Clip Studio became my first choice for digital painting, illustration, comics and frame by frame animation, several years ago, when I was given the opportunity to try it as it was still fairly unknown in the Anglophonic world...    

    Last week we talked about speed lines or motion lines (added using the stream line tools in Clip Studio Paint) and also using the Gloom and Rain tools to add atmosphere. This week we will be learning how to draw the reader’s eye to a specific area of action using focus lines...    

    It can be difficult to convey the illusion of motion when creating a still image. Part of the language of manga and comics are speed lines (or motion lines) and focus lines...    

    In a previous post, I covered how to easily create flat colors in your CSP illustration. ( https://tips.clip-studio.com/en-us/articles/3250 ) This article will be a continuation of that one where I will cover my personal method for shading, highlighting, and finishing a drawing...    

    Traditional screentone are sheets of sticky, printed plastic with patterns on it that would be applied over line art and then carefully cut away to leave the pattern only in the areas of shading...    

    Getting your art to translate from screen to paper can be a tricky thing. You need to plan ahead a bit and know some basics, but once you have this knowledge you should be able to turn your work into physical prints without too much heartache...