Introduction

Making a pen or brush that literally shoot hearts as you draw is fun and all...

But the best brushes on Clip studio paint are ones that resemble analog, or traditional, brushes and pens! I'll show you how to make a couple analog brushes.

Here is the illustration I sketched for this tutorial:

Wet Drawing Media (Inks, Pens, Markers, Etc)

This one's pretty easy to turn a basic brush into your preferred drawing pen. All you need is paper, a technical pen pf your choice, and the patience to make dots.

A lot of dots:

You also need to draw and scan in some lines with the pen. This will be important later:

After scanning in the dot-filled paper, select the one that looks the best:

Then copy and paste the dot onto a new layer:

Then using level correction, push the values until you get the lightest whites and the blackest blacks:

Once you're satisfied, convert the white to opacity:

It's important that you do that. Otherwise, you end up with this:

After all that, go to [Edit]-[Register Material]-[image] and save your little dot with these settings:

Now the real fun can begin. First, find the milli pen under Pen tab:

Then under brush shape, select the little dot to use as the brush tip:

Here are the settings I used for this pen:

For setting 1, you want your line to stay consistent. Otherwish, you may get a pen that's very realistic-in an alternate universe:

Option 2 makes a difference in how you draw; the higher the random percentage, the more textured the pen becomes:

I personally set it around 90 percent, but feel free to set it as you wish.

One more thing: Remember those lines made earlier?

These lines are useful in making sure the brush matches the analog and making adjustments as needed, like the size. In the case, even though I initially set the size to .5, the same as my .5 pen, it still come out too small. So I had to double the size until I'm satisfied:

With all that, here is the inked illustration:

But we're far from done. Let's move on to...

Dry Drawing Media (pencils, charcoal, pastels)

These types of brushes are a little bit trickier to match analog since dry drawing materials have a bit of a varied texture to them.

Let's start with charcoal to demonstrate since it is the material used for this demonstration.

On a small piece of paper, make as many marks as you can, just like with the ink:

Since charcoal is much more varied in strokes, you may need to select more than one dot:

Now we need a base for our charcoal drawings. A good one is this pencil from Clip Studio:

Once you got all of the dots and pencil shape you need, keep fiddling with the brush until the brush matches the shape and size of the lines on the paper:

It feels good so far, but it's missing something...Oh, right...

Texture can make the difference between an ok analog brush and a truly analog brush. Of all the textures, the best one is the stucco texture provided by clip studio:

Here is what I end up with:

And here's the charcoal applied to the illustration:

Paint (Watercolor)

Now we need to make a watercolor brush to paint our illustrations.

The steps are the same as the last two: paint, scan, select the dot you like best, turn said dot into a brush tip:

There are a lot of watercolor brushes to choose from to use as a base, both official and from the community, but this is my favorite:

Apart from adding the brush tip we made, these are the only settings adjusted on this particular brush:

I repeated for the other two brushes, making slightly different adjustments for each one. For #12, I turned spraying effect on:

BONUS: This step is optional, but you can scan in a paper of your choice and use it as a texture overlay. Even though it makes the digital piece authentic, I personally don't bother because the texture will show when, say, it prints on smooth paper:

Conclusion

Welp, until next time...

 

Ciao!