Krita Monthly Update – Edition 07

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Welcome back! This monthly ‘zine is curated for you by the @Krita-promo team.

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Development report

Text Tool Update - @Wolthera Shared an excellent work in progress demo of on-canvas editing. You can check out the post in the Text tool Thread

Beta 2 testing and release - As you might be aware, the next release is in the beta testing phase. We have released a second beta and thank everyone for reporting bugs and testing. The developers are really busy fixing all the bugs. Some bugs were marked as release blocked and they are being tackled one by one. So we might expect a release this month

Google Summer Of Code Project - @Srirupa_Datta has finished the GSoC program. There is still some work like documentation and final touches before merging the new brush bundle creator and editor. You can check out the updates in the threads made by @Srirupa_Datta here and here

Website - The work on the New krita website is progressing well, we have almost finished migrating to a new backend away from Wordpress. We also have a new dark and light mode switcher. We are just waiting for some work to be done on linking the donation system and also having an automatic build for the website.

Community report

August Monthly Art Challenge – The August Monthly Art Challenge was a lot of fun throughout the month with a tremendous amount of helping and advice taking place in the WIP thread. How could it not be fun with a theme involving Kiki (Krita’s mascot) and a robotic or anthropomorphic horse? The final result: @Elixiah and @Scio tied for first place, and @Mythmaker is first runner up.

Care to Join the September Art Challenge? – @Scio picked “Glow in the Dark” for this month’s challenge theme. Read about it here. We also have posted a WIP thread for any questions, requests for advice, or works-in-progress.

Sioni’s Monthly Moodboard Challenge – Instead of a word prompt, get inspired by @Sioni’s moodboard. There are no rules to follow. Take a look at the moodboard and go with your interpretation.

Featured artwork

Charlie Hunnam by @waynemizuno.

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Time to Wine Down by @LOZAL.

The Planetwalker by @Troken

Noteworthy plugin

Pottery Wheel plugin by @Polterheist. This plugin gives you a docker which allows you to continuously rotate the canvas like a pottery wheel, allowing you to draw to the spinning canvas.

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Watch it in action:
https://i.imgur.com/VUODkJp.mp4

Tutorial of the month

This month we would like to share two animation tutorials.

1 - How to Animate in Krita for Beginners by Jesse J. Jones.

2 - Animating Bouncing ball - traditional animation process by

Angry ANIMATOR

Ways to help Krita

Version 5.2 is in its second beta. Your help with testing and reporting bugs would be greatly appreciated.

Also translating, documentation, brushes… See a complete list of ways you can help maintain and grow Krita on the Get Involved page at krita.org.

Notable changes in code

This section has been compiled by @freyalupen.

(August 2 - September 2, 2023)

Stable branch (5.2.0-beta+):
Bugfixes:

Development build fixes (for bugs not present in 5.1.5 that were present in 5.2.x):

Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):
Features:

The latest changes are made available for testing daily in the following development builds:

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Thank you all Krita team, we appreciate your effort, I hope soon help too with donations or resources

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I love these updates!!! Thank you for all the hard work :slight_smile:

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On behalf of the @Krita-promo team, thank you.

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