And it's just one more way that you can blend colors together very quickly, in addition to the normal color blending that comes with the brushes. Now on the keyboard, if you're on a Mac, if you press and hold Option, or if you're on Windows, it'll be the Alt key, well that temporarily switches my brush to the eyedropper tool. This might be a good opportunity to introduce the temporary tool switch to the eyedropper tool. And that's what I really love about Clip Studio's brush engine, is the color blending just feels controllable, but it blends enough to give us a little bit of that traditional feel. I'm going to move over to a color here, and you'll immediately start seeing how easily and beautifully these gouache brushes blend colors with one another. Moving over to the brush category, I'm often using the thick paint sub tool category, and the gouache brushes are really, really nice. It's basically like the G pen, but just has a little bit of that textured edge that gives it just a little more of that traditional feel. And I also end up going to the textured pen quite often. It's got a nice kind of thick to thin to thick feel, and it reminds me of just a, you know, kind of an architectural felt tip pen. Another one I like to use as well is the tapered pen. And the G pen is just a solid, smooth inking pen, super fun to use, beautiful taper, and just smooth overall.

And I'm just going to go down here to a black color and maybe increase my size a little bit. Coming over here to the pen category, one I use a lot is the G pen. Now we've already used the rough pencil in our demo so far, but I'm just going to go through a few default Clip Studio brushes that I keep coming back to in my daily work, even though I've also imported a lot of other third party brushes.

Now, Clip Studio comes with a good set of quality default brushes, and there are tons of brushes you can purchase online and import from third party vendors.

Let's talk a little bit about what I feel is Clip Studio's biggest strength, which is its smooth and powerful brush engine.

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