1 00:00:00,506 --> 00:00:03,766 [ Music ] 2 00:00:04,266 --> 00:00:07,646 >> This video is a crash course on how to use Krita. 3 00:00:07,706 --> 00:00:12,406 So I'm going to start off by hitting Ufile, 4 00:00:12,886 --> 00:00:21,706 and I'm going to make my image let's say 3,000 by 3,000. 5 00:00:22,346 --> 00:00:26,006 And I'm going to make this 72 pixels per inch. 6 00:00:26,006 --> 00:00:28,956 That's good for viewing on screen. 7 00:00:28,956 --> 00:00:31,096 You don't need to have it higher than that. 8 00:00:31,096 --> 00:00:32,886 That's mainly for print. 9 00:00:32,886 --> 00:00:35,936 So we'll just keep it at 72 pixels per inch. 10 00:00:36,086 --> 00:00:39,126 And I'm going to hit create. 11 00:00:39,376 --> 00:00:44,866 And so we have this image that's square, and I can zoom in 12 00:00:44,866 --> 00:00:48,256 and out using the plus and minus keys. 13 00:00:48,356 --> 00:00:52,726 And right now I've got the pencil brush as my default brush. 14 00:00:53,056 --> 00:00:56,576 There are lots of different brushes that you can play around with. 15 00:00:56,956 --> 00:01:01,116 And I encourage you to check out these when you have a moment. 16 00:01:01,436 --> 00:01:09,016 You can also right click on the canvas, and you can access all of your favorite brushes. 17 00:01:09,016 --> 00:01:11,106 All of this is totally customizable. 18 00:01:11,436 --> 00:01:15,026 You can also switch between two different colors. 19 00:01:15,026 --> 00:01:16,726 You've got the color wheel here. 20 00:01:17,096 --> 00:01:19,216 You can zoom in and out of your canvas. 21 00:01:19,216 --> 00:01:23,056 All sorts of things right here from this pop up menu here. 22 00:01:23,056 --> 00:01:28,766 There's also the color wheel on the right hand side, and then the layers that you are going 23 00:01:28,766 --> 00:01:31,596 to be painting on over here on the right hand side. 24 00:01:32,196 --> 00:01:37,386 On the left you can see there's a whole bunch of different icons that look very similar 25 00:01:37,386 --> 00:01:41,726 to Photoshop or Clip Studio if you're familiar with either of those. 26 00:01:41,726 --> 00:01:44,556 Now, we won't go into most of these right now. 27 00:01:44,556 --> 00:01:49,476 We're just going to get down to the drawing and inking and coloring part. 28 00:01:49,476 --> 00:01:55,896 So I'm going to begin by drawing, and you can use the bracket keys, 29 00:01:55,896 --> 00:02:00,236 the left and right bracket keys to make your brush bigger or smaller. 30 00:02:00,736 --> 00:02:03,766 And I'm going to change the opacity of my brush 31 00:02:04,106 --> 00:02:07,976 to something a little bit higher here, and I'm going to begin drawing. 32 00:02:08,516 --> 00:02:12,546 [ Music ] 33 00:02:13,046 --> 00:02:17,846 I'm just going to pause for a moment to go over the erase tool. 34 00:02:17,906 --> 00:02:23,236 All you have to do is, depending on the type of stylus you're using, you can just flip it 35 00:02:23,236 --> 00:02:29,056 over on its other side, and it will automatically activate the eraser, 36 00:02:29,476 --> 00:02:32,506 and you can erase like that. 37 00:02:32,736 --> 00:02:38,326 You can also choose the eraser from the drop down menu here, and then switch back 38 00:02:38,356 --> 00:02:41,156 to the pencil if you would prefer. 39 00:02:41,276 --> 00:02:47,876 Not everybody has a stylus that will allow you to erase on the other end but most do. 40 00:02:47,876 --> 00:02:53,676 Also to undo all you have to do is hit control z to undo. 41 00:02:53,766 --> 00:03:02,686 You may also want to go up to settings, dockers, and they actually have an undo history window 42 00:03:03,096 --> 00:03:06,686 that you can have here at the bottom. 