Start Making Comics with Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint

Start Making Comics with Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint, available at Free, has an average rating of 4.65, with 77 lectures, based on 842 reviews, and has 29362 subscribers.

You will learn about Sketch and ink directly in Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint. Set up comic book pages and storylines. Import your artwork into the software and modify it digitally. Add color to artwork, including effects and gradients. Start painting digitally. Use an enormous library of materials, patterns, and 3D models in your art. Add lettering, captions, speech balloons, thought balloons, and other text effects. Letter with any font in your comic (I'll also show you how to install thousands of free fonts). Print your finished comic. Turn your finished comic into a PDF or CBZ file. This file can be opened by comic apps on your iPad or other tablet, phone, or desktop. Use my favorite keyboard shortcuts and auto-actions to work up to 50% faster. Use filters and tonal corrections to add special effects to your art. Use layers to make art that would be impossible on paper. Customize your workspace for a fast and efficient workflow. Use grids and rulers to give your work a professional look. Modify your art by cropping, resizing, copying, rotating, erasing, transforming, distorting, blurring, and much, much more. Use layer clipping and layer masks to make difficult art techniques easy. Use vectors to gain additional control over your art. Save files that can be opened in Photoshop and retain layers. Make illustrated books. Develop a workflow to build a comic or illustrated story from scratch. This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who wants to start making comics. or Artists who want to start working digitally with Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint. or Anyone interested in learning the essentials of digital coloring. or Artists who want to make a PDF or CBZ file of their comic or art portfolio. This file can be used on an iPad, tablet, computer, phone, and elsewhere. or Anyone who wants to start lettering digitally with fonts or hand-lettering. or This course is NOT limited to "manga" artists – you can use ANY art style in the program! It is particularly useful for Anyone who wants to start making comics. or Artists who want to start working digitally with Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint. or Anyone interested in learning the essentials of digital coloring. or Artists who want to make a PDF or CBZ file of their comic or art portfolio. This file can be used on an iPad, tablet, computer, phone, and elsewhere. or Anyone who wants to start lettering digitally with fonts or hand-lettering. or This course is NOT limited to "manga" artists – you can use ANY art style in the program!.

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Summary

Title: Start Making Comics with Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint

Price: Free

Average Rating: 4.65

Number of Lectures: 77

Number of Published Lectures: 77

Number of Curriculum Items: 77

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 77

Original Price: Free

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Sketch and ink directly in Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint.
Set up comic book pages and storylines.
Import your artwork into the software and modify it digitally.
Add color to artwork, including effects and gradients.
Start painting digitally.
Use an enormous library of materials, patterns, and 3D models in your art.
Add lettering, captions, speech balloons, thought balloons, and other text effects.
Letter with any font in your comic (I'll also show you how to install thousands of free fonts).
Print your finished comic.
Turn your finished comic into a PDF or CBZ file. This file can be opened by comic apps on your iPad or other tablet, phone, or desktop.
Use my favorite keyboard shortcuts and auto-actions to work up to 50% faster.
Use filters and tonal corrections to add special effects to your art.
Use layers to make art that would be impossible on paper.
Customize your workspace for a fast and efficient workflow.
Use grids and rulers to give your work a professional look.
Modify your art by cropping, resizing, copying, rotating, erasing, transforming, distorting, blurring, and much, much more.
Use layer clipping and layer masks to make difficult art techniques easy.
Use vectors to gain additional control over your art.
Save files that can be opened in Photoshop and retain layers.
Make illustrated books.
Develop a workflow to build a comic or illustrated story from scratch.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who wants to start making comics.
Artists who want to start working digitally with Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint.
Anyone interested in learning the essentials of digital coloring.
Artists who want to make a PDF or CBZ file of their comic or art portfolio. This file can be used on an iPad, tablet, computer, phone, and elsewhere.
Anyone who wants to start lettering digitally with fonts or hand-lettering.
This course is NOT limited to "manga" artists – you can use ANY art style in the program!

Target Audiences

Anyone who wants to start making comics.
Artists who want to start working digitally with Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint.
Anyone interested in learning the essentials of digital coloring.
Artists who want to make a PDF or CBZ file of their comic or art portfolio. This file can be used on an iPad, tablet, computer, phone, and elsewhere.
Anyone who wants to start lettering digitally with fonts or hand-lettering.
This course is NOT limited to "manga" artists – you can use ANY art style in the program!

