#and because its not digital art i cant just click a button and change the background color

[the-dragon-girl-27]

Vocaloid Collection doodles

Yellow by Shu and Self Proclaimed Angel by Katachi P

[artharakka]

everytime your art pops up on my dash i am just so amazed. the colors, your art style all just *cheffs kiss*.

a while back you got an ask about what program you use, and i was wondering if you could share some more details about brushes + settings + canvas size etc. i rlly want to try digital art myself but im at a loss where to start.

sorry for the rambeling and the multiple questions. cant wait to see what you will make next <3

Thank you!! (and thank you to the other anon who also asked about my settings, I'm answering the technical stuff here but I got your message as well!)

I feel like I’m getting hang of colours again in a way that I like after I got a new computer screen, so thank you for that especially 🧡

I ended up rambling (because I also remember when I started and was at loss where to start), so answers are under “read more”!

If someone hadn't seen the referred ask, the program I use is Krita so brushes etc are for that. I think I originally ended up with Krita because it was (and is) free and I liked its brushes best.

I just went with the default settings hah so the canvas size & resolution I usually start with is 300ppi and A4 (so 2480x3508 px). Sometimes for the square works I go with 3000x3000 or 4000x4000 canvas (or just cut the A4 into square. It's a mess). For commissions I usually work with sliiightly larger canvas sizes but depends on the work. I still don’t know if there’s a right answer to this? If you plan to print it, don’t use too low resolution and if the canvas is really small the picture might pixelate. Internet might have more accurate answers to this but so far these have worked for me?

I gathered my most used brushes in one neat picture (that is hopefully clear enough.. say if it’s hard to see/understand!) Also a couple of older brushes that I don’t use that much anymore but occasionally come handy!

And idk if it’s helpful but here’s my Krita setup:

I like to use Big_Paint_2 workspace (changed from upper right corner) and dark theme (Settings -> Themes -> Krita dark). Besides that I think I mostly went with Krita’s default settings. The brushes listed above I’ve made my favourites that I can easily access through quick selection wheel that (at least for me) opens with right click (or corresponding button on my pen)