The leading software
for comic creation

Packed with features for comic creation

All you need to create your comic, manga or webtoon, right at your fingertips. Explore specialized features including panel tools, speech balloons, effect lines, special rulers, and more, giving you the power to create everything from black and white comics for printing, to full-color webtoons to post online, all in a single app.

Splitting frames by hand? Use a template instead!

Immediately jump into drawing your comic by using pre-divided template frames. You can also save frame layouts you have created as templates.

Create panels in seconds

Create and divide panels for your pages as easily as drawing lines. You can easily edit the shape, gutter width, and layout, as well as edit all your panels at once for consistency across your story.

Your story at a glance

View all your pages at once with the page management feature in Clip Studio Paint EX. It’s easier than ever to check the flow of your story with this essential feature for comics, manga, or zines.

Ideal for webtoon artists

Clip Studio Paint comes loaded tools and presets perfect for creating webtoon-style scrolling comics, such as a paneling tool for adding and removing empty space.
With the smartphone view, you can see precisely how your webtoon will look in different screen ratios from the reader's perspective. Or take it a step further and connect your smartphone in companion mode to preview your webcomic in real-time as you draw!

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Lettering in style

Use the text tool for single speech bubbles or manage your whole page dialog at once with the Story Editor. Perfect for adding whatever text you need, with detailed settings for fonts and character spacing.
Justify, arrange text in relation to the text box, adjust kerning, arrange text in a circle, and combine multiple fonts for the ultimate layout flexibility.
The app also comes with an original font, Clip Studio Comic, that you can use for your commercial comic work and Webtoons.

Effect lines with a bang

Give your manga or comic some drama with essential effect lines, with dedicated tools to instantly create action lines and speed lines. You can also download more action line materials or draw your own with specialized rulers.

Infinite screen tones

Create all the screentones and halftone patterns you need in just a few clicks. With advanced layer modes, you can even paint in halftone patterns and convert layers to screentones in an instant.

Webtoon exporting that meets your needs

Easily split long webtoon canvases into multiple files for export, or export a multi-page webtoon as a single file with a host of export settings for easy uploading to the webtoon platform of your choice.

CMYK for printing

Import and export RGB data for web content and CMYK data for printing. You can also work in a CMYK preview to see your colors just as they’ll look when printed.

Preview your finished book in 3D

Get a taste of your finished book using our 3D print preview complete with accurate settings for pages and binding! Now you can check your pages, margins, and page numbers before sending your data to the print shop.

Make the most of your device capabilities

Work on high-resolution files without worry! With 64‑bit OS and multi-core processor support, Clip Studio Paint makes the most of your device’s capability, and the layer folder feature lets you manage layer-heavy files with ease.

Complete PSD compatibility

Import, edit, and save your work in Photoshop formats (PSD, PSB), for easy editing across both programs in your workflow - now with support for exporting text layers created in Clip Studio Paint.
Perfect for when you want to draw in Clip Studio Paint and add filters, or rewrite text in Photoshop - get best of both worlds!
You can also import and export your work in a variety of formats, including JPG, PNG, PDF, TIFF, and more.

Work more comfortably with a pen tablet

Use the Clip Studio Tabmate to operate the app with a push of a button, so you never have to put your pen down when drawing. Now with iPad and iOS support! (Tabmate sold separately)
Compatible with iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows, and macOS.

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Customizable 3D figures with new AI posing

Place 3D drawing figures and head models directly onto the canvas.
You can also attach props to your 3D model like hats and shoes, to instantly create a reference close to your character design.
Customizable body shapes and camera angles make it even more ideal to reference. Bring poses to life with the help of the pose scanner that reads poses from photos and the hand scanner that mimics the pose of your hand with a camera.

Use multiple 3D models to create a scene

Create complex scenes with multiple 3D figures and objects. Change the camera angle to get different angle references. Control the light source and check where the shadows fall on the ground and other objects.

Handy 3D hand model

Use realistic, detailed 3D hand models as a reference when drawing hands. You can create various hand poses to suit your characters, improving the quality and speed of your hand drawings. Or you can even use hand pose materials and the Hand Scanner to create poses instantly.

Perspective rulers for perfect backgrounds

A user favorite, make adding perspective and realistic depth to your backgrounds easy with our specialized ruler tools. Adjust the eye level and perspective as much as you need, and draw directly along the guidelines.

Thousands of customizable brushes

With 1000 new materials every month on Clip Studio ASSETS, you’ll always find something to match your personal style. You can also import Photoshop dual brushes (ABR) and customize every aspect of your brushes, giving you a limitless supply of tools.

Add detail with decoration brushes

Complex patterns are easy with decoration brushes, saving you time on repetitive details like clouds, plants, lace, and ribbons. Create your own custom brushes or discover what others have made on Clip Studio ASSETS.

Realistic pens and brushes

Pencil and pen tools reproduce realistic-looking lines, bringing your work to the next level. Customize stabilization, pen pressure, and more to your exact specifications.

Vector lines with a hand-drawn feel

Draw your vector lines with a natural and smooth feel, then resize and edit line thickness and shape without losing line quality. Clip Studio Paint also comes with handy features like the vector eraser, which lets you erase up to intersecting lines.

Freehand smooth lines and shapes

Draw neat, straight lines, curves, and shapes freehand. Utilize your favorite brush to its full potential without switching tools, and improve the speed and quality of your drawings!

Pose your drawing with Puppet warp

Pin down where you want your character to be stationary and where you want them to move. Transform your drawing as if you were moving a puppet to achieve your desired pose.

All the color palettes you need

Not just your standard color palette: create custom color sets, find your ideal colors with the similar-color and intermediate-color palettes, go back to previous colors with the color history palette, and use the eyedropper tool to pick up colors from your desktop.

A smarter fill tool for speedy coloring

Smart enough to fill line art with small gaps and capture tiny unfilled areas, our fill tool is the perfect assistant for quickly laying down flat colors.

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.

Photograph your next scene

Use photos as part of your next creation by importing as reference or converting to line art to use in your backgrounds. Check your camera roll to see how many images are waiting to be part of your next piece.

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Support you can trust

Whether you're stuck on a new feature or need technical help, you can rely on our free customer support. We’re proud of our excellent customer satisfaction rate, and happy to be there when you need us.

Trusted by the world’s leading brands

As well as being bundled with the world’s bestselling pen tablets from Wacom, Clip Studio Paint is pre-loaded on the latest Tab S series Galaxy Android tablets available worldwide, making it the first choice for getting started with digital art.