#clip studio

Brushes for drawing:

Mameo Mili Pen One of my favourite pens for lineart. While it does stay within the "mili pen" space of being fairly dense and thick per default, the pen pressure and opacity also allows for some fairly fine details. Unlike some mili pens this one has a bit of texture to it.

Mirre's Smooth Round Probably my second favourite for lineart. It's a simple smooth round brush that, imo, feels better than most round brushes out there. Nice and uniform. Give it a try if you're at a complete loss at what to use!

More/smooth/'sara' pen The translation tool Clip Studio uses seems to think 'sara' means "more" while google translate says it might be 'smooth' (which would make a lot more sense to me). It's another simple round pen with nice stabilisation and flow that works well in a lot of scenarios.

Pen (Final version?) This is just a really nice pen. It does fine details and thick outlines pretty well - with a bit of character.

Dusty pen It's rough and bold and slightly gritty - great for simple sticker-like designs! Textured pen Another pen with a little bit of grit to it, but slightly different. Rough & colour brush I mostly use this for roughs but it does do pretty well at colouring too.

Default Fill-in Monopen and Milli pen These feel kind of stiff to use - in the best way possible! I love them for sketching out thumbnails because they force me to give up detail in favor of prioritising the contrast of the wider greater picture.

Colouring:

Redjuice's Watercolour S, Fill-in-monopen, and Oil Pastel brushes Redjuice's brushes are great - he really knows a thing or two about how to fine tune his digital tools - but these three, in particular, are my favourites. Watercolour S is great for skin and I constantly find myself using for base colours and slight blending.

Square texture brush This one feels a little bit like Redjuice's Oil Pastel brush - but not completely. I like it a lot - choosing a square brush over a round can add some nice visual variety to areas that otherwise would have seemed smooth and airbrushed.

Lasso eraser (+ alternative lasso eraser) and Lasso fill Technically you can also use the Lasso Fill tool to erase by pressing C, but I keep forgetting to do that - hence the separate Lasso Eraser tool links. These are great for laying down quick colours and shapes. Probably some of my favourite tools!

Selection pens (+alt) and Airbrush selection (+ alt) There's a lot of these if you search for them, I just happened to choose these ones for this post. It's quite useful being able to draw your selections rather than using a regular lasso tool.

Pencils:

Analogue pencil^3 , Perfect pencil (w tilt) , and Real Pencil Yep, theses are pencils alright. If you like the feel of an HB to B pencil on paper I'll suggest going for Real Pencil first.

Unhelpful Eraser I don't use this a lot, but I like it for its niche ability to emulate a very real and very frustrating tool. I don't think I've found anything else quite like it.

Effects:

Double line Classic Really nice for shoelaces, stripes, etc. Mirre's Cross-hatch brush set