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Above: Helpful tutorials for transitioning from Photoshop to Clip Studio Paint.
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CSP - a Caveat: Progressing farther with tools and methods as I make the transition from Photoshop to Clip Studio Paint. Yesterday I tested the symmetry ruler, drawing perfectly symmetrical faces and such. CSP makes it easy to do a lot of things that ordinarily take practice in order to do them skillfully. But you can do them skillfully without skill by simply adjusting settings or selecting a particular tool. This is great for production, but it represents a real threat to training the eye and hand. Beautiful lines and symmetrical shapes come in a can when you use this program. But is that a good thing? In some ways, it's not.

In order to prevent my skills from degrading I turned off stabilization for all of my drawing tools. This way, when I make a line that I like, I know that I made it, not the program. I also know that I can make that same line on paper or in other programs, that my ability is not linked to or dependent on digital wizardry. Stabilization has it's place, for some, when finishing. But no one should use it for everything all the time when drawing skill is important and desired.

Watching live drawing demos of Japanese Manga artists, I'm horrified to see a page developed from sketch to finish as if it were done for a class in mechanical drawing. There is no drawing, no native ability for free hand drawing, just mechanical "pushbutton" marking of the canvas as one might do using Adobe Illustrator. I suppose that's instructive, in a way, as it shows the versatility of Clip Studio Paint.

CSP with Cintiq: CSP is supported by Wacom, or is it the other way around? In any event, it's completely compatible with the Cintiq hardware and driver. Haven't had any issues, except the general ones that apply to the system, as with unreliable touch functions. Overall, it seems that CSP works better on the tablet than does PS. There are likely numerous reasons for that, including that CSP is far lighter than PS.

Painting: After catching up on CSP to where I was with PS, I find myself pressing on to new things, such as painting with methods and tools that mimic natural media. I found it daunting at first, but stuck with it. And I'm glad, now, that I did. It's opened me to approaching hard and soft edges by various ways, instead of just one, so I'm able to participate in and experience a broader range of traditional painting.

I've also gotten deeper into a kind of comic book coloring that is painted over the linework. This is the kind of "coloring" I like to do. It's basically painting, which is what I like about it, though it's simple.

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