You're reading from Draw and Paint Better with Krita Discover pro-level techniques and practices to create spectacular digital illustrations with Krita

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071765

Length 426 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Krita

Concepts

Image Editing

Author (1):

Wesley Gardner

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Intro to Krita and Digital Art Terminology Review

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Krita FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Reviewing Canvas Properties and Color

4. Chapter 3: Utilizing Layers and Layer Groups

5. Chapter 4: Utilizing Brushes and Tools

6. Part 2: Methods of Visual Communication within Krita

7. Chapter 5: Implementing Layer Blending Modes

8. Chapter 6: Composing Using Krita's Toolbox

9. Chapter 7: Changing the Feel with Painting, Values, and Sliders

10. Chapter 8: Controlling Chaos – Organizing Your Workflow

11. Part 3: Projects Unleashing Your Inner Artist with Krita

12. Chapter 9: Setting Up a Still-Life Study

13. Chapter 10: Enforcing Fundamentals

14. Chapter 11: Working with Concept Art

15. Chapter 12: Refining and Creating Cinematic Concept Art

16. Chapter 13: Going beyond These Pages

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Technical requirements

To follow along with this chapter, you will need the following:

Krita (version 5.0+).
A way to interact with Krita, such as a keyboard, and either a mouse, tablet, or touch device with a stylus.
The completed sketch from Chapter 9, Setting Up a Still-Life Study. If you did not follow along in the previous chapter, feel free to use my completed Chapter 9 Krita file (in .kra format) from here https://static.packt-cdn.com/downloads/Krita_Sample_Files.zip.
A copy of the stock photo used for this project, provided here in the Chapter 9 folder, https://static.packt-cdn.com/downloads/Krita_Sample_Files.zip, courtesy of Pexels.com and photographer Suzy Hazelwood.

With our files prepared, we are ready to take this still-life to the final stage! To get things going, we will first discuss what our end goal will be with our study, and how the framework we created in the last chapter will aid us in achieving our vision. Then, we will do a combined...