43 00:03:06,686 --> 00:03:09,696 And if I -- I can undoc that. 44 00:03:09,696 --> 00:03:11,386 I can put it over here. 45 00:03:11,386 --> 00:03:17,416 I can also -- I prefer to have it together with my layers, and I just switch over here like that 46 00:03:17,416 --> 00:03:23,936 so that the layers are over here, and then I can swap between the undo history in case if I need 47 00:03:23,936 --> 00:03:28,976 to undo like 20 moves because I want to see the difference between not one move but 20. 48 00:03:29,516 --> 00:03:45,516 [ Music ] 49 00:03:46,016 --> 00:03:49,606 So from here we're going to start the inking process. 50 00:03:49,776 --> 00:03:53,646 The first thing I need to do is I need to make a new layer. 51 00:03:53,756 --> 00:03:58,206 So I'm going to go over here to layers, I'm going to hit the plus side, 52 00:03:58,206 --> 00:04:02,426 and I'm going to double click on this and just call it my ink layer. 53 00:04:02,866 --> 00:04:09,296 And just to be safe I'm going to label this sketch layer. 54 00:04:09,936 --> 00:04:12,986 So on my ink layer I'm going to start inking. 55 00:04:12,986 --> 00:04:17,876 And I'm also going to bring the opacity down on my sketch layer so it's 56 00:04:17,876 --> 00:04:21,646 like very light just so I can barely see it. 57 00:04:21,646 --> 00:04:24,946 I'm going to lock it using the lock here. 58 00:04:24,946 --> 00:04:30,476 And that's going to make it so that I don't accidentally start inking on the wrong thing. 59 00:04:30,646 --> 00:04:36,036 So I'm going to go back to ink, and I'm going to choose the ink free G pen. 60 00:04:36,036 --> 00:04:38,946 I'm going to flip the colors over here and choose black 61 00:04:38,946 --> 00:04:42,446 as my alternate color, and I'm going to start inking. 62 00:04:42,556 --> 00:04:45,276 When I ink there's a couple of things that I like to do. 63 00:04:45,276 --> 00:04:49,186 On the right hand side there's this section for tool options. 64 00:04:49,336 --> 00:04:52,346 And there's a way to smooth out your brush strokes. 65 00:04:52,576 --> 00:04:56,566 So it makes it -- especially for inking increasing the distance 66 00:04:56,706 --> 00:05:01,596 for your brush smoothing will just give you a slightly smoother stroke 67 00:05:01,596 --> 00:05:06,006 and will be less jittery and, you know, less wobbly. 68 00:05:06,006 --> 00:05:09,686 So I don't like to tweak it so that it's up all the way. 69 00:05:09,686 --> 00:05:13,836 But play around with the settings here and you'll see a difference as you're drawing. 70 00:05:13,946 --> 00:05:19,486 So I'll set this to half-ish, and I think I'm ready to go. 71 00:05:19,486 --> 00:05:22,906 So I'm just going to zoom in and start the inking process. 72 00:05:23,516 --> 00:05:29,886 [ Music ] 73 00:05:30,386 --> 00:05:36,576 Something worth noting is as I'm moving around I'm using the space bar to move 74 00:05:36,576 --> 00:05:41,186 around my canvas, so it's a really handy way to stay zoomed in 75 00:05:41,296 --> 00:05:44,766 and see different parts of your canvas very easily. 76 00:05:45,516 --> 00:05:53,546 [ Music ] 77 00:05:54,046 --> 00:05:59,286 Okay, now that we have completed the inking process I'm going to start coloring. 78 00:05:59,696 --> 00:06:03,536 Now I made a quick little color swatch here. 79 00:06:03,866 --> 00:06:08,946 And rather than futzing around with colors I quickly looked online, 80 00:06:09,016 --> 00:06:15,506 and I found some concept art, and I did a quick switch for concept art color swatches. 81 00:06:15,696 --> 00:06:17,916 I found some concept art that I like. 82 00:06:17,916 --> 00:06:24,256 I liked the color palette here, and you can choose colors however you like. 83 00:06:24,256 --> 00:06:29,966 If you've taken color theory classes then you can use your color theory knowledge 84 00:06:30,046 --> 00:06:31,456 and choose colors. 