Tag: Clip Studio Paint

Text and Pencils

Clip Studio Paint on iPad Pro
Drawing in Clip Studio Paint on my iPad Pro.

I’ve been wanting to write one of my Dalesman Wild Yorkshire nature diaries about Bilberry Wood for a while. I’ve taken plenty of photographs of the trees, mosses, ferns and wild flowers and read up about the history of woodland in the Dales but I’ve struggled not to make my regular style of article sound like a botanical survey. Which it is, I guess.

Pencil rough drawn in Clip Studio Paint on my iPad Pro
Pencil rough drawn in Clip Studio Paint on my iPad Pro.

As an experiment, I’m trying a comic format, putting myself into the picture instead to get over a sense of how much fun it is to yomp through a sometimes rather boggy Dales wood, instead of going for the detached all seeing, all knowing narrator that I’d normally aim to pass myself off as in a magazine article.

rough of page
Starting inking and dividing the page into frames.

Dry Leaves

dry leaves
Drawn in Clip Studio Paint on my iPad Pro

After drawing so many cartoons, I wanted to draw from life for a change, so I picked up a few dry leaves which had blown into the corner by the front door.

Slightly Foxed

fox animated gif

My thanks to Tielmanc for his step-by-step tutorial Animate Your Existing Characters | Keyframes Tutorial, which popped up in a Clip Studio Paint e-mail yesterday. He makes the point that you don’t need to redraw a character to animate it, just carefully break up your drawing into component parts and fill in the missing areas.

His example was a farmer dog, so I’ve gone for this cartoon I drew of the fox that visits our garden.

Now that I’m not completely foxed about the principles involved, I can go on to something more ambitious.

Link

Animate Your Existing Characters | Keyframes Tutorial

Basic Walk

It’s our British summer and people are wrapped up against the wind and the rain in Ossett. I used a man in blue from my sketches as the walking character in my Clip Studio Paint animation, drawn on my iPad Pro.

It’s a very basic animation and I can see plenty of bits that I need to improve on but it’s a way to get familiar with the process so that I can go on to something a bit more expressive.

Bird, Man and Dog

A test for my new iPad Pro: a pencil rough of a cartoon walk drawn in Clip Studio Paint. Now that I’ve familiarised myself with the way it works again, I’ll go on to try something more ambitious.

Just one thing to work out is how to export the finished animation – it’s disappearing into a black hole at the moment instead of saving to a file – which is why I’ve had to show it in a movie taken with my iPhone.

Hen & Pencil

hen pencil animation

After the unpredictable floppy rabbit’s ears in my last animation, I decided to try a pencil stage with this alarmed chicken.

This wasn’t drawn directly in pencil in my sketchbook as suggested here – although a flick-book would be fun to try – it’s the pencil tool in Clip Studio Paint. I shall now move on to the inking stage.

hen sketch

Scroll Work

scroll animation

‘Is that all it does?’ asked Barbara. It takes a lot to impress some people, doesn’t it?!

I’m re-learning hand-drawn animation using the timeline in Clip Studio Paint on my iPad Pro, drawn with a second generation Apple Pencil.

I got the chance yesterday to run through a LinkedIn course created by animator Dermot O’ Connor. He kept things really simple using Photoshop – simple if you’re already familiar with Photoshop that is. My problem is that I don’t find it easy to draw using a graphics pad and so far the timeline isn’t available on the iPad version of Photoshop.