How to Make a Comic! (with Clip Studio Paint!)
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Tutorial time! Let's talk about how to make comics, step-by-step!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:30 Script
3:02 Thumbnails
4:17 Formatting
6:37 Lettering
8:14 3D Models
10:02 Sketching
10:40 Inking + Panels
12:23 Flats + Fill Bucket
17:34 Rendering
18:22 The Final Render
20:14 Exporting
21:04 Closing 
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(Wanted to say, thank you to whoever gifted me a channel membership! You are very generous, and it was a lovely surprise. Take care!) Congratulations on the sponsorship!! I appreciate this video a lot, as I have only ever hand-drawn my comic ideas. Getting into animation, but didn't know where I would start making a digital comic, or what was a route for it. I write scenes and have a lot of notes, but it's very helpful to have an engaging step-by-step guide.
Oh, wow. Me too. Sweet. Star's got a *big* secret fan, it seems. Thanks a bunch, whoever you are!
I love how rough your thumbnails are! I've seen some thumbnails that are way too polished. You're right that if you get too precious with them you won't wanna change them.
it's so freeing to draw rough and ugly like. because at that point ur not worried about looks. ur just trying to get the basic idea down and it feels good ^_^
I clicked this video because your avatar looked kinda like the style of this one Webtoon I follow religiously called Castoff and I was intrigued. The intro process panel off to the right was looking suspiciously familiar... and my brain screeched to a halt and imploded at :45. Well gosh darn it, what a small Internet! Love your video, thank you so much for this! ♥
You are one of the most useful "comic basics" sources on RUclips. A lot of channels just cover story, convengions, etc, without ever going into the actual technical details.
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Here's how I do flats to save me a bunch of time!!
1) Use the wand tool to select the area OUTSIDE of your drawing
2) Inverse selection (now the selected area is your entire drawing)
3) Fill in the selection with one color*
4) Clip a new layer to the base color and add flats as necessary
(*If you'd rather go right in with the flats, that's fine! I prefer using a base color to be an underpainting OR to make sure there are no gaps.)
Personally I do still prefer coloring without the fill tool as my style is very intricate, but the inverse-selection method has saved me SO much time. If anyone else prefers not to use the fill tool, please try this out!!!
Congrats on the sponsorship and thank you so much for the paint bucket tip! It's going to be a lifesaver to my future digital art!
Honestly this is off topic but I wanna say this.
I have shit mental health and a shit focusing thing (AKA I’m unable to just focus on one thing, I can always feel my skin the sound everything) but when I watch certain things it’s like my issues almost fully disappear. I’ve only done this a few times but most times when it happens I’m watching Star.
SO FUCKING THANK YOU STAR!!!!
Omg im literally planning a comic rn and was watching your videos on 10 things not/do in your webcomic!!
This is so useful!!!
Its really good!! I never would've guessed the whole doing your dialogue first!
i get excited every time i see an artist shut down the tracing myth
Thank you again Star for another great video. Also Star is right, tracing is not cheating. It helps as an aid to get the feel for drawing and planning a scene or pose. Even famous artist used visual aid devices to help them draw such as the camera lucida.
Do I use Clip Studio? Haha! No. Do I have a drawing tablet? If an iPad counts as one. Am I going to watch this video the whole way through? Heck yeah I am! Am I going to listen to everything and try to remember it? First part yes, second part no..! Is seeing Star’s process gonna be fun? YESSSS!!!
(Also the tips will be kinda useful for some things that aren’t Clip Studio only [AKA you can do them not on Clip Studio] so I’ll try and remember those)
Can't Wait for chapter 12 also I love this video its so good! Also I have taken so many notes form this! Thank You Star!
Edit: Also castoff made me want to create my own comic so with all these tips Im gonna make a fantasy comic like yours!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! IVE REWATCHED ALL YOUR COMIC VIDEOS LIKE A BAJILLION TIMES AND THIS IS SO HELPFUL 😭😭
This was so helpful as like a crash course of digital painting. Thank you so much!!!
And thank you Clip Studio for being Star's first sponsor!
Wow.. just. Wow. You are a cure to production art and honestly have become my hero as I was called crazy for trying to make bucket fill work. I was a heretic. They threw crumpled up paperwork at me.
A thousand thank yous for the unmeasurable amount of time all these tips shave off. I literally said "she should write a book," right when you mentioned it. Lol. I have a lot of tech stuff to learn but all these things are better than the 4 years I spent in UA. I will be bendging all of your tips and tricks as well as buying your book. Tysm. I am so grateful.
