How to Blend Colors in Krita

[@grandwizardnoticer8975]

2:45 Hard-edge blending, Basic 2 Opacity brush 5:30 Soft-edge blending, Basic 3 Flow brush 8:11 Color Smudge blending, Wet Bristles brush 12:40 Textured blending, Texture Hair brush

[@1ericedwards]

Thank you!

[@SheasBathLab]

This was a great tutorial with the exception that you are teaching beginners so I think it's important to show how you set up literally everything and how you are switching brushes, colors, using shortcuts, etc

[@pandoraspanties]

Agreed I cant figure out how he got anywhere :(

[@fredriksvard2603]

Agree, i cant follow this

[@funkyfresh2960]

agreed this tutorial is completely useless to me

[@Black-mx3hc]

There's millions of other videos on how to do those, the purpose of the video was shading and blend lmfao yall need to think

[@moose8846]

that isn't the purpose of this video. If you want to learn shortcuts, read the krita manual on their website or look up a video on it

[@someone-mh1bo]

YEEESSSSS A Krita tutorial.

[@martsstrugglewithdrawing2491]

Hell yeah!

[@SDRockman]

I know, right? xD

[@phantomaryie4773]

I'm a beginner and this helped me so much to understand the basics of colortechnics! Thank you, great tutorial!

[@jman1080]

how would you rate yourself now that its been 4 years?

[@alexstone691]

I was really confused about this and started experimenting and started mixing them manually only using a hard brush and didnt know that was the actual 'correct' way

[@pinkmann8399]

Alex Stone That’s what I did too! I still haven’t used the soft brush. Wow.

[@mensamoo]

Very useful. As a beginner I was trying to do blending using the gradient tool, but I don't think it is used for detailed work? I never thought of making my own palette next to the area of work, this is a great idea. I'm going to try soft blending first. This skill is a nightmare to learn!

[@pandoraspanties]

If you use the select tool you can create whatever shape you want selected, and use the gradient tool inside that shape! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGGoq5uEgbGbgq8 this video talks about it if I am not making any sense 🤣

[@OmJhody]

your menu arrangement is amazing!

[@hiroroong693]

Great tutorial! Recently i discover if I use a particle(many small dot) smudge brush, I could do a faster smudge blending.

[@woqu99]

This was incredibly helpful, thank you 🖤🖤

[@veggi9921]

THE BEST TUTORIAL I EVER SEEN YOU SAVED ME SOOOOOO MUCH THANKS!! ! !! !

[@pokaay3163]

Super helpful, all this time I’ve been lowering the opacity on my hard brushes and dealing with background coloring problems when it would change the color of the shading..

[@vanillq3329]

How did you add colour to the transparency mask at 2:30???

[@zombikaiju6046]

Lower the “Flow %” to get the blending effect, if anyone is wondering.

[@marywelter6229]

Thanks for this tutorial. I especially love the color smudge brushes!

[@dragonamimosa5795]

man the vibe of the tutorial is greit i feally really chill and comfy meanwhile learning the good stuff, maybe some music in the background pretty lowkey may be the cherry of the cake.

[@nanan8992]

Thankyou! this was very helpful, I just began digital painting and was really clueless with Krita brushes and stuffs.

[@Ypyl5984]

is there any specific setting with your brushes? i try the basic 2 and basic 3, but i think the color is very matte and hard to blend. Any tips will be great

[@thatrottenpotato5597]

Slightly off topic but that intro is dope

[@jabir5768]

First I actually stop on an intro to watch it multiple times

[@Guyfarting]

The animation was so smooth

[@st.michaelthearchangel7774]

Yeah, the wet bristle brush is awesome!!!

[@joshualot2305]

Thankyou for this video! Now I don't need to worry about figuring it out on my own! just got into krita from paint tool sai as paint tool sai is very limiting for me.

[@JessFromTawian]

You do got some good apple drawin' skills.

[@vixxcelacea2778]

The one thing I wish artists would do, for beginner and intermediate alike is to list what exact brushes and settings those have (provided they are free and not for sale) because that can really change how something looks. Same with colors chosen when showing how to shade/render. I sketched my own apple, but I am making up what colors are used here and somewhat where they go. I figured out the first 3 brushes, especially thanks to another comment, but the set that look like photoshop (IE the brush stroke is the image for the brush selection and not a picture of the brush itself) I can't find on Krita at all, so I'm betting those are imported. The textured brush I can not find and this isn't uncommon when watching other artists. Most use a textured brush and not the basic round brush and never say which one it is or often how to get it. Textured hair brush is NOT it. The cursor doesn't look the same and the effect is wildly different. For beginners too, brush settings are very very confusing. I did a lot of trial and error, especially on my blender brush because it over blends and makes colors look overly smooth and you need sharp angles and contrasts in most pics to make them 3-D looking Other than this, this is a great tutorial for people who know how to navigate Krita already and some basics under their belt. But please, fellow artists, tell us what brushes you use and their custom settings if they aren't out of the box on programs! Yes, talent and practice can make anything work, but brushes really do make an impact on a drawing, especially the texture.

