Customize the way you draw

Draw smooth, crisp lines or create weighted lines without ever applying pressure to your pen! Weighted lines can be created with a function that calibrates pen pressure based on multiple test brushstrokes.

Fix vectors when and how you want

Draw vector lines like you would raster lines. Freely adjust lines without losing image quality after subsequent processing such as scaling, moving, transforming, and altering line thickness.

Produce on point backgrounds

Use the Perspective ruler to accurately draw perspective scenes. Set multiple vanishing points and draw your ideal building or room! You can also drag and drop 3D materials to quickly match existing rulers.

Create complex effect and saturated lines in an instant

Draw saturated lines, stream lines, and other effect lines by selecting the area you want them to be created around. Settings such as line spacing and thickness can be fine-tuned.

Paint efficiently

Speed up your painting process with smarter tools. Clip Studio Paint’s fill tools can detect and ignore gaps in lines and fill minute spots you missed in one go. Lay down your color flats in a cinch!

Start working from preset templates

You can start creating work immediately without worrying about detailed page settings. Choose from preset templates for color or black-and-white comics, webtoons, etc. You can also create and register your customized preset templates.

Batch management of pages

EX has a feature where you can create a manga work containing multiple pages. You can arrange and reorder pages while viewing the entire document, reducing errors when creating your work.

Effortlessly cut frames

Split frames or create frame borders simply by dragging a line across the page. Further edit complicated frame layouts by changing frame size or frame line thickness.

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.

Abundant brush materials

In addition to presets, Clip Studio ASSETS offers an extensive library of additional brushes of all kinds, including decoration brushes that can draw continuous patterns, that can be downloaded at any time.

Guide your work with rulers

Choose from a variety of rulers to support your drawings, from lines to shapes. Create parallel lines, concentric circles, and symmetric designs.

Neverending screentones

Tone materials offer endless applications such as clothing patterns, backgrounds, effects, and textures. Use various tools to add, remove, paint tones, or change a tone’s pattern immediately after pasting it.
You can even convert color and gray images into tone with a single click.

Color comic compatibility

Color palettes that show similar colors, midrange colors, and your color history offer a convenient way to expedite the production of colored comics.

Exquisite gradients

Create complex gradients using multiple colors or black-and-white gradients made of dots and lines for comic use.

Balloons with personality

Use dedicated tools for creating balloons with a wide variety of shapes, tail positions, lengths, border thicknesses, and colors.

Batch edit script lines

Input and edit lines in the story editor in one go. You can even search and replace text as needed later on.

Arrange and Align

Ideal for lining up frames and balloons in comics! Select multiple objects such as drawings, text, balloons, and frame borders to align or neatly arrange them with equal spacing.

Integration with a traditional work flow

Go from traditional to digital smoothly by using a filter that removes dust from images, a function that extracts line drawings, and more.

Export your whole project at once

No matter your project, you can export with ease. Batch export your multi-page projects to standard image formats such as PSD, JPG, PNG, TIFF, and PDF for posting and printing online and sharing on social media.
Or, divide long webtoon canvases into multiple files, and export multiple pages as one single file.

Preview compositions with 3D models

Find the best composition before you start drawing. Import your own files or download pre-made buildings, furniture, crowds, vehicles, and many other materials to lay down your composition.

Arrange 3D primitives for reference

Simple 3D primitive shapes can be set up as a reference base for drawing objects and scenes, or used as building blocks for more complex compositions.
You can also import normal maps to express realistic textures such as mesh and cloth.

View 3D materials from all angles at once

When placing a 3D material, you can view from four angles simultaneously. You can also change the position of the camera and the focal point on the 3D layer. When you change the camera position from the All sides view palette, the model also adjusts on the canvas.

3D drawing figure references

Pose 3D drawing models in detail from the head and body to the fingers and toes to use as drawing references. You can also attach props to your 3D model like hats and shoes, to instantly make it closer to your character design. Effortlessly draw difficult poses and angles that are difficult to imagine.

3D support for drawing faces

Create your very own facial reference with our adjustable head model.
Fine-tune overall shape, eyes, nose, eyebrows, ears, mouth, and other parts.
The base head can also be transformed into various styles, such as realistic, chibi, and anime.

Posing 3D drawing figures with AI

Clip Studio Paint supports drawing with 3D drawing figures posed with AI. It's as simple as loading a photo of the pose you want to set to the 3D drawing figure. Create intense action scenes in a pinch and use personal images when you can't find the right material you need.

Draw intricate hands with ease

The hand scanner makes drawing challenging hand poses a breeze. It reads a hand’s pose live from your device’s camera and applies it to the hand of a 3D drawing figure.

Convert photos and 3D materials into line drawings and tones

Automatically convert photos, images, and 3D data to lines and tone. Go a step further and make it your own by adding color with a pen or a brush!

Convert photos to illustration-style backgrounds

Level up your backgrounds and apply filters to photos of buildings or landscapes to give them an illustration-like touch. With EX, you can extract 3D assets and images into separate line and tone layers.

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.

Over tens of thousands of materials

Clip Studio Assets offers tens of thousands of commercial-license materials such as brushes, images, tone, balloons, backgrounds, and 3D materials that can be downloaded and used them at any time.

Share and backup from the cloud

Anything you create such as materials, works, and software settings, can all be saved on the cloud. Software settings can be restored manually if needed. Use your materials, works, and software settings at home, work, or school.

Teamwork support

With the Teamwork function, multiple users can collaborate with team members to create and edit different pages on a single multi-page work file uploaded to the cloud. Create multiple teams by inviting members to join your team.

Photoshop integration

Clip Studio Paint works with Photoshop file formats and can import Photoshop dual brushes (ABR) and gradient files (GRD), so you can draw and deliver files to clients and printing companies without changing your existing workflows. Load, edit, and save PSD and PSB data while maintaining layers while seamlessly switching between programs.

Optimize your creative flow with your smartphone

Connect your iPhone or Android smartphone to your main computer or tablet device over Wi-Fi in Companion mode and transform your smartphone into a handheld shortcut remote, for a better creative experience.
Companion mode makes use of your smartphone to get the most out of your creative process! It comes packed with multiple modes to shortcut frequently used functions, pick and mix colors, manage tools, preview projects in real-time, and even control the canvas with touch gestures, making it the perfect studio assistant for whatever you create.

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CMYK color support for printing

Clip Studio Paint supports import/export of both RGB and CMYK, the data used for printing. With the CMYK preview, colors displayed in your workspace are even closer to their real printed hues!

See your work before you print with 3D preview

Before printing check the binding and finish of the final product with the 3D preview feature.

Share your work with the viewer

Upload your multi-page comic, illustration portfolio or webtoon to Clip Studio SHARE to share your work in an embedded viewer to your friends, family and followers. You can even choose how your work is viewed - as a book or as a scroll - for easy reading.

Publish as an e-book

Work files can be output to e-book formats such as Kindle and EPUB.