Digital Atelier - Updated?

Dear Ramon - I bought DA in 2018 - has it been updated since? How do I upgrade if so? :slight_smile:

Hi @Moxtell - I’ve moved your post into its own topic as this is a brand new question and not a continuation of the existing topic.

Also pinging @RamonM for you (if you don’t use the @ sign in front of the person’s name, they will not know you asked them a question).

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Hi @Moxtell and @sooz . The pack is not updated, but i have been publishing a lot of brushes after for Crayons, Watercolor, RGBA and RGBA-wet, Charcoal, and more… You have everything available in the Youtube videos in the official channel and here on my posts. I have posted here even more things because this is the community place, so i must think very carefully what to do with the update. I am still painting with the brushes created in 2018 as you can see.

Another interesting question would be, what would be interesting for you?

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You’ve given us so many new bundles, @RamonM - working with them amazing.

@Moxtell Here are some links to some of my favourites in case you’re in the mood to try something new in Krita.

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We store all Krita Youtube brush preset bundles made by Ramon here, for easy browsing: KDE - Experience Freedom!

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Thank you, Ramon :slight_smile:
I mainly use watercolorbrushes and pencil/pastels. i would be very interested in more watercolor brushes but also - and mostly - more blending brushes for watercolor/pastels. What I miss is blending brushes that works Well with watercolor or pastels. Like blending with textures - maybe even adding texture but not color. Almost all blending brushes are just bluring og moving The Colours and strokes - and does not add texture.
Thank you again for your great work. I always love your tutorials and new brushes so Keep up The good work!

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Thank you! I’ll keep that in mind :wink:

@halla Why do some of the files have question marks and files are .bin?

I don’t see any question marks?

Those are file format icons, the server assignes question mark to the file format that it doesn’t know.

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Notice the zip format has an icon denoting the compression. it doesn’t matter just click on the file and download it.

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Hi @RamonM,

I want to know what option I can use if I don’t want to use the tilt of my pencil?

I like to hold the pencil in a different way for ergonomics reasons

Example by Matt Kohr

Another Example:

I want to use the full potential of your brushes, so your help would be much appreciated.

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I found more important (and comfortable) to adjust my drawing tablet setup than my pen holding. This video is a good example about it.

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Ya for sure I have that setup as well

Thanks for the info. It is interesting despite of experience to always find something as a novice.

If you don’ want tilt elevation. I would change it for pressure or even deactivate it and reduce the size until is good for you.
If you don’t want tilt direction, I would change it for drawing angle and adjust the brushtip rotation.

Ergonomics are so personal i don’t know what position is good for you.I use a flat surface and no screen but a quite good monitor. (To take care of my neck position) The tilt i Use would be the entire Tilt of the pen. Obviously whatever stylus is not a pencil or a brush. One mistake is to think the opposite. So grab it in a way that your hand is not suffering.
My own personal preference is not abuse too much the Tilt feature in whatever device. My wacom device’s curve is in the middle. (default) and i control the overall pressure in global pressure.


As you can see i like a soft entry of pressure and i don’t want to push harder so i almost clamp the pressure arround 90%
To test general pressure for me is like this and i adjust it to my hand pressure. I use basic Round with opacity. As you can see it has a soft entry and overlaps without problem the blue bar.

Also later each brush has its own curves.
As i think in a wide audience i design not for me but an imaginary user.

The brushes I design have 4 variants:

1. Basics. No tilt used. or even the rotation. They are the fastests.****( This no means better :wink: These brushes are created in my old laptop to be sure the performance is good even in a medium spec device. I am not obsessed about lag, but for me is really important feel comfortable as I am painting. Boost bundle (WIP published in KA as a preview) my special Lenovo laptop brushes (for my own use) and a lot of testing.
2. Efficiency Looking for simplicity, speed and , Normally is a balance. sometimes here i prepare **for mouse users included.**Crayons, Chalks (lindo’s cat video) and Sketch v2 will be a good example .
3. Complex brushes. Full of interaction. These brushes are focused in realism like Digital Atelier, Charcoal KA , Watercolors…etc
4. High Spec Device. Brushes focused in High performance devices like Intel 12th Gen. (recently testing, thanks Jonas, Bert and @halla)

Digital Atelier was designed with the idea to show how much Krita could be mimic the real media. I am still using them (and I love them due they were commisioned task in a very complex part of my life). Test them and let me know if you have any issue.

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Thanks for posting the video links for us noobs :slight_smile:

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