I only found your channel a few days ago. As someone who hopes to actually have a web comic some day I've found this and every video of yours on the topic to be invaluable
Thanks for making this video! It's cool to see how other people make comics. I work mostly in Photoshop (been thinking of switching over, but I'm just too accustomed to PS at this point RIP) so while a lot of the CSP-specific tips aren't necessarily applicable to my own workflow, it did give me some ideas of things I could try and adapt myself. Having text presets for dialogue and such is such a good idea and I wish I'd tried that out sooner!
I agree! This will help me and my friends improve in our comic making and inspire us to keep pushing towards our stories! I really want to see what tips I can use and share with others! Thanks for making this video, Star ⭐✨!
I want to personally thank you for making these awes-mazing videos for making webcomics and for making such a handy guidebook for beginners and intermediate creator alike.
I've been using your book to help me make the latest chapter of my comic I've been doing for 3 year and it has made the process SO MUCH LESS time-consuming and fun.
Hopefully, this chapter will be done before the end of the year- and I cant wait to share it with everyone!
I'd like to add! I used to use the Sims to make environments/houses! I know a lot of people have the free dl of The Sims 4, and it's super useful for making refs! Of course, you can't get the environments exact unless you're basing your in-comic places on the game's pre-made assets. But it's great for setting up spaces and perspectives!
Thank you so much for this!
I draw digitally with different software so CSP dosen't always translate into Krita, but this is still helpful as I've drawn traditionally for a long time.
Hot tip: if anyone here does traditional, use cheap paper for thumbnails, and save old clothing tags - you can trace them and use them to create unique panels. Also, if you color with watercolors, pick the color of your lighting before the rest of the colors and put a thin layer of it on first - it will tie in all the other colors you plan to use. And if you're using fountain pens - WAIT FOR THE INK TO DRY BEFORE PAINTING!
those remove dust and line tricks I genuinely didn't know! ty
a tip for 14:30, if you use vector layer you can use the inks normally as normal brushes but you can click fill to vector line. that way you can even fill clean super super thin lines, and even lines witih different brushes with rough or semi transparency like pencil
I will never forget when you drew the pointing down pose for your character and specifically stated that its use will only be when u talk about the links in the description, I don’t know why but I find it funny you made a pose for this specifically lol. I love your videos! :D
This is absolutely very , very honestly helpful I'm not going to lie I actually put my comic on hiatus to refresh and take my time to make a bunch of pages since I was set back due to a change of style and schedule- this and many of your videos since I've found you have been amazingly helpful and you're the go to artist for comics that I take all the notes and work with them and they feel do-able unlike many others who give tutorials they often fall into modern romance with no backgrounds and your fantasy environments and characters design and art style is very unique and I know I'm gushing alot here but your words are something that I wish I had learned when I first got my iPad years ago, I may use procreate and my iPad but honestly all your tips work splendedly with any program aside from the custom brushes, but I'm one of the few who loves testing many brushes from painterly to stamps for short cuts , I recall seeing your video about using tools to save time and was relieved it wasn't seen as a bad thing becuase so many times I was told everything had to be from scratch and the hard way , I am so happy to support your comics and videos and hope that your Channel and comics get all the love it deserves 😊
Definitely saving this to my playlist for learning art stuff
Crazy, I really needed to learn this
SOMETHING YOU DID THAT JUST STRAIGHT UP AMAZED ME BUT YOU DIDN'T SAY IN THE VIDEO
The layer properties window! Like I honest to god got rid of it from my layout for CSP but seeing how you can add borders to your layers for things like sound effects is something SUPER COOL to someone new to the program like me ;v; I learned SO SO SO much from this video, not just about comic writing and creation but just basic CSP stuff to!!! I feel so inspired now and like a kid in a candy shop looking at all the tools I overlooked or never saw before!
I've been think of making a comic, this will br so helpful!!!
I love the idea of using 3D model backgrounds as a reference! I'm gonna have to focus on writing for a while and chill out on trying to jump straight into the drawing process 😅
The new page is so pretty!! And also leaves me with quite a few questions 😅 so I'm really excited now!
Currently learning how to use CSP for my own comic and this is so helpful! Thank you for this info 🙏
I didn’t realize I had a membership! Thank you lovely person who did! ❤ very helpful video!
Your videos have been a major help in my journey to make my first comic and this one is no different! Thank you so much for all the help and inspiration, you're awesome!! ❤
OMG TY STAR I've always been coming back to your how to paint video on csp and now ever since I started my webcomic I've been wanting a tutorial from YOU AND HERE IT IS TYYYYY
Yo also like, thank you so much that you mentioned the lettering section! it's such a great show of if a creator really cares about their work when you see the quality of their lettering and it's great to see your process!!
This really makes me want to start my comic again. It seems so much simpler here than all the extra steps I was putting in. Thanks for sharing the process.
