UNDER CONSTRUCTION

How To Use CSP Like an Amateur

So you want to learn how to paint digitally and all you can find are 5 hour videos with way too much information and no way to navigate. Welcome to my unprofessional little site where I show you how to use CSP (Clip Studio Paint) like a pro complete amateur. But that's all you need to get started.

Most of the things I'll be talking about are applicable to almost any art program out there, from photoshop to firealpaca, so this should be at least somewhat decent for anything really. However that does mean I won't really be covering a lot of the CSP specific stuff, like the assets, since I am a photoshop native so I don't know the CSP specific things as well.

How To Use This Tutorial

The thing that makes a lot of art program tutorials so annoying is they just dont simplify things down to the basics, and all that extra stuff they have is half useful and half useless so its hard to filter. I have done a few things to combat this.

First, I have split it up into topics on the side bar. Each topic will have it's own sub side-bar when you go to it so you dont have to read the whole thing if you already know a bit about it.

Second, each topic other than 'getting started' is further split into three levels: Basic (default), Middle, and Master. Each will cover different levels of the topic. If you already know the basics and don't want to read explanations of opacity, skip to the other ones.

Who the levels are for:

• Basic: You know nothing. You've never touched an art program in your life and have no idea where to start. This level will get a drawing you can export and will give you any tool you'd have IRL plus some of what makes digital so handy. This will be short and sweet, get in get out learn the basics
• Middle: You know the extreme basics, opacity, layers, resizing, etc, and you want to learn a little more like masking/clipping and layer styles and adjusting brushes
• Master: Not actually master but whatever (if you're looking for a tutorial on advanced uses of CSP dont come to the CSP for beginners site). You know the basics and a bit more but want to learn things like making your own brushes, or coloring with gradient maps or using special rulers

None of this is going to be entirely extensive. I am completely self taught and this is an early 2000s style HTML website let's adjust the expectations a lil. There are so many functions I don't know about and I'll try to keep this updated as I learn, but for now it will just cover the things I know and I really REALLY wish had been grouped together in an easy-to-find tutorial rather than a million videos.