Krita Lineart + Cell Shade tutorial

all right today I'm going to be showing you how to do Celsius style line art and Krita so what you're going to want to do is open a document set its whatever resolution you want to work at I usually start at 5,000 by 5,000 at 600 PPI there you get your document I guess first we'll start off with I don't claim to be terribly good at this but this technique is something that you could apply at just about any skill level so take that as you will so this is going to be kind of a your new two kurta first off your user interface is not going to look like this your brushes will probably be over here if I remember correctly color selector might be different then think to toolbars by default over here what you want to do is stick with the default user interface and you can change it up as you go and fit it to your needs like I always like to have tool options exposed because I switch between the smoothing methods pretty often so before you start drawing anything you got to get your brushes squared away so by default credit comes with these your brush presets menu is going to be over here probably for doing the cel-shaded style line art you really only need three brushes you need your us to sketch with your brush to ink with and you need a brush to do your fill colors whenever you need to like seal in your outlines with color if they're not like if you can't use bucket so for your sketch brush if you just search pencil in here you'll get a couple options on pencil to be is fine I have a David or vlogs brush pack installed which gives you some good brushes I use the pencil from his I'll go over what this is here just a second actually rather than go through that so you got your pencil and make sure you have a new layer opened over here before you start drawing you don't want to draw on your background that's no fun so you got your pencil make sure you actually set color to black you can press delete to clear out a layer and then you're going to want a brush to ink with if you go to the circle brushes Krita comes with a decent ink brush here the ink circle ten the most important thing is you want it to be opaque especially at maximum pressure and with your ink brush you really just want it to be opaque as much as possible so that way if you fill in underneath or let me demonstrate real quick what I mean if you've got a color you want your ink brush so that that color doesn't show through you just pick this you'll see that it's still completely black over here and I'll go through some of these tricks as we go assuming you're using a graphics tablet your button on the side of your pen you can hold all finished going over brushes first sorry if this is getting a little off track so you got your ink brush and need your fill brush if you're under circle you can also use this one as your fill brush the fill circle like I said I use David revise a pencil and fill brush and I made my own for inking so let's go over quickly what this thing is here this is going to be your your wheel that you get from pressing the button on your pen what you can do is I have these and you also of course probably want erasers you can use whatever you want for those what you can do is you can assign brushes to tag and create a new tag over here I just created one called wheel and then you can select that tag in here and for the ink I created my own just got some different pressure curves but you can start off with ones that come with Krita alright so let's go over some handy shortcuts that you'll probably want to use before you start for your sketch phase you really all you're going to want is if you hold shift you can rotate your canvas pressing v will reset the rotation killed control and use your the button on the side of your pen you can zoom in and out you hold control and you can select colors and that's pretty much all you need to know so let's go ahead and make a quick sketch here so we have something to actually draw now probably time-lapse this I'll bring my reference over here so you can see what I'm drawing and here we go alright and here is what we have so far I'm sorry if you can hear my AC in the background I'm not about to turn that off it's like 100 degrees this sketch is good enough to work with let's go ahead and rename that sketch and lock it so we don't accidentally draw our line art on top of it um so another a couple things and I should probably mention I'll move this reference over here and to my other monitor so you don't have to have it in this screen if you have a brush open and you press e up at the top you can see it switches into our eraser mode which is a handy thing to do so we got this now we want to ink it I'm not going to tell you how to do good ink work because to be honest I'm not that great at it either but so really the sense which is what you want to do create a new layer on top of your sketch and go ahead and pick your ink brush up here and you're going to ink over it and you probably want to switch your smoothing mode and your tool options to stabilizer make sure you don't have delay checked this mess around with these settings till you find something you like and your tool options might be over here as opposed to over here but anyway I'll go ahead and ink this and I'll do that probably in time-lapse as well so I'll see you on the other side [Music] father Kelly [Music] [Music] [Music] all right here is our ink let's clean this bit up a little bit so really probably shouldn't do nearly as much panning and spinning and stuff as I do and I know I use the circle tool for the eyes but I'm lazy so here we go now what you're going to do is go ahead and rename this to pink lock that so you don't accidentally draw on it and create a layer below that I just easy way to select the layer below it and create a new layer and Creek the layers are always created above the currently selected layer so what you want to do is now you want to fill in grab your fill brush I'm going to fill in all your stuff and I have that not sealed because my line art is bad yeah so what you might want to do is go ahead and pick a nice background color go ahead and fill in the layer one there and I want to go ahead and limit to current layer for that so it fills the whole thing uncheck that and easy way to get your bucket fill tool let's press f and then go to back your brush you press B so I'll grab my fill brush here is going to be our color and when you do your liner or when you do your Inc you want to usually stay with the mid-tones because you're going to do most your shading on your highlights and shadows layers which I'm going to get to once we finish that so what you want to do is generally go around and seal up gaps in your lines this thing is mostly in the like blue-gray range so I'm sticking around there and you just fill and stuff like that and then if you want to change the color of any particular thing you field make sure your gross selection is set to zero or else it'll expand the little bits where you don't have lines