OMG! Thank you, thank you, THANK you! I really needed that tip for the fill tool because I'm just getting into digital art and I was so confused why it wasn't working right! ❤
Thanks for sharing your process; it was very interesting to see how the story is made. I never been great at coloring; it's always stumped me because I don't know how to lay down colors or where to put them....especially when it comes to coloring a scene.
You…. You have no idea how much this helps me😭
This helped me out a lot trying to figure out how to even start a comic. awesome vid!
Why does this come out the day I had to hand in my comic for school? This would have been really helpful!
Thank you for the tutorial star! :)
So happy you get to keep doing what you love!
AKKKK YOUR VIDS ALWAYS MOTIVATE ME SM TO WORK ON MY PAGES!!!!THANK YOUUU
Thank you for this! I was planning on doing a comic for a final project in school, and this helps me IMMENSELY!
honestly, knowing that I'm ALLOWED to use my own models to help with backgrounds takes a HUGE weight off my shoulders, thank you for that! i had a kinda specific question about drawing the characters themselves if that's alright: do you use pose references for your characters when drawing comic pages? one of the big reasons doing stuff like comics seems so daunting to me is because I'm really reliant on references when drawing humans, and finding specific poses for what i need can be really hard sometimes. doing the poses myself seems to be the most effective method I've used so far but i was wondering if there was anything that you do for castoff to get poses or if drawing repetitive and/or simple poses without reference just comes with practice. i love the way you teach! thank you!
You saved me a tremendous amount of time! Thank you so much!
I love watching your videos. Groovin' on the tip about remove dust, that will save me so much time. I also do a lot of work in Blender. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos.
I've been drawing comics for a while, and I got several super helpful time-saving tips from this! Thanks!🙏
Amazing video and I love your book! (got it this summer!) _Thanks_ _Star!!_
This was really helpful! I'm currently in the planning stage of the comic I'm making, I'll definitely come back to this video to help me in the future :)
This was very helpful, thank you!
Thank you for this video!!!
I love your comic, art style and videos!!!
This was super helpful! I’m working on some comic pages with the dream of one finishing a whole story. I’m mostly doing it so I can get better at drawing digitally, but regardless this will help me in the future! Thank you so much for explaining your process.
Thank you for the tutorial. I'm making a comic of my own but I add an extra step of drawing it on paper so I have a ruff idea of what I want when I put it into digital works. Again thank you for the tutorial I'm excited to make more of my comic with your helpful tips.
Thank you for this, Im in the process of planning my own comic (still in the outlining stage) and I've been setting up some resources for myself in CSP for when I actually get to the drawing, but there were a lot of tips in here I hadnt thought or known about yet
It will be 2am when this releases but I WILL be watching
wait your tips for flatcolouring are so good 😭ive never heard about removing dust before
I usually draw in ms paint, on windows 10, but seeing the process you go through to layout a panel even in a different program helps a lot!
Thank You so much for this Educational Video! I’ve been wanting to start work on my own Webcomic Series, but I haven’t known how to start. This gives me a good, clear Idea on what to do! Especially since I’m also using Clip Studio. I still have a long way to go though. I’ve only recently gotten into Digital Art from Traditional. But I’m excited too learn how to Improve! Again Thank You so much for this! And I hope you have a Fantastic day! 💛😻💛😻💛😻💛
Hey star just wanted to say thanks for the videos and plus you are one of the people that in a way got me to convince myself to do comics on you tube and I still a novice when it comes to video editing and comic making but still I'm having fun doing it so again that for being one of the inspirations for me stating my own RUclips channel, and my carrier choice in life thanks.
Very cool! Thanks for showing us your process :)
I loved the palettes that you make in advance with the tiny characters half lit and half shade ^^. Also it’s cool how you make your colors evolve between pages and chapters! I recommend to everyone to go into the pages archive of Castoff and WITNESS THE RAINBOOOOW… of awesomeness 🌈
Could you do a breakdown on how you create your props in blender? I've tried many tutorials and all of them just seem so daunting I get confused so fast about how to do even the simplest of things.
I loved every second of this video! So informative and frankly downright inspiring. Using blender 3d models is genius! I'm definitely going to add that to my work flow
You're literally my art teacher dude. Thank you so much!!! 🤙
Great video! I'll definitely keep a lot of this in mind for my own comics!
Yay! Going to watch this a soon as possible
That was a great tutorial, thanks for sharing. I find organising my thoughts to be the biggest challenge, so your method was great to learn from
Thanks for making this!!
I wanted to try my hand at doing a comic and it all seemed really vague at first. I like the idea of making thumbnails for multiple pages at once a lot
You’re a great inspiration to this old black hole, Star
I'm waiting to get a drawing tablet so eventually I can begin on my first webcomic! I enjoyed watching your process, even though I'm too broke for CSP, I'm sure a lot of this can translate to GIMP or Krita lol
Edit: ive started using medibang too
i only recently got clip studio paint so this came out at a perfect time for me
thank you star :D
This is extremely helpful! It's amazingly helpful to see someone else's flow of work.
