From the course: Create a Comic Book Using Existing Art in Clip Studio Paint

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Add tone, half tone, dot pattern

Add tone, half tone, dot pattern

- [Instructor] In story boarding, tone means to add grays to drawing. The tone in Clip Studio refers using black dots or lines to create a simulated gray tone. If you've ever looked closely at a newspaper print or even old black and white comics, you've seen lots of black dots that make up the graphics and photos. And you create this look in Clip Studio, which is often used in the printing of black and white printed comics, in particular in Manga. So let's take a look at this image. So this is a black and white scan which was actually scanned in gray tone, but we just have black and whites here. And I have this on its own layer. I also already colored in green for the shirt. It doesn't matter what color it is for this example, but you can't see it. Why? Because the top scan is still set to normal. So let's start with setting the blending mode to multiply that makes white invisible. In shades of gray, you can see…

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