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00:00:00 – 00:14:18
The video demonstrates the functionalities and new features of the Clip Studio Paint app, optimized for smartphones. Key highlights include the app's intuitive "simple mode," with essential tools conveniently located, and "studio mode" for more complexity. The user is guided through creating artworks, utilizing tools like the liquefy tool, posable 3D models, custom brushes, and downloadable materials from the asset store. The video covers color selection, layer management, brush customization, and stabilizing brush strokes on non-pressure-sensitive devices. It emphasizes practical techniques like using stands for ease, flipping the canvas for progress checks, and optimizing brush settings. Shading and rendering are detailed, with specific focus on blending techniques for a polished look. The creator also demonstrates adding finishing touches with particle effects, motion blur, Gaussian blur filters, and adjusting the color balance. Furthermore, the video showcases the app’s cloud synchronization for seamless project transition across devices, offering a streamlined user experience for digital artists.
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In this part of the video, the speaker introduces the new Clip Studio Paint interface designed for use on smartphones. Key features highlighted include artificial pen pressure, a liquefy tool, posable 3D models, direct access to custom brushes and materials, and a simplified user interface. The speaker takes viewers on a tour of this updated interface, demonstrating how to create artwork directly on a smartphone. They explain how to navigate the new home page of the app, access various tools, and create a new canvas using the screen size preset. The simplified interface, known as “simple mode,” offers an easier and more efficient drawing experience with essential tools conveniently located at the bottom of the screen. Users can still switch to the more complex “studio mode” if needed. Additionally, the app allows for downloading more brushes from the asset store.
00:03:00
In this part of the video, the presenter explains the functionality of various tools in the app’s interface. They cover the color tool for selecting colors or creating custom sets and the layers panel where users can manage layers, adjust opacity, and use features like clipping masks and blending modes. The sub-menu changes based on the selected tool, offering relevant sub-tools. The app effectively mimics pen pressure, even on devices without pen pressure support. They then demonstrate bringing in a 3D model from the materials menu, adjusting poses and body shapes, and manually posing using Studio mode. Finally, they show how to use layers to lower the opacity of the model, add a new layer, and begin sketching, emphasizing the ease of turning off auto-rotation on the phone to prevent interface disruption while drawing.
00:06:00
In this part of the video, the creator discusses using a tablet stand from Ikea to avoid holding the phone while drawing and focuses on the process of finalizing details with tools like the liquify tool and move tool. The creator emphasizes flipping the canvas to check progress. They then proceed to line art, testing various pre-installed and custom brushes, explaining how to download and add new brushes from the asset store, and tweaking brush settings to optimize them for devices without pressure sensitivity. Tips include adjusting stabilization and easing in/out points for brush strokes, with stabilization set at 20 for their work. They mention using the textured pen brush and making adjustments with the liquify tool, including changing facial expressions and canvas cropping.
Moving on to coloring, the creator describes a quick method using the fill tool and adding color to gaps with a hard brush. A helpful tip is to use the fill tool across multiple areas by dragging the stylus or finger, and to enable features like “closed gap” to prevent color bleed and “area scaling” to ensure color spreads slightly past the line art to cover all pixels.
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In this part of the video, the creator discusses their process of shading and rendering a phone illustration using Clip Studio Paint. They aim to achieve a polished look with a mix of hard and soft shadows, focusing on blending, which is often challenging for new digital artists. The creator demonstrates various pre-installed blender tools in Clip Studio Paint: the main blender brush, blur blender, fingertip smudge tool, paint blender, wet blender, and textured blender. They also describe using the lasso tool to color pupils without affecting the surrounding line art and applying layer blending modes for reflective light in the eyes. Additionally, they decide to add a hand to the illustration for more depth and interesting shadows, adjusting the character’s arm accordingly. Finally, they emphasize the importance of lighting in rendering to create believable results.
00:12:00
In this segment, the focus is on adding finishing touches to an illustration, including light particles created with white dots and applying motion blur and gaussian blur filters. The creator adjusts the color balance and tone curve for final improvements. An alternative for backgrounds is using the asset library in Clip Studio Paint. The segment highlights the user-friendly interface of the Clip Studio Paint phone app and its cloud synchronization feature, allowing seamless project transition between devices. Pricing details and trial information are also provided.