[@ΑφροδίτηΚοτρώτσου]

Hi !can you make a layer tutorial video ?

[@nazsqw]

how can i select only one layer that is i drew a layer like this i painted a layer and the hair is painted on a separate layer how can select only that layer and add shading that is only the hair please help

[@dragongamerboi13]

So I don't understand this transparency mask and why you need it. Can you explain that a little better?

[@vaguephoenix3512]

Holy, your intro is crazy

[@gyongs93]

Love what you are doing! Is it possible for you to provide a link to download the template?

[@mtunixic]

the intro is fucking amazing

[@supriadikadarisman2398]

Verry helpfull for understand brush technique on Krita...Thanks bro

[@tercio4553]

so simple and well explained , thank you for the tutorial

[@tedoymisojos]

It was helpful to watch this together with a simpler video from EvergreenArt. I thought In Krita and Firealpaca I could simply lay down the main colors, and then use a color mix tool to just go over the edges of the colors and magically get gradients, but no.

[@toonlyrics]

Give this young man a thumbs up!

[@alexstone691]

thank you so much for this video, it really helped me understand painting digitally !!

[@ubuntujackson9133]

Do you need to mark the apple to do a transparency mask?

[@IslandArtzStudio2331]

so do you change the opacity of the brush or something to do stuff?

[@raouffndt]

when i tray blend two color no blend did u think wrong me or pc?

[@raangoo_art]

Excellent tutorial. Thank you so much..!!

[@martsstrugglewithdrawing2491]

I'm really glad you like it :D

[@oneultro6457]

Br?

[@c.glazercrush3994]

Yea this tutorial is good help though,into c.g art and using z brush check this out.content://media/external/file/268379

[@kooopernikpiizzasi]

can you guys please help. my calors just does not blend. it blends just with airbrush

[@whiterook3621]

How to do that thing when You can just click on color on the screen and Your brush become that color?

[@whyifare]

Could someone say all the brushes that was mentioned

[@aliza6900]

Does the base color in another layer or sketch layer?

[@kosmos1521Minecraft]

Soft in the best

[@jekyll7110]

this was really good

[@vivianeb90]

I love your intro clip.

[@weesalikesmilktea4829]

Hell yeah. This guy can draw hands like nobody can.

[@kolegakolegi]

to be able to do that you have to use pen & pressure to be able to draw colors in between. You cannot do that with mouse.

[@MalaMala-os2no]

Thank you for this. Amazing tutorial

[@Umka4u]

Your video alone has helped me more than a hundred Russians!Thanks

[@lukaqurdadze9662]

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[@matiasvaccaro453]

Great tutorial dude!

[@Asdfkill101]

I have a problem with the colours, where like i want to paint red but it apears blue, how do i adjust it?

[@SheasBathLab]

Tried to locate you on twitch but can't. It says you aren't live anymore and allowed me to follow you but I can't find your channel with a search. What's that about??

[@brakeduster]

Noobie here lol What setting do you have on the brush to fill in the apple? When I do it with the same brush and colour, any time my strokes overlap I get a darker mark. How do I keep it even? Thanks :)

[@vivianeb90]

Does this work with imported pictures as well? Is there no blur brush that does this automatically?

[@pom.bo.]

There is, but blur is basically shit.

[@Torteah]

Lol, im still confused on all of it

[@Arcanenigma]

The intro is dope

[@dadangsudarsonoAsmar-Network]

Thanks Bro...very helpfull to learn Krita

[@adhi8724]

I really don't understand how the lighting works on those apples

[@hitsuuchan2520]

When shading or highlighting, I reccomend adding a sun to show where the light is coming from

[@e-nubusproductions6076]

Ok I’m not sure if I can explain this well, but I’m a super noob to art. So I colored the background and the image on top of it is white. So all the white reflection is the same color as my background. Like a little spot on my nose and forehead. When I try to color it in you can tell. Is there any way to erase these little spots or do I blend it. I’m not sure what tool to use in Krita to fix it lol

[@vixxcelacea2778]

