I just came here from Evacuation of Clip Studio Paint In Light of the subscription service, and while I CAN still use the first version I still fell backstabbed enough to boycott it to the best of my ability by switching over to Krita
But now I face an Issue on how to get brushes to start out, I know that this program has MORE than Enough of ALL types its just that Im not sure what to get and HOW to install it
I would like A guide in installing custom brushes and recommendatinos asto brushes for rought sketches, sketch cleaners, lineart, and brushes to help with base coloring, mix shading (asin Cel shading for the Hardest Shadows/Highlights and Airbrushes for transitions) and Other Effects
Well, it kinda depends what style you have and what you prefer. I used Krita for many years without ever feeling the need to install anything at all because the presets it came with were already really good. Anything else, I just created myself. Still, it’s hard to recommend anything without knowing what you are going for.
Your question is on the one hand understandable and on the other hand hard to answer.
The problem is that I have often seen brushes that are praised by one group of artists being called unsuitable by another.
If you wish, I can give you many more sources of brushes and other resources, but the decision as to which brush will meet your needs is one that only you can figure out by trial and error. And if you like, I can tell you which bundles I like, but not whether you will like them, whether you will find them usable.
Michelist
Add: In these postings, I listed several sources for brushes and other resources for Krita:
Reguarding which brushes to use, this is a highly sugestive questions depending on what you create, your style and how you work. Krita also has a pretty comprehensive brush editer (the hotkey for this menu is f5) The manual has a section dedicated to the brush editer which can be read here.
I would start with the brushes that are already included with the program first. Any of the brushes can be copied and edited to how you want with the amount of settings that are assigned to each brush engine. If the included brushes are not to your liking and would like to use what others have created, you can import or create your own bundle of brushes (which can then be shared with other Krita users). Some of the most popular brush bundles on the fourms are linked below.
If you have not added/imported any reasources (brushes for example) before, I highly recommend reading the manual for importing reasources here. Some reasources require Krita to be closed and then opened before they appear; also not all brushes have their own tags/catagories so some brushes may be in the “All untagged” catagory.
Another thing to keep in mind, the more reasources you add, the longer it will take for Krita to start up. If you use the standard Krita 5.1.0 version, there is a bug that increased the boot up time of the application (this bug does not affect everyone, I have not ecountered this bug yet). Although it is not fixed in the standard version, the Krita plus 5.1.0 version does have the bug fixed. According to this weekly update. A 5.1.1 version of Krita should be released sometime next week, fixing the start up bug and a vector layer bug.
Rakurri has some videos highlighting some of the features of Krita that might help, although I don’t know of any brush pack specificate to doing anime style art. The reasources page does have some brush packs that may be helpful in your case.
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