. Two views here, 11. So don't worry too much about accuracy. Just have fun drawing. And you can see this truck slowly coming to life. K Most done, maybe a logo here. And yep. So almost done. So I want to do some correction here because some of the lines I drew down a bit too long. So in this case here I'm on Android, I can actually press this button here to you raised a line. And I need to draw this refrigerated pot bit leftover. So let me just erase this whole pot. I can also choose the eraser button here, in which case I can increase the size of the eraser to make it easier for me to erase larger areas. Okay, then let's go back to the brush again. This time. Draw the extrusion to protrusion lower. And for the vents here, I'm going to reduce the size. You can reduce it here as well. Oops, too thin. Steer through to a thin. I need to increase it. A bit thicker, may get a bit thicker. Alright, let's take a look and see what we have here. So missed out some lines here. Oops, too thick to thin. That's put two wheels here. And draw something here at the bottom. I need to erase this part to put that got behind. And here. Now notice for my drawings, I close all the lines. I don't have any open lines like this. This is because later on when I am coloring, I will be using the field bucket if there are any open. Why is the colors are going to pour out of the lines, out of the ships. Okay, so let's see what we have here. I have some white space on the right side, actually a lot of white space on the right side. So in this case I can actually crop the Canvas, but we will do that at the last stage. Maybe I need the space later on. So what I can do is actually moved a truck a bit lower and to the right side. So to do that, just click this move to theirs for directional move Layer two, and it is layer to the right side of this. I wanted to have some space here because I want to draw the smoke that comes out from the truck. In the next lesson, we're going to color this. 5. Let's Color: Alright, before coloring, let me talk about the use of layer. So when you doing digital illustrations, you will want to use layers. So in this case here I will have one layer for their line art, one layer for the color, one layer for the texture, and 14 shadows. So I already have the layer four the ink lines. Let me create another layer to create a newly and just click this new raster layer button or you can use the keyboard shortcut Control Shift N. And one new layer has been created. I'm going to rename this layer colors before we add colors, make sure you have their collars layer selected. So I am going to add colors by using the field bucket. The tool is here selected, and I'm going to choose the yellow from the color wheel. So using the paint bucket, you can see that icon there. Just click on that ray wanted to color. Notice as I click on this area, that color sort of expands into that line. So the collar shape expending That can be controlled by column margin. I still want the line art to show off prominently. I don't wanna colors do cover the line art. So here at the Layers palette, just move this layer, drag it below the line art layer. So this layer arrangement or the colors that you add from now onwards, they are going to appear beneath the line art. So the few bucket to it's very convenient when it comes to filling colors. I need to color this area with this yellow, but I have to read selected. So to use the same color here, I'm gonna press a tunnel to go into the eyedropper mode. You can see the iconic changes and click on the color and is going to pick up the color. So when I released the attendant Key Bank, we've done a few bucket. If you are not using a physical key bought, you can use the each key bought, get to the eyedropper. There is an attentive button here as well. Now with this somehow S pen, when the cursor is close to the display, I am not able to press the button, so I actually have to move the pen away before I can click or tap debt. But, and now you can see that I dropped the two. And now I tap the button again, and now I'm back to the few bucket do. Let me create another color layer for the TAE years. So for the tires, I am going to use this grey and used a few bucket to again, to feel for this. And if there are areas where you cannot feel, you have to go in with a brush to color those parts. So CDA, white areas here. I need to go in and color with the brush. Now I'm going to use the field bucket hue paint, some of these ships black. So I have black selected and a field pockets select it. So let me click here. Ok, not here's what happened here. I mean, I'm due and turn off the ink. So what happened was when I clicked a few bucket, it's selected and painted or the colored areas. So what I need to do is to change the column margin here right now is at 77. So let me move it down to maybe 24. Turn the lights back on and used a field bucket it again. So now I'm able to fill all these ships. So what happened earlier was the pin bucket thought all these colors were rather similar. I mean, it's either colored or is either