What instruments you employ and the way you employ them might be a very powerful issue to think about if you’re fascinated with including new {hardware} to your workspace. There are a really dizzying variety of drawing and artwork apps on the market, and no two artists use them in the identical means. So I reached out to some skilled artists to seek out out what software program they use of their day-to-day work.
The founders of the Oh Joy Sex Toy webcomic, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, use Adobe Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint as the inspiration of their digital artwork workflows.
“Particularly once I’m engaged on comics, I want Photoshop’s instruments for taking part in with the textual content, and laying out your entire web page so my artwork will information the reader’s eye in the precise course,” Erika says.
Photoshop’s DNA as a photograph enhancing suite means it is acquired lots of highly effective and granular instruments over time. It is a fantastic possibility for formatting pages, manipulating textual content, and dealing with picture layers— which may be useful when working from reference photographs for environments. It is a powerhouse, however there are some things different apps can do higher.
Moen and Nolan would possibly lay out their pages and textual content in Photoshop, however the closing line artwork all the time goes by way of Clip Studio Paint. “It is a fantastic drafting program that sits properly between Photoshop and Procreate,” Matthew added.
Designed as a software for manga artists, Clip Studio Paint is jam-packed with lots of the identical options you will see in Photoshop, however the best way it handles line work is second to none. It renders each stroke fantastically, and features really feel rather more fluid than they do in every other illustration app. Once I tried it for the primary time a number of years in the past, it felt like dishonest. The drawing engine does simply the correct quantity of motion filtering to maintain your traces easy and fluid, with out making them really feel any much less free and tactile. In the identical means that Photoshop constructed up a deep library of highly effective instruments over time, Clip Studio Paint has executed the identical. There’s much more occurring beneath the hood than you would possibly count on.
Illustrator and Oh Pleasure Intercourse Toy contributor Ripley LaCross has been utilizing Clip Studio Paint because the cornerstone of their digital artwork workflow for the higher a part of eight years. In consequence, Ripley’s information of Clip Studio Paint’s ins and outs is spectacular. It is not all the time probably the most user-friendly app, and there are options in there that do not get sufficient consideration, one in all which is the Library of Alexandria–sized group library of fashions, brushes, and property out there at your fingertips. “The sturdy library with free and paid property is a sport changer,” Ripley says. “Want to attract an ornate chandelier from a really particular angle and might’t discover picture reference? Increase, somebody made a 3D mannequin of 1 and it is two entire bucks.”
