Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Clip Studio Paint

About Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Clip Studio Paint 

Step into the inspiring world of digital painting in Clip Studio Paint with this comprehensive Beginner’s Guide. Written by professional digital artist Nimrod Villar, the all-encompassing Getting Started section covers the basics, with essential chapters on navigating the user-interface, basic actions, drawing tools, and colour, followed by an exploration of the creative potential of layers, filters, drawing guides, materials, and more. Each technique is explained with screengrabs of the software in use, detailed written steps, and art in progress. Next up, eight digital-painting experts share detailed step-by-step tutorials demonstrating the breadth of Clip Studio Paint’s capabilities in action. They create brand-new pieces of art that span a range of engaging styles, genres, and formats. 

We love this book because...

• It features a detailed and fully illustrated introduction to the core tools, menus, and palettes
• It presents workflow models and expert tips from industry-leading artists
• It contains eight easy-to-follow tutorials covering manga, character and creature design, landscapes (real and fantasy), picture-book illustration, and comics
• It showcases a gallery of professionally created Clip Studio Paint artwork to inspire you

About the artists

Devin Elle Kurtz is a 24-year-old digital illustrator, visual development artist, and background painter, with a focus on fantasy creatures and colorful environments. She works full-time on the Netflix animated series Disenchantment as lead background artist, but still makes time to focus on personal projects and business interests. Of particular note is Devin’s love of nature, with her whimsical scenes often featuring animals, fantastical creatures, and people within richly-lit scenes.