0:00:00.506,0:00:03.766 [ Music ] 0:00:04.266,0:00:07.646 >> This video is a crash[br]course on how to use Krita. 0:00:07.706,0:00:12.406 So I'm going to start off by hitting Ufile, 0:00:12.886,0:00:21.706 and I'm going to make my image[br]let's say 3,000 by 3,000. 0:00:22.346,0:00:26.006 And I'm going to make this 72 pixels per inch. 0:00:26.006,0:00:28.956 That's good for viewing on screen. 0:00:28.956,0:00:31.096 You don't need to have it higher than that. 0:00:31.096,0:00:32.886 That's mainly for print. 0:00:32.886,0:00:35.936 So we'll just keep it at 72 pixels per inch. 0:00:36.086,0:00:39.126 And I'm going to hit create. 0:00:39.376,0:00:44.866 And so we have this image[br]that's square, and I can zoom in 0:00:44.866,0:00:48.256 and out using the plus and minus keys. 0:00:48.356,0:00:52.726 And right now I've got the[br]pencil brush as my default brush. 0:00:53.056,0:00:56.576 There are lots of different brushes[br]that you can play around with. 0:00:56.956,0:01:01.116 And I encourage you to check out[br]these when you have a moment. 0:01:01.436,0:01:09.016 You can also right click on the canvas, and[br]you can access all of your favorite brushes. 0:01:09.016,0:01:11.106 All of this is totally customizable. 0:01:11.436,0:01:15.026 You can also switch between[br]two different colors. 0:01:15.026,0:01:16.726 You've got the color wheel here. 0:01:17.096,0:01:19.216 You can zoom in and out of your canvas. 0:01:19.216,0:01:23.056 All sorts of things right here[br]from this pop up menu here. 0:01:23.056,0:01:28.766 There's also the color wheel on the right hand[br]side, and then the layers that you are going 0:01:28.766,0:01:31.596 to be painting on over here[br]on the right hand side. 0:01:32.196,0:01:37.386 On the left you can see there's a whole bunch[br]of different icons that look very similar 0:01:37.386,0:01:41.726 to Photoshop or Clip Studio if[br]you're familiar with either of those. 0:01:41.726,0:01:44.556 Now, we won't go into most of these right now. 0:01:44.556,0:01:49.476 We're just going to get down to the[br]drawing and inking and coloring part. 0:01:49.476,0:01:55.896 So I'm going to begin by drawing,[br]and you can use the bracket keys, 0:01:55.896,0:02:00.236 the left and right bracket keys to[br]make your brush bigger or smaller. 0:02:00.736,0:02:03.766 And I'm going to change the opacity of my brush 0:02:04.106,0:02:07.976 to something a little bit higher[br]here, and I'm going to begin drawing. 0:02:08.516,0:02:12.546 [ Music ] 0:02:13.046,0:02:17.846 I'm just going to pause for a[br]moment to go over the erase tool. 0:02:17.906,0:02:23.236 All you have to do is, depending on the type[br]of stylus you're using, you can just flip it 0:02:23.236,0:02:29.056 over on its other side, and it will[br]automatically activate the eraser, 0:02:29.476,0:02:32.506 and you can erase like that. 0:02:32.736,0:02:38.326 You can also choose the eraser from the[br]drop down menu here, and then switch back 0:02:38.356,0:02:41.156 to the pencil if you would prefer. 0:02:41.276,0:02:47.876 Not everybody has a stylus that will allow[br]you to erase on the other end but most do. 0:02:47.876,0:02:53.676 Also to undo all you have to[br]do is hit control z to undo. 0:02:53.766,0:03:02.686 You may also want to go up to settings, dockers,[br]and they actually have an undo history window 0:03:03.096,0:03:06.686 that you can have here at the bottom. 0:03:06.686,0:03:09.696 And if I -- I can undoc that. 0:03:09.696,0:03:11.386 I can put it over here. 0:03:11.386,0:03:17.416 I can also -- I prefer to have it together with[br]my layers, and I just switch over here like that 0:03:17.416,0:03:23.936 so that the layers are over here, and then I can[br]swap between the undo history in case if I need 0:03:23.936,0:03:28.976 to undo like 20 moves because I want to see[br]the difference between not one move but 20. 0:03:29.516,0:03:45.516 [ Music ] 0:03:46.016,0:03:49.606 So from here we're going to[br]start the inking process. 0:03:49.776,0:03:53.646 The first thing I need to do[br]is I need to make a new layer. 0:03:53.756,0:03:58.206 So I'm going to go over here to[br]layers, I'm going to hit the plus side, 0:03:58.206,0:04:02.426 and I'm going to double click on[br]this and just call it my ink layer. 0:04:02.866,0:04:09.296 And just to be safe I'm going[br]to label this sketch layer. 0:04:09.936,0:04:12.986 So on my ink layer I'm going to start inking. 0:04:12.986,0:04:17.876 And I'm also going to bring the[br]opacity down on my sketch layer so it's 0:04:17.876,0:04:21.646 like very light just so I can barely see it. 0:04:21.646,0:04:24.946 I'm going to lock it using the lock here. 0:04:24.946,0:04:30.476 And that's going to make it so that I don't[br]accidentally start inking on the wrong thing. 0:04:30.646,0:04:36.036 So I'm going to go back to ink, and[br]I'm going to choose the ink free G pen. 0:04:36.036,0:04:38.946 I'm going to flip the colors[br]over here and choose black 0:04:38.946,0:04:42.446 as my alternate color, and[br]I'm going to start inking. 0:04:42.556,0:04:45.276 When I ink there's a couple[br]of things that I like to do. 0:04:45.276,0:04:49.186 On the right hand side there's[br]this section for tool options. 0:04:49.336,0:04:52.346 And there's a way to smooth[br]out your brush strokes. 0:04:52.576,0:04:56.566 So it makes it -- especially for[br]inking increasing the distance 0:04:56.706,0:05:01.596 for your brush smoothing will just[br]give you a slightly smoother stroke 0:05:01.596,0:05:06.006 and will be less jittery[br]and, you know, less wobbly. 0:05:06.006,0:05:09.686 So I don't like to tweak it[br]so that it's up all the way. 0:05:09.686,0:05:13.836 But play around with the settings here and[br]you'll see a difference as you're drawing. 0:05:13.946,0:05:19.486 So I'll set this to half-ish,[br]and I think I'm ready to go. 0:05:19.486,0:05:22.906 So I'm just going to zoom in[br]and start the inking process. 0:05:23.516,0:05:29.886 [ Music ] 0:05:30.386,0:05:36.576 Something worth noting is as I'm moving[br]around I'm using the space bar to move 0:05:36.576,0:05:41.186 around my canvas, so it's a[br]really handy way to stay zoomed in 0:05:41.296,0:05:44.766 and see different parts of[br]your canvas very easily. 0:05:45.516,0:05:53.546 [ Music ] 0:05:54.046,0:05:59.286 Okay, now that we have completed the[br]inking process I'm going to start coloring. 0:05:59.696,0:06:03.536 Now I made a quick little color swatch here. 0:06:03.866,0:06:08.946 And rather than futzing around with[br]colors I quickly looked online, 0:06:09.016,0:06:15.506 and I found some concept art, and I did a[br]quick switch for concept art color swatches. 0:06:15.696,0:06:17.916 I found some concept art that I like. 0:06:17.916,0:06:24.256 I liked the color palette here, and[br]you can choose colors however you like. 0:06:24.256,0:06:29.966 If you've taken color theory classes then[br]you can use your color theory knowledge 0:06:30.046,0:06:31.456 and choose colors. 0:06:31.696,0:06:36.726 But if you're unsure you can always[br]look at what other people have done. 0:06:36.836,0:06:42.426 And, fortunately, you can easily find color[br]swatches that people post that they use 0:06:42.426,0:06:44.536 in their art, and you can use those, too. 0:06:44.536,0:06:50.426 So all you have to do is save this image[br]and then drag and drop it into Krita, 0:06:50.426,0:06:52.246 and I'll show you how to do that really quick. 0:06:52.926,0:06:59.226 So I would just open this image in a new tab,[br]drag it to my desktop, and then I go back 0:06:59.356,0:07:07.106 to Krita and I can just pick the image,[br]drag it in here, insert as a new layer, 0:07:07.106,0:07:09.566 and now I've got it up here in the corner. 0:07:09.596,0:07:15.896 And you can use this dropper tool, and[br]the up key for the dropper tool is key. 0:07:15.976,0:07:20.526 And you can sample each one of these[br]colors and then go back to your brush tool 0:07:20.526,0:07:23.946 and make a little mark here that[br]basically throws down the colors. 0:07:24.216,0:07:29.626 I'm also going to show you a really good[br]technique for quickly inking things. 0:07:29.966,0:07:33.746 And this is a technique that[br]you can use for cell painting 0:07:33.886,0:07:36.516 if you choose to do some animation in Krita. 0:07:36.516,0:07:39.616 It makes the process really quick and easy. 0:07:40.056,0:07:45.066 And what I'm going to do is I'm going to[br]select my ink layer, and I'm going to copy 0:07:45.066,0:07:48.586 that ink layer, and then I'm[br]going to paste the ink layer. 0:07:48.636,0:07:52.826 I'm going to lock the top layer[br]here, so right now it's locked. 0:07:52.826,0:07:55.696 And then I'm going to unlock[br]the one underneath it. 0:07:55.696,0:07:59.376 And I'm going to sample one of the colors. 0:07:59.376,0:08:01.936 We'll start with, say, the face. 0:08:02.206,0:08:09.246 And I'm going to use the fill, which[br]the paint bucket tool here if fill. 0:08:09.366,0:08:17.216 The hot key for that is f. And once I have that[br]color sample then I go to f and I fill it in. 0:08:17.356,0:08:19.116 And you can see it works perfectly. 0:08:19.866,0:08:23.486 And that's because all of my lines are airtight. 0:08:23.566,0:08:28.066 And when you fill something it goes[br]right up to the edge of those lines. 0:08:28.066,0:08:35.166 And as long as there are no gaps and holes[br]you should be able to fill it as long 0:08:35.166,0:08:38.086 as all those lines are contiguous[br]and there are no holes. 0:08:38.246,0:08:44.846 So, also, I have a setting on[br]my fill to grow two pixels. 0:08:44.956,0:08:48.146 And I hit the top ink layer,[br]and I'm going to fill 0:08:48.146,0:08:50.906 on the bottom ink layer to[br]show you how that looks. 0:08:51.286,0:08:57.856 So if I zoom way in and I fill it, you[br]can see it actually eats into the edges 0:08:58.116,0:09:01.306 of the line work, and it[br]actually eats some of it away. 0:09:01.306,0:09:03.016 That's actually a good thing. 0:09:03.106,0:09:07.536 And when I put my top ink[br]layer down it hides that. 0:09:07.586,0:09:15.416 So it's good to have the grow two pixels on just[br]to like eat away at a little bit of the lines 0:09:15.766,0:09:21.566 so that you don't see any like nasty[br]edges between the ink line and the fill. 0:09:21.856,0:09:26.996 So I'm going to turn this back on, and[br]I'm going to start filling in everything. 0:09:27.886,0:09:32.596 And the first problem I'm going to[br]come across is I'm going to sample this 0:09:32.596,0:09:36.626 for the beard, and I'm going to go to fill. 0:09:36.846,0:09:40.916 And when I go to fill in the[br]beard it fills in everything. 0:09:40.916,0:09:46.626 It fills in the beard, the ear and[br]the hair because there's no line here 0:09:46.926,0:09:49.126 that says, hey, don't fill this part in. 0:09:49.186,0:09:54.686 Or there's this little gap here and Krita[br]doesn't know that like there's little gap 0:09:54.686,0:09:56.636 that I don't want it to go[br]all the way up to the hat. 0:09:57.046,0:10:02.736 So what I have to do is I have to just[br]use the brush tool, and I'm just going 0:10:02.736,0:10:05.966 to brush a line to block it here. 0:10:05.996,0:10:10.066 And then I'm going to brush another[br]line right here to block that. 0:10:10.066,0:10:15.606 And now when I go to the fill tool it will[br]fill that in just fine without any problems. 0:10:15.946,0:10:21.486 So I'm going to go through and[br]repeat that task for a little bit. 0:10:21.746,0:10:26.906 I also wanted to mention that once you sample[br]all of these colors you can right click, 0:10:27.036,0:10:33.836 and your most recently sampled colors actually[br]show up here which is super convenient 0:10:34.156,0:10:37.566 so that you don't have to keep[br]going back and sampling the color. 0:10:37.566,0:10:40.866 You could just right click and[br]then sample the color here. 0:10:41.516,0:10:51.016 [ Music ] 0:10:51.516,0:10:54.786 Now that we've got the color in[br]place, the next thing I'm going 0:10:54.786,0:10:57.036 to do is I'm going to add a shadow layer. 0:10:57.186,0:11:04.336 So to add a shadow layer I'm going to create[br]a new layer that is behind my ink layer 0:11:04.336,0:11:09.826 but above the ink layer which we should[br]now just call this the color layer. 0:11:09.976,0:11:13.236 And that's one step above the color layer. 0:11:13.316,0:11:18.036 And I'm going to bring the opacity of[br]this layer down to about 50 percent, 0:11:18.036,0:11:20.896 and I'm going to set it to multiply. 0:11:20.896,0:11:27.946 And what multiply does is when you paint over[br]something with a particular color you can see 0:11:27.946,0:11:35.326 that it still shows the color underneath, but[br]it darkens and adds color to the layers below. 0:11:35.926,0:11:39.726 And so I picked out a blue[br]color for the shadows. 0:11:39.726,0:11:42.186 I have like nice cool colored shadows. 0:11:42.286,0:11:48.026 And I am going to begin just[br]looking at the character. 0:11:48.176,0:11:51.626 Say the light source was[br]coming from this direction, 0:11:51.936,0:11:57.946 I would say my shadow would start[br]somewhere around here and maybe here. 0:11:57.986,0:12:05.826 And if I just cut straight across the character[br]just to start, just more simplified, you know, 0:12:06.166,0:12:10.636 something like this, the whole left side[br]of the character would be in shadow here. 0:12:10.636,0:12:15.036 There might be a little bit that's[br]visible sticking out here for the arm 0:12:15.186,0:12:19.576 because the light would maybe hit[br]the character and put some of the arm 0:12:19.576,0:12:22.316 in shade and then the rest in light. 0:12:22.476,0:12:25.236 So I'm just going to block[br]all of this out right now. 0:12:25.236,0:12:29.926 And I'm still using the old G pen, and[br]I'm just going to do that right now. 0:12:30.516,0:12:37.106 [ Music ] 0:12:37.606,0:12:43.486 Okay, so here's what the shadows look[br]like, so this is what I blocked in. 0:12:43.486,0:12:45.116 And it's looking pretty good. 0:12:45.176,0:12:49.786 I'm also noticing I didn't name this so[br]I'm going to quickly name this shadow. 0:12:49.826,0:12:53.666 And at this point we don't[br]really need the sketch lines. 0:12:53.666,0:12:57.596 They're barely visible at this point,[br]but I'm going to hide those as well. 0:12:57.596,0:13:01.756 The next layer I'm going to[br]add is a highlight layer. 0:13:02.116,0:13:06.116 So if the sun is going in this[br]direction and it's creating a shadow, 0:13:06.116,0:13:09.556 it might also create a little bit[br]of a highlight on the character. 0:13:10.066,0:13:13.056 So what I'm going to do is[br]I'm going to make a new layer. 0:13:13.146,0:13:20.996 I'm going to name that layer light, and I'm[br]going to set that opacity to about 50 percent. 0:13:21.516,0:13:28.546 And instead of a multiplied layer[br]I'm going to use a lighten layer. 0:13:29.096,0:13:33.106 And so you can also play[br]with lighten or luminosity. 0:13:33.106,0:13:35.726 They all each do similar things. 0:13:36.316,0:13:42.226 So I'm going to use a -- I'll actually go for[br]the luminosity layer since we're painting light. 0:13:42.966,0:13:52.776 And I'm going to select a warm color, so[br]something that's sort of on the yellow-ish side. 0:13:52.776,0:13:54.066 I think that would be good. 0:13:54.786,0:13:58.386 And, again, opacity is set way low. 0:13:58.886,0:14:03.826 And so thinking about where the -- you[br]know, how the light is hitting the character 0:14:04.216,0:14:07.166 from the side, then I would[br]want to start going in 0:14:07.226,0:14:12.016 and add a little bit of, you[br]know, light on this side. 0:14:12.326,0:14:18.136 So I'm going to more or less just like[br]give little bits of like rim lighting. 0:14:18.576,0:14:25.406 So it's really just kind of a line[br]going along the edge of the side 0:14:25.406,0:14:27.976 of the character so it's not over everything. 0:14:28.516,0:14:32.236 [ Music ] 0:14:32.736,0:14:34.956 Okay, so there's the light layer. 0:14:35.216,0:14:38.106 And you can see it makes a[br]little bit of a difference. 0:14:38.326,0:14:42.646 You can see now there's a definite[br]light source giving a highlight. 0:14:42.756,0:14:48.096 And then we've got our shadow, and together[br]they create this really nice effect. 0:14:48.386,0:14:54.186 I'm still on the fence on whether[br]lighten or luminosity works better. 0:14:55.496,0:15:01.976 Luminosity is bleaching everything out,[br]and I was hoping it wouldn't do that. 0:15:02.866,0:15:04.786 But it still looks pretty good. 0:15:04.836,0:15:07.076 I think lighten is going[br]to be the winner for here. 0:15:07.166,0:15:12.206 So now that we've got all of[br]this I can use my erase tool, 0:15:12.206,0:15:18.056 and I can go into my shadow layer[br]and I can erase all this stuff. 0:15:18.056,0:15:25.976 Go into my color layer or my paint layer,[br]and I'll just erase all of this stuff out, 0:15:25.976,0:15:28.456 and now I've got my finished drawing. 0:15:28.456,0:15:32.066 And so now that I've got this there's[br]a bunch of things that I could do. 0:15:32.066,0:15:38.876 I could still keep playing with the shadow, you[br]know, and like start adding say, like, you know, 0:15:38.876,0:15:42.576 like a shadow underneath the[br]character or something, you know, 0:15:42.616,0:15:45.396 something like that to help[br]ground the character. 0:15:45.486,0:15:47.656 You could totally do something like that. 0:15:47.656,0:15:53.936 Not necessary, but it can be kind of fun to do[br]as like a finishing touch to put the character 0:15:53.936,0:15:58.216 in more of a space instead of[br]just kind of like floating there. 0:15:58.396,0:16:02.856 There's a really few like how much[br]you want to go with it after that. 0:16:02.856,0:16:05.726 You can also add a background. 0:16:05.726,0:16:09.186 You can start playing with colors[br]for the background and so forth. 0:16:09.696,0:16:12.616 And I mean the possibilities are endless. 0:16:12.716,0:16:20.496 But this is basically where I'm[br]going to say, okay, this is done. 0:16:20.706,0:16:25.056 And there's maybe one or[br]two other little bits here. 0:16:25.056,0:16:28.946 Like I want to put more highlights on his eyes. 0:16:29.536,0:16:35.046 So I'm make a special layer just[br]for the eye highlight just for now. 0:16:35.746,0:16:38.886 And I'm going to choose a light color. 0:16:38.886,0:16:44.456 And I'm just going to go in[br]and just real quick just make 0:16:44.456,0:16:50.196 that a little bit more pronounced,[br]give his eyes that extra glow. 0:16:51.136,0:16:53.526 And now that's pretty much done. 0:16:53.526,0:16:58.246 If the character that you made isn't[br]quite centered and you'd like to move it 0:16:58.246,0:17:03.466 around in the composition, the best way to do[br]that is select all the layers that you want 0:17:03.466,0:17:08.576 to affect, right click and[br]select group and quick group. 0:17:09.046,0:17:17.036 So when you select quick group you can[br]select group 2, and then go over here 0:17:17.036,0:17:20.286 to the transform a layer or selection. 0:17:20.286,0:17:26.646 If you want to scale or change the[br]position of your drawing in the composition, 0:17:26.646,0:17:32.586 the easiest way to do that with all of your[br]layers is select all of your layers, right click 0:17:32.586,0:17:37.116 and go to group, quick group,[br]and then select the group. 0:17:37.116,0:17:41.996 And then go over here to[br]transform a layer or selection. 0:17:42.326,0:17:44.496 So it's this little thing here. 0:17:44.896,0:17:49.536 You click on that, and now[br]I'm in the selection mode. 0:17:49.536,0:17:53.836 If it's not already in the selection[br]mode, you right click and click free. 0:17:53.956,0:17:59.796 And then if you click down on it on your[br]canvas it should pull up this stuff here. 0:18:00.416,0:18:03.966 And you can now scale it however you want. 0:18:03.966,0:18:08.276 But notice like it's scaling[br]it all weird right now. 0:18:08.696,0:18:13.676 And so in order to scale it uniformly[br]you have to hold down the shift key 0:18:14.106,0:18:18.396 as you're moving it, and so you can scale it. 0:18:18.396,0:18:21.776 Just keep in mind that if you're scaling it up, 0:18:22.086,0:18:26.176 if you scale it up too much you're[br]going to get noticeably blurry lines. 0:18:26.216,0:18:29.816 A little bit of scaling up is totally fine. 0:18:30.296,0:18:36.176 And so say I wanted to like get the character[br]off to the side and wanted to put some text 0:18:36.176,0:18:40.316 or something over here on the right hand[br]side, so I just move the character over here. 0:18:40.316,0:18:45.216 And then when I'm done I just[br]hit enter and I'm good to go. 0:18:45.216,0:18:49.336 And then I hide out the sketch lines here. 0:18:49.856,0:18:55.696 And those are pretty much the[br]basics for making a drawing in Krita 0:18:55.696,0:18:59.086 and doing some simple ink and paint techniques. 0:18:59.116,0:19:02.716 So I hope you found this helpful and thanks. 0:19:03.516,0:19:12.500 [ Music ]