Unlock Your Creativity!

Learn digital painting from basic to advanced

with the most comprehensive Krita course series on the planet.

3 courses in 1 bundle

For a total of

25 Chapters | 211 Lessons | 24.5 Hours of videos

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These courses feature

  • Lifetime access to the lesson videos via 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

  • Hobbyists who want to learn to create illustrations using open-source software
  • Design and art students who want to master digital painting techniques
  • Artists or professionals who want to increase work effectiveness leveraging advanced techniques

Requirements

  • No prior experience required to take this course series, as we are going to start from the basics
  • A computer (Windows / Linux / Mac) that can run Krita
  • Already have Krita installed
  • A drawing tablet

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)

Why learn digital painting?

Digital painting is a rapidly growing field with increasing demand for skilled artists. As more and more industries, such as gaming, animation, and advertising, rely on digital art, the need for talented digital painters continues to rise. The skills are also very useful in other fields that require design processes, such as architecture, interior design, fashion, industrial design, etc. By learning digital painting, you open up a world of opportunities for yourselves in various creative-based industries.


With our digital painting course series, you'll learn everything you need to know to create beautiful digital paintings or illustrations using Krita. From basic brush strokes to advanced shading techniques, our expert instructor will guide you through each step of the process. You'll learn basic to advanced features in Krita, and discover the tips and tricks that professional artists use to create stunning works of art.


Why choose Krita?

There are tons of reasons why you want to use Krita as your digital painting software. These are just some of the reasons that you may find interesting:

Free and open source

Unlike Photoshop or other paid graphic software, Krita is free and open-source. So you don’t need to pay anything monthly, yearly, or ever, to use Krita.

Multi-platform support

Krita is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, making it a versatile and accessible tool for artists and designers on different platforms.

Advanced brush engine

Krita's brush engine is highly advanced, offering a wide range of brush presets and customizable settings. This allows artists to create a variety of effects, from realistic to abstract, and fine-tune their brushes to achieve their desired results.

Layer management

Krita offers a powerful layer management system, allowing users to organize their artwork and work flexibly with different layers and hierarchies. In addition to the raster layer, Krita comes with Vector, Filter, Group, Fill, File layers, and so on. You can combine, order, and flatten layers to help your artwork stay organized.

Drawing assistants

Krita comes with 9 types of drawing tools, known as "Assistants", which can help you draw difficult lines or curves. These tools range from drawing ellipses, perspective lines, fisheye point tool, and so on. You can also use multiple assistants at the same time while drawing.

Vector graphics

Although Krita is a raster-based software, it also features Vector capabilities that can work seamlessly with the raster part. With this, you can create complex shapes that would otherwise be time-consuming to create in a pure raster workflow.

Widest support for image file formats

Krita can open and work with almost all popular graphic file formats. Krita even supports Photoshop’s PSD format, and can paint directly on High-Range images. You can safely put Krita into your existing pipeline or workflow, as it can play nicely with other graphic software.

"These reasons are just the tip of the iceberg. To sum them up, Krita offers a powerful, affordable, and flexible digital painting experience, with a range of features and benefits that make it a great choice for artists and designers."

What you will learn in the first course

Digital painting with Krita 5.0 for beginners

9 Chapters

62 Lessons

7.5 Hours

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)

What you will learn in the second course

Digital painting with Krita 5.0 intermediate level

7 Chapters

67 Lessons

6.8 Hours

Chapter 0

Introduction

In the introduction chapter, you will receive important information about the course, as well as a refresher on UI customization and custom shortcuts.

3 lessons (14.5 minutes)

Curriculum details
  • 01: Introduction (03:30)
  • 02: Exercise files and other information (05:07)
  • 03: UI customization and custom shortcuts (05:45)

Chapter 1

Advanced selection techniques

In the first chapter, you will learn advanced techniques related to selection.

11 lessons (1 hour)

Curriculum details
  • 04: Basic selection techniques (03:41)
  • 05: Adding and subtracting selection (07:46)
  • 06: Global selection mask (05:19)
  • 07: Raster vs Vector selection (04:31)
  • 08: Selection transformation (04:58)
  • 09: Contiguous and Similar selection (09:15)
  • 10: Selection tools UI changes (Krita 5.1) (02:21)
  • 11: Select opaque (04:33)
  • 12: Selection mask (07:00)
  • 13: Selection operations (05:45)
  • 14: Anti-aliasing (02:42)

Chapter 2

Vector graphics

In the second chapter, you will learn everything related to the Vector graphics features available in Krita.