every time you fill it so I want to make this a little darker there we go perfect well actually let's change that whole bit to more of a there we go so yeah you're going to go around you're going to do that and I will go in time-lapse or fast-forward that again and I will see you on the other side once again all right and here we have our colors filled in so I guess another quick tip that I forgot to mention earlier is when you have your brush out you can hold shift and just drag back and forth with your tip on the pad to change the brush size which is real handy when you're doing your fill brush because sometimes I want to fill in large areas that you can't use bucket fill with so just go around clean up these lines a little bit another thing is whenever you are using your bucket fill make sure you have it set to expand if you're filling areas by a couple pixels or else you'll get the little line artifacts like that a lot of people considered a bucket tool cheating but if you think about it it's really just a faster way of doing the same thing you'd be doing anyway so anyway now we're going to the stuff that may not be intuitive at first and where this comes to start being a little criticize the buttons along here but I'm not going to worry about that now alright so what you're going on to do first is take your color and create a quick group so your color is now going to be in this group here and then for your shadows create a layer on top of that hold the shadow and well let me demonstrate what I mean so first we want to multiply because multiplies what you want to use for shadows so you see we got our shadow layer here but you don't want stuff going outside your layers what you can do click this alpha locked thing and it will follow the alpha of the layer underneath it so you can basically only paint over or the paint will only show up over areas below it that are not transparent and the reason that's why you have to group this or also follow this layer and this layer fill the entire page so it'll be like nothing happened at all so anyway see if you could pick an interesting color do shadows with first let's do some of these dark shadows up here where it's basically completely black this one Martin to fast forward as much because it doesn't take that long to do and I can kind of explain some stuff while we do it so yeah pretty much we're going to be doing the same thing for the highlights just instead of doing multiply we're going to be using screen where we can talk a lot eraser as well and see okay let's stick with these dark shadows actually probably for most of this it makes it a lot easier when you have that alpha lock to shadow around the edges of things because you don't have to worry about going off the page or going out of the lines I should say you only have to really worry about it whenever it's internal and some people will split their like stuff up into a ton of layers like live layers for like different objects in the scene I don't usually do that unless I'm doing an actual like digital painting you can do that it's I find it to be more confusing and more time-consuming but you can try it and see if it works for you it's free country you can do whatever you want unless of course you don't live in a free country in which case you probably have more important things to do then watch this video we're going to keep shading this stuff here sometimes critter will freeze up on my PC that's from the auto-saving speaking of performance it does run slow in Windows but there are a couple things you can do to help fix that a little bit and on Linux as well and the options there's an option to use OpenGL instead of software rendering which helps quite a bit especially if you're doing like lots of panning which I tend to do a lot as I'm sure you've noticed if there's an OpenGL option and you could in theory disable the like autosave every couple minutes or whatever um I don't do that because I forget to save manually often enough plus I don't think I've even saved this document at all yet probably should do that but I'm not going to if you can see some of the line artifacts from the color layer I'm not going to bother thinking of line artifacts one reason to work at high resolutions is that way you can downscale two if you have those little artifacts from like using your bucket fill tool or whatever when you down scale-up those will disappear almost done with shadows one thing you can do is if you're doing a lot of like on drop shadows you could set or you could just like draw in an area and fill it but I wouldn't recommend doing that too much also apparently I've somehow selected a black color in do that either there we go yeah and also you'll notice your previously selected colors are over here jizz Andy because if you try to pick from a multiply layer it'll take from the wrong color because that's how things are all right we're almost done here right so there we go we got that now all we have this let's go ahead and select our drawing area I want to crop this to get an image and then trim to selection there we go now we do highlights same thing but instead we do screen and we pick light colors and also turn on your alpha lock this one I'm definitely on a bass sword through and don't pick too light of a color [Music] [Music] alright here we are dumb and highlights now you can do stuff like add a little effects too like goggles so you go and create a new layer let me go ahead and rename our highlight let's say we want to do where did we move it there to be put that on kind of Isis and I like all right I'm slopes I want to do something neat with these goggles could do like that there we go that looks pretty neat so what it is I just selected that created a new layer and use that gradient tool to just apply a gradient to it stuff like that you can do so now I'm going to teach you a trick that I learned pretty recently that involves the same trick let's say you want to color your lines but you don't want to do it before you do your actual colors you want to do it after because it's easier to do once you've already color the rest your drawing you can do is control G's the quick way to do grouping because it's keyboard shortcut do the same thing with the alpha lock and that's pretty much it and you can either get your fill brush fill in your lines or one fun thing you can do is our quick easy way to add a little flares put a gradient across your whole line art you can turn down the opacity on it to make a little more subtle but I'd say let's adjust some colors maybe make this background darker I'd say that's looking pretty good now this is just general information you can apply this however you want but uh I hope this tutorial was helpful and I guess if you want to see any more desc have a good day

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Keywords: krita, line art, cell shade, tutorial

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Length: 26min 3sec (1563 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 27 2017