Medieval book art

[recaremo]

Hello from germany.
As a friend of medieval art - I’m looking for some tipps how to copy the medieval book art.
I think Krita could be good starting point. Did anyone of you do some work like this?

[Michelist]

Hello @recaremo, and welcome to the forum!

What exactly do you mean with copy:

@recaremo

I’m looking for some tipps how to copy the medieval book art.

If you want to recreate such works with Krita, using Krita’s brushes and text tool, then of course it will be possible. Depending on the way you’re heading to, your journey can vary in the amount of work needed.
In the case that you own, or plan to acquire, fonts for creating works like this, then you will be happy to know that Krita’s currently not-so-good Text Tool is completely rewritten, and that its rewrite comes to its end and many of the new functions can already be tested in action using Krita’s so-called nightly versions, which are pre-release-versions of Krita.
Here you can inform yourself about the abilities of Krita’s new Text Tool, which will be something, many state, no other painting software offers. Especially the first post and the last ~30 postings are quite informative in my eyes:

Text Tool Thread

Hey everyone, The text layout rewrite branch finally got merged! You should be able to test it in the next nightly build. Keep in mind that the text tool by itself has not changed just yet. Similarly, if you find bugs, please report them to bugs.kde.org under the product Krita, in the component Text. State of Text I’ve spend the last year completely rewriting the text layout code, with a technical blogpost here. This code handles things like taking a text with markup, selecting and loading fon…

The Krita NEXT-Nightly versions can be found here:

Index of /ci-builds/graphics/krita/master

Michelist

[Someonesane]

I’d find a font that matches the aesthetic, type the story, and then draw my designs around that, using a crayon-like or fountain pen type of brush preset. Then I’d use Layer Fills and Layer Filters to distress the page. Example attached.

[recaremo]

That is amazing. That’s just I was looking for. What Font do you use? Is free for download?
Do you use some kind of grid or lines in the background?

[recaremo]

Thanks for your answer. Maybe “copy” is not the correct word. I would more do work like @Someonesane posted here. Excuse my bad english it’s not my native. My post other reason for my post - to find a starting point for my work with Krita. I’ll show the results here next.

I use Krita with a Linux Desktop (Ryzen 9, NVidia 4070 TI S, 64 GB RAM) and a Wacom 16. Hope that’s a good base for my work.

[Someonesane]

I used a Font called Old English Text MT, which I think came with my Windows OS. You can probably find something similar to it on DaFont. I didn’t use a grid, but I did turn the brush mirroring on, to make doing the border a little easier/quicker.