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>> This video is a crash course on how to use Krita.
So I'm going to start off by hitting Ufile,
and I'm going to make my image let's say 3,000 by 3,000.
And I'm going to make this 72 pixels per inch.
That's good for viewing on screen.
You don't need to have it higher than that.
That's mainly for print.
So we'll just keep it at 72 pixels per inch.
And I'm going to hit create.
And so we have this image that's square, and I can zoom in
and out using the plus and minus keys.
And right now I've got the pencil brush as my default brush.
There are lots of different brushes that you can play around with.
And I encourage you to check out these when you have a moment.
You can also right click on the canvas, and you can access all of your favorite brushes.
All of this is totally customizable.
You can also switch between two different colors.
You've got the color wheel here.
You can zoom in and out of your canvas.
All sorts of things right here from this pop up menu here.
There's also the color wheel on the right hand side, and then the layers that you are going
to be painting on over here on the right hand side.
On the left you can see there's a whole bunch of different icons that look very similar
to Photoshop or Clip Studio if you're familiar with either of those.
Now, we won't go into most of these right now.
We're just going to get down to the drawing and inking and coloring part.
So I'm going to begin by drawing, and you can use the bracket keys,
the left and right bracket keys to make your brush bigger or smaller.
And I'm going to change the opacity of my brush
to something a little bit higher here, and I'm going to begin drawing.
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I'm just going to pause for a moment to go over the erase tool.
All you have to do is, depending on the type of stylus you're using, you can just flip it
over on its other side, and it will automatically activate the eraser,
and you can erase like that.
You can also choose the eraser from the drop down menu here, and then switch back
to the pencil if you would prefer.
Not everybody has a stylus that will allow you to erase on the other end but most do.
Also to undo all you have to do is hit control z to undo.
You may also want to go up to settings, dockers, and they actually have an undo history window
that you can have here at the bottom.
And if I -- I can undoc that.
I can put it over here.
I can also -- I prefer to have it together with my layers, and I just switch over here like that
so that the layers are over here, and then I can swap between the undo history in case if I need
to undo like 20 moves because I want to see the difference between not one move but 20.
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So from here we're going to start the inking process.
The first thing I need to do is I need to make a new layer.
So I'm going to go over here to layers, I'm going to hit the plus side,
and I'm going to double click on this and just call it my ink layer.
And just to be safe I'm going to label this sketch layer.
So on my ink layer I'm going to start inking.
And I'm also going to bring the opacity down on my sketch layer so it's
like very light just so I can barely see it.
I'm going to lock it using the lock here.
And that's going to make it so that I don't accidentally start inking on the wrong thing.
So I'm going to go back to ink, and I'm going to choose the ink free G pen.
I'm going to flip the colors over here and choose black
as my alternate color, and I'm going to start inking.
When I ink there's a couple of things that I like to do.
On the right hand side there's this section for tool options.
And there's a way to smooth out your brush strokes.
So it makes it -- especially for inking increasing the distance
for your brush smoothing will just give you a slightly smoother stroke
and will be less jittery and, you know, less wobbly.
So I don't like to tweak it so that it's up all the way.
But play around with the settings here and you'll see a difference as you're drawing.
So I'll set this to half-ish, and I think I'm ready to go.
So I'm just going to zoom in and start the inking process.
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Something worth noting is as I'm moving around I'm using the space bar to move
around my canvas, so it's a really handy way to stay zoomed in
and see different parts of your canvas very easily.
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Okay, now that we have completed the inking process I'm going to start coloring.
Now I made a quick little color swatch here.
And rather than futzing around with colors I quickly looked online,
and I found some concept art, and I did a quick switch for concept art color swatches.
I found some concept art that I like.
I liked the color palette here, and you can choose colors however you like.
If you've taken color theory classes then you can use your color theory knowledge
and choose colors.
But if you're unsure you can always look at what other people have done.
And, fortunately, you can easily find color swatches that people post that they use
in their art, and you can use those, too.
So all you have to do is save this image and then drag and drop it into Krita,
and I'll show you how to do that really quick.
So I would just open this image in a new tab, drag it to my desktop, and then I go back
to Krita and I can just pick the image, drag it in here, insert as a new layer,
and now I've got it up here in the corner.
And you can use this dropper tool, and the up key for the dropper tool is key.
And you can sample each one of these colors and then go back to your brush tool
and make a little mark here that basically throws down the colors.
I'm also going to show you a really good technique for quickly inking things.
And this is a technique that you can use for cell painting
if you choose to do some animation in Krita.
It makes the process really quick and easy.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to select my ink layer, and I'm going to copy
that ink layer, and then I'm going to paste the ink layer.
I'm going to lock the top layer here, so right now it's locked.
And then I'm going to unlock the one underneath it.
And I'm going to sample one of the colors.
We'll start with, say, the face.
And I'm going to use the fill, which the paint bucket tool here if fill.
The hot key for that is f. And once I have that color sample then I go to f and I fill it in.
And you can see it works perfectly.
And that's because all of my lines are airtight.
And when you fill something it goes right up to the edge of those lines.
And as long as there are no gaps and holes you should be able to fill it as long
as all those lines are contiguous and there are no holes.
So, also, I have a setting on my fill to grow two pixels.
And I hit the top ink layer, and I'm going to fill
on the bottom ink layer to show you how that looks.
So if I zoom way in and I fill it, you can see it actually eats into the edges
of the line work, and it actually eats some of it away.
That's actually a good thing.
And when I put my top ink layer down it hides that.
So it's good to have the grow two pixels on just to like eat away at a little bit of the lines
so that you don't see any like nasty edges between the ink line and the fill.
So I'm going to turn this back on, and I'm going to start filling in everything.
