in a past live stream I painted a character of mine in medibang paint Pro a free program to see
how it held up against clip Studio paint a paid Titan of a program in this video I'll be going
over the main pros and cons of each program while the speed paint of the live stream goes on in the
background so first we'll be going over the pros of medibang prank Pro medibang is a free program
that handles very similarly to bigger programs so it has a lot of similar shortcuts and a lot
of similar tool names this is a pro because if you were to ever switch to a paid program in the
future or if you wanted to use something a little bit more advanced then you could very easily do
so because it has a lot of similar functions so it it's a very easy to transition program this
program is also very accessible for beginners so it's really easy to read and it's really easy to
get used to all the stuff is right in your face it's really easy to see all of the shortcuts right
there all the names of all the functions that are happening it's really easy to get used to and it's
really easy to read medibang also has a lot of the tools that bigger programs have like layer
types and brush settings it's cetera so medibang while it is you know a free program and it's a
little bit more simple it still has a lot of those more intense tools that bigger programs will have
which is really nice for a free program because you know you're getting that bang for your buck
and that buck is zero medibang also includes some of the Lesser known functions directly
on the toolbar so it's right in your face a lot of bigger programs require you to look through
the program to find these certain tools so say if you're going into your selection tools it
automatically has your expansion like your pixel expansion right there it automatically includes
like your color fill that sort of thing or like how much your color should expand when using your
paint bucket that isn't always directly in your face when it comes to programs sometimes that's
like hidden within the UI so it's kind of tough to see so it's really nice that they kind of just
put it directly on the upper toolbar you don't have to scroll you don't have to look through all
these little Windows to look for all of these functions which is pretty nice and is also a
mobile version of medibang that is completely free so there is a version of medibang Paint Pro that
is available to download on both your phone and your tablets that's also completely free so if
you ever wanted to do art on the go medibang you know has options for you some cons of mini bang
though is that there are no external brushes that you can download all of them are proprietary and
stuck within medibang the issue with that as well is that the extended brush Library isn't
great A lot of them are just effects brushes and even so the effects aren't that amazing looking
they're pretty clunky and making your own brushes is very unintuitive so if you didn't really like
how any of the default brushes on medibang worked make it your own brush is pretty complicated well
not necessarily complicated it's that it's not complicated enough there isn't really a lot of
settings you can change there really isn't much many options there for you so making your brushes
can be a bit finicky there are a lot of smaller things that are also missing from functions that
make the program I'm frustrating for a seasoned illustrator so there are a lot of things even
though it has a lot of similar things to bigger programs there's a lot of very small things that
are missing a lot of quality of life stuff that is not included in medibang that is in bigger
programs like there's no nudging with arrow keys if you don't know what nudging is when you select
an object you can use your arrow keys to move it over a pixel at a time so there's no nudging
with your arrow keys on medibang your arrow keys are your rotate backspace also doesn't double as
delete like so if you ever wanted to you know get rid of something like if you selected something
with your lasso you would have to hit the delete button you wouldn't have like backspace isn't an
option you also can't merge more than two layers at a time unless you put them in a folder so you
do have to put all of your layers within a folder if you wanted to merge them into one thing which
can get complicated especially if you have like clipped layers and if you wanted to merge all
of those together you couldn't do that unless if you unclipped them put them in a folder and then
click them again you also cannot clip layers to a folder that's not a thing you can do in many bang
but medibang is not great with the smaller things uh so if you're a bit more seasoned it might get
a little bit frustrating for you and I did say that there was a mobile version but while there
is a mobile app it doesn't actually perform that well so if you were to use it on your phone the UI
gets pretty squished like it's pretty simple on desktop but if you were to take it to something
like a phone or maybe even an iPad it can get a little bit small and clunky foreign [Music] clip
studio paint so the pros of clip studio paint is that it's a very very intuitive program it's
considered industry standard within many modern Digital Arts settings so it is a very very strong
very Hefty program it's got a lot of functions that are available and it also includes a lot of
functions that a lot of other programs don't have some of those include the perspective rulers
so what you can do is you can place down your own perspective and it snaps your brushes to a
perspective that you could set right so let's say that I wanted a two-point perspective I can put
down uh two points with the tool and whichever direction that I draw in it will snap to that
perspective ruler it also has a comic and manga page creator and it has layout tools so a couple
of programs have this but this one includes building your own boxes and speech bubbles in
a very very Advanced way you can change the spacing between each box you can change the
types of bubbles you can change the line width that sort of thing that's really nice and really
really smooth they also have Auto coloring uh I don't use this ever it's pretty finicky but
it is available for you they also have vectorized layers which is really nice it makes drawn things
on the layers unaffected by making them smaller or larger with the transform tool so that's pretty
awesome if you've ever been on a program and you want to make something like way way bigger
but then it like messes up your line quality the vectorized layer makes sure it doesn't do that and
etc etc because there's so many things to name the brushes also handle very
beautifully on clip clip also comes with a lot of very lifelike default brushes and many
of advanced effects brushes they come with a lot of buildings a lot of lights foliage
Etc and they make these effects look drawn they're really really nice really intuitive
and when I say life like default brushes they come with like watercolor brushes ink brushes
pencil brushes that sort of thing and they all handle and look very much like the real thing
um and if you were not too happy with whatever the defaults were there's a huge library of brushes
made by the community that you can download from the library or you can like just download
them from online clip studio also allows you to download photoshop brushes so if you ever wanted
those that's available making your own brushes is very Advanced and very intuitive there's lots of
options you can make your brushes as crazy as you want it says a lot to go through if you'd like to
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files behind the scenes posts and discounts on our class offerings some cons of clip Studio
paint though is that it's very non-beginner friendly clip studio is a very very Hefty
very clunky program it is an intense and busy UI there are many functions that are hidden behind
Windows hidden behind scrollers you wouldn't know about them unless you're pretty seasoned if you
weren't looking for them you wouldn't know and you would just think that it was missing the more
advanced functions require you as an artist to be more advanced as well so like I mentioned the
perspective ruler but if you don't really know how perspective works it's not like it's an oh
I'm doing the perspective for you it's more oh you need to know how this works so that you can place
it down and make it easier for yourself so clip Studio does cost money though it does go on sale
very frequently and it's a one-time payment there are two different versions of clip Studio there's
clip Studio paint Pro and clip Studio paint ex ex is the more advanced version clip Studio Pro is
the cheaper version I have Pro it works perfectly fine if you're an illustrator ex just kind of
gives you more animation capabilities but either or it's totally fine however they are moving to a
subscription model for any 2.0 updates so you can read more details about that on their site so you
have to pay for updates not necessarily the base program but if you wanted updates further from
that you would have to pay for the subscription model and there is a mobile version of clip Studio
but it was already a subscription model of six dollars per month and it also doesn't perform very
well on mobile unless you're on an iPad even then it's a little bit finicky so really both of these
programs should be used on desktop if you have that option because there are mobile versions but
really with most programs unless it was built for mobile it's not going to be very mobile friendly
thank you overall the program that you choose doesn't really matter it's whatever the artist
prefers if you wanted my opinion I do prefer clip Studio as a seasoned artist I would much
rather pay a little bit for a far more powerful program than settle for something for free however
if you're a beginner artist looking for something to try I'd recommend starting with a free program
like medibang if you find that you really like digital art or want something a little
more complex you can give yourself an upgrade down the line if you'd like to see more videos
on these programs we have tutorials for both medibang and clip Studio paint available on our
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