Selection Tool Tip Video

About The Selection Tool

Clip Studio Paint's selection tool is a versatile feature that enables precise isolation and manipulation of specific areas in artwork. It offers various selection options, including rectangular, elliptical, freehand, and lasso tools. Users can easily refine and edit their selections with intuitive controls and customizable settings. This tool provides artists with the precision and efficiency needed for intricate selections. Overall, it's an indispensable asset for those seeking fine control over their digital artwork.

Flat color stage

I personally use these tools for the sake of making coloring in line art a fast process. This method will even help eliminate empty gaps in the piece that are meant to be colored.

When starting with a blank piece of line art, make sure most if not all of the gaps in the line art are closed. At the very least as much as you can at the moment.

Archie Line Art

Using the autoselect tool

There are three autoselect tools that have different purposes. I preferably use the Refer to All Layers wand tool with these settings.

Note: the key setting you would need is the Reference Layer setting under Refer Multiple (Looks like a lighthouse)

Autoselect tool properties

Depending on your circumstance, you can change these settings at any time that suit your needs.

Add a layer

Set your lining layer as a reference layer by clicking on the lighthouse icon in your layer panel. Make a new layer that will go under the lining layer. That layer will be your flat color layer. With that layer selected, make your selection in this next step.

Making the selections

Select the negative space around your line art. Don’t worry about perfecting the selection, you can go back with the lasso too to fill in whatever was not selected. After selecting all of the negative space, go to the tool panel that appears at the bottom of the selection and click on the invert selection option.

On the color wheel, try selecting a vibrant color that you will not be using in the coloring stage. This will help when it comes to coloring the piece. I usually use a bright green.

After selecting the color, click on the paint bucket icon in the selection tool bar to fill the selection.

You should end up with something like this;

Ugly right? Good.

This will help later.

Moving on,

Coloring stage

At this stage, you will be able to do clean, high quality renders by using clipping masks and the aforementioned autoselect tool.

More layers with a layer folder

What I like to do is to make a new folder right above the flat color layer that contains all of my colors and shading layers. I will make that folder into a clipping mask by clicking on the Clip to Layers Below setting. Now anything within that layer folder will not go outside of the flat color.

From this point on, I begin coloring. Usually starting with the bottom layer within the folder. I would use the autoselect tool before to select the areas of interest that I would want to fill, then going back with the lasso tool to fill areas that the autoselect tool could not be able to cover.

After a bit of time and patience, using this method you should end up with this final render.

Summary

Hopefully you find this tip as useful as I have.

 

This has helped me with quickly making pieces in less that 2-3 hours.

 

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