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Digital art with Clip Studio Paint
Four steps to achieve professional quality
Step 1Bring your ideas to life with the app made for drawing
Join thousands of professional artists using Clip Studio Paint to create their own distinctive digital artwork.
Draw and paint in your own artistic style with all kinds of quality brushes that feel just like traditional materials.
Step 2Jumpstart your creative flow state
Whether you’re creating professionally or for fun, take advantage of tools and features to help you create at your own pace.
Brush strokes feel smooth and precise.
Complete your art with more time to focus on the parts you love.
Set up common processes to run in a moment so you can keep drawing without a hitch.
Step 3Taking your drawing skills to the next level
Explore artist-centered features for more polished, high-quality artwork.
With built-in reference tools, you can improve your anatomy skills and learn to draw realistic and accurate backgrounds.
Easy editing tools help you make adjustments until you’re satisfied.
Step 4For your professional artwork
Create professional-grade quality and commercial-use file formats in an accessible app.
It’s easy to save your projects in compatible formats and work between other creative software.
From multi-page projects and merchandise to animations, make all things creative with Clip Studio Paint.
Try your hand at other creative pursuits with an app that goes beyond just drawing.
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Why choose Clip Studio Paint?
| Clip Studio Paint | Standard free app | |
|---|---|---|
| Basic illustration features | ||
| Realistic color mixing | ||
| Brushes and material library | 100,000+ | 100+ |
| Professional comic features | ||
| Professional animation features | ||
| 3D models | ||
| Vectors | ||
| User-friendly interface and customization | ||
| Cloud storage | 10GB | |
| Official Support and Q&A Community |
Get better at digital drawing and painting in no time
Draw with more believability for more beautiful artworks
- Draw guides or patterns directly on 3D figures
- Apply lighting as a reference for painting realistic shadows
- Use the Hand Scanner to pose the 3D hands with live video capture from your camera
Filters and effects to save time and liven your artwork
- Get tips on rendering your artwork with Shading Assist just by placing the light source
- Apply filters to blur and extract lines with just a tap
- Intuitively adjust your colors with previews
Draw quality backgrounds and props with confidence
- Use dedicated rulers to draw with perfect symmetry and perspective
- Quickly draw lines along the ruler freehand with any brush
- Reference 3D objects to sketch up props and more
Adjust your artwork instead of redrawing
- Use Puppet Warp to manipulate parts of your drawing like a doll
- Liquify to make precise adjustments and even enlarge or shrink parts of your artwork
- Make patterns fit any shape using mesh transformation
Trusted by illustrators, comic artists & animators worldwide
Preserve beautiful line art in vector layers
Create illustrations that won’t pixelate
- Move and resize your lines after drawing
- Scale up and down without losing quality
- Erase lines at intersections
- Draw naturally and freely knowing you can edit later
Stress-free layer features
- Mask and clip across multiple layers to more easily edit your project
- Apply effects that you can undo any time
- Manage complex projects with layer colors or separate layer lists
A comic and animation studio at your fingertips
Draw with the definitive comic app
- All the tools you need for comic creation, from drafting to finishing touches
- Panel frames, speech balloons, text, effect lines, and screen tones in an instant
- Create comics, manga, or webtoons for print or web
- Set up optimal paper settings, export, and manage multi-page projects
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From simple gifs to full-blown animations
- Use all the same tools that animation studios use
- Unique features that 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
Join fellow creators around the world Engage with the community and quickly improve!
CLIP STUDIO ASSETS
Find your new favorite
brushes and materials
Search now
CLIP STUDIO TIPS Official Tutorials
Tips and tricks to improve your skills
Ask a question in CLIP STUDIO ASK
Work through your problem with a Q&A community
Having trouble? Contact our Support Team!
Give life to any project with Clip Studio Paint
Why we love and use Clip Studio Paint
Digital art with Clip Studio Paint
Four steps to creating your own illustrations
Step 1Find your art style
With countless free brushes created by artists from around the world, you’re sure to find your favorite.
Enjoy drawing digitally with the feel of traditional mediums.
Experiment with watercolors, oil paints, and more.
Step 2Learn the secrets to level up your drawing
New to drawing? No problem.
Learn how to draw faces and human anatomy from helpful reference features.