uncolored or its college so it treated or the colored areas as just one ear. So when you feel it mislead us feel order colored areas. So what you want to do is to have a field bucket more sensitive to the colors so that it can detect different colors. So let me click here or here or here. The reason why I have the greys and black on its own layer is because I want to draw some reflections here and with the shape that I have here, basically this shape here. I can click this button, lock transparent pixels. So I'm going to lock the pixels on the tires layer. So what this means is now when I have a Docker brush and eye color outside of the colored shape, notice the colors the Do not run outside. Which is really convenient when it comes to coloring with these sudden ships. Now, notice I have the line out here and I will have to original lies here. So this line art was created with the field bucket two. Back when I was using a few bucket, it was too sensitive and it looked at the line art and also fill that line up. But it was hidden beneath which which was why I wasn't able to detect gray lines. So let me just select all of this, control a and control X to delete everything. So this time around, I'm going to use the field bucket akin, but make it more sensitive so that it doesn't even say it doesn't feel the black lines as well. So I have Commagene at 24 as choose a grid can and fill it. And make sure to log transparent pixels off so that you can feel the layer. And that's Turn off the lights and see if it works. Yep. So this time it works. So once again, let's use black to paint. Is a area's black. Very convenient to use the eyedropper. And when to use brushed hue color. This parts here. And now let's lock the pixels so that I can choose a Docker brush and collar here. Let me increase the brush size. So this is reflection. I'm going to choose a lighter gray. And for the front of the Tropp, while I shall leave it as it is. Let's add some shadows. So for the shadows, I'm going to create a new raster layer. And I'm going to drag the rest earlier all the way to the top because their shadow will go over all the colors. And for the shadow, I'm going to choose this black color is a black color. And I'm going to set a layer or capacity to 50%. So pasty, we'll go down to 50%. So the black on this layer will actually be 50%. Ray. And I wanted to set a lending more to multiply. So now it's multiply. So now if the paint bucket to just paint on this shadow layer for this area here, if I were to use the paint bucket two and click like this, it's not accurate because it's part here is supposed to be enlight and his pot is in light as well. So I need to manually draw the shadows here and to make it easier for me to draw the shadows here and not accidentally draw somewhere else. I'm going to create a selection based on this color shape. Physically, create a selection based on this scholarship so that I can draw within the colors. Remember earlier I showed you how to lock transparent pixels and column we Vin the shape. Here. I am not able to do so because let me show you why. So if I were to lock transparent pixels by clicking that icon, I will only be able to color within this shadow shapes here, which is what I do not want our uncolored this shadow here. So let me show you a new trick. Just click on the column, the years, basically on the a area that you want to color and go to layer. Selection from layer, create selection. The keyboard shortcut is to press Control and click on that layer. So now I have selected or the color ships on this layer and I can paint the shadows. So go back to their shared earlier. Remember if you want to pay the shadows, peed on the shadow layer. So here I'm going to choose a brush. I'm gonna draw at this angle here like this. And this angle here. Now the orange is still being selected, which means if I were to draw over the orange, that will happen. So be careful. But I have a black lines to separate the orange and a red, so it's going to be easier for me to color. So once I reached this area here, I can just fill it out very easily. And this part here is also a sheet. And after you are done, you see all this shiny line is moving the selection lines. They are moving control D to Deselect or select here from the menu, de-select. You may want to, correct, I mean, touch-up areas here. So this sketch is almost done. Maybe I want to see shadows on the ground. So I'm going to go to the tie as layer and use my brush to draw the shadows and growl. When you use the eraser here to erase, nope, I'm going to extend the shadows here because the light source is coming from the left. So we get a bit more shadows here on the side here. This looks good. And now I want to add the exhaust, some smoke. So I'm gonna create a layer, plays it beneath that color layer, basically place it below the rate. And I'm gonna choose brush, same brushed out using idea beat husky. So the exhaust is going to be quite low to the ground. So to smoke coming out will be quite low. So this is the smoke. I'm going to use the few bucket to fill