What You Need to Put More
"Character" Into Your Art

The materials you need

Clip Studio ASSETS brings over 100,000 brushes and materials to your fingertips. Or, make your own drawing tools with Clip Studio's deeply customizable brush engine and user interface. Create your own signature style, whether watercolor, oil, or anime-style coloring.

Realistic color mixing

From precise color mixing to running paint and wet watercolor style brushes, experience realistic color mixing rarely seen in digital software. Ver 2.0 allows for more natural color mixing while maintaining color brightness.

Perfect lines every time

Clip Studio Paint's sophisticated brush engine recognizes 8192 levels of pen pressure. Put digital pen to digital paper and draw exactly how you want - every line, every detail.
Let the stabilizer feature automatically correct minor wiggles or mistakes in lines, adjust the pen pressure sensitivity to your liking, or use vector layers for greater control of your lines.

Details made easy

Use decoration brushes to replicate complex patterns like shoelaces, necklace chains, and other accessories with a single stroke. Or, create city skylines, cobblestone, tiles, and entire backgrounds by simply dragging your brush until you're satisfied!

Fill without fear

Clip Studio Paint's sophisticated fill tool lets you color your canvas with confidence. Easily fill areas without leaving gaps, even where there are broken lines, and color while referencing line art on other layers. You can also create easy, eye-catching gradients with just a click.

Auto-shading technology

Auto-generate natural-looking shadows from lineart and filled areas and then fine-tune them by adjusting the position and angle of the light source and setting the shadow’s color.

Use filters to polish your work

Use a filter to blur, sharpen, add noise, mosaics, and more to add effects to your piece. Preview and compare multiple filters to create that perfect finishing touch to your work.

Improve your composition with 3D references

Make a completely unique reference to stage difficultly angled poses for characters with custom proportions. Add accessories as well like hats or shoes to get as elements as close to your vision as possible.

3D models and AI posing

References for any situation! You never have to look at references again with countless poses for 3D models, an adjustable head model where you control facial features, and a hand scanner that poses the figure with your hand. You can also attach props like hats and shoes to your 3D model to instantly create a reference close to your character design.

3D support for drawing faces

Create your very own facial reference with our adjustable head model.
Fine-tune overall shape, eyes, nose, eyebrows, ears, mouth, and other parts.
The base head can also be transformed into various styles, such as realistic, chibi, and anime.

Paint on 3D objects

Draw guidelines or patterns on 3D drawing figure or 3D primitives. Check how they appear at different angles or poses.

View 3D materials from all angles at once

When placing a 3D material, you can view from four angles simultaneously. You can also change the position of the camera and the focal point on the 3D layer. When you change the camera position from the All sides view palette, the model also adjusts on the canvas.

Akiman, Illustrator

In this speed painting, Street Fighter character designer "Akiman" uses Clip Studio Paint to draw iconic video game fighter Chun‑Li.

Gui Guimaraes, Concept Artist

Gui Guimaraes is a concept artist and has worked on projects such as Just Cause 3, Call of Champions and Saints Row 4. He shares his process to create a character in his Cyber Candy Girls series using Clip Studio Paint in Artstation Magazine.

Redjuice, Illustrator

Redjuice is a Japanese illustrator and character designer, known for his work on Guilty Crown and Beatless.

kiD Chan, Artist

kiDChan/Cyanparade is an artist based in Malaysia.
Her style is highly influenced by contemporary Japanese art and modern design elements blended with early 20th-century illustration and Art Nouveau.

A devoted community

Clip Studio ASK and Clip Studio TIPS are user community-driven resources that connect you to creators of all skill levels. Ask, answer, check out official content, or just hang out with fellow artists!

We're here to help!

Clip Studio Paint users have access to a dedicated support team to answer questions and help you with issues of any kind. Our support team is standing by!

Fun no matter which platform you use!

Use all the features of the PC Version on your iPad, iPhone, Galaxy, Android, or Chromebook device, optimized for comfortable creation on smaller screens. Clip Studio Paint is pre-loaded on the latest Galaxy Android Tablet Tab S series, available worldwide, making it the first choice for getting started with digital art.
The number of people starting to create digital works with Clip Studio Paint on all sorts of devices continues to grow. Get creative with the rest of the Clip Studio Paint community!