I'm still a baby to making comics so I don't really have a work flow!
thank you for showing the close gap option for the bucket tool. it was a big issue for me lol
I think I’m addicted to castoff. Read the whole thing start to finish in one day.
I’m currently working on a webcomic that I hope will be out by either next year or 2025, depending on my schedule called The Chimera Galaxy. I already have trailer comics up with one more to go and then I’ll be ready to work on the official comic
YES!!!!!!! THANK YOU FINALLY A LESSON FROM THE GREAT MASTER HIMSELF!!!
You'r videos always inspire me to keep working on my Comic/Manga ideas. I just need to finally figure out how to start scripting, like I have general ideas for the plot but I never really know how to begin with that. You don't have to do this BUT! If you feel like a small tutorial going a bit more in depth on scripting could be a good idea it would help a lot!
Your art is really inspiring and I began to read castoff a while ago. I have to continue reading it, but class has me so busy right now,,
for making backgrounds, using photographs of ur own or free to use ones, are a great way for making manga. u will have to edit them a bit to fit the style and simplify it, but it works really well. i've noticed many mangakas that use this. notably sui ishida. if there is a hyper realistic background in a manga, chances are they used a real photo for it :D!
Thanks a lot. This is very informative. And you can tell your sponsor they got themselves a new user :)
I've been considering trying to do some comics for a bit now but brain hasn't quite been cooperating, but thank you for making all these videos giving advise and such that will be useful once I win against my brain
I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE FILL DUST TOOL!? I am a major fan of the fill bucket, but i usually just fill in the specs manually, and i tend to miss quite a few!! this is a GAMECHANGER OML
I just got my clip studio paint and am about to start my first comic with it.
I want to say thank you. THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH!!! I didn't know about the "to darkest pixel" option. I suppose I didn't explore all the options enough 😅 thank you so much for that tidbit, my art should go so much smoother now!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love this video a lot and come back to it every once in a while, while working on my fancomic. The thumbnails helped me a ton and the other advice helped me streamline my process a lot. May I ask how you made the dialog bubble? The way you make your bubbles just looks much nicer than what the standard tools offer.
The comic im planning is called The Wishing Pond! Thank you for all the videos!! They have been extremely handy!!
Congrats on the sponsor! You really deserve it
As usual it's well explained and love the "cheating" part "chu chuu". It break some cliché and thanks to show your process.
Ahh ty for giving me 3rd! And congrats to the winners and everyone else😊
Remember, if someone tries to tell you "tracing is cheating", gently remind them that the most famous cartoon Disney movies were rotoscoped, which quite literally means they traced human movements (via actors) frame-by-frame in order to get the animation so smooth and realistic. This was BEFORE modern animation software, btw.
The only time tracing is actually bad is if you are stealing another artist's work and claiming it as your own (especially bad if you try to sell it). Using free assets to trace over is like using royalty-free music for a video; you're not stealing because this was made for you to use. It's not cheating either, because you're not trying to get ahead--comics are made to tell a visual story, not to show off how good you are at drawing a background. In fact, my favorite manga of all time used presets as far back as the late 90s, and other times there were no backgrounds at all (other than a sparkle or gradient sheet). You do not need perfect, handmade backgrounds to tell a good story. That's why novels exist in the first place lol.
Thank you so much for strongly urging this point. The (general) art community has been in shambles for several years now, and it's sad to see people clowning on assets because it's "lazy", though many great artists I follow use assets. Tools aren't made for us to be lazier; they're just something that help us get the job done faster. If you're building an actual house, the last thing you wanna do is build the entire thing without tools.
Thank you I had a idea for a comic but I was sure how to start =D
i was always wondering what that green thing was in your speedpaints omg i didn't know that tool existed ;w; love your videos sm
Thank you so so much for making this tutorial, and congratulations on your first sponsored video!! 🥳🥳 Also, I love the character sprites! They’re very lively and expressive
Yesss I can't wait, I am STRUGGLING with this part!
I don't normally give likes or dislikes, but this was so helpful, I just had to like
Thanks for the video Star, your tutorials are always SUPER helpful!
All ya’ll in the comments should totally check out her book if you want to give making comics a try!
I would love to see a part 2!!
this is so much help!!!
did not know about the scaling settings or the utility of the dust tool. Those are very helpful to learn about.
also, I would think a timer next to the timelapse parts could be interesting for these 0-100% page making videos, as the truth of how much time it takes to work on things really smacks me in the face (3 hours on lineart for an entire page sounds like a dream)
I. Need. To make... a comic.... RIGHT NOOOWWW!!! THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS WONDERFUL TUTORIAL, STAR! 💖💫✨️