Overview of my Krita Digital Painting Workflow − end 2022 (commented tutorial)

[@leeghunter]

Thanks David. This was very helpful. Here are my notes: - Spend a lot of time creating thumbnails with a large brush. - Select a thumbnail and enlarge. - Make a line drawing layer over the enlarged thumbnail but focus on proportions etc rather than trying to make nice lines - Hide the thumbnail. - Split the main shapes into layers. E.g. landscape might be foreground, middleground, background etc. There could be many layers in a complex image. - Paint only the silhouette for each layer. Don't name the layers at this stage, just enlarge the thumbnail setting inside the layer panel so that you can identify the layers. - Lock the opacity of each layer so that you paint only inside the shape - Paint fast with a flat color (as if the light was overcast) so that the colors are consistent with few shadows. - Put each layer inside a clipping group. Example of naming: foreground [for the group], shading [for the mask layer], and base-foreground [for the actual painting] - Fill the mask layer with a mid RGB grey (127, 127, 127) and set the Blending Mode to Hard Light. In Hard Light, mid grey is rendered as transparent so anything under that level will darken, above that color level will lighten. - Set stylus button to Ctrl-Alt-Click so that color is picked from the active layer - Start with two colors for the key lights and shadows. Later work with mid tones etc. - May need a manual 'paint over pass' to give a more organic look. - Merge the items in each group. - Use adjustment layers to fix color balance or add lens blur (e.g. for adjusting depth of field).

[@DavidRevoy]

Thank you for these compact notes 👍 Very useful, I'll pin this post to the video.

[@kawwabonga]

Great work! As a complete noob I find this extremely useful and inspiring to see how artists actually approach the whole process of drawing from scratch.

[@marks2708]

Thank you David for explaining your workflow. Much appreciated

[@domitillet]

You speak frengleash very well too ! Merci pour ta vidéo très claire et utile !

[@nacs]

I saw a "sneak peek" of this video when you posted the corrupted mp4 segment on Mastodon :) Glad to see its up, thanks for sharing the process!

[@adamthorntonillustration9281]

Merci tres beaucoup, David. This is very helpful. I spend so much time watching tutorials of other artists - Marco Bucci, Nathan Fowkes etc. who always use Photoshop. So it is very useful to see someone else of such a high calibre giving a tutorial in Krita. Bon nouelle! Adam (UK)

[@raymondcarroll3184]

David once again an excellent insight into digital painting .Thank you

[@JosueMartinez-ww1vj]

Thanks soo much! for sharing this Fantastic tutorial, and say Hi to your ❤❤ Cute cat ❤❤

[@travismcfarland3068]

Thank you so much for the tips. Your a star!

[@Yoh.]

Your process is always nice to see

[@jdrsant0s]

so this is how a master works! :)

[@ninopriore]

Excellent video, thank you David 👍

[@will0ww485]

Thank you for this wonderful video! Merci et ton art est magnifique. Tu m'as vraiment aidé beaucoup depuis que j'ai commencé l'art digital!

[@pshapiro]

A beautiful done tutorial. Thanks. I'm sharing this with friends.

[@Randomluck]

Perfect timing! I just got a Surface to start drawing digitally and was trying out Krita. 🎅 Happy Holidays.

[@johncollado1151]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year David!

[@ChrisBeavenart]

This is fantastic! Thank you! Love your brushes as well.

[@adamb7968]

Happy holidays!

[@arkhamnygma4278]

Very useful and great art! Thanks a lot. Especially shortcuts save a lot of time and learning some here is very, very useful, indeed! Merci beaucoup.

[@Schizoid137]

Awesome work. Thanks and happy holidays.

[@dellishia7809]

Thank you for sharing and the insights, stellar work as always, happy holidays !

[@BlackJar72]

Very useful tips. I tried to paint digitally (with Krita) for the first time yesterday. I found it much harder than using traditional media, paint and a brush -- though part of that may be because I was trying to use Krita like physical paints and brushes and some things clearly don't work the same way.

[@DavidRevoy]

Hey, yes: digital painting is harder than physical in many aspects. A false believe is to think it is easier because of undo, layers and editing. But it's harder because the color don't mix well, not much happy accident or textures, and the control with the stylus can be difficult. But with a bit of training, all of this can become like second nature.

[@PaxDrummer]

Beautiful!

[@avtogen7248]

О, здоровья твоему котану!

[@PannaPanshi]

nice tutorial🥰🥰lovly

[@AwesTube]

Thank you for sharing your process!

[@AsadVynd]

Love your video sir, Thanks for the insight!

[@captntunabeerd]

Fantastic video ! Thank you !

[@jcbritobr]

Soon you will acquire 100k. Thats nice.

[@Zurdosuave]

The goat is back

[@SusanAmberBruce]

Very nice thank you x

[@cameton_youtube]

Very useful, thanks!

[@honeyjose173]

favourite artist 🤍

[@v.kbattle7914]

very informative

[@alexmassy]

Amazing ! Thx ! Very useful 🤩

[@JessiTheBestiGaming]

I wish krita was on the iPad. It seems pretty interesting

[@ivans3806]

Great job David, all done using free and open source software! Thanks for showcasing what can be achieved with talent and hard work!

[@fcharp29]

Thanks a lot for sharing your process! As a newbie, it helps a lot to improve on the art quality and composition. Following your old video on shading, I also use the Hard Light blending mode. I was wondering : Is filling the shading layers with middle grey tone a necessary step ? To my eye, it seems that an empty layer looks the same as a middle grey filled layer (both with Hard Light blending mode). Not sure if this is clear enough..

[@DavidRevoy]

Hey, yes, the rendering is the same without the gray, the solid gray filling it's only necessary if you want to pick color on the layer with control+alt+click. Because it can't be half transparent stroke. Eg. A half transparent stroke of black on the layer transparent will render as a gray, but if you color pick it, it will return black. It's annoying when you want to comor pick a shadow like that.

[@ecinholima8999]

Which brush do you use? because I noticed that there are some that are not available on your site

[@ecinholima8999]

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[@micheldbt]

merci pour tes explications .....même si elle sont dans la langue de Shakespeare, je m'inspire de ton travail.

[@JeanneBook]

Hello, I notice that your workspace have the brush preset right next to layer and all the other docker I tried to do this with my krita but the brush docker did not snap in place. How did you make your workspace arranged like that?

[@jt3production936]

What brush was use when painted white trees In the beginning?

[@DavidRevoy]

Hey, it's f) Bristle Tilt Modeling from my brushkit

[@jt3production936]

@@DavidRevoy ohhh wow thank you Bristles Tilt Thank You!

[@philipperevoy3804]

Clap clap

[@angieg8846]

Hello in krita how do I find the code for the colour I use so I can make sure I am always using that colour - sorry English poor

[@DavidRevoy]

Hey, top toolbar, you'll find foreground and background colors, click on that, a dialog appear, in it, you'll find the coordinate of the color, RGB on 0 to 255 or hex color.

[@angieg8846]

Oh thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly ! Binging and learning through your videos right now! Thank you so much I have found it!

[@tonythegreat4275]

Where do you get these Krita brushes

[@DavidRevoy]

Hey, check my other videos, I share them in one of them (free/public domain).

[@AbhayKumar-kb8tv]

I look up to you

[@langsdonsearle8335]

*Promo sm* 👀

[@DavidRevoy]

Excuse my limitation of knowledge, but what does 'sm' mean in this context?

[@gorgenfol]

Bye bye cat

[@RubensMateusPadovezeArquimago]

[@ecinholima8999]

Which brush do you use? because I noticed that there are some that are not available on your site???