Tutorial: How To Make Custom Brushes (In Clip Studio Paint!)

In this Clip Studio Paint tutorial I explain the brush settings, how to make custom brush shapes and textures, as well as advice for designing brushes in general. I also share some tips for making special brushes, such as grass and leaf foliage brushes for backgrounds.

Most of my art is made using these, in combination with CSP's default airbrush and blur. The rest of my brushes, such as the foliage ones I showed in the video, can be found on my Patreon in a pinned post.

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The thumbnail art (made by me):

Music:
Khaim - Somebody

00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Menu
02:07 - Importing brushes
02:50 - Brush settings 1
10:55 - Making a custom square brush tip
13:16 - Brush settings 2
14:50 - Making a custom texture
18:22 - Stabilization & other settings
18:55 - How to design a brush
21:32 - Special brushes
25:31 - Ending

[jenniferduckworth]

I can not explain just how helpful this tutorial is. While Clip Studio's asset sharing feature is a wonderful thing, Nothing beats the feeling of creating each piece of the art yourself, even down to the "Shortcuts" such as foliage textures and stamps. This video helps show that with a little patience and critical thinking, you can create brushes that perfectly fit your needs, even if all the options make it seem daunting to begin with. Will definitely be forwarding this to anyone who uses Clip Studio within my friend group. Thank you!

[breadorchopstix]

I’ve been trying to make my own brushes, this is a great start for me. Really appreciate it! Thank you!

[TrainYukito]

Since I bought Clip Studio, you're helping me alot to figure out so many functions and even understanding some curiosity that I always had but didn't knew how to ask. Really appreciate it.
P.S: Your art is amazing as always.

[sandwich]

I started using Clip studio paint because of your tutorial!

Sorry photoshop but clip studio paint is my new best friend now!

[andressapolidoro]

This video helped me so much! I didn't know how to make the bush not just black or the color it was when I saved the image material, I didn't find the right settings to change it, thank you very much! You showed the part that no other video was showing

[TheRealZachHadel]

Oh no way, this is the same bgm Ouro Kronii uses, I automatically love you <3

[SaivaArts]

Thank you! your two CSP videos are the best ones on all of youtube, You went through many details that everyone overlooks, Good work and Thank you!

[TurtleMixxII]

Holy cow, I have been combing through videos trying to find the best explanation for making brushes in CSP, and yours is by far the best I've found. Your examples and way of explaining things really help me follow along. Thank you for making this video, it is helping me out so much!

[marinagarciasolorzano]

Today, I found you and you´ll never will know how much you helped me, because I was almost to uninstall the whole clip studio paint app. because I couldn't move the "move layers" tool...YOU ARE MY HEROINE!!!... YOU ARE I wish the best for you... you deserve!!

[ArohaTheStrange]

As someone who has recently switched from Photoshop for 16 years to Clip Studio Paint, thank you SO so much!!

[clydesdale]

VERY IMORTANT!

If you are trying to make a brush tip, you must have the layer you are trying to register as a material SELECTED. I drew a bunch of plant variations and didn't understand why all the layers except the first were coming up as blank squares in the materials folder... it's because I was just turning them visible and not actually selecting the layer before hitting "register material->image".

I thought it was looking at the canvas as a whole but it actually just takes whatever is on the specific layer you've selected.

Not sure if she says this in the video but I'm putting it here just in case!

[GlennsArt]

I'm brand new to CSP (coming from Ps) and really appreciate the work you put into this video. I also purchased your brushes. The video is extremely well done and equally as helpful to getting me off the ground with CSP. Thank you for this and well done.

[orchidkitty]

Very easy to understand tutorial! I love your art, I look forward to seeing more timelapses :)

[Bb-uiom]

Notification gang! Haha love your art~ thank you for the tutorial! :D

[amarettotart]

Yes! I’m so happy to get another tutorial from you 💕

[baked]

Thank you I'm terrible at following instructions and I haven't been able to figure out how to make a good brush for like 2 months but this video taught me so much in just some minutes

[emiknits]

Watched your other CSP tutorial the other day, and loved it! This was just in time :) thanks

[NegikunTV]

is the best. I knew how to make then but making them "useable" you made a lot easier.

[georgianamiron]

Oh my goshhhh, I loved your first video on clip studio paint and I've been meaning to ask about the brushes you've used, thank you so much for uploading this too ❤️

[monicamacaranas]

I was scrolling on youtube and saw your video! the art that you made, I saw it somewhere, maybe in pinterest. but I didn't knew it was you who drew it! it's really pretty