Worldbuilding
with the right tools

Custom brushes, unrivaled painting experience

Clip Studio Paint's brush engine was created with artists in mind to provide the best drawing experience available. Choose the best brush from high-quality preset brushes with a natural drawing feel. Each line can be drawn with precision and nuance, reflecting the 8192 levels of pressure provided by high-end Wacom tablets. Import Photoshop brush files (ABR) and create expressive dual brushes by combining two types of brush strokes.

Brushes for every style and mood

Draw and paint with traditional watercolors, oil paints, pencils and more, or create your own textures.

A universe of materials and assets

Clip Studio Assets offers a huge library of free materials. Test concepts and create quick sketches with foliage brushes, tileable patterns, textures and much more. Make use of the constantly expanding universe of Celsys official and user-generated materials at your fingertips.

Easy thumbnailing & layout

Create a thumbnail grid in seconds and get to work, either adding images and reference data to the same layer or to individually masked panels. Organize your game or movie concepts for easy viewing and save time for yourself and the creative team!

Native perspective rulers

With built-in perspective rulers that snap brush strokes and shape tools to vanishing points, refining sketches and drafts feels like drawing free-hand. Add believable depth and perspective without any additional plugins.

Flexible designs with vector lines

Draw vector lines with the exact same brushes used in raster painting and adjust them easily, using features such as the vector eraser, line thickness and shape sliders, or switch the brush shape altogether.

Customizable 3D references

Use the pre-installed 3D-figures to quickly create model sheets and turnarounds for characters and costumes, make use of the numerous 3D-objects or import your own OBJ files as reference. You can also use simple 3D primitives to mock up basic shapes then apply a normal map to put realistic textures on like a mesh or cloth.

Color palettes for consistent design

Find the best color scheme for your characters, creatures, costumes and more, and stay consistent with custom color palettes for every occasion. No need to clutter your canvas with swatches when color blocking or flatting colors to a design.

Color variations with gradient maps

Transform grayscale concepts with gradient maps and explore moods and lighting for projects. Apply color variations to the whole image or individual layers to fine-tune your creations.

Manage and create layer comps

Make different layers hidden or visible at once by using layer comps to easily create different variations. You can also export all layer comps at once.

Highly customizable

Clip Studio Paint is highly customizable, allowing you to adjust the interface to match your preferred workflow and create your ideal workspace. Additionally, each tool comes with intricate customizing options to match tools you may be used to from other software.

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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Printing made easy

Let your audience experience your work, be it in team meetings, in art books or portfolios, by having your RGB data ready for the screen, or using Clip Studio Paint's CMYK preview to ensure that your prints do your designs justice.

Angela Sung, Concept Artist

Angela Sung is a Visual Development artist and Art Director for animation. She has worked on numerous series, such as on "Bad Guys" as a Visual Development artist, on "Legend of Korra" and "Voltron" as a Background Designer and Painter, and many more. Angela has taught at several schools and co-runs the "Warrior Painters" plein-air painting project.

Magdalena Proszowska, Concept Artist

Magdalena was born in Poland, and is currently living and working in Germany as a Senior Concept Artist for game developer Ubisoft. Digital painting is her passion, spending any free time working on illustrations and character design.

In this webinar she shares her approach to lighting characters and concepts.
Artstation:https://www.artstation.com/magdaproski

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.

Support you can trust

Having technical issues, or just need help with a Clip Studio Paint tool or feature? Our customer support team is happy to help.

https://support.clip-studio.com/en-us/

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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.

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