Multi-page/canvas in one doc workflow

Hello, I had the idea for multi page/canvas workflow in one tab, where you can work on one document, where many canvases are accessible at one time.

For example I might be a comic artist and I would like to have a whole page, something like a4 300/600ppi (which takes allot of resources), as well as one block from it. So I would have a half finished comic as well as one part of it that is being worked on at a time.

This would work the same as multiple documents in some ways (like self contained layers) but references for example would be shared throughout the doc.

Here is an example workflow:

Here I might have a large canvas that will be the final output, and smaller canvases that will then be pasted in when they are done.

In my eyes here are the advantages:

  1. All work is contained in one document, one page in a book can be one doc, where otherwise working on a large page might be laggy, here the larger canvas is not loaded (with only a preview, and the actual individual layers and etc are not loaded.) while working on a smaller one.
  2. Resources like refs are shared, where otherwise they would need to be recopied.
  3. There is only one timelapse at the end, and multiple dont have to be stitched together.
  4. A different person might want to use this view to load or make an entire PDF. I can see this being extremly usefull for notes. I would love the ability to take notes for class for example in one big doc with shared pages. In a simular way you could create a pdf with this, for example an entire comic could be a more structured format of this, where you have a preset for a number of pre-defined canvases that increase with page length. for example a preset of continuously increasing (as more are added) a4 pages.

Let me know what you think about this as im happy to hear constructive feedback.

Hello! @lemongrasscap
Regarding 1 and 2:
It is possible,
It can import with Krita’s FileLayer using.

Regarding 3 and 4:
Are you talk about that the equivalent of Inkscape’s Pages feature or Illustrator’s ArtBoard?
That would be very useful.
I actually have a workflow that contain them.

I would agree to the request to add multi-page creation to Krita.
(It would be nice if it could be export compatible with Inkscape SVG.)
So I voted.