How I Color / Draw 【Clip Studio Paint Tutorial】 

Here are some detailed process notes I took for myself, feel free to copy for anyone who wants a written guide! 1:43 She does flat, low saturation colors by lassoing them in, all under her sketch. Colors for different elements are on different layers 2:09 She's airbrushing gradients on each of the flat layers to make them feel not monotonous 2:12 Changed the line color to dark brown, put on multiply 2:20 She puts the sketch and all the flats into the same folder. Makes a copy of that folder for backup and then works on a merged version. 2:35 Multiply layer for shadow put over top of everything. 2:40 On top of the multiply layer is an add layer for lighting. Instead of erasing stuff from the multiply layer, she's drawing in the light shapes on the add layer 2:55 On top of all those layers, she's using overlays to add in ambient oranges and blues. Most of the blues are in the shadows (duh) and I'm seeing the oranges mostly affect the light, like where the lines of the hair are a brighter orange 3:02 She's also adding in the saturation to the terminator line/core shadow where the shadow and light meet. She's also got soft gradients for the reflected light in the shadows. I think she put the colors for this step and the previous step on one overlay layer mainly 3:09 She takes the tone curves and plays around with the curves on that single overlay layer, and sets it to pin light to get more interesting colors. CSP seems like it makes the tone curve a separate layer, so in procreate I'd have to duplicate that overlay layer probably 3:21 She also uses a gradient map and posterization (not familiar with these, not sure how to use them) 3:39 She puts all that in a folder together, saves a copy and merges it, then starts painting on that merged layer 3:43 A little hard for me to describe how she's painting, but she's carving and sculpting a lot of shapes by picking from the colors on the base. She's also using a regular square-ish brush, I think. Smoothing alot of things out, not too attached to the original shapes laid down (I struggle with not getting too attached to the base) 5:24 On the eyes, she's using like a lighter midtone(?) value and defining the eyelashes with darker strokes and triangles around it 5:37 Also noticing she occasionally uses the airbrush tool tobrush back in some gradients, or like the shadow under the eye. Also just noticed that she's added a bunch more layers on top. 5:40 Using add layer to add more glow back into the painting. 5:55 Another backup folder of all new layers, continues painting on top 8:17 She's done alot of cleaning and refinig, softening things, hardening them back up with lines. She's also airbrushing more saturation back into the hair 9:45 Final adjustments with tone curses, gradient maps and posterization. 11:06 After doing the chromatic abberation, she adds a noise layer and we're done!

I understood literally nothing

"I did some building off-screen" - The entire colouring portion of this

Thank you for showing how you used all the correction layers!! I learned so much from this video and your art is so beautiful ❤️

Not useful at all. You literally take the most basic approach to explaining how you draw and paint. The thing you call “touch up details” part, is the most important, the reason why a lot of people probably clicked in, as well as 70% of the video, and you explain absolutely nothing about it. I’ve watched it from start to finish of the “base” part several times, and I still cannot wrap my head about some of the steps you took in the process, since you change x colours and brushes without talking about them. If someone wants to learn color shading, lightning, and curves, they can just click in any other video about the topic, and probably be informed better than in a 3 min. rudimental tutorial. Be more detailed next time.

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This was soo nice to watch!!! I would love more videos of u explaining your process✨✨☄️

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omg this is so useful! i remember watching your speedpaints trying to figure out your drawing process, & this video is such a helpful reference! i absolutely adore the way you use colors; i've learned so much!

omg thanks sooo much for this tutorial!!! 😭 i admire your art style a lot and been wanting a video like this!! ♥️

Thank you, for making and sharing this tutorial!!! Coloring is something I’m very insecure and nervous about as an artist - it gets gets overwhelming and I never know where to start... But, your tutorial really helped me start to understand it all, so I really appreciate it! Thank you, again! ✨💕

This was so useful and your painting is so cute! But the correction layers and effects went by too fast for me to understand exactly what was happening and why. If you could do a slow video with explanations for dummies in the future, I’d be so grateful!

2:33-2:42 Can you explain to me more how to do that, I can see that there is reverse or something in shadow layer?

THANK U FOR MAKING THIS I ALWAYS LOVE HOW YOU DO COLORING!!! Your art is very beautiful i always watch your speedpaint while eating😭❤️

The way you explained how you used lighting and ambient light is so amazing, on top of all the adjustment layer explanations?! Now I feel like I have some grasp of how to use them instead of throwing everything and seeing what sticks, haha. I learned so much!! Thank you!!

it's pretty!! I really love ur art! ❤❤ also,, what's the skin color?? I'm very very curious well god bless you!! Ur art is cute!

