How to Use CLIP STUDIO PAINT - Digital Art Tutorial for BEGINNERS (step by step)

hey art nerds my name is alyssa and today i'll be showing you guys the basics of clip studio paint this video will cover step by step what you need in order to hop into clip studio paint and start creating pieces of art so clip studio paint is of course an artist software and it's great for drawing painting comic and manga making as well as animation and it has a 3d model library of characters and backgrounds so you can create your own references it also has a screen tone library and many other useful features so i personally have used both photoshop and paint tool sai in the past and i would say that clip studio paint is kind of like if you were to take those two software and mash them together clip studio paint has a great feel for drawing and painting like paint tool sci and it also has more of the post production and editing features that you would be able to find in photoshop let's start with the very left here we have our toolbar and it holds you guessed it all of our tools right next to it we have our tool details so if our tool has a sub tool it'll appear here our tool properties and down here we have our color wheel slash color picker here in the middle we have our canvas drawing space to the right we have our resources so we have our screen tones our manga panels our 3d models of characters and backgrounds that we can use for reference and to the very right we have our navigator and the navigator is like a little thumbnail or mini view of our entire drawing and moving down here we have our layers so i already have a file open but in order to get here we want to create a new file by going to the top left file new and a new window will pop up and it'll prompt us to fill in some information so the first thing that we see at the top is use of work and that's clip studio paint asking us what are we doing today and we have the options of illustration comic or animation so today we're just doing a simple drawing to cover the basics of clip studio paint so illustration is perfectly fine i'm going to leave it as that and underneath file name you can name your file whatever you'd like i'm going to name mine csp basics down here preset set to custom is fine our units over here is set to pixels i recommend working in pixels i work in pixels 99 of the time down here we have our canvas settings and we want to pay attention mainly to the dimension going down we have resolution minus set to 300 that's only meant for printing images so if you're just drawing for fun or posting online it can be lower than 300 and going down here i have paper color checked and that just means once we hit okay clip studio paint is going to create like a background layer for us and it's going to be in whatever color we select here and once this is all done and hit okay and we have our new file i want to go over how to move around this program because we need to zoom in and out when we're drawing we need to move around so actually if we look at the toolbar at the very top the first few tools are meant for that purpose so we have our zoom tool it can zoom in and out when we click on the canvas just like that down here we have our hand tool we can do this thing that's called panning around our canvas and our rotate tool allows us to rotate our canvas and i'm going to say this now using these tools are extremely inefficient and you do not really want to use them it's a lot easier to just learn the shortcuts and use them so for example i'm just gonna click on the pen tool and i'm gonna do all of these functions with your shortcuts and i'll show you guys what they are so for zooming in and out you just want to hit control minus and control plus or command minus command plus so i'm going to do that now zooming in control plus zooming out control minus and that's a lot quicker than fumbling back and forth with that tool and if you want to just put your canvas in the middle and frame it with your with with these bars you want to hit ctrl 0 and there we go so the next function panning around your your canvas you can do that simply by holding the spacebar spacebar and click and drag and once you let go it reverts back to whatever tool you're selected on so i'm selected on the pen and i got my pen function there if i hit space i can go around my canvas and the last function rotating rotating your canvas if i hit r there it is so i can do that and those are the shortcuts for basic navigation so i'm just gonna hop down to this second segment of the toolbar for a second just because the next few tools in the first segment of the toolbar they kind of need something like a drawing on the layer in order to be used right now my layer is empty as we can see here they won't work most of them will not work so i'm going to go down here and the first tool that i see is the pen tool and it's your standard outlining tool um for line work and it's great for that i'm currently set to the g pen uh the great thing about clip studio paint is that it not only has one tool it also has sub tools so right now i'm selected on the sub tool for pen but you can see that it also has a marker sub tool so if i click here let's go on the first one sorry that's a downloaded brush uh this one is the let's try here like the flat marker there we go so it's a different kind of brush it's marker [Music] and yeah sub tools right now i'm on the pen tool and the shortcut is the letter p so if you're ever not sure um what the shortcut is for a tool if you hover over it you can you can see um it'll tell you the name of the tool and the shortcut associated with it in brackets sometimes shortcuts are shared among tools in clip studio paint so we can see this pencil here the shortcut is also the letter p so i'm going to click on that really quickly and the cool thing you can do in clip studio paint is that you can toggle between the pen and the pencil or whatever tools are associated with each other if i hit p again it'll change to the pen so you can toggle back and forth pen pencil just by hitting the same shortcut the pencil tool also has a sub tool which is