85 00:06:31,696 --> 00:06:36,726 But if you're unsure you can always look at what other people have done. 86 00:06:36,836 --> 00:06:42,426 And, fortunately, you can easily find color swatches that people post that they use 87 00:06:42,426 --> 00:06:44,536 in their art, and you can use those, too. 88 00:06:44,536 --> 00:06:50,426 So all you have to do is save this image and then drag and drop it into Krita, 89 00:06:50,426 --> 00:06:52,246 and I'll show you how to do that really quick. 90 00:06:52,926 --> 00:06:59,226 So I would just open this image in a new tab, drag it to my desktop, and then I go back 91 00:06:59,356 --> 00:07:07,106 to Krita and I can just pick the image, drag it in here, insert as a new layer, 92 00:07:07,106 --> 00:07:09,566 and now I've got it up here in the corner. 93 00:07:09,596 --> 00:07:15,896 And you can use this dropper tool, and the up key for the dropper tool is key. 94 00:07:15,976 --> 00:07:20,526 And you can sample each one of these colors and then go back to your brush tool 95 00:07:20,526 --> 00:07:23,946 and make a little mark here that basically throws down the colors. 96 00:07:24,216 --> 00:07:29,626 I'm also going to show you a really good technique for quickly inking things. 97 00:07:29,966 --> 00:07:33,746 And this is a technique that you can use for cell painting 98 00:07:33,886 --> 00:07:36,516 if you choose to do some animation in Krita. 99 00:07:36,516 --> 00:07:39,616 It makes the process really quick and easy. 100 00:07:40,056 --> 00:07:45,066 And what I'm going to do is I'm going to select my ink layer, and I'm going to copy 101 00:07:45,066 --> 00:07:48,586 that ink layer, and then I'm going to paste the ink layer. 102 00:07:48,636 --> 00:07:52,826 I'm going to lock the top layer here, so right now it's locked. 103 00:07:52,826 --> 00:07:55,696 And then I'm going to unlock the one underneath it. 104 00:07:55,696 --> 00:07:59,376 And I'm going to sample one of the colors. 105 00:07:59,376 --> 00:08:01,936 We'll start with, say, the face. 106 00:08:02,206 --> 00:08:09,246 And I'm going to use the fill, which the paint bucket tool here if fill. 107 00:08:09,366 --> 00:08:17,216 The hot key for that is f. And once I have that color sample then I go to f and I fill it in. 108 00:08:17,356 --> 00:08:19,116 And you can see it works perfectly. 109 00:08:19,866 --> 00:08:23,486 And that's because all of my lines are airtight. 110 00:08:23,566 --> 00:08:28,066 And when you fill something it goes right up to the edge of those lines. 111 00:08:28,066 --> 00:08:35,166 And as long as there are no gaps and holes you should be able to fill it as long 112 00:08:35,166 --> 00:08:38,086 as all those lines are contiguous and there are no holes. 113 00:08:38,246 --> 00:08:44,846 So, also, I have a setting on my fill to grow two pixels. 114 00:08:44,956 --> 00:08:48,146 And I hit the top ink layer, and I'm going to fill 115 00:08:48,146 --> 00:08:50,906 on the bottom ink layer to show you how that looks. 116 00:08:51,286 --> 00:08:57,856 So if I zoom way in and I fill it, you can see it actually eats into the edges 117 00:08:58,116 --> 00:09:01,306 of the line work, and it actually eats some of it away. 118 00:09:01,306 --> 00:09:03,016 That's actually a good thing. 119 00:09:03,106 --> 00:09:07,536 And when I put my top ink layer down it hides that. 120 00:09:07,586 --> 00:09:15,416 So it's good to have the grow two pixels on just to like eat away at a little bit of the lines 121 00:09:15,766 --> 00:09:21,566 so that you don't see any like nasty edges between the ink line and the fill. 122 00:09:21,856 --> 00:09:26,996 So I'm going to turn this back on, and I'm going to start filling in everything. 123 00:09:27,886 --> 00:09:32,596 And the first problem I'm going to come across is I'm going to sample this 124 00:09:32,596 --> 00:09:36,626 for the beard, and I'm going to go to fill. 125 00:09:36,846 --> 00:09:40,916 And when I go to fill in the beard it fills in everything. 