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Draw and Paint Better with Krita

By : Wesley Gardner
Book Image

Draw and Paint Better with Krita

By: Wesley Gardner

Overview of this book

Krita is a free, open-source digital painting program with industry-leading functionality and a creative suite of tools able to bring any visual idea to life. It allows for a fast, clean approach to creating digital art, without the hassle of pay-to-play or subscription license fees, but just like all other art software, it takes time and effort to learn it. This book provides a comprehensive look into functional tools, visual problem-solving, and leading painting techniques using Krita to unleash your inner artist. You’ll learn the functionality and tools of Krita for creating digital and print-quality work as well as explore manipulation toolsets, custom brush creation, overviews of color spaces, and layer management. As you progress, you’ll get to grips with ‘key styles’ needed to make professional-grade digital art, through techniques such as photobashing, 3D paint-overs, and more traditional painting methods, along with covering how Krita handles these workflows. Next, you’ll work through a few step-by-step art pieces using the skills and tools learned throughout the book. By the end of this Krita book, you’ll have a solid understanding of the Krita work environment and be able to bring your artistic visions to life with a myriad of leading industry-standard techniques.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Intro to Krita and Digital Art Terminology Review
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Part 2: Methods of Visual Communication within Krita
11
Part 3: Projects Unleashing Your Inner Artist with Krita

Summary

Take a deep breath; you've made it through the brushes chapter! Brushes in Krita are a huge (huge) topic, and they are something that gets more and more fascinating as you play around with them. As I mentioned in this chapter, the official Krita documentation is a fantastic resource if you want to nail down the nitty-gritty of technicalities, mathematics, and programming styles of the brushes and engines.

In this chapter, we reviewed the idea of brushes with more of an artistic eye, focusing primarily on creating a custom set of brushes that fit our needs, and that we can refer to for the remainder of the book. We modified existing Krita brushes, created a brush from scratch using one of Krita's powerful brush engines, and even created a full bundle of resources to share with our fellow Krita artists!

I hope you found this chapter valuable, and I'm excited about seeing the great types of resources you're going to create and share with the world!

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