Materials in Clip Studio Paint

Clip Studio Paint comes with a variety of default materials that can support you in your art, such as image materials, 3D models, patterns, and screentones.

You can find default materials in the Material palette.

You can also register your own materials to the Material palette or download more materials such as brushes and color sets from Clip Studio Assets.

Types of materials

You can download and use the following types of materials in Clip Studio Paint.

Brush/tool settings

These materials are settings for sub-tools such as brushes, fill tools, and so on.You can use them after loading them into a Sub Tool palette.

Image material

These materials include patterns, background images, textures, and so on.Image materials can be made of one image material layer or made from multiple layers.Image materials can be used as a brush tip shape or texture, in addition to being used as an image.

Balloon

These are balloon layers that have been saved as materials to use later.

Animation

These are animation clips that have been saved to use later.You can load them to projects with a timeline enabled.

Template

You can save an arrangement of multiple layers as a template material.When a frame folder is included in the material, it is registered as a frame folder template, and in other cases, it is registered as a layer template.

3D material

3D materials include 3D objects, 3D characters, body shapes, poses, 3D primitives, and panoramas.You can apply pose materials and body shape materials to 3D models on the canvas.

Gradient set

These are custom gradient sets that have been saved as materials to use later.

Color set

These are custom color sets that have been saved as materials to use later.

Auto action

These are custom auto actions that have been saved as materials to use later.

Workspace

This type of material saves the palette layout, command bar settings, shortcut settings, and the unit settings.