Aids Collection Of Neat Art Tricks

aid’s collection of neat art tricks

aka I wanted to compile all the neat things I’ve learned and picked up over the years across various sources; I wish I knew some of these, but they’re scattered across a variety of social medias and some from conversations.

of course, these are not a must and just have helped me! I just wanted to put them all in one place in hopes that maybe it’ll click something in someone like it has for me. c: I’m not the best at explaining, but I hope it makes sense!

some may use Clip Studio assets but can be replicated through other methods (or done by hand in the case of how I do my lineart colouring), but do keep in mind all of these are written with CSP in mind.

this is pretty heavy in images and gifs, and is quite long.

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Clip Studio Paint Tutorial Masterlist

for those of you who don't know, i have a masterlist of CSP tutorials and guides available to read for free! all of the guides are made by me in the past couple years. most are twitter thread links, but eventually i plan to convert them all to tumblr posts when if find the time.

read here!

Alastor's Frog Blink !!

From when he Sir Pentious "apologized"

felt like making a random csp obscure tips post here we go

1. a huge feature a lot of people don’t use is modifier keys! you can find modifier key settings by right clicking on a brush/tool

you actually do use this feature, but most people don’t customize them. a lot of the more obscure shortcuts are actually modifier keys, such as Alt being the eyedropper

if you want your brushes/tools to do something specific when you press a key.. theres a good chance you can set it up like that! the different shortcuts are allowed to only do certain things but its still pretty powerful, like you can make ctrl alt switch your pencil brush to a lineart brush, but that shortcut wouldn’t work on other brushes

a REALLY helpful use for modifier keys i figured out recently is making shortcuts to switch to different selection modes on my lasso tool instead of having to click the buttons to change them every time

2. you can make custom brush groups and organize your brushes on that toolbar really easily. brushes are insanely customizable actually

Something important to understand is that CSP treats all brushes and tools as Sub Tools, and Sub Tools can go into Sub Tool Groups, and then those groups can have their Own sub tool groups. This is how you make groups within groups (I’m calling them mini groups for clarity from now on)

However you can drag these mini groups into the tool bar to make your own sub tool groups

You can also drag individual sub tools into the side bar to make a new sub tool group, if you drag them over one of the divider lines it will make its own section

3. You can set shortcuts for any sub tool group

If you go into shortcut settings, there’s options for your custom sub tool groups on the toolbar

someone said more drunk alastor. my wish is your command

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