Clip Studio Paint is a graphics software/app for artists, designed for drawing & painting. With this software, artists are free to create various styles of art such as illustrations, comics, manga, webtoons, concept art, design, and animation. It is loved by hobbyists and professionals around the world for its natural drawing feel, highly customizable UI, and huge range of features including unique specialized tools for comics and animation.
Designed for drawing and painting
Clip Studio Paint for creators who love to draw and paint. With a natural brush feel beyond other graphics software, you can enjoy creating your vision just how you want it. Download the free trial for a step into a reimagined drawing experience.
Capture every detail
You can create every stroke exactly as you imagine with Clip Studio powerful brush engine. Clip Studio Paint works with your device to reflect every nuance of your pen, even up to the 8192 levels of pen pressure detected by Wacom tablets.
Thousands of customizable brushes
With 1000 new materials every month on Clip Studio ASSETS, you’ll always find something to match your personal style. You can also customize every aspect of your brushes, giving you a limitless supply of tools.
Clip Studio Paint is optimized for drawing and painting, making it ideal for illustrators. The painting brushes are highly customizable and easy to use. There’s a thriving community of users who constantly contribute to the online materials library. Clip Studio Paint is also ideal for illustrators who specialize in linework. The smoothness of lines, lack of lag while drawing, as well as the vector output make drawing very fun and efficient. Clip Studio Paint is a versatile digital painting program that is ideal for rendering and inking with its many useful and unique features. It is easy to learn and has many tools and custom brushes that allow you to paint and render any type of illustrations you want. It even include 3D models of characters, items and backgrounds that you could pose and angle to further help as a visual reference, super neat function! Its competitive price point also makes it more affordable and accessible to everyone.
FEATURES
Art and Styles
From realistic watercolor and thick oil painting to comic-style coloring and more, you can find your perfect tools with our range of free and customizable brushes. Explore with different brush tips, textures, and even watercolor stains.
Vector lines with a natural feel
Unlike typical layers, vector layers let you resize and edit lines without a hitch, essential for your graphic design and professional work. Experience the flexibility of vectors combined with the natural drawing feel of Clip Studio Paint.
Perspective and patterns made easy
Symmetry and perspective are easier with our advanced rulers, perfect for intricate patterns or complex backgrounds. All the technical tools you need, with a drawing comfort you’ll love.
Support you can trust
Anyone with Clip Studio Paint can receive its free high-quality technical support, this includes trial versions! Clip Studio support team is very well known by users for their high quality of service.
Trusted by the World’s Leading Brands
As well as being bundled with the world’s bestselling pen tablets from Wacom, Clip Studio Paint comes pre-loaded on the latest Galaxy Android tablets, the Tab S7 and Tab S7+, available worldwide, making it the first choice for getting started with digital art.
Single payment for Windows & macOS
Clip Studio Paint for Windows & macOS is available for a one‑time payment. You’ll also get access to regular free updates, customer support, tutorials, a community forum, and more.
Convert images and 3D models to line art
Add details even more easily by converting images and 3D materials to line art, then adding lines and color. With plenty of materials available on Clip Studio ASSETS, you’ll never run out of inspiration.
Half tone patterns in an instant
Essential for comics or pop‑art design, you can instantly convert any image to a dot matrix pattern and add your unique flair. Create shaded screen tones for printed black-and-white comics, or use in a classic Ben-Day dots style.
All your pages together
With Clip Studio Paint EX, you can use the Page Manager to create your entire comic, manga, or artbook. When you’re done, check the 3D print preview or publish instantly with Clip Studio SHARE, our online reader for multi-page works.
Innovation through AI technology
Inspiration is never far with AI colorization based on deep learning technology! Use with just your line art or lay down color hints for surprising results.
Bursting with features
There are many tools packed in this customizable interface, and they help in drawing virtually anything, from Illustrations, Concept art, Comics, and manga. You can adjust many settings that are optimized for various situations, and you can learn something new every time you use them.
No more worries over structure and design with 3D models
You can import fully customizable 3D figures and use them for drafts. Draw any pose and angle with ease!
Easy to use fill tools make coloring a breeze
The fill tool can detect small gaps between lines and spot missed areas in coloring to help you color many areas at once and speed up your overall work. Explore unlimited ways to find the perfect color, whether picking from other screens or using advanced color palettes.
Packed with features for comics and manga
With features such as panel splitting, speech bubbles and effect lines, making high-quality comics has never been so efficient. Fifteen years from the launch of predecessor Manga Studio, we continue to develop Clip Studio Paint while taking on advice from industry professionals along the way.
Animation features plus drawing comfort
You can add timelines and create animations with our natural, high-quality drawing tools. You can even add camera movement, music, and sound effects to make your video, all in one software.
Work more comfortably with a pen tablet
The Clip Studio Tabmate allows you to perform frequently used operations with a single touch, all without having to let go of your pen, allowing you a more comfortable drawing experience.