Brushes Quickstart Guide

Introduction
This user manual is a quick guide on how to use the brushes. The best results are
gained with a small amount of experimentation and playing around with different
settings if you so desire. You can use these brushes like they are.
However, I feel you will get better results when you optimize them for your
drawing tablet. My drawing tablet has 8192 levels of pressure sensitivity, and
these brushes are optimized for that sensitivity level. However, I do believe these
brushes are amazing, no matter what pressure sensitivity your tablet has.
Enjoy the brushes! And yes, these are the brushes I use to create the drawings
you see online.

Pencils
Okuha Sketch Pencil is the main pencil I use in the blueprint and sketch phase of
my drawing process. It’s especially good after you’ve done your rough blueprint
sketch with Okuha Blueprint Pencil. Sometimes, I just use Sketch Pencil to do the
sketch, and sometimes, I use it to draw the line art, too.
Adjust the 'Brush density' of the brush to create darker sketch lines. You can also
adjust the opacity to control how dark or light the sketch lines will be. I've noticed
that values between 70-85 opacity is pretty good for sketching.

Pens
While Clip Studio Paint offers some brilliant pens already on default, I’ve modified
a few of them to suit just my needs. For example, the Okuha Anime Line Art is
pretty dope for drawing crisp, shard edged lines, whereas the Okuha Manga Line
Art brush is superb for getting that manga comic line vibe.
Both of these brushes might need a bit of time to get used to as they have rather
unique pen pressure settings. Okuha Cinematic Line Art and Cinematic Rough are

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 both ones that don't have that pointy edge to them. So when you draw the lines,
the end point will always be round.
Okuha Anime Line Art retro brush is quite an advanced brush as it gives you a
textured style while also giving a graphical output. Adjust the pen pressure of the
Brush density to adjust how dark or light the lines the brush will give. This brush
needs a bit of time to get used to, but the line art result is pretty darn good.

Kanji Brushes
I developed these brushes to create special kanji calligraphy-type effects and
results for drawings. These brushes produce some insanely nice effects, but they
need a bit of practice from you before they produce the results you are after. Also,
note that you should change the pen pressure ON and OFF depending on the use
case you are after. I also suggest using very large brush sizes, such as 400px.

Stamp brushes
The stamp brushes are mainly meant for quick object creation. I would use them
first to create the object and then draw the actual line art on top of them. However,
these stamp brushes give you a quick end result without you needing to draw the
whole thing from the start. Try also to modify the pattern a bit during the line art
phase to make it look like yours.

Special Effects
Special effect brushes are what the name suggests. You can quickly add special
effects to your drawings, either as a foreground or background element. The
Magic Dust brush produces some nice effects, but do notice that it has an active
hue variation, which means you won’t get the color you’ve selected from the color
wheel.
Also, the rain brush is extremely nice, but you need to apply a Motion blur (Filter
→ Blur → Motion blur) to it to make it shine. So, think of these brushes as
something of a first effect on your drawing. Then, emphasize the effects by either

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 changing layer mode or adding some sort of blur to them. You can also use them
as is.

Tools
I use three main tools: the hard and soft eraser and the fill tool. The soft eraser is
meant to erase blueprint and sketch lines, whereas the hard eraser is meant to
erase line art and cel shading. I use the fill tool to fill shadow areas during the cel
shading process.

Pencil and Pen Brush Size

I often use 3-8 px-sized brushes when using pens (solid line art). However, with
textured brushes (pencils), I use 7px to 20px brush size. So they vary quite a lot.
Note that these brush sizes work best on canvas sizes of 4500px x 7000px and
larger.

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 Importing and Installing Brushes
The fastest way to install multiple
brushes is to select them in your file
manager and drag them into Clip
Studio Paint's [Sub Tool] Palette.

You can also use the ‘Add sub tool’

button to import brushes from your
computer.

Another way is to click the small

"hamburger" icon on the top left
corner and choose the 'Import sub
tool'.

Official Clip Studio Paint import

instructions.

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 Naming Version 1.0
Okuha Sketch Pencil = Pencil No. 1 = [OLD] Textured No. 1

Okuha Blueprint Pencil = Pencil No. 2 = [OLD] Textured No. 2

Pencil No. 3 = [OLD] Textured No. 3

Pencil No. 4 = [OLD] Textured No. 4

Pen No. 1 = [OLD] Solid No. 1

Pen No. 2 = [OLD] Solid No. 2

Pen No. 3 = [OLD] Solid No. 3

Pen No. 4 = [OLD] Solid No. 4

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