this. Now sometimes when you click the shock hat g to fill bucket, notice that there are other tools within the shortcut. So feel bucket is one of these twos that will appeal in press gene. If not, just keep pressing G until you go to the correct two. This will apply to other tools as well because it button here or they may have several 2's hidden within the button. Ok, so this is looking quite flat. So let me add another layer above this to maybe add more smoke. So I'm going to add maybe a darker smoke. Is. And may be add another layer. Maybe this time around really dark. Oh, I'm right at each there. So let me just erase it here. So they I didn't go. How do weighted h k? So that's the smoke I have. I created three layers to draw the smoke, so that's easier for me to create the overlapping effects. So now that I'm done with the smoke, I don't need three layers. I'm going to keep it simple. So I'm gonna much three layers. So I'm going to click the first Smoke Layer and control clicked a second smoke layer to edit and control-click death that smoke layer to edit. Or you can actually use the checkbox here, does the same thing. And go to the menu. After the layers are selected, go to layer, much selected layers. So now all this MOOC layers are merged together. These drawing a still looks kind of flat because of coloring style. So I want to add some texture to the side of the fence. So I'm going to create a new layer on top of the color layers. And I've been to name it, splatter. It cause I want to create some splitter max. I'm going to choose a spray can, two here and look at some of the options that I have here. You can use your finger to scroll down the list. I'm going to choose three. So now if does spray barrage selected, I'm going to use the eyedropper tool I'm going to present tonight and use the eyedropper tool. If we are using a tablet, you have to click the eyedropper and clicked us break and kin. So now I have this same rate to make this braid Docker. And I want to apply it to the side of the van here. Now doesn't seem to be working. That's because the particles are too small. So let me increase the particle size. So under to property, you can increase the particle size. And when you do that, you will also notice the particles here, they become larger. And now you can see that texture. So let me choose something smaller and not debt small. Alright. Maybe a bit smaller. Make sure you paint on particle, sorry, the spray earlier. Okay. Looks nice. We have some texture here. Some of the particles actually went out. So if you just want to paint within this red color, remember earlier at Ashoka data taught you press Control and press the cholera earlier. So I went to spray to, to find out or try as well. So I'm going to press Control and press, and click on the Columbia to create a selection so that I can spray in the selection. I'm going to use the eyedropper again to pick this color and pick a darker yellow and spray. Make sure the particle size or smaller this time. And just give it some texture as Eve. And it just went through some rain water. So the water actually sprayed onto the truck. You know what? Let me just select a tias layer and draw on that literature is to add a bit more texture to it. All right, so this sketch is done. So when you are working with layers, it's very useful because sometimes when you wanted to do some corrections, for example, let's say I want to change the color of this van. I can turn off the initial colors by clicking the i bought who. In fact, let me turn everything off except for the ink lines. So now I can change it to a different color. I mean, just change it to green and create a new layer for the new ven. And for the back. Let's change it to a dark. And I can turn back or the other layers. And we have different colored van. However, the splatter maxim, Those were created using the eye drop her by picking the colors of the original rate. So if you want the splatter marks to look more natural, gives the green 20 Select Color instead, select ray And then multiply that layer over the rate. So in this case here, let me see what I can do. So I'm going to change the color for the splitter mux. I'm going to select multiply. Yep, it looks here. So in this case here, I just had to change the multiplier, the blending mode to multiply n does Latin Marx immediately just multiply over the color beneath. So now you have two options. I did the yellow and red trap or the green and blue truck. That's why using layers, it's so useful. 6. Goodbye: Thank you for joining my class. I hope you have learned something. Do share with me your sketches on this huge gap that forms so that I can have a look and maybe give you some suggestions on how you can improve. And if you guys have any questions, you can post them on the platform as well. I will try my best to answer them. All right, thank you so much for watching. And if you want to learn more about drawing, I actually have silver audit classes on traditional media as well as on digital drawing. Do check them out. See you in the next class. Bye.