126 00:09:40,916 --> 00:09:46,626 It fills in the beard, the ear and the hair because there's no line here 127 00:09:46,926 --> 00:09:49,126 that says, hey, don't fill this part in. 128 00:09:49,186 --> 00:09:54,686 Or there's this little gap here and Krita doesn't know that like there's little gap 129 00:09:54,686 --> 00:09:56,636 that I don't want it to go all the way up to the hat. 130 00:09:57,046 --> 00:10:02,736 So what I have to do is I have to just use the brush tool, and I'm just going 131 00:10:02,736 --> 00:10:05,966 to brush a line to block it here. 132 00:10:05,996 --> 00:10:10,066 And then I'm going to brush another line right here to block that. 133 00:10:10,066 --> 00:10:15,606 And now when I go to the fill tool it will fill that in just fine without any problems. 134 00:10:15,946 --> 00:10:21,486 So I'm going to go through and repeat that task for a little bit. 135 00:10:21,746 --> 00:10:26,906 I also wanted to mention that once you sample all of these colors you can right click, 136 00:10:27,036 --> 00:10:33,836 and your most recently sampled colors actually show up here which is super convenient 137 00:10:34,156 --> 00:10:37,566 so that you don't have to keep going back and sampling the color. 138 00:10:37,566 --> 00:10:40,866 You could just right click and then sample the color here. 139 00:10:41,516 --> 00:10:51,016 [ Music ] 140 00:10:51,516 --> 00:10:54,786 Now that we've got the color in place, the next thing I'm going 141 00:10:54,786 --> 00:10:57,036 to do is I'm going to add a shadow layer. 142 00:10:57,186 --> 00:11:04,336 So to add a shadow layer I'm going to create a new layer that is behind my ink layer 143 00:11:04,336 --> 00:11:09,826 but above the ink layer which we should now just call this the color layer. 144 00:11:09,976 --> 00:11:13,236 And that's one step above the color layer. 145 00:11:13,316 --> 00:11:18,036 And I'm going to bring the opacity of this layer down to about 50 percent, 146 00:11:18,036 --> 00:11:20,896 and I'm going to set it to multiply. 147 00:11:20,896 --> 00:11:27,946 And what multiply does is when you paint over something with a particular color you can see 148 00:11:27,946 --> 00:11:35,326 that it still shows the color underneath, but it darkens and adds color to the layers below. 149 00:11:35,926 --> 00:11:39,726 And so I picked out a blue color for the shadows. 150 00:11:39,726 --> 00:11:42,186 I have like nice cool colored shadows. 151 00:11:42,286 --> 00:11:48,026 And I am going to begin just looking at the character. 152 00:11:48,176 --> 00:11:51,626 Say the light source was coming from this direction, 153 00:11:51,936 --> 00:11:57,946 I would say my shadow would start somewhere around here and maybe here. 154 00:11:57,986 --> 00:12:05,826 And if I just cut straight across the character just to start, just more simplified, you know, 155 00:12:06,166 --> 00:12:10,636 something like this, the whole left side of the character would be in shadow here. 156 00:12:10,636 --> 00:12:15,036 There might be a little bit that's visible sticking out here for the arm 157 00:12:15,186 --> 00:12:19,576 because the light would maybe hit the character and put some of the arm 158 00:12:19,576 --> 00:12:22,316 in shade and then the rest in light. 159 00:12:22,476 --> 00:12:25,236 So I'm just going to block all of this out right now. 160 00:12:25,236 --> 00:12:29,926 And I'm still using the old G pen, and I'm just going to do that right now. 161 00:12:30,516 --> 00:12:37,106 [ Music ] 162 00:12:37,606 --> 00:12:43,486 Okay, so here's what the shadows look like, so this is what I blocked in. 163 00:12:43,486 --> 00:12:45,116 And it's looking pretty good. 164 00:12:45,176 --> 00:12:49,786 I'm also noticing I didn't name this so I'm going to quickly name this shadow. 