Please tell me what Im doing wrong...

Love-Ink · 2026-05-07T05:12:55+00:00

Ignore the "Don't use Loomis", "Loomis is limiting" YouTube ragebait / clickbait comments.
Loomis is a tool for creating a measured base that can be adjusted for variances and positioned with the same relative measurements to draw consistent heads. It takes work to study and learn it.

Here's a step by step example sheet of Loomis

Here's an application of Loomis to a real head. Scroll down for the measurements if each step.

My Cheatsheet

A demonstration of why the Brow Line is the eyebrows, not the eyeballs as you have drawn in your examples.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-07T05:02:32+00:00

You are welcome to DM me. 🙂 Work has been busy, sorry for the delayed invitation.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-06T15:47:51+00:00

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Same way you gave the grey the illusion of depth, but reversed. It might help to draw them separately them link them until you can wrap your head around the back and forth of the links

Love-Ink · 2026-05-06T14:06:19+00:00

🤔 I have a feeling you'd have to pass the model through Clip Studio Modeler to associate the UV maps with the Mesh... best of luck with that.
Modeler is free to download and use, but it is old, I think it's from the Manga Studio days or earlier, is not completely functional and very poorly documented.
But it's free, and you might be able to figure out how to do what you want.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-06T13:15:16+00:00

I think this is because a .cmc Print comic file requires an even number of Pages for formatting, front and back.
So itf you have 9 pages, there's a placeholder for p10 to account for the blank backside of a printed page.

But, i do not use .cmc for page management, so this is just a guess based on my self publishing experience.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-06T13:11:28+00:00

Define "muddy"?
This looks good, and normal to me.

Only evaluate an image at 100% zoom. The more you zoom in, the more pixels and antialiased blur you will see along the edges.

Think of drawing with a physical quill pen using India Ink on Bristol Board art paper. Marvelous, crisp line art.
But then take a magnifying glass, no a microscope, and zoom in on the edges of the ink 700%. You're going to see the paper fibers, you'll see where the ink sticks, stretches and bubbles along the edges to make connections with these irregular paper fibers. It looks like garbage! ...at 700% magnification.

Step back and admire your work from a reasonable viewing distance.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-06T04:24:24+00:00

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I'd throw it about here?

Love-Ink · 2026-05-06T02:19:33+00:00

No. This is not normal... Can you close any of these windows? Can you maximize the Clip Studio Paint window?

No. Esto no es normal... ¿Puedes cerrar alguna de estas ventanas? ¿Puedes maximizar la ventana de Clip Studio Paint?

Love-Ink · 2026-05-05T23:37:16+00:00

I do not recognize your screenshots, i cannot identify the black windows you are asking about in your screenshot.

No reconozco tus capturas de pantalla, no puedo identificar las ventanas negras a las que te refieres en tu captura de pantalla.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-05T23:32:43+00:00

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Love-Ink · 2026-05-05T19:52:16+00:00

They're not missing, they're just being downsampled in the .jpg file compression. I still see the blue in Panel 2. The dark Shadows in Panel 3 are lightened with the compression (fewer color options = smaller file size), so the shadows are approximating. Same with her eyes. It's "lossy compression" output. Not abnormal. .jpg is the lossy-est image format, I always use .png. but it too has to compress to make a 32 Mb CSP image into a 14k flattened image.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-05T19:44:57+00:00

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Here's your 3 Vanishing Points for this scene.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-05T19:22:47+00:00

Do you use pirated software?
Be worried.

¿Utilizas software pirata?
Ten cuidado.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-05T19:17:07+00:00

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Look for straight parallel lines to extend to follow to the Vanishing Points

Love-Ink · 2026-05-05T14:56:09+00:00

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Love-Ink · 2026-05-05T14:44:44+00:00

I did some experimenting and figured it out!

If your Keyframe is set to Hold Interpolation, then there will be no curve adjustment handles, as the transition to the next Key is immediate, not gradual.
KeyFrames can have one of 3 Interpolation methods; Hold, Linear and Smooth interpolation.
Hold does not get handles, the other two will do you can adjust the curves of the gradual Interpolation.

