Hello everyone, I'm CLGTart. In this tutorial, we will talk about:

 

1. What is perspective drawing?

2. How to make one with Clip Studio Paint?

 

Let start this long tutorial. You can continue this post or can simply watch this video

1. What is Perspective drawing?

The paper we will use for drawing is just a flat surface. We want to give an impression about the difference of the height, the width, the depth of an object (even the human-being), let everyone see the 3D image on a flat paper, that's perspective.

 

The artist will use this technique to represent a scene in the real life in a drawing/painting/comic/webtoon. So what is the technique we talked about? That's One-point, Two-point, Three-point perspective (I know there's also Six-point perspective drawing but we won't talk about that). We will got some example below.

1.1. Eye-level

You can also find out that the whole pictures above will have a horizontal line across the image. That's the eye-level.

I'd love to choose the eye-level word more than horizontal-line. Because that line will show exactly the height of the one drawing/looking to the scene. Horizontal line will just appear in outdoor scene show both sky and earth/sea, but can't show exactly in a room/out of the earth/... When we are drawing outdoor, the horizontal line may appear the same line. But the eye-level will be a big help since it can show the height of the characters you put on the drawing.

1.2. How to draw a perspective drawing?

The first thing is determined where the eye-level is! And you will ask, where?

 

Now you have to see the picture below.

When you change your position, the view of your will changed! If you stay low, you will got the low eye-level. Standing on the chair? You have high eye-level. And standing normal, you got middle eye-level. Most of the background will be middle eye-level. But you want to convey another feeling, a little bit dynamic/dramatic? The sky will be your main source? Let use low eye-level! Want to have more space for the background? The ground will be you main source? Use high eye-level.

 

Let see the example I used in my webtoon "Mys City":

 

First is the Middle eye-level. A basic-look background, right?

A little bit dynamic feeling for low eye-level. This perspective is using not only for object but also for your characters!

For the high eye-level, we will make one today with Clip Studio Paint Perspective Ruler!

2. Drawing background with Perspective Ruler

After choosing what you want to show and where you put the eye-level, the other work will be a lot easier. Especially when you got Clip Studio Paint Perspective ruler. Now I will show you a quick background drawing with CSP.

 

Imagine we have 2 characters in the same height and shopping together on the street for the example (I'm using my OCs from my webtoon in this picture). I want to use Three-point perspective. To show more ground, I chose high eye-level. Keep that on your mind and start with your sketch.

When you finish your sketch, let choose the line you think it will be the best for your guide-line later.

 

Now create new layer for your perspective ruler. You can open the ruler tool and choose perspective ruler. But I prefer to use this method: open Layer menu > Ruler/Frame > Create Perspective Ruler. With this step, you can immediately create Three-point perspective ruler with just one-click!

 

 

You can also open that with shortcut from Layer tab

A box will appear. Now choose your perspective type you want. Mine will be same as the picture. Remember to tick the [Create new layer] box (it will help you create ruler in different layer. That will be a big help later). And [OK]!

And you got this!

The guideline are not staying in the right place I want. I will use the Object tool to move them! Click the Object tool. If you don't want the Eye-level changing the position from horizontal to diagonal, make sure to tick the box [Fix Eye level]

With that Object tool, click to the purple line of the ruler. You will see bunch of dots appear! Don't panic and see the explanation for it

Click the point you want, hold and drag it around for those purposes:

 

A. Moving the point of perspective (we have 3 point here)

B. Moving eye-level to higher/lower (incase you are not tick the [Fix eye-level], you can change it to the diagonal line)

C. Moving the whole ruler

 

To move the guideline, you will have D and E. The difference is:

D. You will move perspective point. And also moving the Eye-level if you are not tick the [Fix Eye level] box.

E. Won't change anything, just the guideline only!

 

When you understand the meaning of those dots, we will fix the guideline to the right position on our background. You can create new layer and try to draw some lines to see the result. You will need a little bit time to satisfy yourself.

 

Then I will draw bunch of box when I think the guidelines are perfect. That's the simplest way for us to starting a perspective background. Don't just to the details or else you will stuck later.

The box guideline is good for me now. I will turn off the ruler layer by clicking the eye before the ruler. That will make the ruler disappear. That's why I click the box [Create new layer] when I create this perspective ruler.

If you are drawing in the same layer of this perspective ruler and want to turn this off, you can simply open the ruler menu and untick all the box. When you see the ruler icon has red X, that means you disable the ruler and we can drawing freely now.

Create new layer for detailed sketch. Remember to reduce the opacity of the previous sketch so we won't be distracted. Finally we got this to ready for the line art!

Let create new layer for the outline. My recommendation is using Vector layer for those complex artworks. This is a cool feature of Clip Studio Paint, because you can easily erase unwanted line in a blink with Vector eraser (use only for Vector layer). Just following this picture below to see the magic!

 

 

And spending your time to finish your artwork! This is the final result we got:

I hope I have more time for coloring it... However, that's all about this tutorial. Thank you for reading. Hope this will help you guys create more cool background.

 

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