My Creative Process and The Tools I Use

In a more wholesome time of my life I ran several non-erotic blogs and I would share my art from time to time. I would get many questions about my creative process and I would answer questions as they came in. I never did create a post detailing my process, so I thought I would do one now.

My process has changed a lot since those days of less edge, I barely ever used color and if I did it was pretty basic, a lot of what I do now is mostly about learning to use color.

As it stands I mostly work digitally, using Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint with a Wacom Intuos Manga Pen and Touch Small, and in a slightly different direction Ren'Py, but more about that later. Because I'm more interested in learning color and I hate using actual paints and colored pencils, this is a perfect little set-up for me. Line work suffers though, drawing on paper and transferring it to a computer would in my opinion result in far better line-work, but I'm not to fussed about that now.

I use Clip Studio for the most part, I works perfectly with the Wacom Intuos. I don't know what it is about the Intuos and Photoshop but I've never been able to get them to play nice together, as a result I mostly use Photoshop for touch-ups and for the few things Clip Studio can't do.

Paper, Pencils and Pens

I haven't drawn on paper all that much recently, but I'll get back to it one day, will always be useful.

Wacom Intuos Manga Pen and Touch Small

I don't think they make this model anymore, but they have many options like it. It was the most affordable and smallest option at the time I purchased it. The drawing area is about the size of a large envelope and it does pretty much everything I need it too, works great with Clip Studio. There is however for me at least a slight disconnect between the tablet and screen, something I imagine would be gone on one of those big Cintiq fuckers, which I hope to own one day.

Clip Studio Paint

Before Clip Studio I exclusively used Photoshop, after Clip Studio I barely use Photoshop. Mostly because the line-work options in Clip Studio are worlds beyond what Photoshop can do. And it actual works how I'd like it to with my Wacom.

Photoshop

Incredibly useful and if you know how to use Photoshop, you should be able to pick-up Clip Studio.

Ren'Py

Ren'Py is a visual novel maker, an interactive story game maker essentially. I'm in the process of making a game using this engine that takes up a substantial amount of my time. It is frighteningly easy to use, if you've had any experience editing html or CSS you should be able to pick-up Ren'Py quite quickly.

So there you have it, a little about what I'm working on and the tools I use. No doubt my process will change and I'll be sure to update this post from time to time, I may even make some tutorials.

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