The documentation refers to it as a “menu,” so we’ll call it the Brush Menu here. To add my new brush to this category, I click on the little button in the upper left corner here with the three lines and the arrow. So let me click on the India Ink tab first. Keep the brushes together in one spot, pens in another, and pencils in a third.įor this example, I want to add an ink brush to my tool set. But, for consistency’s sake and your own mental health, I suggest running with this categorization of the tools. You could put pens and pencils in here for all Clip Studio Paint cares. Keep in mind: These distinctions are completely arbitrary. On my screen here, you can see I have three tabs named “Watercolor”, “Oil Paint,” and “India Ink.” The big trick with this process is that you need to pick where you want to install your brush to before you install it.

Here, I have a pack of brushes I picked up from the DAUB Brushes site, all together in their own directory.

Grab a New Brushįirst, download the brush/pen/tool/what have you to a directory of your choosing. As a bonus, I’ll also show you the trick for how to add multiple pencils or pens or brushes at once. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add a brush, move a brush around to a different category, create and delete a new category, and delete the brush. It’s completely arbitrary, but it is suggested that you organize your tools along those lines just for sanity’s sake. Clip Studio Paint breaks your art creation tools into three categories: Pens, Pencils, and Brushes.

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