Digital Painting with KRITA 2.9: Learn All of the Tools to Create Your Next Masterpiece

by Scott Petrovic

Krita is a free painting tool designed for concept artists, illustrators, matte and texture artists, and the VFX industry. It has been in development for over 10 years and has had an explosion in growth recently. It offers many common and innovative features to help the amateur and professional alike.


Discover how assistants can speed up your creative process. Understand the powerful brush engine system. Includes illustrations teaching how individual concepts are applied. Master the user interface and customize it to your own preference. Learn how to stay on top of future changes and new features.

Genres: Art

381 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 26, 2015

Reviews

[Seburath · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice! This tutorial was a great start!

It has the main tools and command to use krita, I have to say that I'm totally noob at digital drawing, so this book was perfect to understand the functionalities.

[Peter Corr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Krita painting software, whilst brilliant and free, does have a bit of a learning curve for even experienced artists. This book is immediately necessary to help you round the UI, and showing you what some of the capabilities.

It's written by the developer of the software, so at times can be a little more technical than the artist brain can handle, but he does a great job reining that in for the majority of the time.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

The open source movement, before it took off, was marked by a terrible lack of originality. It simply worked up from the lack of patent protection in the software industry. One application was deemed useful and somebody would try to clone that application, some ten, twenty years later. Most applications never reached usable status. Krita is one in a longer list of clones. The good part is that Krita is still maintained. The bad part is the open source applications, unoriginal as they are, have no documentation, as most people know the original and just try to do the same in the cheap clone.

This book is also one on a longer list of books about open source clones of some other application. The trend in the case of the books seems to be: enumerate the menu items and than put some statements that rephrase the sequence "open source good". And this volume does not deviate a bit. The author is incapable of cloning some book about a relevant application and just itemizes the menus. So use the online help. Not only it does not waste trees, but it might have data on the newer versions of krita.