the pastel tool chalk pastel you can play around with that just set i selected crayon chalk so tool properties down here in this box here i have brush size here that's the first one i see and that is how big your brush is and you can change the size of your brush by using the slider or you can use the brackets on your keyboard that's near the enter button to make your brush smaller bigger really quickly another shortcut is holding ctrl alt clicking and dragging and that's another quick way to quickly resize your brush going down here we have opacity so opacity is how opaque of course how opaque your your brush is uh how much transparency it has so if i'm working with 100 opacity let's just draw a squiggle here that's 100 you can't see through it um if i knock it back down a bit there we go you can also click on the number and you can enter it right away i like working that way because it's quicker than using the slider to me at least so i'm at 50 opacity and if i draw that there we can see it's a lot more faded and if i were to draw on top of it again with 50 opacity again um it creates this layering effect because that's pretty much what it's doing it's layering uh two 50 strokes on top of each other and it becomes darker much like layering your colors traditionally so now that the pen and the pencil tool is covered i'm going to move back here to the eraser tool and we have several settings for the eraser tool like we have our standard heart eraser so let's use that here and it's just like a clean eraser high opacity and so on and we have our soft eraser so it's kind of like an airbrush effect snap eraser does pretty much the same thing as a heart eraser we can actually get started drawing so let's do that so i just quickly drew marshall from animal crossing once you've drawn something don't forget to save so shortcut is just ctrl s or you can always go to file save as you can save it as a clip studio paint format or photoshop so now since we have a drawing on our layer we can go back to the first segment of the toolbox here and we can see what these what these tools do so the one i'm selected on right now uh operation set object is it's just gonna move your drawing around if you click and hold what's there this new tool will if you click and drag select layer it'll select the layers in which fall under the box since i only have one with a drawing in it it's not doing much and we'll skip over those two because they're not as important to what we're doing today moving down here we have our move layer tool or move tool and shortcut is k and it does pretty much the same thing as the operation it moves this drawing that's on it's just that you don't have to click directly on the drawing if you were to click here it still moves our drawing and that's just move layer uh the lasso tool is really convenient if you need to select a certain part of your drawing and move it around there's also different selections i like using lasso a lot because you can create your own shapes to select so let's say i want his legs to be a little bit more to the left i can work in conjunction with the other tool shortcut k the move tool and i can move his legs a little bit to the left and then deselect by hitting control d so again the selection tool there's also a rectangle rectangle selection ellipse selection it's like a circle if you want a perfect circle you can hold shift uh polyline is also pretty good it's pretty much like the lasso tool only it's polygonal so you need to click and then connect to the end and you'll see a little circle on that cursor and then same thing selection pen um it works similarly to a regular pen in which you can change the size so if i were to select this area it appears as green and then once i let go it creates a selection it works well with of course the erase selection tool so if i were to create a selection here and then i go to the erase selection tool it'll erase parts of the selection like the name suggests shrink selection so if i were to draw all around marshall it'll just shrink on the drawing itself and that is the lasso tool so moving down we have the magic wand shortcut w and if you click in this area it will select outside of the drawing or in certain areas like here here or here if you have super clean line art you'll be able to select certain areas you want and you can fill in color that way a symmetric wand tool and right now it's set to refer edited layer only to select which means it's only referring to this layer that i have um the drawing layer but if i were to quickly create a new layer and draw a squiggle so now we can learn how to create a new layer so i'm going to go here and this icon which looks like a page if you click on it it'll create a new layer i'm just going to name it temp for temporary because just for example so i'm going to draw a squiggle a blobby smiley face there so if i go back to my drawing layer and try that magic wand tool again so refer to other layers to select it's referring to everywhere that has a drawing on it or pixels on it not just the layer that i am on that i'm looking at and moving down last but not least in this section the eyedropper tool so the eyedropper tool does what the name suggests it eyedrops colors right now it's currently set to obtain display color which means if you click anywhere it'll it'll pick up color from any layer so right now i'm clicking on the white background and it's color picking white we can see that over here in our foreground and background display and if i click on the smiley we can see it picked up the color blue if we click on this option pick up from layer it only allows us to color pick on the layer that were selected and we can see that yes i can color pick outside of where i drew marshall but it appears uh we can see this transparency box selected which means that it color picked transparency because we didn't draw anything there and i like to leave it at obtain display color because that allows me to color pick any color that i see even if it's on a different layer right and that's the eyedropper tool another shortcut for the eyedropper tool let's say you're