Clip Studio Paint custom brush set tour/demos The brush set is free for patrons on Patreon, and $1/P

Clip Studio Paint custom brush set tour/demos

The brush set is free for patrons on Patreon, and $1/PWYW on Gumroad. I made most of these to create very specific effects or marks in my own work, so quite a number of these are going to feel very niche in their use.

I used GifCam to create the gifs in this post, but it seems to have interpreted the canvas as gray and has cursor ghosting(?), so apologies for that.

General brush notes:

brushes were made to work with a 350dpi canvas, and all the GIFs here were recorded at “print size” (47.6% zoom on my Cintiq 13hd screen)
“Painting” brushes are for Color Layers, “Ink” brushes were made to be used with Monochrome Layers (nothing’s stopping you from using these in other ways, though)
I have a light hand, and the pressure curve of an old Cintiq 13hd may not translate well to other tablets. If you find that the pressure sensitive areas of the brushes aren’t working to your liking, feel free to adjust their pressure settings in the Sub Tool Detail palette. Most of the time, the ones of note will be:

For brush size:

For paint flow:

Painting

General,Round Soft, and Soft Opaque are standard painting brushes. General lays down new paint opaquely, but has a bit of blending when you layer paint on top of existing ones. I reach for this brush the most when I’m in the early stages (head doodle below was made purely with General). Soft Opaque has no blending. Round Soft has the most blending among the three. Pencil or pen is meant for rough linework for either color or monochrome layers.

Light Buildup was made for glazes. It can also build up to solid opacity depending on pressure and repeated strokes.

Smeary AbstractionandTextured Edge are abstraction brushes, though the latter can be used in normal painting for added textured strokes.

Just Blending is your garden variety blending brush, but its blend values are fixed, soft, and has minimum characteristics. Just for those rare moments when I really need spot areas to be soft. (A better textured blending brush already comes in CSP, the Wet Bleed Blender’s pretty great and responds to pen pressure)

Ink

Rough Liner,Drying Up,Rough and Thin,Liner on Rough Paper,Dry Brush - Disjointed, and Dry Brush - Loaded are different flavors of inking brushes. Among these, I use Rough Liner the most, followed by Disjointed if I want to play with something more messy, then Loaded if I want something defined but a bit more interesting than Rough Liner.

Loaded has both rough and dry-brush like characteristics to its strokes. It can also be used as a general texture brush and can be blown up to a large size.

Distress,Large,Medium, and Small are all dry brush texture brushes with blunt starts/ends. The names of the last 3 may be a bit misleading, so just to clarify all three of these brushes have unique brush tips. They were just made to be used at different scales, but can be safely blown up to larger brushes if needed (to a point).

SpongeandMessy Hatch (+ its 2 variants) are general texture brushes.

Shading Fine,Shading Thick, and Shading Tapered are meant to make hatch shading easier. The brushes follow direction, so running the brush one way will lay down the texture, then turning the brush into an eraser and running the brush the opposite way will thin down the shading.

Use these in conjunction with deformation tools and then erase + refine the results. Practical example (not a GIF):

At one point, I needed something very specific, and Spot Abstraction was born. It’s for creating some background abstract elements that look a bit more organic.

Edge Carver,Speckled Carver, and Trail Carver were all made to try and “shape” strokes to look a certain way. Edge Carver’s pretty useless for anything else, and mostly exists to make for interesting textures. Speckled can be used as a texture brush on its own, while Trail Carver is for shaping off ink trails. I’ve been using them to make certain strokes look less abrupt/unnatural.