14 lessons (1.5 hours)

Curriculum details
  • 15: Raster versus Vector (06:53)
  • 16: Vector implementation in Krita (05:58)
  • 17: Vector transformation (06:10)
  • 18: Vector colors (07:47)
  • 19: Stroke appearance (03:40)
  • 20: Vector graphics management (07:26)
  • 21: Primitive shapes (04:32)
  • 22: Vector elements (03:19)
  • 23: Vector element types (05:26)
  • 24: Vector editing (05:56)
  • 25: Align, Distribute, and Spacing (04:20)
  • 26: Logical operations (05:59)
  • 27: Bezier Curve tools (07:29)
  • 28: Vector drawing exercises (09:40)

Chapter 3

Filter and Mask

In this chapter, we will take an in-depth look at the Filter feature as well as the Mask feature.

9 lessons (46 minutes)

Curriculum details
  • 29: The Basics of Filter (02:52)
  • 30: Filter layer (04:45)
  • 31: Filter mask (04:08)
  • 32: Invert, HSV, Color Balance, and Dodge (05:15)
  • 33: Levels and Curve (06:55)
  • 34: G’Mic Filters (05:47)
  • 35: Transparency mask (07:21)
  • 36: Alpha channel on filters (02:22)
  • 37: Transform tool and Transform mask (06:24)

Chapter 4

Strawberry House project

In chapter 4, we will utilize what we have learned before by making an illustration of a Strawberry House in the middle of the forest.

16 lessons (2 hours)

Curriculum details
  • 38: Strawberry house project preparation (04:46)
  • 39: Reference Images and Sketching (09:08)
  • 40: Midground base colors (08:09)
  • 41: Background and Foreground base colors (07:36)
  • 42: Creating the small plants (08:30)
  • 43: Background plants (07:29)
  • 44: Foreground plants (05:44)
  • 45: Main shadow (05:58)
  • 46: The leaves’ shadows (03:58)
  • 47: Ambient occlusion (06:10)
  • 48: Finishing the background (09:10)
  • 49: Finishing the foreground (08:21)
  • 50: Adding textures (10:07)
  • 51: Highlight colors (06:11)
  • 52: Reflected colors and Sky color (05:30)
  • 53: Paint over and filter (09:30)

Chapter 5

Gradient

In this chapter, you will learn about the Gradient features in Krita.

5 lessons (30 minutes)

Curriculum details
  • 54: Gradient tool (06:09)
  • 55: Special gradient (05:04)
  • 56: Stop gradient (04:07)
  • 57: Segmented gradient (05:59)
  • 58: Gradient Map filter (05:21)

Chapter 6

Robot Warrior project

In the last chapter, we will create a Robot Warrior illustration with a unique style utilizing mostly Vector and Gradient techniques.

9 lessons (1 hours)

Curriculum details
  • 59: Robot Warrior project preparation (05:10)
  • 60: Creating Vector line art (06:46)
  • 61: Refining the line art (05:40)
  • 62: Adding background and shading preparation (06:47)
  • 63: Shading and Highlight (08:17)
  • 64: Coloring with Gradient Map (11:33)
  • 65: Lighting effect (09:50)
  • 66: Reflection and Glow effect (04:53)
  • 67: Line art coloring (04:40)

What you will learn in the third course

Digital painting with Krita 5.0 advanced level

9 Chapters

82 Lessons

10 Hours

Chapter 0

Introduction

In the introduction chapter, you will receive important information about the course, as well as a refresher on UI customization and custom shortcuts.

3 lessons (14 minutes)

Curriculum details
  • 01: Introduction (03:51)
  • 02: Course information and Disclaimer (04:37)
  • 03: Custom UI and shortcuts (05:19)

Chapter 1

Transformation and Distortion

In the first chapter, you will learn about various transformation and distortion techniques. Such as "Perspective", "Warp", "Cage", "Liquify", and so on.

7 lessons (45 minutes)

Curriculum details
  • 04: Transform tool Free mode (10:32)
  • 05: Perspective and Warp mode (07:25)
  • 06: Cage mode (05:34)
  • 07: Liquify mode (06:48)
  • 08: Mesh mode (05:00)
  • 09: Transform mask (05:18)
  • 10: Deform brush engine (03:57)

Chapter 2

Advanced layer features

In the second chapter, you will learn advanced layer features, namely "layer style", "clone layer", "file layer", and "fill layer".

4 lessons (26 minutes)

Curriculum details
  • 11: Layer styles (06:23)
  • 12: Clone layer (08:46)
  • 13: File layer (04:00)
  • 14: Fill layer (06:17)

Chapter 3

Patterns and Textures

In this chapter, you will learn various techniques related to pattern and texture. You will use various pattern generators such as "multigrid", "Screentone', "SeExpr", and so on.

8 lessons (54 minutes)

Curriculum details
  • 15: Multigrid (07:01)
  • 16: Screentone (09:06)
  • 17: SeExpr and Simplex Noise (06:12)
  • 18: Wrap around mode (04:39)
  • 19: Tileable texture (08:02)
  • 20: Applying patterns (05:35)
  • 21: Creating custom patterns (04:24)
  • 22: Texture effect with brush (08:39)

Chapter 4

Photobashing

In chapter 4, we will discuss the Photobashing technique. It is basically a technique of utilizing photos or external images to speed up the illustration process.

4 lessons (19 minutes)

Curriculum details
  • 23: Photobashing workflows (04:19)
  • 24: Photobashing a wall texture (04:38)
  • 25: Photobashing a TV screen (03:13)
  • 26: Photobashing with Transparency and Selection (06:20)

Chapter 5

Atlantic Treasure project

In this chapter, you will learn to create an illustration of a deep-sea diver looking for treasure. You will learn the process in detail, from A to Z.

18 lessons (2.5 hours)

Curriculum details
  • 27: Atlantic treasure project preparation (04:25)
  • 28: Main objects’ base colors (14:11)
  • 29: Background base colors (08:43)
  • 30: Shading the diver (06:46)
  • 31: Shading the treasure chest (10:41)
  • 32: Outline and Highlight (12:47)
  • 33: Water surface and the pillars (11:27)
  • 34: Shading the hills (07:08)
  • 35: The floors (09:23)
  • 36: Stone elements (06:29)
  • 37: Clam, jellyfish, and fish (06:36)
  • 38: Seaweed (05:45)
  • 39: Anemones using custom brush (09:52)
  • 40: Other ornaments (10:25)
  • 41: Shadows and Fog (09:05)
  • 42: Lighting effects (06:56)
  • 43: Air bubbles (03:28)
  • 44: Caustics and color transfer (08:43)

Chapter 6

Brush parameters

In chapter 6, you will learn the ins and outs of the brush system in Krita. From the types of "brush engines", "sensors", to how to create your own brush presets and brush tips.

12 lessons (1.5 hours)

Curriculum details
  • 45: Brush engines (05:59)
  • 46: Size, Opacity, and Flow (06:04)
  • 47: Other basic brush parameters (05:31)
  • 48: Brush tip basics (07:33)
  • 49: Creating brush tips (09:09)
  • 50: Brush tip modes (05:40)
  • 51: Brush sensors basics (07:49)
  • 52: Brush sensors advanced (07:18)
  • 53: Adding randomness (09:26)
  • 54: Animated brush tip (06:15)
  • 55: Creating custom brush preset (05:08)
  • 56: Deleting, Exporting, and Importing brushes (08:40)

Chapter 7

Painterly style and cheat methods

In this chapter, you will learn painterly style drawing techniques to make the results look like they were created with real brushes. You will also learn various "cheating" techniques that can help you create illustrations even faster.

10 lessons (1h 18m)

Curriculum details
  • 57: Painterly style basics (05:54)
  • 58: Multi-layer workflow (11:08)
  • 59: Single-layer workflow (07:59)
  • 60: Cheat methods basics (02:01)
  • 61: Paint over technique (08:59)
  • 62: Shading area extraction (06:32)
  • 63: Color sampling technique (05:51)
  • 64: Painting a landscape (10:59)
  • 65: Silhouette technique (09:24)
  • 66: Symbol library (09:38)

Chapter 8

Cowboy Cactus project

In the final chapter, you will use everything you have learned in the previous chapters to effectively and efficiently create an illustration of a Cowboy Cactus.

16 lessons (2 hours)

Curriculum details
  • 67: Cowboy cactus project preparation (02:36)
  • 68: Thumbnailing (10:34)
  • 69: Base colors (11:50)
  • 70: Global shadows (06:05)
  • 71: Bushes custom brush (08:29)
  • 72: Adding foliage (05:33)
  • 73: Rope custom brush (07:51)
  • 74: Creating the lasso rope (05:19)
  • 75: Finalizing the background (04:37)
  • 76: The cliffs shading and highlight (14:06)
  • 77: Light effects on the cliffs (04:20)
  • 78: Finalizing the foliage (08:35)
  • 79: The ground texture (03:19)
  • 80: Cowboy cactus shading (08:25)
  • 81: Cowboy cactus details and highlights (10:06)
  • 82: Light effects and Filters (06:39)

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Perspective and Warp modes

Course 3 - Lesson 13

File layer

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