Month: August 2025

This card is from Chipflake’s Basic Animation video (link below).

This lesson is about basic animation in Clip Studio Paint. It leads you through a simple animation of a cat meowing, while going over all the basics of setup and a good work process. I was able to get through the lesson with a very mis-formed cat, but I did it! And I was charmed by it! And I’m really amazed by the capability of Clip Studio. I am having a much easier time getting results I like in CSP, much better than Photoshop or Procreate. Probably part of it is just practice and getting better at art, but I feel like the control is much better in CSP, it’s very much like drawing on paper. This lesson took me the better part of two days of work. I watch several videos recommended by CSP and this workflow was the best for me. I made some other basic animations, like a rolling ball, but Clipflake’s tutorial was the best. I really enjoyed it and I’m having fun playing with animation.

Next time I will plan my own animation and think about things better ahead of time. Now that I have the gist of how to work things, I can do a better animation next time.

Clip Studio Paint using Huion tablet.

This took about 2 days of experimentation and about two hours to complete this image.

I even added this to a test video with a meow sound, and it’s amazing how much sound adds to the effect. Very cute! I did not include the sound with this gif since I don’t want my website meowing!

Here is Clipflake’s tutorial:

This card is for a finished work. Sometimes I get caught up in applying a lesson and do a finished work instead of a lesson.

This time I was working on thumbnails for my channel. I did a sketch a few weeks ago and then took it to a finished work. I’m conflicted on this one, I like the heavier lines and sketchiness of the sketch. But the finished work is maybe better?

This marks the first time I will use my own character drawing for an episode! I have come so far and I’m so excited for this. It’s the first step and I can’t wait to see how my character evolves over time.

This is the sketch:

and here’s the finished thumbnail. I like it, but I also kinda like the sketch too. Not sure what direction I’ll take things.