How To Draw 90s Anime Style

Howdy! In this article I will prove y'all how to Pigment ANIME 90s manner in Clip Studio PAINT, using an optimized color palette and an Automatic Filter. Achieving a really dandy effect.

I will requite you some color recommendations to utilize in your drawings.

Nosotros will too see different techniques for painting in Clip Studio Paint, such as: Referring to other layers or Painting in an unfilled area. (Besides Locking Transparent Pixels and Snap to Bottom Layer)

This is the Illustration that nosotros are going to transform into 90's Anime.

Anime 90s style illustration that we will make

From Manga to Anime of the 90s

I invite yous to see the super tutorial where I show y'all the whole process step by step:

VIDEO: How to PAINT ANIME 90s mode in Clip Studio PAINT

The video is in Spanish simply y'all can activate the subtitles in your language, I'grand sure y'all'll observe information technology.

VIDEO in English language: Paint ANIME 90s style in Clip Studio PAINT

I have created a new Youtube channel in English language to teach all my Clip Studio PAINT TIPS, I invite you to picket the video if y'all speak English:

Summary of the process

At present I invite you to encounter again all the steps through images and Gifs.

ane. Color Base

We conciliate all the layers except the Border Line of the Illustration.

And nether the line layer we create a New Raster Layer

Proper noun: Base Colour.

ii. 90s Anime Mode Retro Colour Palette

We go to the colour area and cull the second option.

And we open the Material folder and accept the downloaded Colour Palette.
This is the color palette we will use:

Nosotros take information technology and drag it to the color area.

three. Fill Tool

In one case we have the color palette bachelor, we select the tool: Fill. In Subtool we activate: Refer to other layers.

In the Base Color layer by ways of clicks we are going to paint the color of the illustration.

4. Paint unfilled area

In some areas it volition be very difficult to paint, for this nosotros will activate: Pigment not-filled area.

And so we can paint the empty areas.

v. Block Transparent Pixels

Once we have the base of operations colour we can modify the colors, equally I show you beneath with the uniform.

Nosotros select and make visible the base color layer of the compatible.

And we activate: Block transparent pixels.

And we pigment with the fill tool that is at the top:

six. Snap to Bottom Layer

Now on the Base Colour layer we will create a New Raster Layer named: Shadows.

And we activate: Adjust to Lower Layer.

And we paint with the Pen tool or with the tool that you lot employ to paint.

And so far we have the following result:

vii.How to paint the color of the edge line?

I will show you one of the many ways that exist but without a dubiety this is my favorite.
Offset we demand to create a New Raster Layer above the Line layer.

Selecting the new layer chosen Line Color we actuate: Adjust to Lower Layer.

And we cull a color from the palette and pigment with the fill tool that is at the height.

With the same color nosotros can pigment the shadow of the uniform, blocking the transparent pixels of that layer. This is something very used in the Anime of the 90s, that is, that the color of the line is the same every bit the dark shadows.

eight. Pigment with the Airbrush Tool

Nosotros create a new raster layer above the others with the name: Cheeks (or whatever y'all want)

We select the Airbrush tool, in Soft Sub Tool.

And we paint the area of the cheeks, first we will utilise the same base color of the skin, to hide the lines of the cheeks.

And so we chose a different color to make the cheeks so classic from the 90s anime. Believe me they used a existent Airbrush to pigment the cheeks blushing.

And we become the post-obit result:

9. Illustration Background

The material that we will apply tin exist downloaded below:

One time nosotros have downloaded information technology, from the material window we take the Background and put it under the folder of the analogy of our drawing.

And with the Operation tool we scale the Background image.

Making it look like this, at the moment I don't like information technology very much, for the same reason nosotros will make some very simple changes below.

10. Effect of the Fund

We create a new raster layer on the background layer and below the girl'south layer, in the Blend modes nosotros volition activate: Lighten.

We choose a colour and pigment with the top fill tool.

eleven. Combine Layers

We select the folder of the girl, the groundwork and the outcome with Shift, right button: Duplicate layer.

We take them to the top and once again with the correct button: Combine selected layers.

We take all the illustration on the same layer (I recommend hiding the original layers)

12. 90s Retro Anime Event

We duplicate the Illustration layer and add the name of: Effects. This is where we are going to apply the retro filters.

We activate the panel: Automatic Activity.

And we select in the Material folder the Filter that we will utilize called: Retro Filters.
Y'all tin can download it below:

Once downloaded and installed, nosotros grab information technology and elevate it to the Automobile Activity console.

With Shift we select all the actions and activate: Start of playing auto activeness.

Each of the applied effects will announced where y'all just have to click on: Accept.

Below you can meet how the Gaussian Blur works in our illustration.

We can also play with the different deportment, making them fifty-fifty more visible.

The Perlin Noise past default comes in ane, I changed it to 2, only yous tin put the value you desire.

And nosotros get the following result, without a doubt it is Beautiful!

13. Export your 90s Anime Manner Illustration.

Permit'southward go to: File - Export (one layer) - .png (PNG)

We choose the folder where we want to save our prototype.

In PNG Export Settings y'all keep information technology this way:

Finally we see the window: Export preview.

xiv. 90s Anime Style Final Illustration

I am actually surprised with all that we can do in Clip Studio PAINT and proof of this was this commodity.

I hope all this information has been useful to you and that information technology encourages you to create your own retro illustrations from the 90s.

Encounter you lot in the next TIP!

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