What artists say about Clip Studio Paint, the illustration, comic & animation app

I've been using Clip Studio Paint for about 10 years now and the software just keeps getting better. It's perfect for drawing webtoons because there are great organizational tools. Also, it's super easy to export the entire webtoon at a suitable size.
One of the reasons I had to try Clip Studio Paint originally was the perspective rulers. And now, there is even a fisheye ruler! The 3D materials are also very helpful for reference.
Last but not least, I have to say that I really love the brushes. They are just great to work with and easy to draw illustrations and comics with, be it in color or black and white.
* Miyuli's comment is not meant as a direct endorsement of Clip Studio Paint by WEBTOON.

Clip Studio Paint is a great versatile program for artists of all backgrounds. Whether you want to create a digital painting, draw an illustration, create your own comic, or even animate a scene, Clip Studio Paint has the tools to make various forms of art at a reasonable price.

When I work in CSP I have the feeling that I can do anything. It is the most powerful and versatile art program, it has so many tools that it can be adapted to anyone's needs.

When I first started using Clip Studio Paint in university, I was amazed how easy the interface was and how powerful and realistic the brushes were. Afterwards, with the full functionality and variety of materials that increase day by day, it has become the indispensable app for creating manga.

Personally, I often use the 3D tools when I sketch as a reference for character movements. There’s even more freedom now with features like the customizable 3D head model and material hierarchy settings. Every time a new feature is announced, I hope that the technological advances will bring more convenience and improvements for creating.

My favorite part about Clip Studio Paint is that creators around the world can create manga without barriers and easily improve the quality of their work!

Clip Studio Paint is the all-purpose assistant for manga artists! Brushes feel natural and work time is reduced with direct masking for applying tones. The story editor is very handy for writing dialogue and text can be transformed without converting it into an image. A combination of vector layers and perspective rulers can be used for backgrounds, and there are features for converting 3D materials into line art. It's perfect for creators who create black and white manga or full color manga. I highly recommend it!

After many years of searching for the best drawing software, I came across Clip Studio Paint around 2015 and have been using it ever since.
I like the variety of options the app offers to bring all of my ideas to life. New tools are regularly added and ready to be discovered and integrated into your work. The lines of the individual brushes are precise and feel very natural, which is particularly important to me.
Clip Studio Paint has become an indispensable part of my everyday drawing routine.

When I draw comics, it helps me a lot to be able to see all the pages at the same time. Quick navigation through the pages and having easy access to every file gives me a global feeling of the entire book.
I always work using vector layers in my inking process. That way I'm able to edit my lines and use tools like the vector eraser, which saves me a lot of time.
There are a ton of brushes available that can be customized a lot. The lines are the most similar to traditional inking that I could find in any software.

Clip Studio Paint has totally changed the way I work and it has changed it to the better. It is a complete tool that doesn’t interfere at all with my workflow. It’s absolutely adaptable to the way I do things, and it’s obvious that this is a program specifically designed for creating comics.
As an example of what I mean, here are my five favorite features:
5. Rulers: symmetry and perspective now are super easy.
4. Lettering: I can add the balloons and edit the text while I draw.
3. The customizable command bar and the tool sets: the interface adapts to my workflow and not the other way around.
2. Layer color: now I only work with black and transparent. These layer color options makes it almost impossible to accidentally ink the layer with the blue pencil sketch.
1. Flip Horizontal: I can see the page inverted and check how the work is with just a simple click.
Bonus track: I can put the face of my friends as icons for tools, it’s silly but it makes me happy.

I’ve been using CSP for the last few years, and I love how intuitive it is. I can literally do everything I want to do on this single app. The brushes are a special standout - even without downloading extra ones, the existing ones really do feel like the real thing. As a self confessed old technophobe, it’s incredibly easy to learn... something I really need with my busy schedule.

Having worked on illustrations and comics for years, what first caught my attention with Clip Studio was that it worked in itself for all the processes in any of the disciplines, without having to share files between different applications. It is an all-in-one, making my life easier.
When I started using it, thanks to its easy configuration, the transition to the application was almost immediate, because I could work with the shortcuts and display distribution I used to work with before.
But none of this would have convinced me if the brushes hadn't had such a natural and versatile feeling, which is what artists eventually need: a tool that adapts to our needs, and not the contrary.