Holy, I have never felt more confused in my life after 3 minutes 😔

i dont understand anything 2:00-3:00 😢

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Thank you so much! This clear my questions toward this kind of art and its very helpful!i pay you with click at the like button and subscribe button! I hope u do another art tutorial again!have a nice day yeejechan!

i love how you went into step by step of your process!! ive been wanting to improve on my painting skills and having these step by steps help me soo much not to feel overwhelmed while trying something new ❤❤❤

Hi yeej can i use ur art as reference to try study ur proportions, color etc i really adore ur artstyle and i want to study it i kindly want to get permission from u

OMGGG I've always wanted to know how you color! Your speedpaints inspire me so much!!

声が可愛いです😍もっとメイキング動画が見たい！ Your voice is so pretty❤ I would love to see more making-of videos．

I mostly draw hentai and share it on my twitter account. This video gave me such precious lessons I'm about to implement to my daily drawing routine. Thank you so much for the quality content. Keep it up!

Wow I didn't expect you to make a tutorial video for your process! Thank you for making this- it was really helpful to see how you use CSP's tools for illustration. I'll definitely be trying some of these methods out!

Thanks so much for the tutorial! Am I understanding this right that after you finish your base at 3:38, you make a copy of the folder, merge all layers and start touching up and painting over it?

MASTER!!! I'm into Gothic stuff, music, style, etc. But I really needed this... This is so relaxing and I learned a lot. I loved your video. I even loved the soundtracks you picked up for this and have to say, you have a relaxing clam voice too. Thank you. You now have a new subscriber!

I did not knew how to make 3 color effect on csp despite trying. Thanks for the tutorial

I found this majestic video too late 😭 Can someone tell me her brush settings? I downloaded it and it's very washed out. Thanks y'all a lot. Btw I love your works 🫶🫶

Thank youuu for making this.. personaly this video help a lot for me.. cant wait for your next video

This is great, but way too fast. I'm still learning a lot of the functions of CSP, and I got lost at the multiply and add layer. I don't understand how you have an eraser, use it on the add layer, but it affects the multiply layer. I can't go past that part because I'm just lost then.

This was really interesting to watch! I really admire your rendering process, but I think what wowed me the most was how you maximized CSP's tools to your advantage. That was really cool! May I ask how long it took you to finish this particular piece?

Hi! So I have some questions... did they at any point merge the original sketch lineart? I'm confused as to where the artist placed their lineart layer because I couldn't see it in the layers panel... Also, did they paint over the lineart? underneath it? Did they adjust the lineart as they went on separate layers, or did they adjust the original one? aaaaah

FINALLY THE BEST COLORING TUTORIAL!!! Your technique really helps to pop up the whole painting

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idk why but your accent looks like Vietnamese people when they speak English lol sorry if you're not Vietnamese;;-;;

After drawing for a couple of years, I haven't put in the effort to use correction layers until I followed your tutorial step by step, and I'm amazed how it looks better alreay. Thank you for giving us this knowledge for free.

Hello! I enjoyed your video throughly! Thank you for sharing. I was wondering at 3:26 you talked about “posterization”, does anyone know what that concept is and how to apply it? I searched on google but i have no idea how i could apply it to drawings…

It's so cool that you share your work with english speaking people!!! I lovejapaneae art style

I really love this art style, I call it the "super colourful anime style" :-D

I now feel stupid for not trying this before. Thank you for your tutorial. It was really eye opening. I have been using CSP like a dammed primitive caveman lmao. A recommendation from part is that maybe slow down the video when using certain options, I mean I could go back and slow down the video myself, but would have been easier if it was slowed down in those parts. ==)u

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I was so ready to listen to you speak in Japanese while not understanding anything but I’m so glad you speak english!!!❤️❤️❤️

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ずっと憧れてたので 解説ありがたいです!ありがとうございます!

This was very helpful!! I feel inspired after this, thank you ❤️ Happy 2023!

thank you so much for this! i love your colours so much! can i ask what you do after creating the rbg layers at the end? im sorry, im hard of hearing, I think you said you transform something but i got lost! >

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This is the exact style I want yippee!!!!!

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This helped a lot!! tyy 😭❤️

JASJAAJSHDHA NO YT DIDNT GIVE ME A NOTIFICATION BUT LIKE YOUR VOICE IS SO CUTEE!! I absolutely adore how you paint your illustrations! Thank for this tutorial!! >

At 4:50, a colour wheel on the mouse is used to find different gradients of the colour the mouse is pointing at. HOW DO YOU SET UP THAT TOOL? Please help me.

