How to Use KRITA - Digital Art Tutorial for Beginners

if you're looking for a free digital art software Vita offers an overwhelming amount of customization options shortcuts and more but in this video we'll just start with a simple character using the basic tools and functions offered in the program first things first we want to open krita up mines below here it's going to have this colorful icon with a paintbrush over it and this is what you'll see when you open it up I'm going to press the new file button or Ctrl n to open up a new canvas and here you can input your canvas Dimensions I'm going to stick with what I have so far I'm going to press create and this is what we have on the left here is your toolbox probably looks pretty familiar and to your top here we have your toolbar this probably looks a little different and to your right we have our color selector our layers and our brush Library down here all these individual panels are called Dockers and you can grab them and move them around so you can organize your workspace as you see fit and the tool options here change depending on what tool you'll have selected on the Google box if you go to your settings here go to Dockers this menu that pops up will show basically every single Docker you could ever open in krita so if you also delete one say your tool options whoops you can always go back to your settings and Dockers to take it out again down here additionally while we're there in settings Dockers I want to take out also the overview Docker and this I think is called the navigator in like every other art program and it's kind of usually out by default in other programs but for creda it isn't so that's why I just want to take it out it makes things a lot easier since you can kind of be your whole canvas as well as click in it to move around so this is just for my personal ease today we're going to be drawing a mushroom bunny to take us through the cracks and crevices of creda so I'm going to select any brush like this one here as you can see my brush is pretty big so I'm going to go to the size slider here and just kind of drag it down a little bit I'll select color and then maybe I'm drawing a sketch now that I have my horrendous sketch if I go here to my layer Locker into the opacity slider I'm going to just lower it before I press this plus sign in the layer Docker to create a new layer for my line art and this time I'm going to use the shape tool or the ellipse and I'm going to drag a circle in I feel like this might be a little too thick so I'm going to press Ctrl Z to undo and then applied my slider down a little bit more maybe to like a 15-ish type of thickness and then draw in my mushroom I'm going to make a new layer for the little face area and then press the move tool it kind of dipped it into place I'm going to click this little eye icon to kind of turn on and off the layers of my line art just so I can see a little bit better so I know what to erase so the Eraser tool increda is a little bit interesting while there are existing eraser tools right here in the brush Library I can go click one and then making sure I'm on the same layer I can go and erase a part of it so I bet you've noticed that there's also this sort of eraser tool up here that lights up when I'm on the Eraser brush that's because in krita the Eraser tool is not really its own tool and it's more like a mode that you toggle on so if I have say a airbrush like so if I go and toggle on the Eraser tool by clicking it here it will burn my airbrush into an airbrush eraser this can be pretty cool if you're painting as it works with pretty much every tool that you have and create it as well but for example if I have this sort of very textured kind of Paintbrush it can be a little bit like difficult if I have the hard eraser trying to erase it but if I just Ogle the Eraser brush a little on then I can have this pretty cool textury effect and one thing I also want to note as a word of caution when I said that the Eraser tool sort of works for everything I mean everything for example if I have the shape tool selected and then I have my Eraser mode toggled on it will earn my shape wool into an eraser as well so if you're ever like you know you're using your tools and you're like dang what the heck is happening all my stuff is like erasing things it's probably because you have the Eraser tool toggled on so you just gotta make sure to toggle it off whenever you're not using it and now we have our line art if we right click our layer it will pop up a bunch of options for us I'm going to press merge with layer below just so our liner is on the same layer and now we're going to get into coloring and turn off my sketch layer if you double click your layer you can also name them so I'm just going to organize them as well while we're here above my sketch layer and underneath my line art layer I want to create a new paint layer this is going to be our coloring I'm going to go to our fill tool here on our toolbox and I'm going to select a reddish color this seems mushroomy enough for us and then I'm going to press the fill you'll notice that when I had my Eraser tool selected in the brush Library like so when I press fill it erases this is because when you have the Eraser brush tool selected it will automatically toggle the Eraser tool on so you might want to be a little bit cautious about that so remember to have an actual hard brush selected at some point we have our fill tool our red color in there I'm going to yeah this looks pretty good so far for the face it's sort of like an off-white color like so so I'll just double click this and call this base color and then create a new layer on top of that for our shading so this is where coloring gets a little bit complicated because unlike in other programs where you would normally use clipping layers or a bunch of other things to color what we want to do is probably select both layers you basically liked select one layer hold shift and then select other Layer Two select multiple layers then right click and then go to group and click click group and you'll see why I did that in a second I pressed space to operate my handy tool so I can move the canvas around our mushroom has polka dots so there are two ways we can go about adding a Pokemon shots the first is on our