Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Clip Studio Paint

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Contributing artist: Devin Elle Kurtz, based in Burbank, California, USA. Devin Elle Kurtz is a digital illustrator, visual development artist, and background painter working in Photoshop CC. Her focus is magical scenes that combine fantasy elements with environments that feel visceral and real. She has worked in the animation industry as a background painter/designer and visual development artist since 2017. She was the lead background painter on “Disenchantment” at Rough Draft Studios from 2019-2021. She has illustrated for a number of publications including Dark Horse (Beasts of the Four Nations), HarperCollins (Breda’s Island, How to Heal a Gryphon), and Simon and Schuster (Escape from Atlantis series). Other past clients include Netflix, Disney, and SyFy. She has a huge fanbase, with over 858K followers on Instagram.

Edited by 3dtotal Publishing, based in Worcester, UK. We publish high-quality art books dedicated to bringing invaluable training to beginners, hobbyists, and professionals alike. Our books feature top industry professionals from around the globe who share their experience in skilfully written step-by-step tutorials and guides. Illustrated throughout with stunning artwork, these best-selling publications offer creative insight, expert advice, and essential motivation.

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This exciting, comprehensive Beginner's Guide, written by professional and famous digital artists working with Clip Studio Paint, is the first of its kind and will offer new and existing CSP users an incredibly in-depth look at creating impressive art with the software.
**Clip Studio Paint is a cross-platform drawing and animation software used by millions of artists worldwide. Its popularity has recently boomed - in 2022, the userbase had grown to 25 million. The software is popular with artists of every level, can be used on any device (mobile phone, tablets including the iPad, and any computer) and is relatively cheap to purchase compared to other software. 

It's perfect for beginners wanting to try something out. For these reasons and more, there’s a keen audience for a high-quality tutorial book like this one. The book features an all-encompassing Getting Started section, covering all the basics and advice from a respected artist in the digital field. Each page teaches through screengrabs of the software in use, detailed written steps, and art in progress. 

There are also in-depth tutorials from professional artists covering a variety of genres in which the software might be used, including manga comics, character design, landscapes (real and fantasy), picture-book illustration, and more. The tutorials are provided by artists at the top of their game, including Devin Elle Kurtz (858K Instagram followers) and Simz (403K Instagram followers), both of whom have published their own Art Of book with 3dtotal Publishing and are highly revered in the digital-art world.