I'll save up this Video For When I learn How to Draw Something worth of being Colored this way (?

Thank you your art is very pretty❤ pls do more tutorial!

This vid is a godsend, thank you for the help YeeJ! GET THAT SPONSOR MONEY >:DD

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More tutorials please!!!! Love your drawing style very much😭💕

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thank you so much for this tutorial, but i'm confused about the lighting- i can see you used both blue and orange at some points on the overlay layer, but the colour wheel position doesn't move, how is that happening? am i missing something or is the background just static?

To be fair, throughout this tutorial, I just started zoning out as soon the speed paint started 😭

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this is such a useful tutorial!!! thank you so much :D you have a beautiful style!

I love this a lot and it convinced me to get csp, but I realized its a subscription rather than a one time purchase, so I wonder is the pc version also a subscription because I wanna use csp but I can’t afford a subscription service :( (I assume in the video its the pc version not mobile version)

Gracias por el proceso, pero no entendí.

SUBARASHII! it help me so much. Thank you!!!

i thought is finally done i like "yes! now i can become a digital artist!" until she say 'touch up...'

Thank you so much for sharing. This really helps me to get back from my drawing slump. Also, for the colour aberration effect (RGB effect), there's an asset you can download that automatically does it for you, so you just only to do the transforming part and save time. Hope that helps.

Thank you so much! Lately I'm having a hard time how to color..

confounding to try to follow along step by step though, this video is about coloring and im trying to learn how to color, but also how to use csp as a whole. like, why is it thqat half the time the brush it says you are using is the eraser, but you arent using an eraser i dont think because how else are you drawing like huh. and then you have the different colored icons on your side bar and whats that mean. how why what i cry

2:40 After you add add layer you should draw the lights on it , but you made somthing I couldn't understand that you use eraser on this add layer and the eraser makes the light !! how is this possible ??

hello! i have a question, is it okay for me to also draw in this kind of artstyle? ik that this is a tutorial video i just wanted to know if your okay with ppl drawing in your artstyle. anyways, thank you for this tutorial!

I wonder how you can erase and overwrite without affecting the other parts without changing the layer I really want to know Thanks you❤

why not the cat? oh I from Việt Nam

I have seen so many coloring tutorial but coloring always killing me, maybe I am afraid to go wild

what brush do you use for the add layer step? I was trying to follow along but got a little confused ;^^

Wow this is amazing! Thanks for sharing ur process.. if i can ask how u copy all separate base color into one layer? Im still new with csp btw so im really apreciate if you can answer me 🙏✨

Thank you so much!!!! I always struggled on colouring & lineart so this was really helpful 😊

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i really like how you paint instead of cel shade! it makes the art very unique :) thanks for the video

I wonder how i will do this on ibis paint since i only have a mobile phone i really want to achieve this artstyle for a long time but im a slow learnee when it comes to this specially im not good at computers and stuff

It was pretty nice artwork, how long you've been doing as an illustrator

"the base colour is done" Just for the base looks like it already complete.. nice work

Amazing❣️your art work is sooooo great! Btw I wanna see you drawing boys❤

Ty so much!! I finally can make nice shadow^^💗💗💗

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Thank you so much for the amazing painting tutorial! It is really helpful especially the blending layer part! It gives me the answer why your painting always have great colors balancing!

I found this incredibly helpful! ありがとうございます！

Thank you for all of the so helpful and beautiful tutorial and videos! If i may ask, which one you prefer between Clip studio paint and photoshop ? Thank you!

Aw, I finally got around to trying to follow your art style and I am lost after the flat colors are added. I added the light layer and then all the overlay layers and ambient light layers lost me.

Hi yeej chan i wish u would make a tut how u put details like rendering and shading like hair eyes clothes etc but dw take ur time

THIS IS SO HELPFUL OMGG. THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS TUTORIAL MY ART BECOME SO MUCH PRETTY AFTER FOLLOWINH UR TUTORIAL

thanks for the tutorial this improved my art by a landslide. 🔥🔥

I have never made a colored art in my life traditional nor digital, and after watching this I can confirm I still have no idea how to color.

Your color style is very cute (This is your first time to revealing voice!?)

Tskr I always love your art I’m really thankful for this bc I have no idea how to color😢 So really thank you ❤❤❤❤❤

I don’t use CS but I really love the art people do it in, it’s just a complicated set up lol

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