#Krita tutorial series
#Krita tutorial free

Merge layer with the layer bellow, use Layer > Merge with Bellow layer ( or Ctrl+E ). Increase your grey color a bit, to reach the same grey value than your background ( or hold 'Control' to pick the color on the canvas ) and keep working on your modeling as you would do on a three dimensional plaster object.ġ3. Try to be subtle, play with the pressure of your stylus and erase when necessary.ġ2. Select a mid grey color in the Advanced color selector and start to draw more shadows by glazing successive strokes.

Select your layer with shadows, and 'merge it' with layer bellow with Ctrl+E, turn the opacity of the layer to 50%. Select the default 'Fill_block' brush and fill the part inside the silhouette with a brighter grey ( brighter than your sketch, but darker than your background ).ġ0. Create a new paint layer, and bring it between your blocked shadows, and the background. Keep it simple : zone of light and zone of shadows.ĩ. Again, use the eraser to enhance your modeling. If you begin, just try to paint the area under the eyebrows, and under the nose, volume for the hair, and for the neck. Block the shadows zone of your face, if you are not familiar with drawing or painting, this skill is relative to your capacity to abstract the 3D model of a face in your head, and know the volumes of it and guess the shadows cast by an abstract light source.

To delete all, in case you are not happy, press 'Delete' on the keyboard.Ĩ. You can correct your stroke to get proportion you like. Pressing it again will restore the behavior to paint. 'E' key on the keyboard will switch your brush to erase instead of paint. Shape the head, simple lines for the eyes, mouth, and nose, same for ears. Start to draw on canvas large axes, with direct and simple line strokes. Activate the shortcut on the top tool bar to the horizontal mirror mode.ħ. On the 'advanced color selector' docker, select a dark mid-grey value (3), and adjust the size with pressing shift+dragging the brush on the canvas to got a mid brush (4) ( check around 40px, on top 'size' slider )Ħ. Select the Freehand tool (1) and the default brush preset 'Bristtle_hairy' (2). Create a new empty 'Paint layer' above (3). Lock your layer (1) and rename it ( double click on it ) to 'Bg' (2). Now press 'Backspace' over your canvas (4), to fill this one with the grey background color.Ĥ. Click the little color square on the toolbar (1) ( the one under for the background color) step the value down to 216 (2) ( Hex: #D8D8D8 ), then accept with the OK button (3). Take the crop tool (2), and crop the visible canvas on your screen letting a border all around.ģ. Zoom your empty canvas to the 50% view (1) ( using '+' on keyboard or the mouse wheel ). Skip other field as Name or Image description, and press 'Create' (4).Ģ. A dialog will pop-up, select in it the tab on left 'Custom Document'(1) and create a new canvas with Width and Height to 4000 (2) and set resolution to 300ppi (3), as on the screenshot. On Krita first startup go to File menu on top, then 'New'.

Click on the pictures of this blog post to enlarge them.ġ.

I advice the 'Krita document' ( kra ) files.

Save your document often during the process.

: colorize : layer stack of blending mode : black and white : setup and modeling ( you are here )

#Krita tutorial free

It can be an ideal time investment if you have a first free afternoon to paint and want to learn basics of Krita while having fun. 'Simple' because I'll write it as a step by step with all details to paint a symmetrical portrait, but without explaining the complex stuff underneath about theory and 'rewarding' because we will get a result quickly. My first tutorial will be a simple but rewarding one. My goal here is to share the passion I have for digital painting and help new talents to get faster rid of the technical aspect to do the essential : telling stories, sharing beautiful pictures, expressing an artistic soul, etc.

I hope you'll learn something with this series. The screenshot are old and won't match your interface, but it's the best I can do at the moment to refresh this three post. I updated a bit the tutorial in september 2015. 2.9.7 ) you should have everything you need. This brush were added in Krita's default brushes after Krita 2.8. The tutorials were designed for Krita 2.7 in 2013 + my brushkit V3.

#Krita tutorial series

' Getting started with Krita' is a tutorial series of three blog post. The result of this blog post tutorial exercise