165 00:12:49,826 --> 00:12:53,666 And at this point we don't really need the sketch lines. 166 00:12:53,666 --> 00:12:57,596 They're barely visible at this point, but I'm going to hide those as well. 167 00:12:57,596 --> 00:13:01,756 The next layer I'm going to add is a highlight layer. 168 00:13:02,116 --> 00:13:06,116 So if the sun is going in this direction and it's creating a shadow, 169 00:13:06,116 --> 00:13:09,556 it might also create a little bit of a highlight on the character. 170 00:13:10,066 --> 00:13:13,056 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a new layer. 171 00:13:13,146 --> 00:13:20,996 I'm going to name that layer light, and I'm going to set that opacity to about 50 percent. 172 00:13:21,516 --> 00:13:28,546 And instead of a multiplied layer I'm going to use a lighten layer. 173 00:13:29,096 --> 00:13:33,106 And so you can also play with lighten or luminosity. 174 00:13:33,106 --> 00:13:35,726 They all each do similar things. 175 00:13:36,316 --> 00:13:42,226 So I'm going to use a -- I'll actually go for the luminosity layer since we're painting light. 176 00:13:42,966 --> 00:13:52,776 And I'm going to select a warm color, so something that's sort of on the yellow-ish side. 177 00:13:52,776 --> 00:13:54,066 I think that would be good. 178 00:13:54,786 --> 00:13:58,386 And, again, opacity is set way low. 179 00:13:58,886 --> 00:14:03,826 And so thinking about where the -- you know, how the light is hitting the character 180 00:14:04,216 --> 00:14:07,166 from the side, then I would want to start going in 181 00:14:07,226 --> 00:14:12,016 and add a little bit of, you know, light on this side. 182 00:14:12,326 --> 00:14:18,136 So I'm going to more or less just like give little bits of like rim lighting. 183 00:14:18,576 --> 00:14:25,406 So it's really just kind of a line going along the edge of the side 184 00:14:25,406 --> 00:14:27,976 of the character so it's not over everything. 185 00:14:28,516 --> 00:14:32,236 [ Music ] 186 00:14:32,736 --> 00:14:34,956 Okay, so there's the light layer. 187 00:14:35,216 --> 00:14:38,106 And you can see it makes a little bit of a difference. 188 00:14:38,326 --> 00:14:42,646 You can see now there's a definite light source giving a highlight. 189 00:14:42,756 --> 00:14:48,096 And then we've got our shadow, and together they create this really nice effect. 190 00:14:48,386 --> 00:14:54,186 I'm still on the fence on whether lighten or luminosity works better. 191 00:14:55,496 --> 00:15:01,976 Luminosity is bleaching everything out, and I was hoping it wouldn't do that. 192 00:15:02,866 --> 00:15:04,786 But it still looks pretty good. 193 00:15:04,836 --> 00:15:07,076 I think lighten is going to be the winner for here. 194 00:15:07,166 --> 00:15:12,206 So now that we've got all of this I can use my erase tool, 195 00:15:12,206 --> 00:15:18,056 and I can go into my shadow layer and I can erase all this stuff. 196 00:15:18,056 --> 00:15:25,976 Go into my color layer or my paint layer, and I'll just erase all of this stuff out, 197 00:15:25,976 --> 00:15:28,456 and now I've got my finished drawing. 198 00:15:28,456 --> 00:15:32,066 And so now that I've got this there's a bunch of things that I could do. 199 00:15:32,066 --> 00:15:38,876 I could still keep playing with the shadow, you know, and like start adding say, like, you know, 200 00:15:38,876 --> 00:15:42,576 like a shadow underneath the character or something, you know, 201 00:15:42,616 --> 00:15:45,396 something like that to help ground the character. 202 00:15:45,486 --> 00:15:47,656 You could totally do something like that. 203 00:15:47,656 --> 00:15:53,936 Not necessary, but it can be kind of fun to do as like a finishing touch to put the character 204 00:15:53,936 --> 00:15:58,216 in more of a space instead of just kind of like floating there. 