Create a Comic Book Using Existing Art in Clip Studio Paint
1h 46mBeginner2021-09-07
Authors

Mark Simon
Story Artist, Producer, Director
Course details
If you’ve ever thought of creating a comic book, one of the fastest ways to do it is to take your existing artwork and turn it into a comic using Clip Studio Paint. Clip Studio is an extremely versatile program that lets you import your art, regardless of whether you created it digitally in Photoshop, or if you drew it by hand with pen and paper. In this course, artist Mark Simon takes you through all the steps you need to know to take your existing art and quickly create your own comic book and export it for digital delivery and print. He shows you features like working with word balloons, page setups, crop marks, and borders. Mark also covers techniques for enhancing your art, combining pages into splash pages for more impactful stories, and refining your art with colors and gradients. Finally, he shows how to prep your comic for printing. Whatever type of art you have, this course shows you how to turn it into a comic book using Clip Studio
Skills covered
Clip Studio PaintCelsysComic Book IllustrationAnimation and IllustrationOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Creating comic books in Clip Studio Paint
- 02 - How Clip Studio helps artists design comic books
- 03 - Why use existing art to create a comic book
- 04 - Sample files
1. Set Up Your Comic Book
- 05 - Rough layouts of each comic page
- 06 - Determine the page count of your comic
- 07 - Select the color mode
- 08 - Borders, crop lines, and bleeds
- 09 - What dimensions should you make your comic
- 10 - Create a comic book file and template in Clip Studio
- 11 - Edit the page count of your comic
2. Import Art
- 12 - Import thumbnail layouts
- 13 - Create an empty comic frame
- 14 - Divide a comic frame
- 15 - Edit the size and shape of a frame
- 16 - Edit frame border thickness
- 17 - Import art into a frame
- 18 - Import art behind a frame
- 19 - Organize your frames
3. New Art and Enhancing Your Art
- 20 - Draw new art
- 21 - Enhance existing art
- 22 - Overlap art outside of frame
- 23 - Combine pages to create a double splash page
- 24 - Split double splash page into individual pages
- 25 - Clean up scanned images
- 26 - Add color
- 27 - Add gradients
- 28 - Add tone, half tone, dot pattern
- 29 - Edit tone
4. Text and Word Balloons
- 30 - Add lettering
- 31 - Create word balloons
- 32 - Add word balloon tails
5. Print
- 33 - Publish your comic to PDF
- 34 - Publish your comic to EPUB
- 35 - Send your comic to a printer
Conclusion
- 36 - What's next