#krita tips

[rhouxl]

Hello my fellow Kritters

Settings -> Configure Krita -> Display -> Grid Settings -> Canvas Border Color

Settings -> Configure Krita -> General -> Cursor -> Cursor Color

[blinding-ruby]

Amazing!

Hi, my friend uses SAI to get this paste/crayon looking brush and they sent me 2 .bmp files(“form” and “texture” I assume) but I can’t seem to recreate them in krita.

Ok, sorry for the late reply, but given I’m investigating Sai fileimport right now, I can finally recheck these values.

First of all, your friend is using an old version of the Sai 2 technical demo, some of the sliders aren’t in Sai 1 nor in the newer versions of the Sai 2 technical demo.

Resave the two BMPs in to PNGs.

Then, go to settings->manage resources and import the ‘FuzyStatic’ png file as a brushtip, and the ‘CrayonCharcoal’ png file as a texture.

Select basic-2 opacity as a base to start with. Then f5 to open the brush editor. There, select brushtip->predefined brush tip, select the fuzystatic file set Size to ‘9′(you can rightclick the sliders to set precise values by keyboard).

Then, go to opacity, and turn off ‘enable pen settings’. Go to size, press the toggle before it. Then make sure that in the curve, the leftmost dot is at the middle to get a minimum size of 50%.

Select pattern, select the crayononcharcoal texture. Then switch to the ‘options’ tab at the top. There, you will need to play with the contrast and brightness settings. The scratch option seems to be similar to the strength toggle for us, but I am not sure.

Other things you might need to play with: 1. The spacing in the predefined brush tip settings might need to be lower, and 2. The sharpness setting, turn off the pen settings there, and then treat it as inverted version of the ‘intensity’ slider next to the ‘fuzystatic’ entry above.

I can’t tell you the exact number for all of these things, because I don’t have access to the two bmp files you are talking about. But this is how these options map in the Krita brush settings.

[mebis-art-dump]

She is so cool

[theletterwsartflap]

Mars and Aries.

Made Aries closer to average sized because I like contrast.

[p00kietin]

Brittany my beloved...........

[denpring]

Art tip: You can use lasso fill (or in Krita, freehand path) to do lineart!

[polariscroquis]

Hey guys! As I always post here, I posted the videos for my latest Ghost illustrations on my channel - the Missionary Man one and the one for I Believe.

I'll leave a link to both below, as per usual. They are long videos, but I talk a lot about how I think the illustrations, composition, coloring, style, random stuff (the papas being 80% legs, for instance) and all. I hope you at least have fun with it if you're interested!

It's just to show a bit of my process and blabber about art. I'm self-taught, so maybe I'll be able to give some weird tips here and there ;)

Missionary Man is 32min long and I Believe is 27min. It was the best I could to to speed up around 7h of drawing without looking TOO chaotic.

and now that I'm thinking about it I seriously hope yt won't take down the I Believe video because of "nudity" T-T

[octoberloved]

baby you could kiss a hundred boys in bars~

[potato-lord-but-not]

can you show us what krita brushes you use?

yes sir !! red for sketching, purple for lineart (which varies depending on how I’m feeling tbh), and green for coloring (first one flat color and cell shading, second for blush n texture)

ALSO a pic of the brush packs I’ve acquired over the years bc I’m crazy (and bc some of the above are from packs, RZV, Krita 4 extras, and brush rush specifically)

[scribblewise]

[crescentmoonsandroses]

It's raining somewhere else...

Undertale belongs to Toby Fox.

[solarpaintdragon]

Friendly reminder to donate to the small indie resources

If you use a free art software like Krita or GIMP

If you use free and open source 3D software like Blender

If you use a free resource like PureRef, Quickposes, or AdorkaStock

If you use a free game-making software like Renpy, Twine, or GBStudio

Your favorite digital brush makers, like Devin Elle Kurtz

Your favorite free font makers, such as Blambot

feel free to add more

A lot of these are made and maintained by one person or a small team of people, who likely have day jobs and other responsibilities, but also create these resources for us to use.

Obviously these are all free to begin with for a reason. So you don't need to feel guilty using it if you can't afford to donate.