The speed of execution is important to me, and I always have to maintain good quality even when there is no time. Clip Studio Paint is perfect for my purposes: intuitive and simple. The brushes (even the basic ones) are the best I've ever used in a digital drawing app. My favorite is the Textured Pen, which I use a lot for inking since it leaves a slight "texture" in the stroke that makes the line softer. I also often use the integrated "Decoration" tools and they are very useful to easily draw details when the deadlines are particularly difficult.

Clip Studio Paint is the only choice if you want to make comics digitally, in my opinion. I was initially interested in the stabilization function for pens and pencils, but it took very little time to find so much more: the frame tools, the color controls, the rulers (the perspective ruler is a life-saver!)… I could speak about Clip Studio Paint for hours… And I do! Not a day passes without me teaching my students how to use it and why it is just the best. Once you try it, you won’t be looking for anything else.

Clip Studio is by far my favorite software. Before I knew about it, I spent years using other programs to work on my comics, but they were not primarily focused on drawing and lacked specialized features. Also, they tended to have problems with file corruption, unexpected crashes and other related bugs. Still, I was reluctant to switch to another software because I thought it would take a lot of getting used to, but that was not the case with Clip Studio Paint. It was a breeze to use from the very first moment I tried it. The strokes are much more pleasant and the commands are tremendously intuitive. In addition, it comes with tools completely focused on comics: speed lines, action lines, sound effects lettering, text input, balloons... Clip Studio Paint is definitely the best digital drawing tool I've ever used.

In my daily life, I use Clip Studio Paint for two things: the screentones and coloring features.
I do my inking by hand, and once it's scanned, the screentones and action lines built into Clip Studio Paint blend seamlessly with my pen-and-paper drawing. If I need to retouch my work digitally afterwards, the app has all the same inking pens I use when inking by hand, so I always end up with a convincingly traditional finish!
On the subject of coloring, Clip Studio Paint allows you to take whatever approach you like: as for myself, I usually only go with one coloring layer and only use two or three basic brushes. Believe it or not, that doesn't even scratch the surface of what the app can do! Despite that, I'm still able to create hyper-dynamic and natural-feeling illustrations. I especially love the Oil paint brush, which is one of the default brushes, and probably the one I use the most. The way it spreads the paint and blends colors makes it feel incredibly intuitive! And then, when I feel like playing with layer blending modes or exploring other tools, the full potential of Clip Studio Paint truly reveals itself.

My art journey has taken me through many art programs, and I can confidently say that there is no better software for making comics than Clip Studio Paint. In the several years I’ve made webtoons professionally, Clip Studio Paint’s features and tools have helped me produce weekly work without ever compromising on quality. Its webtoon feature allows me to easily work in its characteristic long, vertical format so comfortably that I’m able to create the exact pacing, look, and feel I need to tell my story in the way I want my readers to experience it.

Everything about Clip Studio Paint is optimized for creating comics, and there’s always new features being added to make artists’ lives easier. I love scrolling through the assets library to check out new brushes and backgrounds!

I had been aware of Clip Studio Paint for a while, as it came strongly recommend by a lot of my cartoonist friends.
The big selling point, up until I actually used the program, was the ability to create comic panels automatically! So that was the first thing I tried, and I was immediately convinced! But then it turned out Clip Studio can do much, much more than that!
The animation feature was a particular favorite of mine — it’s a lot more intuitive than most of the other non-animation oriented drawing programs, and much smoother and more effective. In fact, it may have even been better than some of the strictly animation-focused programs I have used.
Another feature that impressed me was the ability to pair my smartphone with my drawing tablet and use it as a remote. It made life so much easier without having to flip back and forth between panels on the tablet screen, allowing me to just concentrate on drawing.
I’ve been using Clip Studio for around 3 months now, and feel as though I have only just scratched the surface of it’s capabilities. The next thing I want to try is incorporating 3D elements!

I'm a big fan of Clip Studio Paint. I've been using it since Manga Studio 4 and now use it for pretty much 100% of my professional work. There are so many features that really help my work flow in comics. The story feature is a great way to keep organized on longer projects. The brushes are just amazing too and feel extremely life‑like. I also really like how you can customize everything to suit your own needs perfectly. The iPad version is brilliant too, making Clip Studio Paint totally portable so I can easily work on print-ready files anywhere.

