Krita QuickStart: for Digital Painting and Animation
What you'll learn
- Students will learn how to draw and paint digitally as well as animate in the free open source software.
Requirements
- If you are comfortable using a computer you should be fine. A drawing tablet is preferred but not required.
Description
Krita is a free open source software that can be used for digital painting by both professional and amateur artists. You can also animate in Krita. Many courses bombard you with tons of information up front when all you want to do is get to work. Krita can have a very short learning curve if all you want to do is paint digitally in a natural and intuitive way. After you dive in and begin creating, you can then come back to the course and learn the finer details of digital painting as well as some tips and tricks that you can use in Krita as well as other software. Then will will show you how to animated using Krita's timeline.
Who this course is for:
- Beginning students who are interested in learning digital painting and animation.
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Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 200 Reviews
- 1,189 Students
- 5 Courses
Aaron is a New York based freelance graphic artist and instructor. He has a Bachelors Degree in Scientific Illustration and a Masters Degree in Painting.
Aaron worked in the newspaper industry creating graphics and illustrations for 18 years. He has is a part time digital art instructor at a pair of Community Colleges where he teaches Digital Imaging (Photoshop), Digital Illustration (Illustrator) and Photography.
He is also an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop.
As a freelancer he works for clients around the world creating illustrations, infographics, animated explainer videos, photo composites and retouching photos.