1. Why Custom Brushes Matter
When creating a WEBTOON efficiency is essential.
Custom brushes help reduce the time spent on repetitive details, allowing you to build complex decorations and textures in seconds with just a single stroke.
1.2. Where Decoration Makes the Biggest Difference
Decoration has the greatest impact on WEBTOON panels in key visual areas such as:
Lighting effects - enhancing mood and atmosphere
Ex. Lens flare, bright sunlight, sparks, etc.
Character details - making your characters more stylized
Ex. Clothing patterns, hair texture, and accessory accents
Background elements - adding depth to your backgrounds
Ex. Architectural details (building patterns and furniture), props (books, papers, bushes, etc)
Creature design - saves time on complex design, and it is repetition in your comic
Ex. Scales, fur, wings, and other complex surface details
These areas benefit most from custom brushes, as they add visual richness without increasing production time.
1.2.1. Pattern Decoration
Some brushes greatly simplify the process of drawing clothing patterns and architectural details.
They can also be created as with specific repeat method - ‘Repeat’ , where tip brush uses material tip (your images/layers of choice) repeatedly continuously.
1.2.2. Object Decoration
To quickly enhance depth to your backgrounds, you can use custom brushes to add objects and extra people.
These brushes also made with material tip where you add many different objects as layers/images in one theme and make them appear easily like a part of your environment using ‘Random’ repeat method.
NOTE:
Background obtained on ACON3D
1.2.3. Texture Enhancement
These brushes add textures to your artworks from small scratches to dirt over the props.
Mostly they are also made from image/layer materials and made in ‘Repeat’ Repeat method, some of them using settings for particle density or spray deviation.
2. Finding What Brushes to Create
2.1. Creating a Custom Decoration Brush
Creating a custom decoration brush is relatively straightforward once you understand its core structure.
Below is a simple breakdown of the essential components behind any brush you create:
Brush Tip - WHAT you use when making strokes
Ex. Circle or Material
Stroke - HOW the brush tip appears
Ex. Gaps, spraying, repeat method, blend options
Correction - WHEN drawing is there anything that should be adjusted?
Ex. stabilization, Taper, snapping, etc.
Step 1.
Identify which brushes your comic truly needs.
Review the elements that consume the most time and analyze what recurring details appear in your backgrounds, characters, and creatures throughout the story. This helps you create brushes that directly support your workflow.
Step 2.
Create a brush tip for your custom brush. Open a canvas (for example, 2000 × 2000 px) and draw the element you want the brush to apply with each stroke.
Keep the design clean and high-resolution to ensure flexibility and quality when scaling.
These are recent realistic injury brushes I made that I will mentioned later in the article as well.
Step 3.
After you have successfully created your brush tip, Register it as a material -> Image Material -> Use for brush tip shape.
Add a tag in ‘Search tag’ to make search for you brush tip easier.
Step 4.
Congratulations, now you have a brush tip for a new brush! Now, duplicate any brush you want by right click -> Duplicate sub tool - > Rename it to what you want.
Step 5. - Adjusting your Brush
Click the “Show Sub Tool Detail” (wrench icon) in your new brush’s Tool Property panel and adjust the settings based on the effect you want to achieve.
> Go to Brush Tip in Sub Tool Detail and Add your Materials.
I recommend to experiment with the available options to understand how each parameter affects the stroke.
Below are a few basic setting suggestions for different types of decoration brushes:
Pattern Brush
Object Brush
Step 6. - Preparing to Share Your Custom Brush
If you want to share your brush with others on the CLIP ASSET STORE, you will need to drag your created brushes in one of the folders in Materials first, then go to CLIP STUDIO START and access ‘Manage Materials’ .
After you created a catalog and naming is done -> Go to ‘All Materials’ and drag and drop them on your newly created material catalog.
When you reach ‘Manage materials’, create a new ‘Material Catalog’ with clear naming for you brushes (ex. Royal Clothing Pattern, Bush Brushes, Cloud Brushes, etc.) .
