Get Started Digital Painting with Krita

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: The Basics

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Quickstart (for Krita 4.0)

Lecture 3: Update: a note on the new version of Krita

Lecture 4: Brushes (for Krita 3.3)

Lecture 5: Brushes (for Krita 4.0)

Lecture 6: Example: Wood (part 1)

Lecture 7: Customizing the User Interface

Lecture 8: Layers

Lecture 9: Basic Tools

Lecture 10: Example: Face

Lecture 11: 8 Tips Drawing Smooth Lines

Lecture 12: 4 Tips Improiving Your Workflow

Lecture 13: Exercise: Cactus

Lecture 14: Example: Cloud

Lecture 15: Exercise: Wood (Part 2)

Lecture 16: Appendix: 6 Motivation Tips

Lecture 17: Appendix: Import the Brushes from Krita version 3.3

Chapter 2: Sketching and Inking

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Transform tool

Lecture 3: Assistant tool

Lecture 4: Example: Isometric Box

Lecture 5: Example: Seaside landscape

Lecture 6: Example: Figure drawn in perspective

Lecture 7: Bezier Curves

Lecture 8: Example: Bezier Curves

Lecture 9: Assistent tool for line art

Lecture 10: Stroke smoothing

Lecture 11: Example: Prison cell

Lecture 12: Appendix A: Sketching basic forms

Lecture 13: Appendic B: Foreshortening and Perspective

Chapter 3: Painting and Colouring

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Alpha Inheritance

Lecture 3: Blending

Lecture 4: Example: Basic sphere

Lecture 5: Example: Shading and Highlighting

Lecture 6: Blend Modes

Lecture 7: Example: 3 orbs

Lecture 8: Example: Gem

Lecture 9: Special brushes: Texture, Smudge and Wet

Lecture 10: Update: Special brushes in Krita v 4.0

Lecture 11: Example: Textured Spheres

Lecture 12: Example: Rocky surface

Lecture 13: Example: Flame using smudge

Lecture 14: Appendix A: Colour

Lecture 15: Appendix B: Lighting

Chapter 4: Creating Custom Brushes

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: A first glance

Lecture 3: The brush-tip parameters

Lecture 4: Example: a simple hair brush

Lecture 5: Making Opacity, Size and Flow Dependant on Pressure

Lecture 6: Overview of Sensors and 'General' Parameters

Lecture 7: Example: a Cloud Brush

Lecture 8: Example: a Coin Brush

Lecture 9: Overview of 'Color' Parameters

Lecture 10: Overview of 'Texture' and 'Masked Brush' Parameters

Lecture 11: Example: 2 Textured Spheres

Lecture 12: Importing and Exporting Brushes

Chapter 5: Filters, Layers and Masks

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Layer Styles

Lecture 3: Filters Overview

Lecture 4: Example: Use Blur to Create a Glow

Lecture 5: Example: Desaturate, HSV Adjusment and Color Adjustment Filters

Lecture 6: Example: Gradient Map Filter

Lecture 7: Example: Phong Bumpmap

Lecture 8: Overview of Different Types of Layers

Lecture 9: Example: Combining Edge Detection and Color to Alpha

Lecture 10: Example: Seamless Tiles Using Clone Array

Lecture 11: Transparency Mask

Lecture 12: Filter Masks

Lecture 13: Example: Ghost

Lecture 14: Colorize Mask

Lecture 15: Transform Mask

Chapter 6: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Odds and Ends