If you want to make professional comics, then you want to work digitally. Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint is the cutting edge of comics software. Better for making comics than Photoshop and other art programs, it gives you infinite possibilities for telling your story. It has tons of tools designed just for comics, and it is the program of choice among professional comic artists.

Any type of story can be told with comics: Fantasy, superhero, mystery, science fiction, historical, western, nonfiction, romance, autobiographical, hard-boiled detective — there is no limit to your imagination. New artists and storytelling techniques are being discovered every day. As the web becomes more visual, graphic storytelling is more important than ever. You can be part of this revolution.

Today there are more ways to release comics than ever before. You can work for a major publisher (like DC, Marvel, and Image), use a small press to print comics, put comics on a web page, release comics in digital formats like PDF and CBZ files, self-publish for Kindle, and much more. This course will give you tools to start doing all these things.

In over six hours of detailed lessons, I will give you a complete tour of Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint, show you how to set up your story, use every tool and effect, add colors and letters, and create an awesome product you can share with the world.

There’s no reason to wait. You can start making comics TODAY. Sign up now to begin your career in comics.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Setting Up

Lecture 1: Setting Up – Introduction

Lecture 2: What You Need to Begin

Lecture 3: Workspace

Lecture 4: Preferences

Lecture 5: Keyboard Shortcuts

Lecture 6: New Page Setup

Lecture 7: Page Navigation

Lecture 8: New Story Setup

Lecture 9: Canvas Size and Image Resolution

Lecture 10: Saving

Chapter 2: Essential Tools

Lecture 1: Essential Tools – Introduction

Lecture 2: Pen Tool 1

Lecture 3: Pen Tool 2

Lecture 4: Pencil Tool

Lecture 5: Airbrush Tool

Lecture 6: Eraser Tool

Lecture 7: Brush Tool

Lecture 8: Direct Draw Tool

Lecture 9: Stream Line Tool

Lecture 10: Saturated Line Tool

Lecture 11: Flash Tool

Lecture 12: Decoration Tool

Chapter 3: Layers

Lecture 1: Layers – Introduction

Lecture 2: What Are Layers?

Lecture 3: Organizing Layers

Lecture 4: Move and Select Layer Tools

Lecture 5: Combining Layers

Lecture 6: Layer Effects

Lecture 7: Lock Transparent Pixels

Lecture 8: Draft Layers

Lecture 9: Reference Layers

Chapter 4: Rulers

Lecture 1: Rulers – Introduction

Lecture 2: Rulers

Lecture 3: Special Rulers

Lecture 4: Perspective Ruler

Lecture 5: Symmetrical Ruler

Lecture 6: Snapping

Lecture 7: Grid and Ruler

Chapter 5: Selecting and Altering Your Art

Lecture 1: Selecting and Altering – Introduction

Lecture 2: Object Tool

Lecture 3: Marquee Tool

Lecture 4: Auto Select Tool

Lecture 5: Importing

Lecture 6: Blur Filters

Lecture 7: More Filters

Lecture 8: Tonal Correction

Chapter 6: Working with Color

Lecture 1: Working with Color – Introduction

Lecture 2: Introducing Color

Lecture 3: Eyedropper

Lecture 4: Blend Tool

Lecture 5: Fill Tool

Lecture 6: Gradients

Lecture 7: Contour Line Paint Tool

Lecture 8: Combine Modes

Chapter 7: Balloons, Text, and Panels

Lecture 1: Balloons, Text, and Panels – Introduction

Lecture 2: Adding Fonts

Lecture 3: Text Tool

Lecture 4: Balloon Tool

Lecture 5: Panels

Lecture 6: Copying Between Panels

Chapter 8: Other Features

Lecture 1: Other Features – Introduction

Lecture 2: Layer Clipping

Lecture 3: Layer Masks

Lecture 4: Materials

Lecture 5: 3D Models

Lecture 6: Vectors

Lecture 7: History Tab

Lecture 8: Auto Actions

Chapter 9: Printing and Exporting

Lecture 1: Printing and Exporting – Introduction

Lecture 2: Exporting a Page

Lecture 3: Batch Process and Batch Export

Lecture 4: Creating a CBZ File

Lecture 5: Printing and Creating a PDF File

Chapter 10: Putting It All Together

Lecture 1: Putting It All Together – Introduction

Lecture 2: Workflow 1

Lecture 3: Workflow 2

Lecture 4: Conclusion

Instructors

Adam Savage
Graphic Designer, Math and English Instructor

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 14 votes
2 stars: 30 votes
3 stars: 84 votes
4 stars: 256 votes
5 stars: 458 votes

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