![]() ArtRage, on the other hand, seems capable only of coping with a limited layer limit. But then, ArtRage emulates analog painting, which in real life constitutes putting down layer on layer on layer, all in the same layer if you will. Oh, before I take off, I also want to stress that Clip Studio Paint never seems to lag on my work rig, no matter the amount of layers or the resolution. Last night, I tried, for the first time, to do some cartooning in Clip Paint Studio, without any smoothing to aid me - and I’m loving it! I thought I, with my shakey hands, wouldn’t be able to get smooth lines and curves, but to my surprise - it’s actually really easy to ink smoothly and crisply while, even more importantly, even retaining that organic “feel” (see the cartoon head below)! Truly mind-blowing stuff! Now, I’m finally close to making the sort of the comics I so love. For example, once I turned off the smoothing in ArtRage, I ended up with jaggy lines that scream “digital.” Also, Clip Paint Studio, even by default, has a bigger number of available ink brushes for selection - not surprisingly of course, because ArtRage is first and foremost a painting software while Clip Studio Paint is geared toward artists making black-and-white comic strips. Why, you may ask? Why not just use ArtRage, but with a different pen or different settings? Can’t you, then, just make the same gnarly drawing? Well, I found that I couldn’t. instead of ArtRage (see the close-up below of a piece done last year). Manga Studio) (see the detail close-ups below of a work-in-progress). I had already figured out that if you want to ink something gnarly organic, you’re probably better off using Clip Studio Paint (a.k.a. And I say to you now, that is the very problem with auto-smoothing, and that leads me to the irony of it all: Oh sure, you finally got your crisp lines, but all the playfulness is smoothed out. I would say the inking looks okay enough, though perhaps a bit too cold and clinical. ![]() After some misfires, I came close to getting it right (see the cartoon below). ![]() This all goes to say that I most welcomed auto-smoothing tools - especially the one of ArtRage, which is why ArtRage became my “go-to” software for cartoon inking. So getting crisp lines on a canvas has been a pain and a grief since the first day I tried my hand at it. You know what these guys have in common? Their linework linework has a playful smoothness - one I, at least, find hard to emulate. Among the comics artists I admire particularly are Franquín ( Gaston), Albert Underzo ( Astérix), and Martin Lodewijk ( Agent 327). I am especially fond of Belgian-Franco comics, also Dutch ones - party because of the way they are drawn and inked. Alright, let’s talk digital inking software - but first, a little introduction.
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