This brush set for Clip Studio Paint combines all other brush sets. You must update to the latest versions of Clip to install these brushes. 

This set includes more than 800 Clip Studio Paint brushes. These painting, penciling, inking, and special FX tools use a wide range of custom textures, daubs, and settings to emulate traditional media and beyond.

This set reflects twelve years of obsessive iteration in the pursuit of making the best digital drawing tools possible.

All updates and additions are free for the life of the set.

Version 16.0 Update 5-25-21

• Added over 100 new brushes.

Version 15.0 Update 3-6-19

• Added over 100 new brushes with a focus on textured marks.

 Version 14.0 Update 12-18-18

• Added over 70 new brushes. New tools include inkers, paint brushes, washes, pencils, and more.

Version 13.0 Update 6-12-18

Update 8/23/17

Over 100 new brushes! Over 450 brushes total! This update is over a 50% increase in set size. Many new inking, penciling, painting, and wash brushes added. Existing tools were renamed and sorted into brush families for ease of identifying your favorites and remembering them later.

Update 1/7/16

This latest update contains new paints, pencils, and inkers with a focus on adding textured, gritty painters and expanding the core set of tools.

For the core tools, inking brushes, nibs, brush pens, pencils, pastels, charcoals, oils, and acrylics have been added.

For the advanced tools, painterly brushes with impasto canvas, wash, sponge, leather, and other textures were added.

Update 2/17/15

The Spotty Inker brush family has been added. The Spotty Inker brushes were designed to give your digital comics analog flair. Soften the edges of your spotted blacks, create rough halftones, or ink the whole image—this update has you covered.

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I’ve been using Clip Studio Paint/Manga Studio for comic style work since the app was localized and brought to American audiences by SmithMicro in 2006. I’ve always pushed the boundaries of what was primarily an inking app, creating brushes that took the limitations of Clip and Manga Studio’s brush engine and smacking them against the wall. I like to make art apps bleed and Manga Studio has been my target of choice.

I’ve taken lessons learned from creating brushes in Painter, Manga Studio, Photoshop, and SAI and applied them to this set for Manga Studio 5 and Clip Studio Paint. These newest brushes reflect seven years of obsessive, masochistic iteration on making the best drawing tools possible.

How They’re Different

The Painterly brushes are great for mass work or for coloring underneath comic style lineart. They create soft edged, blending strokes with light pressure and totally opaque, dense areas of hard edged color with hard strokes. Creating soft or hard edges to create emphasis in a painting is as easy as varying pressure with your stylus. One tool to do it all – no separate blenders.

The pencilling tools include shading brushes, layout pencils, and sketching tools of varying hardness replicating analog style effects and workflows.

The inking tools include a brush that iterates upon my Manga Studio 4 organic inking brush to make the most clean, but analog-looking, inking marks I’ve achieved digitally. The Hairpin Sable and Lando Callbrusshian tools are my favorite inkers in any app, ever.

Don’t Have Clip Studio Paint?

I think there are many who’ve yet to try Clip Studio Paint. As a long time Clip and Manga Studio user, allow me to explain what Clip Studio is and isn’t by way of comparing it to what has come before.

Do you use Paint Tool SAI? Do you like its lightweight, snappy brush system that outstrips Photoshop’s but lament SAI’s lack of updates and general state of abandonware or lack of Mac support? Do you use Painter but curse the gods whenever it crashes to desktop during your tenth iterative save? Does Painter’s general buginess lead you to Photoshop only to remind you of how limited Photoshop is when it comes to painting and blending colors naturally?

Clip Studio takes the already best-in-class inking engine found in Manga Studio 4 and pairs it with painting tools that rival Painter and SAI’s with stability akin to Photoshop.

It’s 64bit and native on OSX and Windows, unlike SAI. It’s stable, unlike Painter. It inks and paints well out of the box, unlike Photoshop.

Long story made slightly less long – it’s my favorite app of the bunch. I can pencil, ink, and paint in a single app instead of the Frankensteinian hodge-podge I resorted to before. No longer do I need to pencil and ink in Manga Studio and color in Photoshop or Painter as a second step. And no subscription to boot.

If you use any of the above apps on a daily basis, you should really try it out. I seldom fire up any of those other apps after. The kicker? It’s a fraction of the cost of the big players.

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