The pens are still some of the best I’ve ever tried in a painting / drawing software.
I upgraded my Clip Studio Paint Ex license to version 2 while it was on sale for around £24 and honestly it is a fantastic update although I found the upgrade process a little confusing. All my Photoshop brushes work perfectly in the software and I find the perceptual colour mixing very nice. In my opinion Blendy mixing brushes work in a nicer way in this version of Clip Studio than in the current version of Krita I’m using (5.2.2). There is an option to turn any of the brushes into the colour mixing brushes which is a lot better than being limited to a certain brush engine per brush like in the way Krita works. I don’t like how complicated the UI feels by default in Clip Studio and the icons and text are really small but there is an option to use a tablet mode of the UI which is much more friendly looking. The pens are still some of the best I’ve ever tried in a painting / drawing software.