205 00:15:58,396 --> 00:16:02,856 There's a really few like how much you want to go with it after that. 206 00:16:02,856 --> 00:16:05,726 You can also add a background. 207 00:16:05,726 --> 00:16:09,186 You can start playing with colors for the background and so forth. 208 00:16:09,696 --> 00:16:12,616 And I mean the possibilities are endless. 209 00:16:12,716 --> 00:16:20,496 But this is basically where I'm going to say, okay, this is done. 210 00:16:20,706 --> 00:16:25,056 And there's maybe one or two other little bits here. 211 00:16:25,056 --> 00:16:28,946 Like I want to put more highlights on his eyes. 212 00:16:29,536 --> 00:16:35,046 So I'm make a special layer just for the eye highlight just for now. 213 00:16:35,746 --> 00:16:38,886 And I'm going to choose a light color. 214 00:16:38,886 --> 00:16:44,456 And I'm just going to go in and just real quick just make 215 00:16:44,456 --> 00:16:50,196 that a little bit more pronounced, give his eyes that extra glow. 216 00:16:51,136 --> 00:16:53,526 And now that's pretty much done. 217 00:16:53,526 --> 00:16:58,246 If the character that you made isn't quite centered and you'd like to move it 218 00:16:58,246 --> 00:17:03,466 around in the composition, the best way to do that is select all the layers that you want 219 00:17:03,466 --> 00:17:08,576 to affect, right click and select group and quick group. 220 00:17:09,046 --> 00:17:17,036 So when you select quick group you can select group 2, and then go over here 221 00:17:17,036 --> 00:17:20,286 to the transform a layer or selection. 222 00:17:20,286 --> 00:17:26,646 If you want to scale or change the position of your drawing in the composition, 223 00:17:26,646 --> 00:17:32,586 the easiest way to do that with all of your layers is select all of your layers, right click 224 00:17:32,586 --> 00:17:37,116 and go to group, quick group, and then select the group. 225 00:17:37,116 --> 00:17:41,996 And then go over here to transform a layer or selection. 226 00:17:42,326 --> 00:17:44,496 So it's this little thing here. 227 00:17:44,896 --> 00:17:49,536 You click on that, and now I'm in the selection mode. 228 00:17:49,536 --> 00:17:53,836 If it's not already in the selection mode, you right click and click free. 229 00:17:53,956 --> 00:17:59,796 And then if you click down on it on your canvas it should pull up this stuff here. 230 00:18:00,416 --> 00:18:03,966 And you can now scale it however you want. 231 00:18:03,966 --> 00:18:08,276 But notice like it's scaling it all weird right now. 232 00:18:08,696 --> 00:18:13,676 And so in order to scale it uniformly you have to hold down the shift key 233 00:18:14,106 --> 00:18:18,396 as you're moving it, and so you can scale it. 234 00:18:18,396 --> 00:18:21,776 Just keep in mind that if you're scaling it up, 235 00:18:22,086 --> 00:18:26,176 if you scale it up too much you're going to get noticeably blurry lines. 236 00:18:26,216 --> 00:18:29,816 A little bit of scaling up is totally fine. 237 00:18:30,296 --> 00:18:36,176 And so say I wanted to like get the character off to the side and wanted to put some text 238 00:18:36,176 --> 00:18:40,316 or something over here on the right hand side, so I just move the character over here. 239 00:18:40,316 --> 00:18:45,216 And then when I'm done I just hit enter and I'm good to go. 240 00:18:45,216 --> 00:18:49,336 And then I hide out the sketch lines here. 241 00:18:49,856 --> 00:18:55,696 And those are pretty much the basics for making a drawing in Krita 242 00:18:55,696 --> 00:18:59,086 and doing some simple ink and paint techniques. 243 00:18:59,116 --> 00:19:02,716 So I hope you found this helpful and thanks. 244 00:19:03,516 --> 00:19:12,500 [ Music ]