I decided to teach myself Clip Studio Paint this summer.
If you’re not that familiar with Clip Studio Paint, it’s probably the #1 app used by cartoonists these days to make comics. Except for me, I guess — I’ve always just used Photoshop. And because I’ve been using Photoshop for over 20 years, I wasn’t too eager to learn an entire new app when I thought Photoshop was capable of doing everything I needed. I’d also tried an earlier iteration of CSP called Manga Studio and found it difficult to learn, so that also made me less than enthusiastic to give the newer CSP a try.
But… like… everyone uses CSP these days. Like… everyone. So it has to have gotten better, right?
It turns out, there’s a good reason why CSP is being used by more and more cartoonists these days — while the tools it offers are similar to Photoshop, they are better designed for making comics. I still find that some things are better done in Photoshop (editing type, for one), but there’s a lot that CSP just does better (coloring is waaaaay easier). So I’m learning to switch between the two programs and Larry, the magical talking potato, was my first practice comic using the app.
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