Tutorial: Painting Trees in Clip Studio Paint

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How to create new trees using the following Clip Studio Paint tools:

There's lots of more detailed tutorials out there for painting trees in a traditional way. The aim here is to use preset colours and layers to create multiple trees in a consistent style. This technique was reverse engineered from Leaf Kim's gorgeous painted trees.

Here's the tree created for this tutorial, which you can check out in the "old oak" folder in "oaks.csp".

The basic idea behind these trees is to create a monochrome image for the leaves and bark, then apply colour via a gradient map. You can find the gradient maps used in this tutorial in the colour adjustments folder in oaks.csp.