[Must-see for beginners] Introducing recommended functions for digital painting! [CLIP STUDIO PAINT

Hello everyone this is Otegama This time I would like to introduce you to some useful features I use when drawing illustrations in Clip Studio I'll show you in real time while making a demonstration This time it's a collaboration video with Clip Studio I 've been using Clip Studio Paint for about 5 or 6 years It's an essential app for me when drawing illustrations digitally I want to try drawing illustrations digitally but what can I do with it I'm still not fully proficient in using Clip Studio but there are many features I'd like to recommend to you If you're interested please take a look all the way to the end Let's start First I'll make a draft but before that I'll introduce the pen I usually use and its settings The ones I often use are the Real G Pen freehand drawing and sketching pen I mainly use the Real G Pen with the default settings without making many adjustments Freehand drawing and sketching pens can be downloaded for free from Clip Studio Assets Clip Studio Assets is It's a website where you can distribute materials that can be used in the Clip Studio Series I've managed to sketch the outline of the face so next I'll draw the outline of the hair I always use a vector layer for my hair This is where you create a new raster layer but for a vector layer you use the one on the right side What happens if you use this At first glance it looks the same as a regular line This is an amazing layer that allows you to freely move the lines later on What I find most convenient is There's an eraser tool for vector layers when you really notice the parts that are sticking out a lot With this you can easily erase it with one touch This is really convenient especially when drawing hair Let's actually draw it now You're already overstepping here Select this area the vector erase process up to this point This makes it really efficient doesn't it I'm going to apply the primer since the painting is done The tool I want to introduce here is one that paints without leaving gaps What's amazing about this is This is how the area gets automatically filled when enclosed like this This is really useful for applying the base coat There is also an eraser version of the tool that can erase without leaving gaps so it's a good idea to download this as well I'll remove the parts that have gone beyond the edges I paint the skin tone This is a tool called "nemuri-urii" that I would like to recommend You can paint the color of the rope It's a tool that comes by default but traditionally you would use a regular lasso tool like this to wash I think that's how it was painted using this bucket tool to spray it on like that but skip all of this At first when I drew the circle it was easy to paint in This is really good for adding highlights to my hair like this and it's so convenient This is a recommended tool that really saves time like when you add shadows in this way Once the drawing is complete I adjust the overall balance with the distortion tool This is something I've been wanting to implement in Clip Studio for five years I've always thought this feature would be useful and now that it's finally implemented I really find it handy It's common to realize after coloring that the sketch here is off It's a magical tool that can fix it in seconds Just make these small adjustments The appearance of the drawing will change completely You know I think the distortion tool in Clip Studio is really accurate and the line art doesn't get messed up There's a feature that makes it easy to create a border select the "border effect" in the layer properties when you choose the "border" option It is automatically trimmed this way I use it quite a bit when there are trendy illustrations The character 's silhouette stands out clearly It becomes a clear and easy-to-see image There' s a big difference in appearance between having this and not having it When you do it like this it ends up getting completely lost doesn't it Just by adding a mouth it somehow instantly makes the drawing look more like a product I think This is probably one of the functions I use most often I think this is the easiest technique to make a picture stand out so why don't you give it a try Oh with a blur effect you can create a sense of depth and realism in the picture just by applying the blur effectively but the parts that are out of focus It guides the viewer's eye naturally to the parts you want to see in the picture resulting in a finish that looks like it was taken with a DSLR camera Paintings also come out with expressions In this case I hope the focus is on this eye and finger heart with a lasso tool like this You can choose the strength of the blur Just by doing this You can naturally sense that the focus is on this This blur is really worth using Just a little processing makes the picture look nice The shoulder on the other side of this hand also Is the focus probably not right In a front shot you can make it so the focus is only on this important part There's a gradient map feature which is really easy to use and can give that effect so I often use it like a smartphone camera filter I'll try it again in the same way there is a tab called "New Color Correction Layer" next to this layer tab and in this the gradient map We choose this option then this appears and we can select a gradient set This time I'll try applying the "Aoi" gradient set with the "Sunset Purple" filter of course you can adjust the intensity and you can also freely crop it like this This gradient map can be used as the original default one or you can search for gradient maps in Clip Studio Assets It's better to download the ones you like because there are so many available I think the sparkling effects and tones and the fabric textures are quite nice I download a lot of race-related and hand-drawn material from Clip Studio Assets and then put them on the picture That's all The amount of information in the picture increases and it becomes nice looking For example things like this lace also become brush strokes and you can make these delicate decorations just by doing haa You can also freely change the size like this for example the illustration I drew this time just by adding this decoration in the back and coloring it I can draw the background in just a moment Plus the quality is high It's getting close to being finished By the way what have I been operating with my left hand all along Some people might be curious but this is a shortcut key that's been set up Every time I write with a pen I say " Oops I made a mistake " and then erase it Here if you change the brush size here and switch the pen like this it takes a really long time I have set up shortcut keys on this left-handed keyboard so that it switches when pressed with my left hand Clip Studio is You can set shortcut keys quite freely Pen and eraser of course This lasso painting technique that has been introduced so far And then left-right inversion Selected area Things like that The functions I often use are all set up Just mastering this should probably cut my work time in half Yes it's done The overall view looks like this This is how it looks like I always draw digital illustrations I would be happy if the features introduced this time are helpful to you Clip Studio has a free trial so if you're interested I think it's a good idea to try it for free I was really happy when the iPad version was released It seems there is also a mobile version now Thank you for watching until the end See you again in the next video Bye-bye