I have been using Clip Studio Paint since 2015. After ten years of using a pen and marker for inking, I was convinced that I would keep using them. However, when I tried the brushes, the pressure sensitivity, and the process of tracing in Clip Studio Paint, I understood that it was the right moment to switch tools. Now I work much faster and try new things. The pressure and sensitivity of the preset brushes are perfect, and I can draw natural lines accurately which makes the drawing more organic and alive. I hate the precise and clean finished works of other software because I cannot see the artist behind it. I can express myself freely in Clip Studio Paint without any restrictions.

For a really powerful and fast illustration software the price is amazing. When I bought CSP I wanted an app I could use portably on my iPad, and the other big drawing program for iPad, Procreate, didn’t have brushes you could switch anti-aliasing off. So no fancy brushes for me, however I do like that CSP has an insanely huge library of brushes, patterns, ect, easily downloadable straight into the software. It took a while to learn all the aspects of the software which was a little daunting at first, but through the useful tutorials, I use CSP for everything. Illustration, comics, and even animation, all from my iPad. It’s also very convenient how easily it syncs all my files from the app and to my desktop.

I love Clip Studio Paint in addition to traditional media! I’ve been using the iPad version of the Clip Studio Paint programme for some of my comics recently! I used an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. They all work together beautifully. I am a big believer in being able to draw directly onto the screen rather than creating a comic on a drawing tablet while looking at a screen. I find that super counterintuitive! Whereas, I found Clip Studio Paint to be a totally intuitive programme for drawing comics. There are so many shortcuts for easy undoing and colour switching etc. There’s even a super flexible tool to create panels for you! What a time-saver. Time-saving features are always a bonus in a fast-moving medium that often responds to current events.

After years of trying to force other illustration or image editing apps to work with webcomics, it was a breath of fresh air to find a solution that natively catered to the medium and its needs. CSP has a variety of built-in tools for paneling, coloring, speech bubbles and more that streamlined my workflow, plus a ton of new features that I didn't know I needed, like special rulers and 3D figures for difficult poses. I particularly enjoy the granularity with which you can adjust a brush's settings, which allows you to tweak any brush to get it to behave just the way you want it. This flexibility has allowed me to jump straight into creating, and if I come across a complex scene that requires a difficult angle or a specific kind of rendering, odds are the app or its community have a solution that makes it much easier to tackle. After making the switch, I never looked back!

Clip Studio Paint is the perfect tool for anyone who wants to dedicate themselves to comics or illustration.
The first time I used Clip Studio Paint I felt like I was flying an F 14 fighter because of the amount of options offered by its interface, and it is such a versatile program that allows you to do any kind of work. One aspect that I consider essential is that the program adapts to the user and not the other way around. It is totally focused on the realization of comics, offering all the necessary alternatives to carry it out.

I've been using Clip Studio Paint EX since 2015 and quickly realized that this app has all the features I often missed in other programs. Finally, I didn't have to run three different programs simultaniously to work efficiently anymore! Especially for (web)comics, Clip Studio Paint simply has everything I need: the panel and text tools are so versatile and easy to use, the enormous collection of 3D assets has so often made my day, and the drawing feel in Clip Studio Paint in general is second to none for me, not least because of the huge selection of brushes and their customizable settings.

Clip Studio Paint is an indispensable tool in my life as a designer.
I discovered Clip Studio Paint during my art studies and I've been using it ever since for my professional projects.
Whether it's for illustrations, webtoon or even comics, the software is super-optimized so that everything is intuitive to use.
The asset database is probably my favorite thing about Clip Studio Paint. Whenever I want to try out a new brush or need 3D objects, I know I can find what I'm looking for in there.
I really think that this software is complete for an artist and I'd be hard pressed to do without it now.
The little extra that's not to be sniffed at: The fact that it's also available on digital tablets like my iPad. Thanks to this, I can work wherever and whenever I want.

I fell in love with Clip Studio Paint.
It's a complete software package that's easily accessible, customizable and has almost infinite capabilities. It has absolutely everything I need for my work.
But for me, the detail that changed everything was the addition of the Webtoon option. With its tools, page management, export options and smartphone preview, I've never worked on webtoons so quickly and efficiently.
It's become my favourite software.