The artistic filter makes extracting linework easy

To make quick and easy linework of any picture, open up your picture inside clip studio, then go to filter > effect > artistic.

Since for this tutorial we only want linework, we are using the "Lines only" process.

 

In seconds we have clean rasterized linework which could have taken minutes to draw.

 

For linework I like to keep the line anti aliasing to 1, and the line opacity and line density 100. This gives clean crisp lines.

 

Line thickness and simplicity are good to experiment with depending on the picture.

Making the Brush

To start we want to paste our artistic filtered linework on a monochrome basic expression color canvas. The benefit of using a monochrome canvas for creating brushes is that you can create two colored brushes with it.

 

First change the paper color to gray. Now paint some parts of your image black and others white.

If a brush in clip studio paint is made with black and white pixels, the black pixels will draw with your primary colour and the white pixels will draw with secondary colour. And you can set your primary and secondary color to any color later (when the brush is complete).

Here I cleaned up the linework and made the inside of the leaves white, and kept the linework black.

Now cut out and separate each image to it's own canvas. We want each leaf to be it's own material.

Click on the leaf's layer and go to register material > image to make it into a brush tip material.

Be sure to click on "Use for brush tip shape." Save it in any material folder.

Making the Subtool

Right click on any decoration brush (because their built in settings are useful for recurring material brushes) and click on duplicate subtool. We are using the duplicated subtool to create our own brush.

Click on the subtool setting icon I highlighted in green.

Go to brush tip and remove the original brush tip images. Replace them with your own brush tips.

Now you have a working decoration brush!

You can even change both colors of the leaves by changing your primary and secondary colors.

The color selected (black) is the main color. This makes the color of the outlines.

 

The color (orange) square below the main color is the secondary color. It makes the body color of the leaf.

Another example:

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Below is the finished brush.