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Realism Painting In Clip Studio Paint

Now this was quite an experience. For those of you that don't know, Clip Studio Paint is Manga Studio 5. I use Clip Studio Paint (which I may refer to as CSP in this post) because I want to support the company directly instead of through Smith & Micro. Painting this portrait of Missy Elliott was a very pleasant and enlightening experience. I haven't done realism in quite some time and this portrait is still unfinished but I have painted it enough to get my point across.

Painting in Clip Studio Paint is one of the best experiences in digital painting that I have had thus far. CSP doesn't lag and for those of you that come to my livestreams, you are aware of how fast I often draw and paint. It's very responsive but most importantly with it's customizable user interface, I have found the tools to be less distracting that Photoshop and easy and hassle free to blend. As you can see on the skin, the blending in CSP is beautiful and lag free which has become extremely important to me. When I would blend in Photoshop in the past, I liked to use a custom smudge tool brush and the lag was so bad my works would often be destroyed, they file would corrupt and all those months of work would be lost. I also tried the low opacity painting/blending method in Photoshop but it took far to long and lost me a lot of clients and business. All because of the time it took me to create.

For this painting I used a mix of watercolour brushes, Blur tools and airbrush tool. I'm thrilled with how it looked. Usually I wouldn't get this far in Photoshop because I would get frustrated with the lag from the brush tracking. CSP has given me the full freedom I have always wanted. I can draw as fast as I like now for as long or as little as I like. And there has been no sacrifice in detail in switching program which is always a great thing.


Missy Wip 2 by MiwaSketch on deviantART

Blending and painting in CSP the way I like is fast and efficient and it takes me an hour as opposed to Photoshop which could take me 9hrs or even months to complete a painting. All because of lag and waiting for it to unfreeze or just simply bad blending. In CSP I am happy if I take a week to paint because I know in Photoshop to achieve the same thing it would take me months. And that frustrates me because I had a power PC and powerful laptop and yet Photoshop still lags despite all the changes. I know people that have custom built PC's to run Autodesk Maya smoothly for 3D game creation and animation and Photoshop lags even for them.

Clip Studio is brilliant for painting hassle free. I can do all I could in PS and all I could in Sai all inside of CSP alone. I haven't touched Photoshop or Paint Tool Sai in months since I got Clip. It's even replaced Sketchbook Pro and OpenCanvas. I never imagined anything could ever replace OpenCanvas. I've gone from using 5 painting programs to just 2. Clip Studio Paint and Artrage studio is all I use now. Sometimes Graphicsgale but that is mostly to make icons and animated pixel art but I do all my concept and designs in CPS.

I also do 3D as a hobby. In the past I would use Paint Tool Sai and Photoshop for my texturing but now I use CSP exclusively for my texturing. It's also my program of choice for post rendering my Zbrush renders. I use to only use Photoshop for post rendering but CSP has all that I use to use in PS so there's no need to use anything else. CSP is definitely the ultimate tool. It tones comics beautifully, it paints and blends smoothly, it doesn't lag and if it does it's usually for a very short time unlike PS. I'm also only using Clip Studio Paint Pro. When I can I plan to upgrade.

I love it. It's my favourite program.
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