Blending/smudging questions

[LVTeacherman]

GOOOOOD MORNING VIEEEETNAMMMM!

Sorry, must have had too much coffee this morning. Anyway, I’ve been playing about with Krita and I have a couple of questions for everyone. My background is in traditional art and would like to know how to replicate a couple of effects and mimic a couple of colors.

One thing I love to to is blend and smudge pencils and pastels, is there a brush I’m not seeing or a technique that I need to know? I’d like to get an effect like this:

My color question is this… Is there a post somewhere which would tell me how to get the same colors as you would find in conte crayons, like sanguine etc.?

Not sure if this would help, but I’m using a Veikk A15 tablet.

Thanks

Teacherman

[Grum999]

Hi @LVTeacherman

I think I’m not the one to gave you a precise answer as I’m used to draw with clean lines and flat colors, but:

• You have a set of pencils for sketching in which you’ll find I think some brushes like conte crayons, sanguine, … but as I don’t use them (digital or traditional) I can’t confirm you that you’ll find what you need
  
  
• You can find here some additional brushes from @Deevad [Krita 4 Extras brush presets pack] in which there’s some additional pencil/charcoal brushes…

Don’t know if this answers your question…?

Grum999

[AhabGreybeard]

This is a massive subject area and there are experts here who make amazing brushes. They may be able to advise you.

You can add a patterned texture to any brush very simply in the brush editor (press the F5 key to open it):

The Options tab lets you do scaling and randomisation.

That is a very simple modification to a very simple brush.

The deeper you go into it, the more complicated it gets and the more amazingly good results you can obtain.

[LVTeacherman]

@Grum999 @AhabGreybeard

Thanks, you have both helped me out. I’ll also check out @Deevad and his brush pack.