Hello, everyone. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to make a typography poster with Clip Studio Paint. We'll be mostly using the options in the filter tab, and gradient maps to color, so this is going to be an easy tutorial that anyone can follow.

Motion Blur

First, write your word in the font you prefer. For this particular example, I'd recommend using a sans serif font that runs on the wider side. Whichever the font you choose, type your word and make it into a raster layer. I choose the word NETHERWORLD (a less used variant for underworld) because it sounded like a rock band, and that's what I had in mind when doing this.

 

After you have your word, convert it into a raster layer:

Duplicate this layer and apply [Motion Blur] to one of them by going to [Filter] > [Blur] > [Motion Blur]. Use the highest strength and an angle of 90:

CSP doesn't create the longest motion blur, and I wanted an effect longer than this, so I simply duplicated it and stocked it on top of each other, since it doesn't affect the final product of this particular design. It looked something like this:

Merge these layers and continue motion blurring until creating the desired effect. In my case it was about 2 or 3 times. Then I duplicated the layer until the opacity was satisfactory (about 3 layers):

Zig Zag

Still on this layer, go to [Filter] > [Distort] > [Zig Zag] and edit the lines slightly. Play around with the options until you like what you see. This are the specifications of mine:

After you've done that, you can merge this layer with your original layer.

Wave

Go to [Filter] > [Distort] > [Wave]. Much like with Zig Zag, you should play around with the options until you like it. I ran it twice, here are my specifications (open the image to see more clearly, sorry) , but it would differ depending on the design you want. I also duplicated the layers again since it seemed kind of dark:

Let's edit this a little more before moving to gradient maps.

Design refinement

First, let's create a sort-of-but-not-quite chromatic aberration. For this, change the color of the design by selecting the color you want to change it to and going to [Edit] > [Change color of line drawing].

Duplicate this layer and put the underneath. Back in [Edit], select [Tonal Correction] > [Level correction]. Since I changed it to orange and I want this layer to emanate a reddish color, I'm going to lower the [Green] to 0.

With this layer selected, go to [Edit] > [Transform] > [Mesh transformation] and move it around a little, until it is visible, but only slightly.

When you are done, duplicate it and give it a Gaussian blur by going to [Filter] > [Blur] > [Gaussian blur].

Okay, now we are ready for the gradient maps!

Gradient map layer

In the layer menu, select [New Correction Layer] > [Gradient map...], and then just, play around! There are really no rules with gradient maps. It all depends on what you want and what you like! I added my gradient and the product in case you want to follow my design faithfully, but you'd be missing out on the best part, so I highly recommend you experiment.

Here's the design after I added the Mortar texture in Overlay at 40% opacity + changed a couple of details, and added other elements to make it look like a real poster.

Closing thoughts

As you can see, this is a very menacing poster. I wanted it to look like hellfire, coming from the bottom of the abyss! But you can use the same technique to achieve very different results. Look at this other example, very similar design, but different topics:

In both of these examples, the strokes take most of the space, but if you preferred, you could use it only partially. The sky is the limit! If you do a design following this tutorial, i'd love to see it! You can tag me in Instagram @apey.art . If you have any question, don't hesitate on telling me, I'd love to help!