Introduction
Creating comic books in Clip Studio Paint
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How Clip Studio helps artists design comic books
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Why use existing art to create a comic book?
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Sample files
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1. Set Up Your Comic Book
Rough layouts of each comic page
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Determine the page count of your comic
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Select the color mode
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Borders, crop lines, and bleeds
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What dimensions should you make your comic?
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Create a comic book file and template in Clip Studio
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Edit the page count of your comic
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2. Import Art
Import thumbnail layouts
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Create an empty comic frame
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Divide a comic frame
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Edit the size and shape of a frame
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Edit frame border thickness
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Import art into a frame
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Import art behind a frame
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Organize your frames
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3. New Art and Enhancing Your Art
Draw new art
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Enhance existing art
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Overlap art outside of frame
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Combine pages to create a double splash page
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Split double splash page into individual pages
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Clean up scanned images
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Add color
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Add gradients
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Add tone, half tone, dot pattern
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Edit tone
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4. Text and Word Balloons
Add lettering
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Create word balloons
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Add word balloon tails
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5. Print
Publish your comic to PDF
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Publish your comic to EPUB
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Send your comic to a printer
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Conclusion
What's next?
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