Learn Krita 5 with simple Exercises: Beginner Digital Art

Open Krita and create a new image with a 1000 by 1000 canvas. Learn to navigate the canvas, adjust dockers, tools, and themes to fit your digital art workflow.

Master the basic process in Krita 5 by creating or opening images, handling PNG, JPEG, and vector files, and saving as or exporting while preserving layers.

Learn the basic drawing and painting functions in Krita 5, from brush selection and color to undo, shapes, layer transformations, gradients, grids, and wraparound options.

Master brush basics in Krita 5, exploring layers and selections alongside brush tool use, pressure sensitivity, opacity, size, eraser mode, and color workflows to create expressive digital paintings.

Explore Krita 5 brushes, from erasers and airbrushes to textured, sketching, ink, and watercolor brushes, and learn to import brush bundles and use blending modes for richer digital painting.

Practice painting a simple tree in Krita 5 using basic tools, multiple brushes, and color techniques to build trunk, branches, and foliage while experimenting with texture and highlights.

Master Krita 5 shape tools, including line, rectangle, ellipse, polygon, polyline, bezier, and more, to draw precise shapes with fills, patterns, outlines, and size controls.

Learn Krita selections, including rectangle, ellipse, polygonal, and freehand tools, with add, replace, subtract, and intersect options; undo with Ctrl+Shift+A and select all with Ctrl+A.

Learn essential Krita 5 tools for beginners, including selection-based edits, fill bucket and gradient tools, color picker, and color sampling to enhance digital art.

Discover how Krita layers organize your artwork, manage visibility and opacity, and use move, transform, and merge tools to edit objects on separate layers.

Practice new features in Krita 5 by using selections and shapes to create an abstract artwork on a 1000 by 1000 canvas, exploring pattern fills and gradients.

Learn practical image editing in Krita 5, including importing photos as layers, transforming and cropping, adjusting color spaces, using smart patch, and applying oil paint filters to enhance artwork.

Master vectors as independently scalable graphics built from lines, shapes, and curves. Use vector layers for text and logos, and apply layer styles like drop shadow and bevel.

Continue the picture by sketching on the right and painting mountains, sky, grass, and a lake reflection in Krita 5, using layered brushes and the oil paint filter for texture.

Learn practical warm-up exercises for brushwork in Krita 5, including fast parallel lines, imperfect circles, and dot-to-dot drills to improve precision, confidence, and control of your drawing tablet.

Wrap up the Krita basics by practicing brushes, layers, selecting, color adjustments, and filters through exercises that reveal the creative potential of these core tools.