Ok so before I get to yapping, I’m aware it cannot really look one to one with real life but I really need to find a brush that help me draw like the example provided. Of course the issue might not be brush dependent but whatever it is, please help a brother out.
None of the default Krita brushes were useful in my journey to recapture these messy sketches I do with my basic 0.7 Mechanical Pen that’s mainly meant for school work but I just became to attached to this look and would love to be able to recreate it in Krita.
As is always the case, when someone new to digital painting begins (although this misconception also exists in real-life painting, albeit less frequently), they believe that all they need is the right tools and brushes, and then everything will fall into place.
This is a fallacy!
Digital painting, like almost any activity that involves learning skills, is no different from painting on canvas. Only when you have learned how to use the brushes and when you understand and master the use of all the other related media in painting, only then are you truly able to create works of art. Of course, you can specialize in just one area, for example your pencil drawings, then it goes faster because you only have to learn this one area, but without practice you won’t be able to create works of art at the same level!
I don’t know how many years it took you to learn your paper drawings on a wide variety of media, cardboard behaves differently than glossy paper, possibly with different pencils, in order to be able to repeatedly create these drawings in consistent quality, but you will also have to invest time in practicing here in order to achieve results like those in your example.
Furthermore, your idea that it is not possible to paint digitally in such a way that it resembles a real-life image is incorrect. There are enough examples in our forum gallery alone to disprove this assumption, as it is simply wrong. At best, this may be true for certain niches, but nowadays it is often just a question of having the right software for the job. There are programs whose watercolor images cannot be distinguished from real ones, an area in which Krita is definitely not at the top of its game, but Krita has other fields in which commercial programs cannot compete. Many people come to Krita because of its brush engines, which are unmatched even by Photoshop, but here too, it must be said that there are few exceptions where Krita cannot replicate a PS function. So what?!
But okay, I will at least name you excellent pencils you can try to use for your sketches, but it doesn’t mean you have found a shortcut, only good tools, tools that are in Krita too, but you haven’t been able to identify them by now, because your skill in using them doesn’t allow you digital what analog is no problem for you, but that will change with time.
A bundle is installed in Krita via the menu ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Manage Resource Libraries…’’ and in the opening dialog you have to click the button + Import in the next dialog browse to the downloaded bundle, select it and confirm the selection. Now Krita imports that bundle, and you can use its content, so the brushes in case of this bundle.
In case this BUNDLE comes in an archive-file, like ZIP or RAR for instance, then you have to unpack the archive to get the BUNDLE-File it contains, then you can proceed as described above.
That is true. And I guess for someone who knows how to use them, they will be good additions to the personal set of brushes/toolbox, but for me this sounds that we here have someone who has to learn first before they can begin with what they really want:
This is, in principle, the usual beginner question of: “Give me that brush (not seldom: “Of my idol!”), and then I can paint what I want the way I want.”, but you, me and most users of this forum know that the truth is something different. We all have gone through this thing called practice, practice, practice, and usually we do it to this day to not rust.
I never left a school year without my book cover completely filled with scribbles and drawings. I created a bundle with presets I often use to mimic traditional looking art, which I’ve put on my deviant art page as a free download. If you’d like to try it out, you can get it here: https://www.deviantart.com/someonesane/art/Nostalgia-SOS-A-Krita-Resource-Bundle-1302357600
Here’s an example I made, using the resources in the bundle:
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