hi, I’m new to krita. I don’t know where to even make a painting. I can’t even make it to where you make the real art. I need help so you guys can tell me so I make art. I will do a really good job. so can you guys tell me? I know everything else but how to make the art or get to it. 
I’m wanting to know, so just say @RamonaTheCat in your reply so I know your replying. thanks! 
Please watch this video for beginners
And take a look into the manual too
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thanks. I’ll watch it later because of school and blocking youtube because of school.
school is easy for me but it’s okay and I’ll watch it at recess.
thanks @Takiro!
I’m wanting to know where I can create all this beautiful art I find on krita. I’m a great artist and one day I was looking for good computer art website and I found krita. It looked descent so I logged in and now my only question is where you can find how to create art like how to find where you can create it. I know most of you guys know it. but I don’t want videos I want posts. Make sure if you post videos they are good fot this subject. thanks for reading!
so can at least 1 or 2 people out of 2000+ people help me… but don’t forget to say @RamonaTheCat in your post if your saying it to someone thats not just me! 
This is just a forum, you can’t draw here, you need the program.
I already answered this in your other thread
Please don’t open more topics with the same question.
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i’m new to
If you too have problems creating art check the links I posted here.
You can not draw here because this is just a forum for artists using Krita. To draw you have to install the actual application on your computer.
This has already been explained to you in this topic here:
You need to download the krita application and install it on your computer then learn how to use it.
Please stop going into various topics and asking how to make images.
I want to cry 
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how do you animate on krita (side note this is my first time)
“How do you make art?”
“How do you draw?”
“How do you animate in Krita?”
Those are not questions that have an easy answer - it’s something like “how do you build a building” or “how do you pilot an airplane”. It’s not something someone will write to you in a comment. There are tutorials on Youtube and other places - search for them and learn from them. But writing comments like this is just making a mess on the forum.
It would be better to ask something like “Can anyone recommend a good tutorial for animation for beginners?”, but just to avoid any confusion, “Can anyone recommend a good tutorial how to draw” is not a good question, because it would be like looking for a tutorial how to pilot the airplane again. Maybe “tutorial how to draw a cat” or “tutorial how to draw a face”, but not “how to draw”. It’s too vague.
Also don’t ask under other people’s artworks, unless you ask for their specific technique (like their style, their brushwork), or within threads that are about different things (like the Recorder docker thread). It’s just rude to other users of the forum.
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There is a step by step tutorial in the manual
And there are a lot of tutorials on YouTube.
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okay. I’ll work on finding it.
This is way too general a question to write a real answer. As the others have written, watch tutorials and ask more specific questions. Some may say that a question like this should not be answered, but others new to Krita are going to find this question and will read the answers. We might as well say something useful.
So, my answer, as an experienced fine artist, Blender artist/animator and almost-newbie to Krita:
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If you are already an artist, have an “artist’s eye” and can make great drawings and paintings with pencil, pen, charcoal, oil or acrylic, cool! At the opposite end, if you are a know-nothing total newbie who “can’t draw a stick figure” then, get basic drawing experience with pencil and paper and a book like Betty Edwards’ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Be an artist, even if a freshly hatched one with hours not years of experience.
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If not already done, install Krita. If you have a graphics tablet or other hardware beyond the usual keyboard+mouse, and get it working properly.
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Watch a few tutorials on Youtube or wherever. It can be fun to just start doodling, but sometimes when I’m totally new to some software I may not be able to make the least scribble or squeak. Some basics of operation will be needed to make the software, Krita or any other, do at least something.
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Spend some time, perhaps a few hours initially, at least some time say 20 minutes every day just doodling. Make squiggles and loops and dots with each type of brush, choose different colors, try all the blending modes (half will appear to do nothing) and generally “waste some paper”. Make messes. Don’t care about making anything look good. Get a feel for things. Sometimes you will be bored. Sometimes you will be surprised.
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Now try a practice project. Copy some existing digital work, or try a digital version of one of your own drawings or paintings. Or make up something. Pick something simple, or one character or object out of a more complex work. See how far you can get copying. You may make some original creative tweaks if you like, but the purpose is to gain experience finding the right tools and figuring out how to accomplish making the shapes, gradients, composition and colors that you see. What may seem like the obvious way to paint or draw something, may very well work just fine, but sometimes you are not so lucky! Try different tools, different ways of achieving the same result. At first it may be hard to find more than one way for a lot of things, but keep poking around the menus, fiddle with layers, try tools you know nothing about yet. Sometimes you will make a disaster! There is always ctrl-Z to undo. (Much cheaper than buying more paint, ink, Prismacolors, paper…)
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Now, having done some doodling around, and having attempted to purposefully achieve some desired effect, follow some tutorials, videos, how-to articles on more elaborate projects.
Of course, if at any time you get a whim or desire to make some specific original artwork, go for it! If due to being only halfway up the learning curve, the result is disappointing, save the file in a folder and come back to in a month or two, and have another go at it.
Use as many layers as you dare, so changes are easier. Unlike painters, we digital artists can easily make a subtle color adjustment to a background without messing up anything in the foreground. Painters sometimes improve their old works, but we can do so much more easily! So keep any works you like even if they come short of what you intended.
Among my favorite magazines are 3D Artist and 3D World. I have a stack from the past several years. There are articles by artists showing how they created fantastic pieces from scratch. You don’t need to be using Maya or Blender or be doing anything 3D to follow the overall process. Much of 3D art is texture painting, background painting, making beautiful shapes, lighting. You will have to paint light effects in 2D art, on each object and every detail of each character, not just drag a “lamp” into the 3D scene and that’s it. Digital 2D artists have it so hard!! But it is so much more fun and satisfying, isn’t it?
Anyway, a combination of every day doodling, observing real life, copying existing works as study, and following how-to and how-i-did-it articles and videos, and a touch of craziness you get you on the road to where you want to be.
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I know that already.