Step 7. - Publishing your Brush
To publish them, all you need to do is:
Go to your created material catalog -> Select ‘Manage’ -> Go to Material Catalog Information -> Choose ‘Edit/Upload’.
Add at least 2-5 tags that best describes your brushes, write a small ‘How to Use’ guide along with a short description, attach an image with some showcase if possible and then click on ‘Save and proceed’.
After you Saved your description:
1. Check out Clip Studio Asset Moderation Policy to see if there are any extra requirements for your submission. THIS HELPS TO PREVENT REMOVAL OF YOUR BRUSHES.
2. Choose a price for your custom brush and applicable software (where will it brush work or which version you used to create it)
3. Click on checkboxes and then ‘Upload’
4. Go to Your ‘Uploads’, do a final last check on everything you wrote and then hit
2.2. Recommended Decoration Brushes from CLIP STUDIO ASSETS
In this section, you can find some easy to use brushes in your own WEBTOON split in categories discussed in the article.
3. Applying Brushes in WEBTOON Panels
There are several smart techniques that can enhance how you use custom brushes in your WEBTOON panels.
In this section, you’ll find practical ways to apply decoration brushes more effectively in both detailed scenes and everyday production work.
3.1. Layer Property Tricks to Elevate Brush Results
Some brushes produce more natural and realistic results on characters and environments when you adjust the layer properties of the brush layer.
Tweaking blending modes, border effects, or opacity can significantly elevate the final look.
Border Effect
Layer Color and Tone
Blending Mode
3.2. Advanced Workflow Tips
There are some tricks that not only improve use of your brushes, but are also improving your workflows.
Organizing Your Custom Brushes
Renaming and organizing your custom brushes is a common and essential practice among many WEBTOON artists.
A clear naming system and structured brush library save time when searching for tools and significantly streamline your drawing workflow.
Example
Adjusting Custom Brushes
Sometimes a brush you download or create needs slight adjustments to match your personal workflow. Every artist applies tools differently, and small tweaks can make a big difference.
Before fully integrating a custom brush into your process, test a few strokes and refine the settings until it feels natural and responsive to you.
Using Brush Tips Images
Every custom brush is built from a material except a default circle tip.
In some cases, you may only need the original high-resolution image from the brush (for example, to place a decorative pattern directly onto clothing).
To access the brush tip, open the Materials panel and locate it in the appropriate folder such as Downloads for Asset Store brushes, or your custom folders for brushes you created yourself.
3.3. Common Mistakes in Custom Brushes
Some common mistakes can make the use of custom brushes less efficient and reduce their overall impact.
Applying but Not Decorating
One of the most common mistakes is applying decorative brushes without adjusting them to match the scene’s perspective, background structure, or character form.
Without proper alignment and scaling, even high-quality brushes can look disconnected from the environment.
To avoid this, there is one easy way you can do it:
Use the brush output as a reference base, then refine or draw over it with your own adjustments to better match the perspective, lighting, and form of the scene.
Low Quality of the Brush Tip
If you made a brush tip on a small sized canvas, when scaling, it will become pixelated.
To make your brush tip of high quality, create your you tip on the canvas with size of 2000 x 2000 px or bigger.
Underutilizing Tool Property Settings
When working on a WEBTOON, you may need to quickly adjust a custom brush whether increasing stabilization, reducing size, or lowering density.
To avoid repeatedly opening the detailed settings panel, add the most frequently used parameters directly to the Tool Property panel for faster and smoother workflow adjustments.
Including key controls such as size, opacity, blending mode, stabilization, and, when needed, repeat method or density settings directly in the Tool Property panel allows you to adjust your brush quickly without opening additional tabs.
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Finding the right brushes for your workflow takes time, so explore at your own pace and experiment with what works best for you. I hope this guide helps support your brush creation and decoration process.
Thank you for all your support, all of you are truly amazing~
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