base color layer if I go to this sort of checkerboard icon here and I click it this is called the alpha lock it will lock all the transparency and make sure that I can't paint on anything other than what's already been painted on so that means eyes I might I won't be able to go out of lines using my sort of polka dot color so this can be pretty good if I want to like you know put in my polka dots like that this works this is totally fine however if I want to like add shading to the polka dots but maybe I don't want to add shade to anything else like say for whatever reason maybe I want to add blue shading now it's a little bit difficult since I'll I'll be like coloring on all the colors to make things even more complicated if I did want to erase something like if I wanted to make these polka dots smaller if I wanted to erase it it'll just end up erasing everything because we're all coloring on the same layer that's not ideal so what do we do make a new layer above our base color make sure these layers are in a group like we did before and on our new layer we're going to add our Ray polka dot color all right but hold on there now we are going out of lines and that's not what we want either well if we go here to this little a or fish looking icon here and be okay it will clip our Ray polka dot color through our base color below and data is interesting in that you can only really do this sort of clipping function in a group layer like if you grouped everything together because what happens is if we ungroup this they like out of the lines the reason is because it's not really a true clipping function it's called inherent Alpha and what it does is that similar to the alpha lock it will lock everything so that you can only affect what's already been painted however inherent Alpha will read the entire canvases colors including the white background as like something you've already laid down which is why your gray color will affect it if I went to the background layer and turned it off you'll notice that it Clips perfectly because it's reading the background color as an actual color as well the way we get around this is by by grouping these layers together so that it will only read whatever is in the group as a color to clip too so we have our polka dotted layer flipped properly we can start alluring so if I create another layer over here on top of the base color but under the polka dots because I want to add some like some shading to like the actual mushroom I'm gonna go to our gradient here this time and I think I will try going with like a sort of blue and then just click and then drag my line in a diagonal motion that I can add this sort of gradient color so I'll just move that above our polka dots actually and then just press inherent Alpha and then you see it magically Clips looking very nice but blue isn't exactly what we want so over here in our layer Docker above the opacity slider it says normal I'm going to click that and then maybe move it to multiplying and then move the opacity down a little bit I'm also going to make another layer for the eyes I'm going to select our ellipse tool again and then change the size down a little and then make like some eyes I can just draw one eye like heel tool it go to the layer and then right click and then just duplicate it and then press the move tool here and move it if I hold shift before I even like Edge anything then try to move it to the side and then I can just right click it again and then merge with layer below just so we can get the eyes on the exact same layer this will be a little easier for us to move around now just going to do some housekeeping and double click each layer to organize it and rename a little bit always useful to keep your layers cleaned and recognizable on top of shading we also want to create another layer for our lighting and go back to our gradient tool here and select maybe a yellowish color for it and then click and drag like that create this sort of lighting from this angle if we press our inherent Alpha button here it will clip nicely and then we can just set it to maybe color Dodge or a much brighter adjustment you can always click the move tool so in case you want to like move the lighting around a little bit as you can see I can kind of shift it now for the eyes I can click the in the alpha lock here using my brush I can add in some eye shines and in the brush Library here if we hover over these little dots in between the Dockers we can also resize them so I'll just go to my brush Library here if you go down far enough and you see these sorts of brushes with the little raindrop little symbols next to them these are your smudge tools so if you're familiar with that you can also click them and use them to smudge out these eye shines here to give it like a more dimensional look try not to go too overboard with it it's pretty cute I think we could do a little better with the shading so I'm going to create a another layer and this time switch over to my airbrush tool I'm gonna pick maybe a purplish blue color just to kind of see how I like it after I inherit alpha everything I'm just going to try and paint in some more shading effects you can help supporters to make free Arts education just join our patreon and get special member perks like critiques and classes so I kind of want to add like a little bit more to the face here but I don't want it to kind of get into every other thing so I'm gonna go over here to my selection tools grab this sort of bean looking dotted icon thing which is your lasso and I'm just going to sort of create a selection here and then go back to my brush that so that I only paint on this little area that I've selected just like that and then maybe I will toggle on the Eraser as well just end up with some of this back as well this is just going to keep it a lot cleaner so I don't end up like messing up any other types of shading that I put down already you'll just confine everything to that single area that I've already selected back to my good old hard brush and then try to add some of it in there to the size so just to deselect you can simply get back to your last two and then just click anywhere else on the screen it also fiddle with the opacity as well as the different types of layer adjustments the suit I'm just going to call that fading too or my original layer I might just fiddle around with that as well just looking back so now that I've drawn my mushroom I think he needs a background and I want to put him in like this sort of grassy area I'm just going to find a stock image and put that in as a background if you have one you can simply copy the image and then go here and place this little pop-up will come up and you you can pretty much just like choose whichever you want this just means like is it going to calibrate the colors to your monitor or to like what it the image looks like on the web I don't think it matters too much what you choose But whichever one you will get your image paste it into your document as a layer so just because of like the placement that I was on which was like my shading layer I just pasted above it so it's kind of in my group at the moment I can simply just move it out I'm gonna grab these little dots here to like extend my layers A little better and click hold and drag my layer up then put it like above the background layer so that it will be behind this mushroom so this image is clearly a little bit too small I'm going to want to like make it bigger so I'm going to press which will be the transform tool if I deselect you can also click this little button here to transform whatever is on the layer you have selected and I'm going to hold shift again and then just drag the background like up that it looks a little bigger it has this like interesting extra function here where if you kind of grab one of these like in between these like handles and this like Arrow icon pops up you can like warp your image it looks kind of cool but I think we're okay for now so it's having a eagle grassy area I think is fine here and then we have our grassy area as you can see now that we have our Mushroom on it I'm kind of noticing that maybe the blue or the purple shading isn't really what I want it's the background is pretty green so I'm gonna go back to my shading layer with all the blue and I kind of want to change it so with my shading layer selected I'm gonna go to filters go to adjust and then go down to HSV adjustment this will basically bring out the Hue saturation and lightness Sliders which I can then kind of shift around like like so to change the color of the shading that I have though since we are in a very green area I might want to shift it to like a more Greener shade maybe lighten it a little bit like so fiddling around with the gliders and I might want to do that with my shading 2 layer as well as far consistency so again a filter adjustment which is the adjustment that looks a little bit more green looks a little bit more like it's kind of reflected light on the environment Flex looks pretty good but it does need like a kind of Shadow so I'm going to create a new layer and then click and drag this into the layer underneath the base color and using I guess any like brush with opacity will work I'm just going to choose sort of any darkish color and then kind of paint in like a little Shadow here I'll toggle my Eraser on and off so I can kind of shape it a little better without making it look a little too weird and then I can go back in my layers and then edit to multiply and lower the opacity maybe right click my move tool so I can move the shadow a little higher and I like so the good thing about needing to group your layers to color in krita even though it may initially seem a little bit Troublesome is now you can kind of organize the layers a little bit easier so for this group if I double click it I can change it to mushroom one and I say mushroom one that means I can also now if I right click it I can duplicate and then now with my copy I can move my coffee around so now I have two mushrooms and all the layers that I have inside this group I can move it around as one and this can be pretty fun because I can also transform everything as well which means maybe this mushroom guy needs a buddy so holding shift so that I keep the aspect ratio I can make the mushrooms smaller I can move this behind my big mushroom I'll name this well mushroom you can pretty much do whatever we want now for our finishing touches I might add like just an extra layer thrown on top of everything picking like some sort of reddish orange color just to add some like like Unity to like all the colors but this is not necessary and once you're finished like you know messing around with that you can go to your crop tool here which is one of my favorite parts and then you just kind of Click fold and drag and release to get this sort of grid and then you can kind of fiddle around with this in order to come up with a composition and you just press enter when you're satisfied and you have it crop if you're feeling particularly Brave and you're certain that you will never touch this piece again you can right click your layers and then a flattened image it will warn you because this is rather drastic that it will merge all your layers together so you'll lose all your layer information I wouldn't really recommend you do this unless you are certain that you will never touch this again and you are done with it the reason why you may flatten your image at the end is if you want to adjust everything I guess using like either your investment stuff again and like you want to make your sliders and you want to just kind of put in everything which is like you know a valid reason I suppose but personally I just think it's a little risky once you're finished with all of that you can just go to file and then press save or save as something interesting with creda is that it will normally just save as a creda file you can't save it as a Photoshop a PSP so that you can open it and work on it in Photoshop if you see fit and there we have it our mushroom drawing in Korea join a virtual class to learn live from our professional artists it creative assignments individual guidance and real-time feedback on your artwork thought today and level up your practice if you learned something new please like and share this with a fellow art nerd if you love receiving quality and free Arts education subscribe use a couple other videos you can check out next

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Length: 18min 2sec (1082 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 17 2023