But If you can afford just $5 or $10 dollars, show the creators of your favorite free software your thanks. Remember that there are real people behind these resources who make them free and open source out of the kindness of their own hearts. It's easy to forget the human behind the screen.

[paintpanic]

I just got a drawing tablet! Exciting stuff.

Please be patient with me for a while here as I adjust. Thank you!

[upsidedownsmore]

Hi!! I was wondering if its okay to ask what brushes u normally use in krita? I love your art!!

Thank you so much!!! I only use the ones available in Krita by default and I tend to jump around based on what I think will work best for each piece, but I can give a little rundown on which ones I use the most and what I use them for :)

Here's an image guide with each of the brushes I've used and that I recommend checking out:

I'll highlight my favorites as well with some examples where they were predominantly used! (though in some cases multiple or even all of these brushes were used)

Marker Details:

Varying opacity and size makes this one my favorites for sketching, especially since it can easily be nearly transparent or fully opaque which helps with value range.

I also like using it for silhouette sketches!

It can also be used for final linework, but it takes more work to get to a full opaque and its lack of texture makes it a little less interesting than Ink-7 Brush Rough imo.

Ink-7 Brush Rough:

Really good for linework, especially for comic styled drawings with it's slight texture, varying weight, and opaqueness.

Also good for just filling in entire areas with a single color as well as non-smoothed shading!

Wet Bristles Rough:

Actually just an amazing brush, its pressure sensitivity is crazy.

Blends strokes like paint and can vary in size and opacity.

Also has a nice subtle texture!

Amazing for smoother coloring and shading, especially if you want a more painterly style.

Watercolor Texture:

(hard to show examples of this, just assume that I've used it in any piece that has smooth shading lol)

Not the best for painting/drawing on its own, however I've found it to be really useful when set to white or black on an overlay layer for adding extra shading and/or highlighting on top of the shading I've already done.

I usually shade individual figures, objects, and parts separately, but using an overlay layer with Watercolor Texture (or even Shapes Square) on top of everything helps make the entire piece feel more cohesive.

Also adds a hint more texture!

Another thing to note is the importance of layer modes!

I know that you asked about brushes specifically, but many of these brushes (particularly those to do with effects and textures) work best when experimenting with different layer modes other than Normal. Overlay is generally a safe bet and most of the best for, well, overlaying multiple layers for interesting effects. But please try out all of them at any given opportunity, sometimes things like Burn, Color Dodge, Soft Light, etc can have more interesting effects!

In addition, mess with filter masks! You can even edit where they apply by drawing on the mask directly! HSV/HSL Adjustment (also accessible with ctrl+u) in particular is INSANELY useful for fiddling with the colors and balance of a piece, from individual layers to whole groups and drawings. I also really like blur filters, often times I'll duplicate a layer and make the bottom one blurred to add a glow affect to something without losing its definition.

While this latter stuff isn't about brushes specifically, its generally very important to how I use and experiment with all these different brushes!

Anyways I hope this helps!! I kinda went overboard with this post, but I had a lot of fun writing it! Thank you again for the wonderful ask!! :)

[susartwork]

Krita brush+brush settings?👉👈/nf

I use the Basic-5 Size brush for the lineart (default settings).

While for shading I use the Marker Details brush (default settings) + custom Airbrush Soft or a softer version of the Marker Details:

Hope it helps!

[wallofshrek]

"You wanna die, and yet you can't - so why Don't you just feed on me so you can stay alive?" The both of us are the only sane ones here, Although your voice is heard by people far and near I wanna hurt myself and ask you how I breathe in happiness and breathe out poison clouds A perfect junkie hooked on big ideals Isn't it great that we're the only sane ones here?

got so fucking pissed off trying to clear low hacks eight's palette in side order that i went and drew my favorite wet cat and their fucked up codependent manipulator. also AGH just realized the stripy texture layer is too opaque but it's too late to go back and change it now WHY DID I FLATTEN THE IMAGE

oh well. the over-texturing kind of fits. i guess.

*the song linked (rachie's english cover of undead alice) is a romantic song but i do wanna note that i don't ship these two together. in my headcanon they have something extremely fucked up, but strictly platonic, going on. it's just that the first two verses (and some other parts tbh) of the song really do fit whatever the hell is going on with these two, to me.

bonus (mostly) raw photo of it in my sketchbook before all the editing: