Hello, everyone, I come from China.
First of all, I apologize here, because I don’t know anything about your culture and I don’t know English, so I used a translator. Please forgive me if I have offended you.
I believe that everyone is full of yearning for foreign countries, and they will also want to know what their domestic things are like abroad. So today I will talk about krita’s current situation in China.
In China, many people like to draw cartoons, and they don’t stop at hand-drawing and want to draw them on the computer.I also wanted to make my own animation, but I gave up because of the heavy workload.
KRIA in China is not popular, even very unpopular. Everyone would rather use paid PS than this free powerful software.In my opinion, this is because KRIA has no publicity at all in China. I asked many of my friends who like painting, and all of them have never heard of KRIA without exception.KRIA doesn’t have relevant tutorials, which is also a reason. There are only a lot of words and no videos on KRIA’s official website, which makes people who want to use KRIA flinch and have to spend money to watch PS tutorials. Since they have spent money, it is difficult for this person to use software other than PS.And I don’t know how to make a donation to KRIA or buy something to support it。
Generally speaking, KRIA has no publicity in China.
I think @TheTwo is from china. there are others too who are from china. May be they can point your to better resources in Chinese. Any publicity help is welcome.
Unfortunately, many western sites are not available in China (or Mainland China?). I recommended various YT resources in the past, and usually the response was that it’s unfortunately unavailable.
I think we would need Krita “marketing reps” or “CM team” (if there’s any like that officially! ) do specific effort to post to Chinese socials such as bilibili. Naturally, the language will be a significant barrier, so it would require funding as well…
There are many awesome creators there and powerful, globally recognizable franchises such as Genshin Impact hail from China too. It’s a shame if Krita is not known to the communities in these regions.
If a person has good English, they will basically have a VPN to view external websites. And when their English is not good, watching videos will be difficult to solve their problems. This is a paradox.
I have written over 200 document tutorials, covering krita techniques and various considerations, while also incorporating almost all resources such as plugins and scripts.
TysonTan has translated a series of kde software, including krita.
Eranthis manages a krita community.
I maintain Krita’s encyclopedia and write text tutorials,and I also manage a krita community.
We currently have no spare time to do other things.
I think what is missing now is a recommendation from a Chinese artist with a huge fan base
Yes, you are right! Looks like you already have quite a few folks doing good work! Maybe you can find such an artist too!
And I know exactly how the language barrier feels… I watch a lot of Japanese videos, because they have very good anime illustration tutorials and yet I don’t understand anything! But at least they usually offer English subtitles, even if the translation is not too great.
No, no, no. I read the tutorials you wrote, but they were so dense with words that I couldn’t stand the sight of them. I once pestered a friend of mine to read your tutorials. He took one look and turned off the interface, i think video commentary is more important than captions