Adjust your drawing as many times as you need.
Place background and prop materials as references for scenes and create your own compelling compositions.
Step 3Color and finish your work with ease
Lay down base colors in a moment so you have more time to focus on what you enjoy.
There are a ton of features for achieving a polished finish no matter your pace.
Create bold and eye-catching illustrations with your favorite tools.
Drawing has never been easier.
Step 4Results like the pros
You can save your work in industry-standard file formats and easily make changes later.
Create professional quality work with Clip Studio Paint, from artbooks and merch, to comics and animations.
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Why we love and use Clip Studio Paint
Miyuli
(Webtoon & Character Artist) Germany
"I've been using Clip Studio Paint for about 10 years now and the software just keeps getting better"
I've been using Clip Studio Paint for about 10 years now and the software just keeps getting better. It's perfect for drawing webtoons because there are great organizational tools. Also, it's super easy to export the entire webtoon at a suitable size.
One of the reasons I had to try Clip Studio Paint originally was the perspective rulers. And now, there is even a fisheye ruler! The 3D materials are also very helpful for reference.
Last but not least, I have to say that I really love the brushes. They are just great to work with and easy to draw illustrations and comics with, be it in color or black and white.
* Miyuli's comment is not meant as a direct endorsement of Clip Studio Paint by WEBTOON.
Djamila Knopf
(Illustrator) Germany
"My favorite feature is the 3D models"
All of the features and the entire user interface are well thought out, can be customized to any artist's individual needs, and allow for an easy and intuitive entry into the program.
My favorite feature is the 3D character models, which are easy to position, light, and adjust in proportion.
Grow your digital art skills faster with a global creator community
CLIP STUDIO ASSETS
Find your new favorite
brushes and materials
Search now
CLIP STUDIO TIPS Official Tutorials
Tips and tricks to improve your skills
Ask a question in CLIP STUDIO ASK
Work through your problem with a Q&A community
Having trouble? Contact our Support Team!
Comics and animation on your tablet
Create comics, manga, and webtoons
- All the tools you need for comic creation, from storyboard to finishing touches
- Create single panel cartoons, webtoons, comic strips, and comic books
- Manage multi-page projects
Okamoto ©TriF
From simple gifs to full animations
- Used by professional animators and studios worldwide
- Turn your drawings into animations with the light table and onion-skin features that allow you to view adjacent frames
Give life to any project with Clip Studio Paint
Become an artist, whenever, wherever
The best brushes
All the brushes you need at your fingertips, from watercolors, to oil paints, crayons, colored pencils, and more. Mix colors just like traditional materials and paint intuitively.
Brushes for every styleEasy decorations
Draw frills, accessories, clouds, forests, and more in an instant with the thousands of available decoration brushes.
CLIP STUDIO ASSETS
Find your new favorite
brushes and materials
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Clean and precise lines
Smooth strokes
Sketch and ink right on your phone. Draw smooth and natural lines with a stylus or your finger. Pen pressure can be adjusted to fit your stylus.
Vector layers for linework
Adjust the thickness and position of lines after they’re drawn, and erase intersecting lines to easily fix mistakes.
Draw with ease even on a small screen
Add colors quickly
Color in areas easily even with gaps in your lines. Lock transparent areas to prevent painting outside the lines.
Draw props and backgrounds
Draw perfect lines for backgrounds with the perspective ruler and use 3D objects to make rough sketches for props.
Transform features to achieve your vision
Even after drawing, you can tweak your artwork with Liquify and Mesh Transformation and adjust poses with Puppet warp.
Add effects and filters with ease
Apply filters to blur and extract lines with one tap. Intuitively adjust your colors with previews.
Fun digital art features for every creator
Customizable 3D tools
Use the fully customizable 3D reference models and hand scanner to get the right pose and proportions for your character.
CLIP STUDIO TIPS Official Tutorials
Tips and tricks to improve your skills
Ask a question in CLIP STUDIO ASK
Work through your problem with a Q&A community
Having trouble? Contact our Support Team!
Create comics & animations with the leading drawing app
For comics, manga, and webtoons
With panel frames, speech balloons, text, effect lines, and screentones, you’ll find all the tools you need.
Okamoto ©TriF
Smooth animations
Animate as you draw with the light table and onion-skin features to create anything from simple GIFs to full animations.
