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
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 the students say about this course
Jason Acuna
Udemy student
Ok WOW.. WOW... Widhi, where do I even begin? THANK YOU. Not only was this a very in-depth Krita tutorial, but Widhi manages to teach you so many fundamental art techniques that this course could have easily been advertised as a great 'intro to drawing/painting' class. I feel so lucky to have stumbled upon Krita and this course.
Alexandru Petrescu
Udemy student
I'm very satisfied with the course. It is well structured and the author explains his methods and workflow in quite elaborate detail. The language is straightforward and easily understandable although the narrator does speak with a strong accent. Looking forward to the addition of the line art and vector editing and vector+raster workflow that the author mentioned. Thank you!
Rachele Pennacchietti
Udemy student
So far, everything is explained in depth, clearly, and in ways that are easy to understand. Also, the teacher leaves a lot of useful tips!
Gwendolyn Kranz
Udemy student https://www.udemy.com/user/gwendolyn-kranz/
I spent several frustrating days on a different Krita class from Udemy, but was getting nowhere. I decided to try this course. Thank you, thank you, thank you for putting together a well developed course that is easy to follow and understand, even for a complete beginner like me.
Maxwell Miller
Udemy student
https://www.udemy.com/user/maxwell-miller-2/
A really good general overview of Krita and its features. I really enjoyed the painting tutorials. I've already improved my skills a lot. Thank you for a great course!
H.Levent KARAGÖL
Udemy student
First of all, the instructor's mastery of technical issues apart from Krita is admirable. You immediately feel his dominance on the subject and this gives you confidence. It is difficult to find such educators, they should be appreciated.
The training is very well organized. According to a person who does not know the subject at all, it is explained one by one, but it is not dull. If you have some command of the issue, maybe you want to watch at x1.5 speed.
As for the pronunciation part, my native language is not English either, but I never felt the need to look at the subtitles, I think it's easy enough to understand. If anyone is having trouble, they can follow the subtitles, it's pretty consistent.
Shivangi Singh
Udemy student
The course is amazing. Extremely informative.
Alan Martin
Udemy student
A proper beginners course. I like how the Krita basics are explained one after another in the first few sections, without any actual drawing techniques also being taught as well. Keeps things simple and concise.
Volodymyr Golosay
Udemy student
Very clear and helpful explanation! Strong fundamental base!
Mohamed Mamdouh
Udemy student
So far so good I like the way he's explaining in depth everything, I used to work as a graphic designer and there's some information that I never knew.
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