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.