A blog, I guess?

Full-time student, full-time mom and I try to do some art stuff in between. Apologies in advance for pauses between postings! 

[professorfaf]

ProfessorFAF Masterpost

Hello! Welcome to the ProfessorFAF. I’m an artist who has been working in Clip Studio Paint for years now. I think it’s one of the best and most accessible tools on the market for comics and illustrations, and I want to see it take off more. The thing is, CSP has a lot of features for illustration and comics above and beyond Photoshop, but it’s hard to understand some of them because of the interface. I’ve noticed a lot of people don’t even know some features are there. So I decided to take all my knowledge about CSP and pour it into this blog so that others can learn from it or reference it.

Now, I don’t claim to know absolutely everything about CSP. There are new things I learn all the time, and some features I never really use. But I plan to take this series from the basics to more advanced features. I am a freelance artist, so my free time is limited, but I hope to regularly come out with new posts to help out. And if you were helped by my posts, please consider giving me a ko-fi!

P.S. I own Clip Studio Paint EX, which is the advanced (and more expensive) version that handles book layouts on top of everything else. It’s hard for me to tell what options are available in EX but not in the less-powerful version, PRO. I hope you keep this in mind if my guidelines ever cover or show something you can’t find in your interface - it may be an EX option.

Thanks, now let’s get started!

Illustration & Comic Setup & Print Guides:

Creating a New Illustration File

Creating a New Comic File

Clip Studio Paint and CMYK? Yes!

Guides About Colors:

How Clip Studio Paint Makes Flatting Your Colors Magical

Guides About Layers:

Using Clip Studio Paint Vector Layers

Guides about How Tools Work:

Marquee/Selection Tools in Clip Studio Paint

Guides About Brushes:

Mini-Tutorial: Straight Lines in Clip Studio Paint

Mini-Tutorial: Saving Your Brush Settings in Clip Studio Paint

I tag questions with ProfessorFAFAsk, so you can block them or access them easily as you wish.

[ysegrimm]

CSP tutorial masterpost by ProfessorFAF

gotta save this

[ysegrimm]

I’ve finally finished my first critical role fanart! ...there might be more, eventually. :D

[kiraoji]

art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

[halflingkima]

“You know, Nott, you count on Caleb to keep you safe, right? To achieve greater things than you by yourself can achieve? Think how many things you could do with all of us by your side.”

[ysegrimm]

Asdfghjkl

[nickanimation]

We’re proud to celebrate one of our favorite LGBTQ couples this Pride Month, Korrasami! 

Art by Irene Koh (aka @prom-knight), the talented artist behind the Legend of Korra graphic novel.

Korra and Asami made their TV debut in Book 1 of The Legend of Korra when the show (created by @michaeldantedimartino & @bryankonietzko) first aired back in April 2012. Their adventure (and romance) continues in the @darkhorsecomics graphic novels today!

[michaeldantedimartino]

Beautiful work from @prom-knight​ depicting a beautiful moment between two strong and beautiful women.

[metanoia-works]

Fire Baby ;;

[ysegrimm]

Finally completed a Thing :D

[bottleshark]

Time for that later.

[ysegrimm]

Ooooh this gave me a pang in my stomach D: I love this!!!!

[metanoia-works]

Finally (!!) finished the design for Nova’s tattoo!

[punkconcert]

John Mulaney, a true ADHD icon

[ysegrimm]

It me o.o

[ysegrimm]

Introducing: Philomela! A new OC from me and my friend's project @metanoia-works

[sephiramy]

Art Challenge: 30 Important Expressions

Draw ‘em all, or have someone send you a character and a number… it’s your wonderland, Alice. Reblog, add your own. Have a good time.

hasn’t slept in 48 hours

tasted something gross

in a long, slow line at the DMV

listening to blind date talk about their ex

reading YouTube comments

favorite song just came on

song they hate just came on

had their favorite show spoiled

just fell in love (a.k.a. “Dreamweaver face”)

saw a wasp

had a fist fight (they won)

had a fist fight (they lost)

food coma

hello darkness, my old friend

“was that Batman?”

forgot what they were about to say

“oh no, they’re hot…”

their best friend’s cooking is not as good as they think

brainfreeze!

texted the wrong person

check out this box of kittens/puppies/bunnies/ducklings/whatever’s cutest to them!

their favorite TV show character dies

having an increasingly awkward conversation with Bob of Modus Operandi

parent/guardian is showing their baby pictures

stepped on a Lego

stepped on an Eggo… you know… the waffle

102 degrees indoors and there’s no A/C

watching the end of The Iron Giant… or maybe the opening to Up… or w-when Shadow is stuck in Homeward Bound…??

woken up out of a dead sleep

nailed it.

(some suggestions were lovingly crowd-sourced from kayzig samwisedamgee marianascosta geekysideburns briandanielwolf sarahfu and indigoats.com!)

[bottleshark]

Give me some Critical Role requests for me to practice on tonight! (… or other things I’M JUST ON A KICK)

[ysegrimm]

Yessss I want to do all of these

[ysegrimm]

Slowly getting a hang of this boy's features. Arvad is a character of @metanoia-works and belongs to @oolongteamix

[ysegrimm]

So, what started out as a fun little challenge with my friend has turned into spending the last few months world building, character designing and story writing and finally led to me creating social media accounts. Well then, hello Tumblr!