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Challenge Day 4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

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Other than your garden variety fandom pages (AO3, Tumblr, Blue sky, pixiv, reddit, Twitter, my anime list etc.) one page that I come back to is Clip Studio Tips.

It's perhaps not the fannishest of pages as the content is original, but I would say it's on a tangent perhaps since a lot of people use the software for fannish activites, and one could also say that posting drawing tutorials can be a semi-fannish activity as it's very clear that it draws inspiration from anime and manga.

Clip Studio Paint is my favorite drawing software. I love the depth of the software as well as all the downloadable brushes, textures and 3-D resources. (I loathe the monthly subscription for tablets but I own the software for my computer so I don't have to be bothered by that).

Clip Studio Tips is a part of Clip Studio in a sense that it also has the official tutorials along with the user made ones. You can filter to different categories like hair, eyes, character art, shading, background and more. You can also select "for beginners" as a cateogiry. You don't need the software on an account to view these and I'm sure a lot of the beginner features are common across a lot of different software.

In no particular order, here are a couple of my favorites:

I once did a really nice study session over the course of a week I think it was on how to round your weather. Below is a collage of how that turned out (I was really really really happy with how it turned out).

This is the image I started out with:

And these are the variations made using tutorials from Clip Studio Tips: