A quick how I use Clip Studio's Artistic Filter Tutorial
So, I use this function to take screenshots and do a quick and dirty line art. Or just a very stylistic line art. Mostly I want this if I'm doing something very detailed from FFXIV and want it to be close to the in game appearance.
So, we got ourselves a picture of my Norhi in dramatic lighting. This does work better when you have good contrast and not too many conflicting lines. You'll see what I mean.
So, we find it under Filter>Effect>Artistic
And the default looks like this. As you can see, the preview is showing a fun colored and lined image. The top option in the menu dialogue has options for if you want colors and lines, just colors, or just lines. Today, we're just doing lines.
And here is our default setting preview of just lines. Looking at the staff on the left side there, you can see what I mean about the conflicting lines. But the contrast of the image allows Norhi to be easily picked out from the now absent background. For the rest of this, the last three options are ignored. They're for color images, which we're not worrying about.
Now, I've altered multiple settings to get this. First I reduced line simplicity to it's lowest setting of two. This brought back some of the background. And that's fine. I can erase later if I want.
Then I bumped line density up to 83. I looked at 100 and thought that was too much. So I scaled it back a bit. This also brought back more of the background. But it also pumped up a lot of Norhi's details which I wanted.
I also bumped line opacity to 100. Because I wanted dark lines. And I upped the anti-aliasing, to soften them a little.
Adjust all of these according to what you want your image to do!
Have fun!