One art tip that everyone will hear is to shade with grayscale and then glaze colors over it. This helps you check your contrast and values, allowing you to make shading that has the right amount of depth. This week we’re going to take a grayscale traditional media drawing and add digital color to it to finish it. Let’s do some coloring with Clip Studio Paint!

Getting Rid of Colored Sketch Lines For whatever reason, I sketched in red pencil for the rough layout on this piece in my sketchbook. I don’t know why I chose red, because I have blue sketching pencils, but oh well!... 

In this article we will cover the following topics: Creating Your Watermark Saving the Watermark as a Material Let’s get drawing!

Lens flares have gotten a reputation in movies in recent years as being overused and “cheesy”, but they are an actual thing that occurs when light hits a camera lens and can be used to add interest and atmosphere to your illustrations or comics. If you want to be able to create this special effect, this article covers some very simple steps to make a beautiful rainbow lens flare!

Have you ever wanted to make an item look shiny and magical, like it’s made of Mother of Pearl or from an iridescent rainbow fabric? It may seem like a daunting task, but it’s actually quite easy with just a bit of setup, a few Blending Modes, and a little bit of finishing in Clip Studio Paint!

I recently watched a new sequel series to my favorite anime of all time - one that I watched back in the early 90’s! - and it’s made me really long for the anime styles that I grew up with. I looked at old articles that I’ve written about how to get a retro look to your art and realized they were quite complex and didn’t need to be! So I decided to revisit it with a simple, three-step process to get a vintage look for your images in Clip Studio Paint.