Is that Clip Studio EX a computer program? Could you tell me more about it? (I really like your art btw)
Yes it is! It’s a program made by Smith Micro for creating comic, also known as Manga Studio but they recently scrapped that name, and they recently added an animation feature. There are Clip Studio Pro and Clip Studio EX, with EX being the more expensive one. They’re available for both OSX and Windows. The feature disparity isn’t too great even though the price difference IS, mainly in EX you can handle multiple pages and in animation it exceeds 24 frames allowed in Pro. This makes sense to me, because when you are a hobbyist you need semi-full features, but when you get a contract for creating a professional comic/animation and therefore the multiple pages/frames, you can pay for more.
Compared to Photoshop, what I like about Clip Studio are:
1. Flip preview! You can get this in Paint Tool SAI too, but Photoshop for some reason don’t have this yet.
2. Fantastic ink stabilization
3. Customized Toolbar
4. Rulers! Many kinds, I find perspective rulers and parallel rulers indispensable.
5. Brushes that can recognize colors and alphas, it’s a bit complicated so I won’t explain it here but basically you can make this with only color brush: https://twitter.com/bloomejasmine/status/702156150737805312 , and this with main/sub color brush with only one brush and switching your main/sub colors: https://twitter.com/bloomejasmine/status/673871885843607552
6. YOU CAN GROUP BRUSHES THIS IS A GODSENT
7. Shortcuts! You can modify your shortcut however you want, even the modifier keys.
8. Curve graph for individual brushes. Multiple control for brushes opacity/size/anything. So you can control your brush with pen pressure AND tilt if you wish, you don’t have to choose only one.
9. Screentone. Nuff said.
10. Paneling have never been so easy.
11. Smaller file size compared to Photoshop. Lighter to use than PS too. But you can save as Photoshop File for max compatibility.
12. Set layer as draft. This is so useful for sketch layer and filling/exporting stuff.
13. Export multiple pages as pdf (EX only)
14. 3D preview of comic (EX only)
15. Color wheel. I have to use Coolorus in PS.
There are many more, but these are the things I like the most. You can see more in the original website: http://my.smithmicro.com/manga-studio-comic-illustration-software.html
If you have more to ask me ask away! I’m glad I can finally fangirl over this program!