…and that my friends is what makes Krita great! The Wonderful developers, users, posters and designers!
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I will give one compliment, when I see just the WIP section, I see something that maybe should be in all the art - galleries, around, the world, it’s that good, just, 10 / 10 . . .
So, really wanted to learn here, however, I understand, rules . . 
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Trying to say, you make good art, it’s classy, simple yet, perhaps compelling . . . 
. . 10 / 10 . . . .
And when you play and practice, then gradually refine your work, you’ll be as good as everyone else! It just takes time, maybe months, maybe a few years. Just don’t give up… keep studying, never get jealous, and keep working at it.
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Sorry for breaking it out of your context…
Do you really understand?
As I wrote to you above, you won’t learn to use Krita with a program that is light years behind Krita in its possibilities, you would rather succeed with Photoshop or Corel Draw, programs that are “similarly powerful” to Krita, and they’ll overwhelm you like Krita - but then you can also start directly with Krita… right?
Krita won’t bite you, but you should bite your chunk out of Krita!
You just have to start, you may not like the first results, so what? Do not lament, do! Keep going! I have understood until today maybe 10-15% of the possibilities Krita offers in a way that I can use these possibilities, and for the rest I’ve still to learn, but the missing 85% do not hinder me to use Krita. And it was even true at 0% Krita-Knowledge, I just made blobs of color and had no problem doing so. For that I just played around with Krita, pressed this and that button and looked what’s behind it, and, because it’s my way of learning something, read the manual again and again, there you can learn so much about Krita, especially in “Getting started”.
And in the tutorial section, there I enjoyed “Making An Azalea With The Transformation Masks”, step by step, a great tutorial.
But the most important thing is to always just “play” with Krita, not necessarily to create something awesome, but just to familiarize yourself with Krita. If you don’t like something, then you can either undo it or delete it completely. Although it can be good to keep your experiments, that way you can see your progress.
I can still recommend you to search here in the support section of the forum for topics that are close to your interests, and you will learn a lot about Krita.
That’s how I learned much of what I know about Krita, here on the forum. Just by reading through the various support requests about Krita features to benefit from other users’ suggestions for solutions (and in doing so, I always tried to either resolve the issue myself to be able to offer it as a solution (I’m a chronically curious person)).
Michelist
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Exactly this. Krita is an amazing art creation tool. It can still be used in a simple manner with minimal effort and just bit of study/tutorial/reading… and there is tons of help here for anyone interested in learning.
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Hello, I would tell you to forget about all the krita options. All the options of the painting programs only serve to speed up the processes. You’re not going to learn to paint with them. If you want to learn to paint, choose the basic brush and paint in one or more layers. You don’t need more. If you want to have fun using more brushes you can, but they may be more distracting from the basics of painting than anything else. You will learn the tools as you need them, but as I say they will not make you learn the basics, and I would directly ignore them at first. With the brushes that Krita has, you should have plenty. I normally don’t use more than 5. A basic one, airbrush, a pencil one, and the smudger. And really 80 percent of the time I just use the basic one. I would recommend you start with perspective and then move on to other topics like anatomy, color, lighting etc. For perspective you have to learn well to draw basic geometric figures from different angles, a cube, a sphere, a cylinder, etc. Then with practice you can decompose any body in them. For example, your drawing’s legs and arms are cylinders, but they are flat because they are not in perspective. You need to know how to draw a cylinder pointing at the “camera”, so that later you can draw the leg in the same way and it will have three-dimensionality. If you want to learn to draw efficiently you just need to open krita, choose a brush and draw, keeping in mind what principle of painting you want to practice with that work.
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Because one of your main interests seem to be water-color, maybe this video is for you. If you haven’t seen it already, you should take a look at it, in my eyes it is very interesting and painted with a mouse. Absolutely stunning! Be inspired about what is possible!
Michelist
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I’m not sure if it’s been mentioned, but the Krita interface is very flexible - you can add/remove elements and move things around to suit your needs. If you look at this thread for example you’ll see how different people’s setups are.
There’s a ‘canvas only’ mode (press Tab to toggle on/off) which maximises the available painting area, and you can choose what elements remain visible (via Settings > Configure Krita > Canvas Only Settings).
In the brush presets docker you can create tags to isolate the brushes you like - so when you select it in the drop-down menu, you’ll only see those brushes you added that tag to.
You also have the option to add python plugins to tailor the interface further. That’s more complicated, but enables creating a very minimalist setup if you know what you’re doing.
I think it’s worth persevering if you can as it’s such a flexible and powerful program. I say that as someone who used mypaint for many years; I used to like if for sketching and blending, but Krita has evolved so much that Mypaint is effectively redundant for me now.
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