
Explore Krita's basics, from installing and opening files to navigating the canvas, adjusting the interface, and using brushes, layers, and essential tools to create clean digital art.
Learn to expand Krita with brush bundles, import and activate them in settings, and plan your composition before painting using RGBa, Mamy Leo, and pastel brushes.
Find compelling ideas for art in Krita by using references to build composition, explore color theory, complementary colors, and contrast, and plan a hyacinth macaw on a neutral background.
Sketch the subject in a 3840 by 2160 Krita project on a black background, using a white sketch on a separate layer and the transformation tool to refine proportions.
Paint the flower pots in Krita by blocking colors on individual layers, adding painterly textures and subtle shadows to mimic cylindrical form with desaturated beige tones.
Refine and finish digital art in Krita by adjusting shadows, saturation, and highlights, experimenting with layers, and finalizing details and signature to enhance composition and coherence.
Always save your Krita documents to keep editing options open after finishing artwork. PNG or JPEG exports hide layers, making future changes hard; organize a separate Krita documents folder.
Discover a four-stage framework to progress as a digital artist: learn the medium, explore creation methods, acquire essential skills, and reflect to improve your Krita artwork.
This is a course for both beginners and experienced digital artists.
The art of digital painting allows you to express yourself in an infinite amount of ways. I want to share what I've learned over the years by guiding you through the creation of a great painting while giving you many many tips along the way.
This is my approach to making a digital painting, explained in the most detailed and understandable way possible.
I have carefully put this course together to make digital art more accessible and enable others to give life to their ideas. From basic principles that you should always follow to advanced tips that take your art to the next level. I've included many practical strategies that you can use far beyond this course.
In a project-based way, you will create a full value artwork with the free software Krita, that you can use as a wallpaper. Just follow me and discover the ways of making great digital art!
During the process I will tell you what I'm thinking at all times, so you get a deeper understanding of digital art.
At the start I'm going to give you an overview for Krita so you know the basics of using this amazing program.
We're going to continue by collecting ideas for an artwork and forging them into a pleasing composition by using art and design principles.
Then we're going to make a sketch for the actual artwork. Which we'll follow up by carefully filling everything with the according colors and details.
So in the end you will have a full value artwork that has (hopefully) taught you many generally applicable principles about art. So you should be able to repeat this process for an infinite amount of your future artworks.
I'm going to conclude the course by giving you more general advice for your art journey and showing you how you can progress consistently as an artist.
And that's pretty much it. Watch the lessons to find out what it's all about!
I'm excited to see how it works for you :)