Clip Studio Paint (Manga Studio 5) Resources

A Collection of brushes, tutorials, guides, templates, and tips for digital artists using Manga Studio (Clip Studio Paint)

Clip Studio Paint (Manga Studio 5) Resources

A collection of the best Manga Studio Custom Brushes

Custom Manga Studio (Clip Studio Paint) Brushes

100+ Manga Studio 5 Custom Brushes for $2.99

Created by me, Brian Allen.

Included in the pack are

  • 14 Inking Brushes
  • 18 Paint Brushes
  • 12 Pencil Brushes
  • 5 Shading Brushes
  • 16 Splatter Brushes
  • 20+ Special Pattern Brushes
  • 22 Texture BrushesThe brushes are useful for all styles of illustration. As a freelance digital illustrator, I use them primarily for Comic Book illustration, t-shirt design, logo design, character and concept illustration, sketching, and painting.

DAUB Brushes – Natural Media Brush Sets

Extensive as they are beautiful, these brush sets mimic the unique look of traditional materials such as Watercolor and Ink. Ideal for digital artists looking to kick their art up a notch!

Zombie Yeti’s FREE Manga Studio 5 Brushes

You read that right- FREE! This guy is a huge inspiration – and he’s also very generous. Go check out his site and pick up his free brushes.
The elusive Yeti says:

“Soooo, recently I’ve been working on creating some custom Manga Studio 5 brushes to horde in my secret arsenal of black magic and circus peanuts. The results have been promising and I’ve been using the new tools in some recent work hopefully with some success.

…Know that I love you crazy kids because I’m giving you my favorite as well as my default go-to settings brush for the reasonable cost of FREE!”

Roy Frenden – Manga Studio 5 Custom Brushes

An amazing collection of 200+ groundbreaking brushes from an industry master, Roy Frenden. A word from Frenden himself:

“I’ve been using Manga Studio for comic style work since the app was localized and brought to American audiences by SmithMicro in 2006. I’ve always pushed the boundaries of what was primarily an inking app, creating brushes that took the limitations of Manga Studio’s brush engine and smacking them against the wall. I like to make art apps bleed and Manga Studio has been my target of choice.

I’ve taken lessons learned from creating brushes in Painter, Manga Studio, Photoshop, and SAI and applied them to this set for Manga Studio 5 and Clip Paint. These newest brushes reflect seven years of obsessive, masochistic iteration on making the best drawing tools possible.”

A collection of the best Manga Studio Custom Tools and Templates

Custom Manga Studio (Clip Studio Paint) Tools and Templates

Doug Hills – Rulers and Templates

Doug Hills, writer of Manga Studio for Dummies, is renowned for his amazing collections of Manga Studio 5 Rulers and Templates – things such as comic page templates that are waiting to save you time and energy!

Additonally, he also offers a comprehensive guide series and even ONE-ON-ONE PRIVATE LESSONS. What more could you want?

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Here are some other great sites that offer help with Manga Studio

Custom Manga Studio (Clip Studio Paint) Guides and Walk-Throughs

Manga Studio Sensei – Beginner’s Resources

Manga Studio Sensei is a great resource for folks just dipping there feet into the intimidating world of digital art and Manga Studio 5.

Sensei says:

“I want to be able to catalog all the best resources for an aspiring digital artist. Google often fails in finding the right resources for a budding digital artist, especially those looking for how to draw in the style of anime. Luckily, the resources do exist! They’re often buried deep within deviantArt or other large sites, but I hope to unearth everything you need to get over your drawing slumps!”

Clip Studio Paint (Manga Studio 5) FAQ

I put together a large comprehensive guide of questions and answers about common issues, problems, and solutions in Manga Studio and Clip Studio Paint.  I’m fortunate enough to have a lot of other artists contacting me for information, which is very flattering.  However, I can’t always respond quickly enough.  I also noticed that I would get the same questions many times.  I hope this guide is helpful and clears up some common questions about the software.

A collection of the best Manga Studio Tutorials

Clip Studio Paint (Manga Studio 5) Tutorials

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JukYbDPG36o%3Ffeature%3Doembed%26autoplay%3D0%26loop%3D0%26controls%3D1%26mute%3D0%26wmode%3Dopaque%26rel%3D0

Jonathan Rector – Perspective Rulers in Manga Studio 5 Tutorial

Jonathan Rector, a fantastic comic artist, goes over the ins-and-outs of MS5’s powerful perspective tools.

He also has quite a comprehensive collection of other video tutorials on various topics, spanning comic art techniques to Photoshop.

Check them out!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0MRZ4ytSkIQ%3Ffeature%3Doembed%26autoplay%3D0%26loop%3D0%26controls%3D1%26mute%3D0%26wmode%3Dopaque%26rel%3D0

Clip Studio Paint (Manga Studio 5) – Better than Photoshop

My in-depth review of Manga Studio 5 showcasing the features that are better than Adobe Photoshop for digital drawing and painting. I outline some of Manga Studio’s exclusive features that make the program so powerful and enjoyable, from the point-of-view of a freelance illustrator.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nbLuHItstyU%3Ffeature%3Doembed%26autoplay%3D0%26loop%3D0%26controls%3D1%26mute%3D0%26wmode%3Dopaque%26rel%3D0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M41zSF5Rfgw%3Ffeature%3Doembed%26autoplay%3D0%26loop%3D0%26controls%3D1%26mute%3D0%26wmode%3Dopaque%26rel%3D0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XYRFIfqhiXU%3Ffeature%3Doembed%26autoplay%3D0%26loop%3D0%26controls%3D1%26mute%3D0%26wmode%3Dopaque%26rel%3D0

Clip Studio Paint (Manga Studio 5) Coloring Tutorial Trilogy

A comprehensive step-by-step guide from rough sketch to completion in Manga Studio, with me as your guide of course!

In these tutorials I utilize the custom brushes that I created myself, so you can see them in action!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2daXNO_Vps

Manga Studio 5 – Penciling and Inking

Presented by Smith Micro Graphics [the creators of MS5!] Our pal Doug Hills walks us through the powerful pencil and inking features in Manga Studio 5.

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