And the first problem I'm going to come across is I'm going to sample this
for the beard, and I'm going to go to fill.
And when I go to fill in the beard it fills in everything.
It fills in the beard, the ear and the hair because there's no line here
that says, hey, don't fill this part in.
Or there's this little gap here and Krita doesn't know that like there's little gap
that I don't want it to go all the way up to the hat.
So what I have to do is I have to just use the brush tool, and I'm just going
to brush a line to block it here.
And then I'm going to brush another line right here to block that.
And now when I go to the fill tool it will fill that in just fine without any problems.
So I'm going to go through and repeat that task for a little bit.
I also wanted to mention that once you sample all of these colors you can right click,
and your most recently sampled colors actually show up here which is super convenient
so that you don't have to keep going back and sampling the color.
You could just right click and then sample the color here.
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Now that we've got the color in place, the next thing I'm going
to do is I'm going to add a shadow layer.
So to add a shadow layer I'm going to create a new layer that is behind my ink layer
but above the ink layer which we should now just call this the color layer.
And that's one step above the color layer.
And I'm going to bring the opacity of this layer down to about 50 percent,
and I'm going to set it to multiply.
And what multiply does is when you paint over something with a particular color you can see
that it still shows the color underneath, but it darkens and adds color to the layers below.
And so I picked out a blue color for the shadows.
I have like nice cool colored shadows.
And I am going to begin just looking at the character.
Say the light source was coming from this direction,
I would say my shadow would start somewhere around here and maybe here.
And if I just cut straight across the character just to start, just more simplified, you know,
something like this, the whole left side of the character would be in shadow here.
There might be a little bit that's visible sticking out here for the arm
because the light would maybe hit the character and put some of the arm
in shade and then the rest in light.
So I'm just going to block all of this out right now.
And I'm still using the old G pen, and I'm just going to do that right now.
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Okay, so here's what the shadows look like, so this is what I blocked in.
And it's looking pretty good.
I'm also noticing I didn't name this so I'm going to quickly name this shadow.
And at this point we don't really need the sketch lines.
They're barely visible at this point, but I'm going to hide those as well.
The next layer I'm going to add is a highlight layer.
So if the sun is going in this direction and it's creating a shadow,
it might also create a little bit of a highlight on the character.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a new layer.
I'm going to name that layer light, and I'm going to set that opacity to about 50 percent.
And instead of a multiplied layer I'm going to use a lighten layer.
And so you can also play with lighten or luminosity.
They all each do similar things.
So I'm going to use a -- I'll actually go for the luminosity layer since we're painting light.
And I'm going to select a warm color, so something that's sort of on the yellow-ish side.
I think that would be good.
And, again, opacity is set way low.
And so thinking about where the -- you know, how the light is hitting the character
from the side, then I would want to start going in
and add a little bit of, you know, light on this side.
So I'm going to more or less just like give little bits of like rim lighting.
So it's really just kind of a line going along the edge of the side
of the character so it's not over everything.
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Okay, so there's the light layer.
And you can see it makes a little bit of a difference.
You can see now there's a definite light source giving a highlight.
And then we've got our shadow, and together they create this really nice effect.
I'm still on the fence on whether lighten or luminosity works better.
Luminosity is bleaching everything out, and I was hoping it wouldn't do that.
But it still looks pretty good.
I think lighten is going to be the winner for here.
So now that we've got all of this I can use my erase tool,
and I can go into my shadow layer and I can erase all this stuff.
Go into my color layer or my paint layer, and I'll just erase all of this stuff out,
and now I've got my finished drawing.
And so now that I've got this there's a bunch of things that I could do.
I could still keep playing with the shadow, you know, and like start adding say, like, you know,
like a shadow underneath the character or something, you know,
something like that to help ground the character.
You could totally do something like that.
Not necessary, but it can be kind of fun to do as like a finishing touch to put the character
in more of a space instead of just kind of like floating there.
There's a really few like how much you want to go with it after that.
You can also add a background.
You can start playing with colors for the background and so forth.
And I mean the possibilities are endless.
But this is basically where I'm going to say, okay, this is done.
And there's maybe one or two other little bits here.
Like I want to put more highlights on his eyes.
So I'm make a special layer just for the eye highlight just for now.
And I'm going to choose a light color.
And I'm just going to go in and just real quick just make
that a little bit more pronounced, give his eyes that extra glow.
And now that's pretty much done.
If the character that you made isn't quite centered and you'd like to move it
around in the composition, the best way to do that is select all the layers that you want
to affect, right click and select group and quick group.
So when you select quick group you can select group 2, and then go over here
to the transform a layer or selection.
If you want to scale or change the position of your drawing in the composition,
the easiest way to do that with all of your layers is select all of your layers, right click
and go to group, quick group, and then select the group.
And then go over here to transform a layer or selection.
So it's this little thing here.
You click on that, and now I'm in the selection mode.
If it's not already in the selection mode, you right click and click free.
And then if you click down on it on your canvas it should pull up this stuff here.
And you can now scale it however you want.
But notice like it's scaling it all weird right now.
And so in order to scale it uniformly you have to hold down the shift key
as you're moving it, and so you can scale it.
Just keep in mind that if you're scaling it up,
if you scale it up too much you're going to get noticeably blurry lines.
A little bit of scaling up is totally fine.
And so say I wanted to like get the character off to the side and wanted to put some text
or something over here on the right hand side, so I just move the character over here.
And then when I'm done I just hit enter and I'm good to go.
And then I hide out the sketch lines here.
And those are pretty much the basics for making a drawing in Krita
and doing some simple ink and paint techniques.
So I hope you found this helpful and thanks.
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