File:Tutorial- an illustration from A to Z with Krita.ogv

Summary

Description
English: A long 1h22min Krita video tutorial fully commented. A real full length course suited to beginners, but also advanced digital painters. It starts from scratch with default set of brushes, preferences and break-down all the process. The repetitive parts while painting were all accelerated and can be skipped easily (a timer in overlay appears on display) Check the Timeline codes under to navigate in the video.

Subtitle are unfortunately not available, sorry for my (heavy) French accent and poor vocabulary. It was too long to write them this time. I hope the auto generation will work and you'll have not a lot of trouble to understand me mumbling sometime.

I recorded over 6h of material, and at the end I was totally brain washed. Painting and talking while recording really overheat my brain, and I also recorded that under a super hot weather, 39°C , and I had to turn of all the fans to reduce the noise on the microphone. That was a real challenge.

Big props also to the OBS studio team (for the recording software) and Kdenlive team (for the video editing software). Of course, to the Krita team too!

Link to high resolution: https://davidrevoy.com/data/images/blog/2022/kiki-mascot-in-my-own-style_final.jpg Krita website: https://krita.org/en

Timeline, Table of Contents

  1. 00:00:00 Intro
  2. 00:00:40 Chapter 1, Customisation of the Krita Interface (Intro)
  3. 00:01:31 Reduce size of toolbar icon
  4. 00:01:57 The Advanced Color Selector
  5. 00:02:41 Two columns of dockers
  6. 00:03:37 From Tabs to Subwindows mode
  7. 00:05:10 Third Flow sliders, and new toolbar buttons
  8. 00:07:14 Canvas border background color
  9. 00:07:46 Brush outline and cursor
  10. 00:08:42 Tool Options, not as a docker but in toolbar
  11. 00:10:02 Document creation, A4@300dpi sRGB 8Bit
  12. 00:10:33 The Overview docker
  13. 00:11:23 Navigation on Krita canvas, with shortcuts
  14. 00:12:16 The Default brush presets set
  15. 00:12:37 Chapter 2, Finding the idea (Krita artist contest)
  16. 00:13:43 Chapter 3, References with BeeRef software
  17. 00:15:54 Chapter 4, Thumbnails
  18. 00:16:27 Basics of Krita (Fill, Transform, Selection)
  19. 00:19:35 About values in painting, the big "scheme" for portraits.
  20. 00:21:23 Starting to draw the thumbnails
  21. 00:24:20 Painting colors on the thumbnails
  22. 00:25:31 The Blending Modes (on brush) Overlay
  23. 00:29:17 Filters of Krita (Curves, HSV adjustment, Color Balance).
  24. 00:32:37 The concept of "Dirty" brush preset, and cleaning them.
  25. 00:35:47 Chapter 5, Drawing. Transform of the thumbnail, resolution and layer setup.
  26. 00:39:09 Drawing (Timelapse)
  27. 00:41:47 Chapter 6, Painting under the line-art
  28. 00:43:37 The Deform Brush Engine
  29. 00:45:20 "Grain Merge" blending-mode on the line-art
  30. 00:46:45 Introduction to creating brush presets
  31. 00:51:21 Brush usage, hard edge, spikes, glazing and replacing colors
  32. 00:51:50 Paint under, Timelapse
  33. 00:52:55 Chapter 7, Paint-Over (setup)
  34. 00:55:04 Paint-Over (timelapse)
  35. 00:56:11 Adjustments, and self-criticism
  36. 00:56:46 Values, Reading Histogram docker
  37. 00:59:21 Values, fixing with Curves filter
  38. 01:02:19 Color temperature, fixing with Color Balance filter
  39. 01:03:50 Background painting (timelapse)
  40. 01:04:22 Silhouetting the character with the Lighten Blending Mode (fog)
  41. 01:08:10 Paint-Over fix, removing the squirrel's hears (timelapse commented)
  42. 01:08:52 Lens Blur Effect for the depth of field (Filter Mask).
  43. 01:11:46 A special thanks for the idea of the video
  44. 01:12:29 Another pass for thinner details (big timelapse)
  45. 01:16:27 (pre)Final, and saving/archiving the file.
  46. 01:17:56 Appendix, fix pushed "One day after" (timelapse)
  47. 01:19:55 The final artwork
  48. 01:20:05 Outro
  49. 01:21:58 Credits, Attributions and License

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Video and artworks by David Revoy Kiki is a character design created by Tyson Tan (CC-By) davidrevoy.com

Soundtrack

  1. Intro: Fabian Measures # Hanami (CC-By) # soundcloud.com/fogheart
  2. Timelapse: Kevin MacLeod # Perspective (CC-By) # incompetech.com
  3. Outro: Kevin MacLeod # Backed Vibes Clean (CC-By) # incompetech.com
  4. SoundFX: Oriental Harp3 by Soughtaftersounds (CC-By) # Freesound

Edited with Kdenlive 21.04(appimage) on Fedora KDE 36

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