on another tool if you hold alt it'll temporarily bring up your eyedropper tool and once you let go it'll change back to your other tool that's also very convenient to know so the way that i want to color this drawing is by doing line art on top of my sketch and doing some colors afterwards so i'm going to create a new layer so let's go ahead and do a new layer and call it line art and i'm going to line him really quickly and this actually leads us pretty well into layers again and before i i start outlining him i want to lower the opacity on this sketch drawing so remember how our brushes had opacity settings our layers also have opacity settings so if i click on my drawing layer here this is our opacity slider so i can slide it oops so i can slide it up to here like 25 30 you can also click on the number and enter in a value i like working at 45 it's enough for me to see um and it's light enough to not be too distracting so once i have my opacity set i can go to my line art layer and start outlining it so i like to outline with the g pen and you can go to the color wheel here and outline in a different color a color of your choice you can outline with black you can outline with brown it's up to you so just a quick tip if you want to rotate things um or or edit them and you're like how do i do that i only know how to use the lasso tool and select an area i haven't learned how to transform it so what you can do is use your lasso tool shortcut is m and then let's say i want to make his eye a bit more tilted once i have it selected i can hit ctrl t and then once i have this transformation box open and there isn't an immediate tool for transformation the shortcut is ctrl t and then once you go to any of the corners or outside of the transformation box you'll see this little rotation tool and just click and drag around here and then i can tilt his eye like that and while we're here we can also learn a bit more about the transformation box which is if you hold ctrl and one of these anchors one of these corners you can skew skew the shape or if you hold any of the edges or corners it will size up and size down your selection let's say you just want it to be longer or or wider you can hit shift shift and click and it will restrict it to that one direction that you're trying to transform it in i can hit ctrl z to see what it looked like before ctrl y to redo and yeah i like that a bit better and then i can hit ctrl d to deselect and you may have seen me do this a couple of times already but um i like to check if my drawing looks okay when i flip it horizontally and you can do that by going to your navigator up here and there's this button and it says flip horizontal and if you click it you can flip it same thing with flipping it upside down or vertically you can do that as well and i'm just finished outlining him and if i want to see what the line art looks like without the sketch i can just click on this eye that is on the drawing or sketch layer and toggle it on and off so if i turn it off i can see that's what my liner looks like now that my line art is done i can dive into some coloring so what i'm going to do is create layers underneath the line art layer and make my make my flat colors and my my base colors there so i'm gonna make sure i'm below my line art and create a new layer i can name this base or color use whatever kind of shorthand you want this is just one way of coloring and there's many many more ways to do so and get the same result and you can always experiment so let's get to coloring what i'm gonna do uh an easy way to fill in this color since we have clean lines we can use the magic wand tool shortcut w and just click on the outside of our drawing or and since it's clean lines it works perfectly fine and then after this what i want to do is inverse my selection so right now my selection is everything outside everything around him but i want my selection to be everything on the inside so i can do this one of two ways i can go here on this little bar that we get and it says invert selected area if i click that it will invert my selection just like that the shortcut for that is ctrl shift i so so now i'm going to go back to my base color layer and i'm going to fill this in with color so we're going to go down here to this third segment of the toolbar this is the paint bucket tool and right now it's selected on refer only to editing layer so if we were to click it'll only fill in our selection okay since we have his base color filled in i'm going to create a new layer we're going to go over these tools that we glossed over for a second so the tool that we left off here in the middle segment was the pencil tool right underneath it we have the brush tool the airbrush tool and we have the decoration or stamp tool these three tools share the same shortcut which is the letter b so if i remember if i hit the letter b over and over it can toggle through those three tools i'm on my new layer and i can call this purple because he has some purple in his ears and what i can do since we created this you can say perfect base base layer to start with it perfectly fills the overall picture what i can do is clip this layer that's on top to this layer at the bottom and you can do that by clicking this icon here that says clip at layer below so now i'm going to change my color and if i use a color like this so i'm on my purple layer and if i color anywhere just everywhere and anywhere it's only locked to that base color that we made [Music] and that's with clipping layer with a new layer protecting alpha or pixel lock lock transparent pixels pretty much does the same thing but on on that layer itself so if i were to lock my base layer it does pretty much the same thing so i still have purple but i'm not on my purple layer i'm just on my base layer and if i color over it you can see that it's locked it's locked to just wherever i colored originally so remember brush tools i didn't go too in depth into them because they do pretty much the same thing they just have different properties and more of a painting painting like effect so if i were to go here like opaque watercolor