Clip Studio Paint

What do you like best?

Clip Studio Paint has a whole suite of features that are unique to it and that help speed up and simplify the illustration process tremendously. This ranges from features like vector lineart, which feel no different from drawing bitmap lineart, but can be adjusted in weight or easily bent and repositioned without losing quality, to things like a sub view menu which lets you immediately pick colors from reference images. Every part of Clip Studio Paint feels like it was designed with artists and mind, and the list of features grows steadily.

What do you dislike?

The one area where Clip Studio Paint needs improvement, is its font support. It would be great to be able to have alternate glyphs available for handwritten fonts that feature this option for a more natural, handwritten look.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you ever struggle with any aspect of using Clip Studio Paint, there is a whole wealth of tutorials available on their tips website. Some of those are mine! ;)

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

I am able to create comics for both print and Webtoon with Clip Studio Paint, as well as regular illustrations for client work. I am able to complete every step of the process where previously I used a combination of Photoshop and openCanvas to achieve this.