Used by 8 million creators
CLIP STUDIO PAINT, the leading comic and manga creation software worldwide developed by Celsys Inc., is your all-in-one solution for stunning, ready-to-publish illustrations, comics, manga and animations. Invigorate your artwork using realistic feeling sketching pencils and inking pens, fully customizable brushes and raster and vector colors. Easily express motion using speed lines, apply dimension with screen tones and add dialog through built-in word balloons. Animate your drawings and bring them to life. CLIP STUDIO PAINT helps you draw digital art from start to finish!
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Key benefits for Illustration & Painting
PENS, PENCILS, & BRUSHES
Create original sketches using your mouse or draw naturally with a pen tablet. Draw using a suite of familiar tools including pens, pencils, brushes and selection tools. With vector mapping technology and smart pen pressure sensing, CLIP STUDIO PAINT gives you incredible sensation of drawing on paper.
COLORING
Powerful coloring tools make CLIP STUDIO PAINT your all-in-one manga and comic creation solution. Choose from an abundance of preset colors, create custom color sets or blend colors naturally as if you were mixing them with your own fingers using the color blend options.
NATURAL, REALISTIC-LOOKING PEN STROKES
Advanced pen pressure detection function for lines that reflect the pen pressure. CLIP STUDIO PAINT provides a line stabilization feature and advanced pressure sensitivity for natural, realistic looking pen strokes. By adjusting the sensitivity of the Starting and Ending properties of a brush, even beginners can draw smooth, clear lines.
DRAW VECTORS THAT CAN BE PROCESSED AND EDITED WITHOUT LOSING QUALITY
DRAW VECTORS THAT CAN BE PROCESSED AND EDITED WITHOUT LOSING QUALITY
RULER FOR ACCURATE DRAWINGS
In addition to rulers for basic drawings, CLIP STUDIO PAINT has a variety of rulers such as the perspective ruler that allows you to add perspective to your backgrounds easily and the symmetrical rulers that allow you to draw symmetrical shapes around a line or multiple points (such as 2- or 3-point symmetry). Other rulers such as the concentric circle ruler, focus line ruler and parallel line ruler allow you to create stunning effects.
NEAT, SMOOTH COLOR FILLING
CLIP STUDIO PAINT has unique feature to help you color more quickly and neatly. You can fill areas with broken lines so that the color does not go out of the lines, and fill in numerous small uncolored areas at once.
CREATE YOUR OWN ORIGINAL COLORS
In addition to the standard color setting palettes, color wheel and color slider, CLIP STUDIO PAINT has a wide range of special features that allows you to create the colors you want. Select the Color History to find colors you have used previously, the Intermediate Color palette to create a shade in between up to colors, or the Approximate Color palette to display colors meeting set conditions such as hue and luminosity.
3D MATERIALS
Pose 3D drawing figures included with CLIP STUDIO PAINT and use them as an inspirational basis for your work. The hardness and movable range of the joints are designed based on the actual structure of the human body, allowing you to create natural, unforced poses intuitively with the mouse. You can also import pre-made pose files. Easily change features of the included drawing figures such as the body shape and proportions.
VARIOUS IMPORT/ EXPORT OPTIONS
Easily integrate your CLIP STUDIO PAINT artwork with your existing graphics tools. CLIP STUDIO supports Photoshop’s PSD format for project import and export. Export to a variety of common image formats. Also export to Kindle and ePub format. Exporting functions can be used for professional level comic and manga publishing.
COMPARE CLIP STUDIO PRODUCTS
| better | best | |
| Features | Clip Studio Paint Pro |
Clip Studio Paint Ex |
| Draw comics, manga and illustrations in full color | ||
| Comic book creation with multiple pages | ||
| Export of multiple pages | ||
| Natural drawing and brush engine | ||
| Frame-by-frame animation (cel animation) support | 24 Frames | Unlimited Frames |
| Conversion of 3D objects into 2D line and tones | ||
| Reference layers | ||
| 3D pose creation with Clip Studio Paint 3D models | ||
| Customizable full color brush creation | ||
| Review and edit saved back ups | ||
| Rulers - symmetry, perspective, focus, curves, parallel lines, ellipses, concentric circles and more | ||
| Comic book panel creation | ||
| Word balloon creation | ||
| Materials library with hundreds of content items (3D objects, tones, patterns, pre-built comic panels, word balloons & effects) | ||
| Wacom tablet support and pressure sensitivity | ||
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Buy Digital $49.99 | Buy Digital $219 |
| UPGRADE FROM PRO TO EX | Buy Digital $169 |
"CLIP STUDIO is the absolute best product for anyone that is an artist or aspiring artist. It is by far the most intuitive application made with artists in mind… whether you're comic book artists, manga creator, illustrator, painter, doodler, concept artist, storyboard artist or even an animator, CLIP STUDIO is the tool for you!"
Doug Hills Comic Artist/Storyboard Artist/Concept Artist/Educator/Author of Manga Studio for Dummies.