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Clip Studio Paint makes drawing a piece of cake, in any style!
Whether you are a beginner or a pro, Clip Studio Paint will improve your creative experience while helping you grow. Now with new, powerful features!
Unlimited amount of brushes at your fingertips to recreate any style
- Use brushes with the same textures as real art materials
- Adjust details such as brush shape and paper quality to your liking
- Make unique colors with realistic color mixing, like traditional paints
- Draw with transparency to erase, so no need to switch brushes
Countless artist-made materials
- Level up your art with free materials, for backgrounds and more
- Discover community-made brushes from creators worldwide
- Add details with materials like frills and more
Coloring made easy
- Easily color even with line gaps using the magnetic lasso tool
- Lock transparency to paint over layers without affecting other areas
- Set light source and shadow position with Shading Assist
- Instantly reference and apply colors from an image to your art using Color Match
- Enhance your art with filters like Chromatic Aberration, Retro Film, Pencil, and more
Learn alongside other creators
- Loads of official tutorials and creator tips available
- Watch tutorials on our YouTube channel, for step-by-step advice
- Ask questions on the Clip Studio Ask community
Create the perfect reference with 3D models
- Use 3D drawing figures to help with drawing anatomy
- Customize character face and body models with beginner-friendly tools
- Attach 3D objects like hats and shoes to characters for more specific references
- Use 3D shapes to draw perspective
- Use snap to quickly place objects on your canvas
Adjust after you draw
- Liquify to make adjustments to the balance of your illustrations
- Mesh Transformation allows you to transform to different shapes
- Change up the poses of your character drawings with Puppet warp
- Non-destructive color adjustment layers to get your art just right
- Gradient maps give color to your grayscale illustrations
Stress-free layer features
- Assign colors and make multiple columns of layers to browse them at a glance
- Enjoy the freedom of masking and clipping on multiple layers to edit and move your work
- Add various effects to apply to the layer in a non-destructive way
The ultimate comic creation app
- All the tools you need for comic creation, from storyboard to finishing touches
- Panel frames, speech balloons, text, effect lines, and screen tones in an instant
- Make data for prints, web comics, manga, or webtoons (6 GB+ memory recommended)
- Manage multi-page projects
Professional animation, on any device
- Use all the same tools as animation studios
- Unique features allow you to draw your frames as you like
- Enjoy a pencil and paper look and feel, but digitally
- Expand your drawings to 4K resolution without losing quality by saving it as vector data
●Grade features
・PRO: All the tools you need to create stunning illustrations & short animations
・EX: All the above + multi-page functionality for comic/manga artists and unlimited animation frames
*Clip Studio account needed to buy a plan.
● Target Devices and Specifications
・Minimum free storage space: 3GB, 4GB recommended
・Recommended display size: 10.5"+
Please see the following for supported devices.
https://support.clip-studio.com/en-us/faq/articles/20200153
Supported pressure-sensitive pens
・Apple Pencil
● In-app purchases
・Required to save the canvas and export it to various file formats on iPad.
Note:
You will be charged to the Apple ID used for subscription.
Terms of Service
https://www.celsys.com/en/information/csp/
Professional Artist Review: Life Changing / 5 Stars
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TLDR: BEST IPAD ART SOFTWARE DETAILS: I am a professional illustrator, storyboard artist, animator and recently a tattoo artist also. I always used Photoshop with Wacom tablets or a Cintiq, but when M1 iPad Pro came out I finally had hope I could stop dealing with Wacom and desktop computer and only use the ipad. This product: Clip Studio paint, has allowed me to totally work on iPad, for ANY kind of illustration work (it also is great for animation). This software, on ipad, is so good it literally hanged me life. This is a fully functional desktop style software, but the coolest thing besides the huge amount of features and seamless workflow, is the CUSTOMIZABILITY of the interface - it’s insane: you can completely design the layout to easily include the tools you use, and hide everything else. AND it has excellent HOTKEY support: you can choose all your own hot keys, and save separate workspaces (I have a ‘comic’ workspace, a ‘storyboard’ workspace etc.). You can go ever deeper with the customization and design how the pop up windows work - like if you use the selection tool to grab a piece of an image, you can choose which options pop up beneath the selection (free transform, warp, etc). This is the best software ever created, 100% could not recommend any higher, maximum gratitude to this company.
