F&F style testing? (Patreon)

I found a bunch of shoujo manga effects brushes for Clip Studio Paint and wanted to try them out. The first three pictures are me adding shoujo-ish effects to my normal F&F art style.

I really liked the effect brushes, but didn't think they worked well with the inking brush I've been using. (I've been using an inking brush with a randomised width, to give it a natural media, slightly sketchy appearance, but I think the roughness doesn't work with the crispness of the effect brushes I downloaded.)

So I tried making a few new inking brushes that are less random and sketchy, more clean and 'sparkly ('for lack of a better word?) and I used these inking brushes for all the other picture I've uploaded.

I've tried out a bunch of the effects brushes, and a bunch of different moods/colour schemes/backgrounds etc. and I think it all works quite well, and I really love the shoujo manga effects :D