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Get Started Digital Painting with Krita

Everything you need to know to be able to create beautiful digital sketchings and paintings in Krita
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Length 3 to 4 weeks
Effort 2 hours per week
Price $ 67
Subject Design, Art
Level Beginner
Languages English
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Welcome to my course Get Started Digital Painting with Krita. This course is targeted at beginners and covers everything you need to know to create beautiful digital graphics.

This is not a drawing / painting course. Although the course is supplemented with the occasional drawing / painting tips, the focus of this course is on learning the Krita software.

Krita is a highly acclaimed digital painting software, and it is completely free and open source. If you want to get started in digital illustration without splurging on license fees then this is a great place to start. Once you have gained confidence digital painting you can easily and painlessly switch over to commercial software if you want. (Or you can continue using Krita of course!)

Contents of this course:

  • Section 1: Quickstart

    • Create doodles

    • Learn about brushes

    • Learn about layers

    • Learn about basic tools and shapes

  • Section 2: Sketching and Inking

    • Use the transformation tool to modify the basic forms

    • Use the assistant tool to lay down construction lines and basic forms

    • Create Bezier curves as line art

    • Create line art using the assistant tool

    • Use the krita brush stabilizers

  • Section 3: Painting and Colouring

    • Add colour to your sketches and line art

    • Use alpha inheritance to add shading, highlighting and backlighting

    • Learn to smoothen out colours (blending)

    • Learn all about the most common blend modes

    • Learn about using special brushes to paint texture and other effects

  • Section 4: Custom brushes

    • Get an overview of the editor

    • Learn about brush tips

    • Link parameters like size and opacity to inputs like pressure

    • Learn about remaining parameters

    • Learn about remaining inputs

    • Learn to import and export brushes

  • Section 5: Filters, layers and masks

    • Learn about layer styles

    • Get an overview of various filters

    • Learn about all the layer types

    • Learn about all the mask types

Krita version 4.0 comes with a brand new set of default brushes! This is great on the whole, but makes the videos a bit confusing! So I added some extra videos to help.

Who this course is for:
  • Anyone who is interested in getting started in Digital Painting without worrying about license fees.
  • Anyone who wants to learn Krita.
  • This is not a drawing / painting course. The focus of this course is on learning the Krita software.​

What you'll learn

  • Create digital sketches and paintings
  • Use the tools provided by Krita to create drawings and digital paintings
  • Create sketches
  • Create line art
  • Paint and colour in sketches and line art
  • Understand blend modes
  • Create, import and export custom brushes

Course syllabus

The Basics Sketching and Inking Painting and Colouring Creating Custom Brushes Filters, Layers and Masks Conclusion

Meet the instructors

Paul Gieske

Teacher and Engineer

Hi, my name is Paul and I am an IT teacher and an engineer. As a teacher / engineer I can combine my strong technical background with the experience I gained in passing on skills and knowledge to my students.

As a teacher I believe that it students learn better when they are learning actively. That's why I include a lot of practice exercises in my courses.

In addition to teaching and engineering, as a hobby I am enthusiastic about illustrating and 3D modeling.