Start Making Comics with Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint – Free Udemy Courses - FTD

Start Making Comics with Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint – Free Udemy Courses

Learn to Make Comic Strips, Comic Books, Graphic Novels, & Illustrated Books: Essential Training From Zero to Superhero

What you’ll learn

Start Making Comics with Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint – Free Udemy Courses

Sketch and ink directly in Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint.
Set up comic book pages and storylines.
Import your artwork into the software and modify it digitally.
Add color to artwork, including effects and gradients.
Start painting digitally.
Use an enormous library of materials, patterns, and 3D models in your art.
Add lettering, captions, speech balloons, thought balloons, and other text effects.
Letter with any font in your comic (I’ll also show you how to install thousands of free fonts).
Print your finished comic.
Turn your finished comic into a PDF or CBZ file. This file can be opened by comic apps on your iPad or another tablet, phone, or desktop.
Use my favorite keyboard shortcuts and auto-actions to work up to 50% faster.
Use filters and tonal corrections to add special effects to your art.
Use layers to make art that would be impossible on paper.
Customize your workspace for a fast and efficient workflow.
Use grids and rulers to give your work a professional look.
Modify your art by cropping, resizing, copying, rotating, erasing, transforming, distorting, blurring, and much, much more.
Use layer clipping and layer masks to make difficult art techniques easy.
Use vectors to gain additional control over your art.
Save files that can be opened in Photoshop and retain layers.
Make illustrated books.
Develop a workflow to build a comic or illustrated story from scratch.

Requirements

Manga Studio 5 or Clip Studio Paint software (they are more or less identical).
A PC or Mac that can run the software.
A drawing tablet or other device that will let you draw digitally (a mouse will work but is not recommended).
A basic understanding of drawing is helpful, but not required.

Description

If you want to make

professional comics

, then you want to work digitally.

Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint

is cutting-edge comics software. Better for making comics than Photoshop and other art programs, it gives you infinite possibilities for telling your story. It has tons of tools designed

just for comics

, and it is the program of choice among professional comic artists.

Any type of story can be told with comics: Fantasy, superhero, mystery, science fiction, historical, western, nonfiction, romance, autobiographical, hard-boiled detective —

there is no limit to your imagination

. New artists and storytelling techniques are being discovered

every day

. As the web becomes more visual, graphic storytelling is more important than ever.

You can be part of this revolution.

Today there are more ways to release comics than ever before. You can work for a major publisher (like DC, Marvel, and Image), use a small press to print comics, put comics on a web page, release comics in digital formats like PDF and CBZ files, self-publish for Kindle, and much more. This course will give you the tools to start doing all these things.

In over six hours of

detailed lessons

, I will give you a complete tour of

Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint

, show you how to set up your story, use every tool and effect, add colors and letters, and create an awesome product you can share with the world.

There’s no reason to wait. You can start making comics TODAY

. Sign up now to begin your career in comics.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to start making comics.
Artists who want to start working digitally with Manga Studio 5 / Clip Studio Paint.
Is anyone interested in learning the essentials of digital coloring?
Artists who want to make a PDF or CBZ file of their comic or art portfolio. This file can be used on an iPad, tablet, computer, phone, and elsewhere.
Anyone who wants to start lettering digitally with fonts or hand-lettering.
This course is NOT limited to “manga” artists – you can use ANY art style in the program!