we can see the transparency is more evident and it's more fluffy compared to the g-pad dense watercolor some of these brushes will have like a texture going on like this one and remember clip studio paint has sub tools so if i go through here there's the oil paint sub tool still paint uh it's still a more painterly effect but it's just a bit thicker than the watercolor one of course uh but going down we have the airbrush tool now the airbrush is a little bit different because it's like a like a stream of air so if i were to click and hold you can see the color slowly intensifies i actually wanted to use this airbrush on his cheeks so i'm gonna do that really quickly i'm gonna create a new layer and call it pink [Music] and clip it to my base and i will color in his cheeks and remember how our layers have opacity sliders let's say this pink is a little too intense and i just want to knock it back a bit i can go here to my opacity and type in like 75 and it's like a softer pink last but not least in this segment we have the blur tool shortcut j and then this will blur of course your colors so i'm gonna go to my purple layer and if i use the blur tool here we can see it's doing what we expected to do blur out the color and if you have any rough edges or anything like that you could always use the blur tool you can use the blending tool and so on so right now i'm just going to fill in the rest of his colors using the exact same method that we learned which is creating a new layer clipping mask and there's marshall who more or less looks like this cause i'm not really using his reference i'm not really looking at his photo kind of drawing him from memory so what i want to do now is i actually want to change the color of his line art and we briefly went over that how to pixel pixel lock our layers so i'm just going to do that here this one lock transparency pixel i'm going gonna click on it what i like to do personally is fill the lines with the darkest color uh darker than the darkest color that we have on our characters so when i look at marshall the darkest character use is the blue on his vest however i want the lines to be um more on the brown side so what i can do is pull this color that i color picked from his vest and then bring it down here so it's a lot darker and then i can move it around the color wheel and play around play around with the colors and then i can bucket fill liner and see how does that look for the areas that i miss i can just brush over them and so the color i chose is purple and that's okay i might try more of a brown and i feel like that works for his entire body uh i can just focus on matching the lines more to his vest here and coloring that in like that so i just change the color of his liner and i soften his uh eyes a little if you click on one layer and then hold ctrl shift and click to the last layer like in a specific section it should select everything in between as well and then what i can do is just click and drag and once you see the the folder highlighted in red it means you're going to drop everything in there and now they're all in the same folder those are all the colors so i can name those folder base colors and this is a great way to stay organized so what i'm going to do next is shade him a little bit and i'm going to do that by creating a new layer clipping it to the group this time which is great and i'm going to set my layer mode so now we're going to learn a little bit about layer modes i'm going to set it to multiply so once so i can go up here my layer modes here and it's currently set to normal if i click on that drop down box you're met with a ton of different layer modes and i would say take the time to test each one and kind of see what each one does who knows there might be an effect you really like or that you're really looking for today we are looking for multiply so multiply is the third one from from the top we got normal darken multiply click on that and then i'm just going to name my layer shade and then now let's choose a fairly light color because when you're working on a multiply layer it darkens the color that you're using so it's not going to appear as the color that you pick so i'm going to come down here use a more violety red drop down the saturation and then i'm going to test what does that look like on him it's a little gray so i might go a bit more saturated a little more violet and then see what does that look like a bit better you can always change your colors as well so don't worry too much so i'm just gonna shade around him a little bit [Music] so i have him all colored in i'm pretty happy with this i'm not going to add much we want to keep it nice and basic like we said so i'm just going to go over the rest of the tools next we have our gradient and there's many different settings for our gradients right now it's set to foreground to transparent so it that means it's selecting our foreground color and it's only using that the the other side of the gradient will be transparent so i'm going to create a new layer underneath all of my line art and color layers and we can just call it background and let's see what this gradient does so i'm using a really light color and you can barely see it so i'm going to click and drag my gradient so gradient for ground to background is picking up the color of your foreground and the color of your background so right now mine is this palm color and black so i can change this to like a lighter pink and this one to like a purpley blue you can also try the other settings i like this one uh midday sky it's a very easy preset sky color so i might use that i'm gonna size this up a bit bigger just so i get a bit uh more subtle range there is marshall floating in the sky that is our gradient tool and here's the final drawing if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and share it with a fellow art nerd or a teacher if you really liked it and enjoy free quality art education subscribe thanks for watching you

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Length: 33min 16sec (1996 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 13 2020