Give life to any project with Clip Studio Paint
Why we love and use Clip Studio Paint
The artist's app for drawing and painting.
Clip Studio Paint PRO/EX Comparison
| Feature | PRO For professional illustration |
EX All PRO features + animation and comic features |
|---|---|---|
Illustration (Character art, concept art, etc.) |
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Import/Use 3D models |
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Extract lines from images and 3D models |
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Save layer comps |
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Single-page comic tools |
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Multi-page projects |
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Webtoon tools |
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PDF/Ebook export |
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Simple animation/movie creation |
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Full-length animation tools |
Chosen by Professionals
Educational Institutions
Boston University (America) / School of Visual Arts (America) / Pratt University (America) / London Metropolitan University (United Kingdom) / Northeastern University (America) / Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) / Singapore Institute of Technology (Singapore)
What schools say about usEnterprises
Marvel (Animation Studio, America) / The Pokemon Company Int. (Game Development, America) / Warner Bros. Animation (Animation Studio, America) / WEBTOON Entertainment Inc (Webtoon Production, America) / Behaviour Interactive (Game Development, Canada) / Ellipse Studio (Animation Studio, France) / RED DOG CULTURE HOUSE (Animation & Webtoon Studio, Korea)
What companies say about us
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Clip Studio Paint PRO/EX Comparison
| Feature | PRO For professional illustration |
EX All PRO features + animation and comic features |
|---|---|---|
Illustration (Character art, concept art, etc.) |
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Import/Use 3D models |
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Extract lines from images and 3D models |
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Save layer comps |
||
Single-page comic tools |
||
Multi-page projects |
||
Webtoon tools |
* | |
PDF/Ebook export |
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Simple animation/movie creation |
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Full-length animation tools |
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is Clip Studio Paint chosen by so many creators?
In addition to its natural and easy-to-use pens and brushes, it offers convenient features not found in other drawing apps/paint apps. Its flexibility, which allows both beginners and professionals to create in their own style, is highly valued and makes it a popular choice among creators.
What kind of works is Clip Studio Paint best suited for as a digital art app?
Clip Studio Paint comes with specialized features not only for illustrations but also for comics and animation. It also supports design work, making it a comprehensive digital art app that helps with a wide variety of creative projects and is widely used in professional environments.
On which devices can I use Clip Studio Paint?
It is available on Windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone, and Android. As a multi-device drawing app/painting app, it provides a seamless environment where you can sketch on mobile while on the go and continue working on the same project on your PC at home or in the studio.
Is Clip Studio Paint free to use?
You can try it free for up to 6 months. After that, you can choose from affordable monthly or annual plans, or purchase a one-time perpetual license for Windows and macOS. This flexibility lets you select the option that best fits your needs and budget.
Is a digital drawing app like Clip Studio Paint easy for beginners?
With its natural pens and brushes and rich support features, beginners can create with confidence. The mobile version uses a simplified UI, making it an intuitive digital drawing app to start with.
How can I learn to use Clip Studio Paint and its features?
Plenty of official tutorial articles and instructional videos are available. In addition, the community and social media share user tips, helping you efficiently learn to use various drawing tools/paint tools.
Draw whatever you can imagine, whether you’re a beginner or seasoned professional, and share your creativity with the Clip Studio community!
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"I've been using Clip Studio Paint for about 10 years now and the software just keeps getting better"
I've been using Clip Studio Paint for about 10 years now and the software just keeps getting better. It's perfect for drawing webtoons because there are great organizational tools. Also, it's super easy to export the entire webtoon at a suitable size.
One of the reasons I had to try Clip Studio Paint originally was the perspective rulers. And now, there is even a fisheye ruler! The 3D materials are also very helpful for reference.
Last but not least, I have to say that I really love the brushes. They are just great to work with and easy to draw illustrations and comics with, be it in color or black and white.
* Miyuli's comment is not meant as a direct endorsement of Clip Studio Paint by WEBTOON.
"My favorite feature is the 3D models"
All of the features and the entire user interface are well thought out, can be customized to any artist's individual needs, and allow for an easy and intuitive entry into the program.
My favorite feature is the 3D character models, which are easy to position, light, and adjust in proportion.