Old comment, but in case you still need help or someone has ended up in a similar situation, here is my advice: When working in art, you almost never use total black or total white except for extreme shadow areas and really bright highlights so that you can bring depth to the color shifts (even glow is rarely white unless it's small part in the middle of the brightest part). In Krita and many other programs, it's better to work on a light grey canvas so you can see this difference from the background. To do this, make a new document. Click custom document (it should be on this tab already to the left, but if not, go to it) Then in the mid upper portion of the window, you have dimensions and content as tabs. Click content. Under this you can see name, layers and background color. Click background color and select a light grey instead of stark white as your background. Then click create and make a new layer so you don't paint on the background layer. This way you can make a new background or delete the original grey one if you want an image to be transparent with whatever you draw on it. You can also use one of the blending brushes and gently blur the edges so that the highlight doesn't seem as harsh.

[@e-nubusproductions6076]

@@vixxcelacea2778 thank you I don’t even remember what I was working on but I’ll save this in case I need it again lol

[@JohnSmith-zf1lq]

Love your intro by the way

[@prodbysway]

How do u fix when i try to click on the brush it says “the brush tool cannot pain on this layer “ . Please select a paint layer or mask”.

[@martsstrugglewithdrawing2491]

You need to have paint layer or mask (in your layer docker) you can hit Instert to create a new paint layer.

[@peoul1]

so i make a sprite shape human and i want save it just human shape in png file but it always have square white frame as big as my transparent layer size in my picture.

[@Lavenderblood111]

Hey, you seem to know a lot about Krita, so I was wondering if I could ask you a question. Why is there a green ring around my brush? When I zoom in to get small spaces, the brush freezes up and it won’t let me use my pen. It only works with the mouse. Can you help me out? Thanks.

[@ZombixMix]

This was very informative even for me who has no experience in digital drawing, thank you!! ❤️

[@ReavinBlue]

thank you, my good man

[@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

What exactly did he do at 2:01? All those tutorials assume you already know how the program works and what you have to do... There is none that is suitable for an absolute beginner.

[@justkazwell4523]

Right click? it open up your palette

[@justkazwell4523]

Sorry , I mean the selection wheel

[@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

@@justkazwell4523 I meant how he made it so that he can't colour outside the apple

[@justkazwell4523]

@@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus kzbin.info/www/bejne/foLHqWl-bqd8fdU its the colorize mask

[@KaiserjiM23]

Hi... I'm currently using Krita now, I like it a lot. It is my main drawing software now. I got a question on recording the process of your drawing. Are you using window capture with Krita? because when I'm using window capture it is like the Display Capture that captures everything on your screen. I just want to record what is shown in Krita only. What did you do to record only Krita software even you're doing other things?

[@kateeva3]

This comment is old but for anyone still wondering, hit “view” at the top you can click full screen mode and it shows only krita

[@pammybcc]

Blending can be done with blend brushes.. Who said to use manually blend using hard brushes

[@Water-rq5cy]

Nice video thanks! :D

[@martsstrugglewithdrawing2491]

Thank you I was kinda worried if it's not too slow.

[@rumput1315]

nice explanation

[@user-sb8ks1ij7b]

thank you so much. this helped me a lot!

[@sunsand2001]

thanks!

[@BellaGranger24]

Awesomeeeeeeee, it was super helpful thanks a lot

[@mitschcrafter6766]

wait a second. are you using a mouse?

[@iamnotyou3045]

The 2013 jacksepticeye of art

[@riellekpop]

hey, thank you for sharing this video!

[@monomakes]

Nice. Thanks!

[@greg8510]

is it possible to blend with a mouse?

[@vixxcelacea2778]

Yes. You may want to lower opacity though given that there is no pressure sensitivity.

[@6drk6mrc6]

What is your flow number in hard example?

[@lorettabes4553]

Basic-2 I think, It's written under 'Hard'

[@nil696]

Great tutorial

[@martsstrugglewithdrawing2491]

Thank you :D I'm happy you like it

[@icardy9502]

Thanks a lot! very usefull!

[@benasian9329]

Do you know how to copy a colour and use it? I used a colour but i didn't name it so I don't know what it is 😭😭😭 Can anyone help me out?

[@vixxcelacea2778]

Krita (and other programs tend to do this too) keeps a set of the last 16 colors you used in the advanced color selector. So if your color you want is still in that list, you can find it there. If not, you can also use a color sampler tool (it looks like an eyedropper) and pick any color you've put on the canvas. That will select the color and you can put down the hex code under specific color selector (if it's not up, it's found under settings, dockers and specific color selector to be check marked) Looking at "color name" under the specific color selector will give a hashtag and a string of numbers and letters that correspond to the color. Also, under advanced color selector, you can click the recycle looking icon that will select the colors from the image and come up with a palette next to it. You can color sample any color in any image to find the exact color used. You can also get programs for your computer to do this with out krita being open if you want the hex or RGB code (they will lead to the same color, it's just a different way to categorize them.)

