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The important distinction between Photoshop and Clip Studio is what they were built for. Photoshop was built to edit photos. Clip Studio was built for digital art. You can use Photoshop to paint and Clip Studio to edit a photo, but there are fundamental differences between the two because of their focus.
Clip studio, on the other hand, was built with a primary focus towards digital art. Originally, their parent company Celsys was looking to help animators, then comic artists, and finally illustrators. In 2012, Clip Studio Paint was released. It was great timing, because even though Adobe was dominating the digital art market, there was rising demand for digital illustrations. And the best part was that they could take advantage of all the advancements drawing software had made over the years while innovating many of their own.
The digital art software landscape in 2012 may have been the launch for Clip Studio, but it was 18 years after Craig Mullins started using Photoshop for all his digital commercial artwork. By 2012, Adobe had launched the Creative Cloud and with it, its suite of landmark industry applications. Pretty much every major studio was using the Adobe Creative Suite to create the next generation of media and entertainment. Digital drawing and painting was synonymous with Photoshop.
Restore the settings to default, then click and grab the line to reveal a purple handle. That handle will retain a beautiful curve to your pen pressure settings where you can achieve the most comfortable feeling while drawing and painting.
You can tell Clip Studio was designed for digital artists when you use tools like this. There are smart features built into the fill tools, like the lasso and paint bucket, so it only fills your linework. You can quickly fill in your drawings with a base layer and move onto rendering your forms.
In Photoshop, I would always have a second smaller window open to put my reference in. Clip Studio recognizes that artists need to use reference a lot, and made a permanent version of this called the Subview window. You can only see one image at a time, but you can scroll through the images you place in the window. Personally, I think this is helpful so you can focus your attention instead of having an array of images bombarding you with visual information.
Artists generally have a workflow that they get comfortable with. You can still experiment with new things, but you also likely use the same 2-3 tools frequently for the bulk of your work. The Quick Access window lets you save these frequently used tools with their specific settings so that you can quickly call on them.
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