Best Comic making app on the market.
Winbyy
Clip Studio is the definitive comic creation software for anyone interested in making high quality comics. I say this as someone who used photoshop for over a decade. I’m using the iPad Pro 12.9 3rd gen, so I have to subscribe to the $99 annual plan, but I also had a windows license. The interface can be a little daunting for the first time, especially on the iPad where most drawing apps go for a simpler interface, but if you have a bluetooth keyboard or want to use your phone, you can set up hotkeys for just about anything. Clip Studio does have a simple UI mode, but unfortunately I have to reimport my custom brushes and some of the layer effects aren’t available. What makes this app worth the subscription is the ability to create, preview, and export virtually any form of comic or illustration in a straightforward manner. Making a vertical webcomic? Clip Studio makes all of the slices for your comic and has a phone size overlay so you can see how much of your page will be seen by mobile viewers. My biggest complaint is when I’m without internet connection and I launch the app only for it to take 20-30 seconds trying to connect to the server. You can still use it offline, but clip studio will want you to connect at some point which is a tad weird.
I love the app except for this one issue
conshens
I’ve been using clip studio for years, and I mean YEARS. Since they were making the transition from being called Manga Studio. I love the programs so naturally getting an iPad meant that I’d also download this app. I love that it has everything I need, but with that there’s the issue of large memory usage which may force your application to close. Luckily I have never run into the issue myself I just receive the warnings. A MAJOR issue I’ve been happening is that while I’m using the application it will randomly stop recognizing my finger. So no undo or canvas tilting and whatever else you can think of. It really bogs down my work flow, the only way I know how to fix it is to close the application and wait 5 minutes for it to start back up again.Not the worse thing in the world but once you finally hit that state of creative flow, those 5 minutes can really break focus.My biggest wish is that I can customize what shows up in simple mode. I use the layer properties a lot especially for character designs. But alas this isn’t available in simple mode.Obviously it’s a bit of a long shot to ask for something like that but still. I also predominantly use clip studio for making manga, simple mode doesn’t offer as many features and it’s like getting used to a whole new program. Which I guess is the point.Overall though it’s a 5 star app but I REALLY want this touch thing fixed. I even came to the App Store hoping there was an update that should solve my problems 😭
Clip Studio does not export color-filled vectors
Bow227764
After trying Clip Studio Paint for the past few days, I discovered that any vector art that I create and color-fill in Clip Studio will only be exported as vector line-art, and that all color-fills will be excluded from the exported vector file. That defeats the purpose of taking the time to color any vector art I create in CSP. So I am not purchasing the Clip Studio subscription because that will be a fairly costly amount to pay to only draw and paint (all the other clutter in the app is useless for my purpose which is to create VECTOR art that I can export with its filled colors). If I use Clip Studio Paint to draw my vector line-art, I’ll have to use a different vector art app to finish my vector art, but tbh Adobe Fresco & Adobe Illustrator already serve that exact purpose because, in Fresco (which is free), I can use their vector brush for line art, then send the vector art (while still in Adobe Fresco) to Adobe Illustrator for iPad to complete it, with color-fills intact. Simple. The good thing about Clip Studio’s creators is that they allow you enough time to test their app before you buy it, and that’s cool 😎. If CSP had full vector art capabilities, I would definitely buy it, but CSP is basically just a raster drawing app. Maybe Clip Studio should consider building a dedicated vector art iPad app. CSP artists could then export their vector line-art from CSP into the Clip Studio vector app to complete their work.
Developer Response
Thank you for using the app.We will take this as a request for "Support for color filling with vector layers", and will consider maiking it future features.You can also send your request at the top right of Clip Studio Start screen, "Help" > "Feedback and requests". Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.Also, as you may already know, when using something drawn on a vector layer as a reference for filling, the "Fill up to vector" function is useful. Please try turning on "Fill up to vector" in "Tool Property" to fill up to the center of the vector line!
・ Fixed an issue that caused the app to repeatedly fail to start up.
・ Fixed an issue where the app would force close while restoring files during startup.
Version 5.0.2
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Information
Seller
CELSYS,Inc.
Size
604.4 MB
Category
Graphics & Design
Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Languages
English and 10 more
English, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese