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