This would be similar to using an analog marker or brush on paper. The first is the more traditional method of taking a shape brush or using the geometric tools to lay in color. Paint blocks of color directly with block brushes. There are many ways to color a line art in Krita, but generally, these three are common among the artists. Your line art can be in grayscale color space, this is a unique feature in Krita which allows you to keep a layer in a color-space independent from the image. it will make the white transparent leaving only the line art. This will convert the white color in your line art to alpha i.e. If you have imported scanned art and need to select another color for the paper color then you would do it here. The Color Selector is set to White by default. Use the dialog box to turn all the white areas of the image transparent. You can learn more about doing a sketch from blue sketch to digital painting here in a tutorial by David Revoy.Īfter you have a clean black and white line art you may need to erase the white color and keep only black line art, to achieve that go to Filters ‣ Colors ‣ Color to Alpha… menu item. If you are drawing digitally in blue lines use #A4DDED color as this is closer to non-photo-blue color. It is good to use non-photo-blue pencils to create the blue lines as those are easy to remove. Go to Filters ‣ Adjust ‣ Desaturate or press the Ctrl + Shift + U shortcut. Now apply the color adjustment filter, yes we still have lots of blue on the artwork. If you still see them, then go to Blue Channel in the color adjustment and shift the top right node towards left a bit, Or enter a value around 190 (one that removes the remaining rough lines) in the input box. Now the whole drawing will have a blue overlay, zoom in and check if the blue pencil lines are still visible slightly. Or you can click on the top right node and enter 0 in the input field. Now select Red from the drop-down, click on the top right node on the graph and slide it all the way down. If you draw in blue pencils and then ink your line art you may need to remove the blue lines first to do that go to Filters ‣ Adjust ‣ Color adjustment curves or press the Ctrl + M shortcut. You can clean the unwanted grays by moving the white triangle in the input levels section to left and darken the black by moving the black triangle to right.

If you want to clean the line art a bit you can press the Ctrl + L shortcut or go to Filters ‣ Adjust ‣ Levels. Place the line art at the top of the layer stack and set its layer blending mode to Multiply. If your images have a white or other single-tone background, you can use either of the following methods to prepare the art for coloring: This can be either an image created digitally or something that was done outside the computer and has been scanned. Often an artist, for example a comic book colorist, will need to take a pencil sketch or other line art of some sort and use Krita to paint underneath it. You can view the recorded speed painting demo for the above image on Youtube. Below is an example of speed paint done by David Revoy in an hours time. Krita has some efficient brushes for this situation, for example, the brushes under Block Tag like Block fuzzy, Block basic, layout_block, etc.Īfter the composition and a basic layout has been laid out the artists add as many details as possible in the given limited time, this requires a decent knowledge of forms, value perspective and proportions of the objects. Generally, artists first block in the composition by adding patches and blobs of flat colors, defining the silhouette, etc. Speed painting then can be taken forward by adding finer details and polish to create a final piece. Some artists set a time limit to complete the painting while some paint casually. Finishing and finer details are not the main goals of this type of painting, but the representation of form value and layout is the main goal.

As the name suggests a technique of painting done within a matter of hours to quickly visualize the basic scene, character, look and feel of the environment or to denote the general mood and overall concept is called a speed painting. Some artists work only on the digital medium, sketching and visualizing concepts in Krita from scratch. Below are some of the common workflows used in Krita: Speed Painting and Conceptualizing ¶ However, let us look at what artists do in Krita. The brush tool is selected by default and you just have to paint on the canvas. When you open a new document in Krita for the first time, you can start painting instantly.

This section explains some common workflow that artists use in Krita. Krita is used by comic artists, matte painters, texture artists, and illustrators around the world. Krita’s main goal is to help artists create a digital painting from scratch.

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