[@Scribbleehead]

What brushes did you even use?😑

[@raskolnik788]

tnx for the tip

[@johnariesmariano937]

damn, thank you

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

Unlike photoshop or sai, I havent seen a really really good artwork in krita. Someone please tell me it is not a limitation of krita, because i am now practicing krita. I dont want to know this later and relearn photophop again.

[@martsstrugglewithdrawing2491]

There is a lot of professional artists using Krita and there's no limitation to what you can and can't do, I'd say for digital painting is even better than Photoshop (thanks to its superior brush engine). You can check out David Revoy, I might not be the best example of really good artwork but you can check my Instagram and decide for yourself.

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

@@martsstrugglewithdrawing2491 Thank you for your advice. I have seen david revoy's artwork earlier on youtube. His work is good but in my eyes it's like 8/10 or 9/10. I have yet to found a krita artwork that look like below. That's why I still have some doubt. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJ-tla2Aa96qncU kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXycfpagZtWUg68 kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5qTmnuFfbiaf7c

[@martsstrugglewithdrawing2491]

@@theeraphatsunthornwit6266 That doesn't seem necessarily better but more of a different style(anime/mange or whatever you want to call it) and that's fine you have your preference. :) And if you're asking if you can do that in krita than 100% yes. There is no limitation regarding your style. Sadly since "anime" is no really my style of interests I don't know any artist from those circles, to show you some example. The closest I can get is probably Sara Tapes? (but she's still more of a western semirealism) kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqPLmYKPfZaai5Y

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

@@martsstrugglewithdrawing2491 ok i will keep leaning krita

[@agreenjinjo]

You didnt explain anything. You didnt even show the difference between the first two types. You didnt show what brush was used or how it changed. You did many steps with no explanation, such as manipulating selections and making masks. Absolute beginner tutorials should not presume knowledge. Fixing this is as simple as removing video cuts and explaining absolutely everything as you do it, including things with are only tangentially relevant to the video topic.

[@kevingunarly6431]

Thanks bro

[@clau8411]

Thanks for the video

[@martsstrugglewithdrawing2491]

You're welcome ;)

[@samighasemi3333]

Nice man ;)

[@user-yv3jy3eo7x]

I really love the intro lolo lahah sheesh yeah lol lolol

[@peoul1]

dood i want ad collor code where the hell is it? #306850

[@peoul1]

YES i found it thx guys

[@oh-ul9mv]

*me tries to follow along but clicks on wrong this and accidently delet coloring i was working on for a hour and lineart i was working on for 5 hours i am now laughing at this but its not funny xd i also feel like im going to cry help (what I did, i left clicked the layer of coloring and clicked, convert, then to transparency mask) i tried to click back but it did not work T^T okay i fixed it! im so happy! how i fixed it was after like ten minutes of just sitting there i started spamming backspace bc what else did i have to lose on this art piece and it randomly came back even though i spammed the back space earlier i guess it just needed time -that scared me so much

[@tarunbalakrishnan368]

wow i just reduce opacity to blend

[@bluemo7802]

Me too 😂

[@Cassie-on3gq]

Nice

[@martsstrugglewithdrawing2491]

Yeah! Thanks

[@enkiimuto1041]

4:30 sounds like a lot of work when in SAI you just pick two colors and you're there .-.

[@djninjitsuchannel7857]

nah it's not, you just need a brush that lowers its opacity and you pick the colros in the middle plus, i'm guessing you're talking about the blending tool in sai, and that tool helps, but it's really not enough, you have to know what you're doing or it will just result weird

[@enkiimuto1041]

@@djninjitsuchannel7857 Know what you're doing is kinda part of drawing well.

[@C4ndie]

Hey, i know this was a few years ago, but I just started..I don't know what's wrong with me, but my attention span has really been decreasing and i'm always distracted. I really want to be a good artist, but I can't watch long videos. If possible, can you make the video shorter? Thank you, A beginner

[@hugagagePersonal]

잘 보고 갑니다.

[@redrumgmv161]

I guess, I better stick to SAI...

[@Doctor_Sex]

Lol

[@reswaradrs9827]

Sorry from Reswara Dwi Rafa Saputra(Serious). Sorry

[@reswaradrs9827]

Sorry from Reswara Dwi Rafa Saputra

[@miles8818]

USEFUL!