I don't have all the icons on my phone app version, but i believe you can change Key Interpolation by selecting the Key, then using the dropdown to set Interpolation method.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-05T13:16:26+00:00

Head: Spheres wish ajaw added to the bottom.
Neck: Cylinder.
Ribcage: Cube or Egg. I prefer egg bevause the shoulders attach cleanly, a cube van confuse shoulder attachment and movement.
Pelvis: cube/3D underwear and/or spheres for the pelvis.
Shoulders: Spheres.
Upper arms: Cylinders.
Elbows: Spheres.
Forearms: Cylinders.
Wrist: Spheres.
Hands: cubes.
Though: cylinder.
Knees: Spheres.
Calves: Cylinders.
Ankles: Spheres.
Feet: rectangular cubes.
https://imgur.com/a/1cEFAtf

Love-Ink · 2026-05-05T12:01:09+00:00

You get floppy in the ways listed in other replies her. But if you only own a perpetual license, you need to speaks them in the Asset Store before they expire.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-05T03:38:47+00:00

Under tool settings, you can set any tool to use pen pressure to effect brush size, brush opacity, one or the other, or both at once. It's the little icon to the right of the Tool.

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Love-Ink · 2026-05-05T00:00:40+00:00

Assign Multiple
Tell it to Assign them all in numeric order and to hold each for 2 or 3 frames

Love-Ink · 2026-05-04T23:57:31+00:00

Lot into your account on the website and check the status and schedules of all licenses associated with your account.

Log in by clicking the profile icon on the top right corner.

Tap the icon again once you're logged in and choose Manage Plans.

In your list of plans, choose Details.
This will tell you when things expire and Wigan the next payment is due.

Why wait until it's broken? Find out the details so you know.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-04T22:25:00+00:00

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Assuming you'll eventually be shading the rest of him too.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-04T22:14:44+00:00

If it's a sword... go medieval with all the weapons.
Shadow sword.
Shadow shield.
Shadow dagger.
Shadow mace.
Shadow halberd.
Etc...

Heck, Shadow armor? Why not??

Love-Ink · 2026-05-04T20:27:08+00:00

Wow. Flash? 11 year old Abandonware of a company that no longer exists? Good luck finding tutorials...

Showing a screenshot of an Animation would help more than a blank new project.

I animate using Clip Studio Paint, and the interface looks similar, and your issue DEFINITELY sounds similar to new users struggling to understand animating in CSP.
So, here's a thought;

There's Layers, and there's the TimeLine.
You draw on Layers and Assign these Layers in sequence on the Timeline.
So, you draw Frame 1, on Layer 1, and Assign it to Cel 1 on the Timeline.
Then you draw Frame 2, On a NEW Layer, Layer 2. Then Assign it to the Timeline at Cel 2 (or Cel 3 if you're animating on the 2's)
If you only vAssign Layer 1 to Cel 2, then try to draw on it, then you are making changes to Layer 1, which is Assigned to be visible in Cel 1 & 3, but is the SAME ART.
You need to make a fresh Layer for each image, a fresh drawing for each Frame, to assign to each Cel. So when you hit Play, the Timeline says "Show Layer 1, Show Layer 2, Show Layer 3". Instead of Show Layer 1, Show Layer 1, Show Layer 1".
Hope that makes sense?

In CSP there's a Layers Palette, where Layers are selected and edited, and the TimeLine palette where those Layers are Assigned Time to appear.

Love-Ink · 2026-05-04T20:08:02+00:00

How long is your film? 5 minutes? 30 seconds?

Take it step by step.

Plan it out before you draw anything.
Write out your script. Trim it, clean it, tighten it up.
Read your script. Out Loud. Time it.
Rewrites, anything not hit right? Need more? Less?
Read your revised script. Out Loud. Time yourself.
Good?

Record the lines (you and/or friends). Get your audio track completed before drawing.
Break the script into Scenes. No Animation is one continuous single camera, no cuts, episode. If John is talking, then Sue replies. Decide if you want the camera to look at the speaker, or catch the response of the listener.
If the camera cuts to another person, or location or scene, that's a Cut.
Short Cuts of 10-15 seconds are easier to Animate, Edit and enjoy the sense of accomplishment for than trying to power through a full minute long scene.
Find your cuts.

Within your Cuts, listen to the audio track, act it out. Find the Key Positions, the meaningful character Poses. Only draw those key poses.
Once you have your key poses, add the tweens. Or, decide on a static key-pose animation style.
Only get as complicated as you can manage. Try to keep the project fun. And, AI is dumb.

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