Digital Painting with Krita 5.0 for Beginners

Learn how to use Krita's powerful features for speed and non-destructive illustration.

Instructor: Widhi Muttaqien

9 Chapters

62 Lessons

7.5 Hours

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This course features

  • Lifetime access to the course via video streaming
  • Priority support via chat with the instructor
  • Online community
  • International subtitles
  • Downloadable lesson-video files
  • Downloadable exercise files
  • Visual guide in PDF format

Perfect for

  • Anyone who wants to learn digital illustration from scratch
  • Anyone who wants to learn Krita from the very basic
  • Photoshop or Corel-Painter users who want to migrate to an open source alternative

Requirements

  • Designed for complete beginners. No previous experience required!
  • Ability to use basic computer operations.
  • A computer that can run Krita
  • Already have Krita installed
  • A drawing tablet such as Wacom, XP-Pen, Huion, etc.

Overview

Krita is a graphic application comparable to Photoshop. But unlike Photoshop, Krita is free and open-source software. So, you don't need to pay anything to download and use it. Another thing that makes Krita different from Photoshop, is that Krita is more focused on digital painting. That is why in Krita, you can find many features related to digital painting that do not exist in Photoshop. If you need software for drawing or creating illustrations, then Krita will make you feel right at home.


If you have never used Krita before or even never used any graphic software such as Photoshop, Gimp, and so on. You don't need to worry. Because we will start from the very basics. I have carefully crafted the curriculum for convenience and speed. In sha Allah, you can master Krita quickly but through an easy and enjoyable learning experience.


So, join the course now! And start creating beautiful artworks using Krita.

Available certificates

Expose Academy Certificate of Completion.

Expose Academy Certificate of Excellence.*

(Only for students who manage to submit the final project and/or complete the final exam, approved by the instructor)

Previews

Lesson 10:

Hexadecimal color code

Lesson 19:

Flow and dirty preset

What you will learn

Chapter 0

Introduction

In the introduction chapter, you will learn how to set up the drawing tablet. And also various tips to make Krita perform optimally.

4 lessons (27 minutes)

Curriculum details
  • 01: Introduction (05:46)
  • 02: Project files and other information (05:07)
  • 03: Drawing tablet setup (06:50)
  • 04: Krita performance tips (09:04)

Chapter 1

Basic Computer Graphics concepts

In the first chapter, you will learn the concepts around Computer Graphics which will be relevant later in the digital painting process.

6 lessons (42.5 minutes)

Curriculum details
  • 05: Raster versus Vector (07:09)
  • 06: RGB and HSV color models (07:14)
  • 07: Other color models (07:56)
  • 08: Bit per channel (06:22)
  • 09: High-range images (06:34)
  • 10: Hexadecimal color code (07:03)

Chapter 2

Basic features

In the second chapter, you will start learning the basic features of Krita. Such as working with documents., tweaking the UI and canvas navigation.

6 lessons (42 minutes)

Curriculum details
  • 11: Creating new documents (08:02)
  • 12: Clipboard and file formats (05:20)
  • 13: UI basics (07:29)
  • 14: Advanced UI settings (08:09)
  • 15: Main navigation methods (07:34)
  • 16: Alternative navigation methods (05:34)

Chapter 3

Brush and color

You will learn how to use the Freehand Brush tool and also how to work with color in Krita.

7 lessons (47 minutes)

Curriculum details
  • 17: Managing brushes (06:57)
  • 18: Size, Opacity, and Eraser (07:39)
  • 19: Flow and dirty preset (07:42)
  • 20: Color selecting basics (06:40)
  • 21: Offsetting and sampling color (07:12)
  • 22: Color Palette (07:03)
  • 23: Resource folder (03:30)

Chapter 4

Other brush-based tools

In chapter 4, we are going to discuss various tools that are based on the brush engine.

4 lessons (22.5 minutes)

Curriculum details
  • 24: Line tool (04:34)
  • 25: Rectangle and Ellipse (07:42)
  • 26: Polygon and Polyline (02:32)
  • 27: Mirror and Multibrush (07:42)

Chapter 5

Selection and basic composition

In this chapter, you will learn about selection and layer composition features. To practice the techniques, we will draw a simple landscape.

10 lessons (1 hour)

Curriculum details
  • 28: Selection basics (05:46)
  • 29: Custom-shaped selection (03:24)
  • 30: Introduction to Layers (04:29)
  • 31: Background layer and Canvas color (04:44)
  • 32: Basic layer properties (06:59)
  • 33: Group layer (06:56)
  • 34: Inherit alpha (04:18)
  • 35: Image composition practice (08:47)
  • 36: Move tool (07:31)
  • 37: Opacity and Blending Modes (09:29)

Chapter 6

Drawing and coloring

In chapter 6, you will learn the basic techniques of drawing and coloring in Krita. To practice the techniques, you will draw an axe weapon in a comic-style from start to finish.

10 lessons (1.5 hours)

Curriculum details
  • 38: Drawing a sketch (04:51)
  • 39: Brush smoothing (09:56)
  • 40: Assistant tool basics (07:17)
  • 41: Advanced assistant tool (07:43)
  • 42: Drawing the outline (11:10)
  • 43: Basic coloring techniques (07:25)
  • 44: Coloring with selection (08:22)
  • 45: Colorize mask (09:20)
  • 46: Shading (11:42)
  • 47: Highlighting (11:06)

Chapter 7

Digital painting basics

In this chapter, you will learn the basics of creating digital paintings with smoother shading colors. We will cover brush presets, the shading concept, and workflows. Then we'll put them into practice by creating a skull illustration.

7 lessons (1 hour)

Curriculum details
  • 48: Brush presets preparation (04:16)
  • 49: Custom shortcuts (05:27)
  • 50: Shading basic concepts (06:52)
  • 51: Shading techniques (09:13)
  • 52: Sketching, base color, and layer composition (08:09)
  • 53: Shading with selection (08:47)
  • 54: Highlights and textures (10:14)

Chapter 8

Non-destructive illustration

In the final chapter, we will discuss the non-destructive illustration workflow. We will draw a tree on the cliff illustration from start to finish using all the techniques we learned in the previous chapters.

8 lessons (1 hour)

Curriculum details
  • 55: The workflow (03:13)
  • 56: Using reference Images (07:52)
  • 57: Sketching (08:14)
  • 58: Layer composition and base colors (09:09)
  • 59: Local shading (12:46)
  • 60: Global shading (04:32)
  • 61: Details and textures (10:04)
  • 62: Workflow flexibility (10:08)

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