Clip Studio Paint

Digital drawing for illustrators and comic artists

Clip Studio Paint is a full-featured art and design app for creating illustrations, comics, manga, character art, and animation on Android devices. It suits artists who want detailed control over brushes, layers, line work, color, and page-based projects, while still offering a simpler workspace for casual sketching. The app is developed by CELSYS,Inc. and has more than 10,000,000 installs.

Tools for precise artwork

The app includes editable vector layers, allowing line work to be adjusted and resized without the same loss of clarity associated with raster strokes. Artists can also use 3D models and primitives as references for poses, proportions, and perspective. Its brush and color tools are designed for both clean digital work and more natural, traditional-looking marks.

Assets, coloring, and animation

Clip Studio Paint provides access to a broad collection of downloadable brushes, textures, patterns, and other materials. These assets can help build backgrounds, clothing details, effects, and surface treatments without creating every element manually. Animation tools support projects ranging from short GIFs to longer scenes, with options for sound and camera movement. Color mixing and shading assistance can also speed up basic lighting and coloring tasks.

Two ways to work

Simple Mode keeps the interface more approachable and leaves additional room for the canvas, which can be useful on smaller screens. Studio Mode exposes a deeper set of controls for artists who need a more desktop-like workflow. The larger feature set may take time to learn, but it is supported by tutorials and community tips. With a rating of 4.44 from 34,952 reviews, the app is aimed at users who need more than a basic sketchbook.