These days Adobe has moved to a cloud system, but I’m still rocking my old student version of Creative Suite 5.5 from 2010. It’s the industry standard but I don’t use it as much as many other artists.

If you have this, I also recommend purchasing Frenden’s Brushes for Manga Studio to really rock it out! Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 Compared to Photoshop, it has less bloat in it because it’s a program specifically build for making comics and manga. The intricate brush settings give you plenty of potential art supplies to work with. The software frequently goes on sale and it has a great cloud feature to let you save your shortcuts, textures and brushes over multiple machines installed with Clip Studio Paint. Fig.On this page, I catalog all the software and links that I use or refer to, to do my artwork to the best of my abilities! I update this page when I find new information to share with you, so don’t be afraid to send me new knowledge my way!įor my traditional art tools, check out my Supply List Page! Digital Art Software Clip Studio PaintĬurrently, my go-to choice for digital artwork. With the Panel Layout Tool selected, tap outside the panel to be divided, and draw a line in the direction of the divide to divide it into two. Now let’s divide our drawing into panels according to our sketch. The screen after creating the exterior panel Set up the line thickness of the panel and tap “Done.”įig. The Location of the Panel Layout ToolĪ panel configuration screen will appear. Let’s sketch out our comic and make some panels.įirst off, create a separate layer from our sketch, and select the “Panel Layout Tool” from the Toolbar. We have now created our comic book canvas. Select the “Doujinshi (A5 Size): 350dpi” preset, then select “Done” in the top-right corner. N 8-bit layer allows us to draw in a variety of shades of a single color (i.e. We’re going to make a comic book page with the A5 size, 600 dpi preset.Īt 350 dpi, the starting layer is set as a color layer, while at 600 dpi it’s set as an 8-bit layer. Since we’re making a comic book canvas, tap the “Comic Template” tab. Selecting “New Canvas” will display a screen for configuring the details of your new canvas on the right side of the screen. Tap “New canvas” on the left of the screen and select “New canva” Fig. Now let’s try making a comic book style canvas. Next, we’ll try drawing a comic with MediBang Paint.

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