I’m new to krita and I struggle to find anything I need for it to learn. I’ve tried youtube but I mainly just find stuff for procreate or other drawing apps that are what I need. I see so many ways to do stuff with different brushes but every time I try to do it on krita I end up not having that brush or anything similar. I’ve downloaded several brush kits to see if anything helps and I just keep struggling. I’m not sure if this is a learning issue and I need more hands on type learning or what but it does get very frustrating. I just want to be able to do basic things right now and draw cartoon pets and anime characters. I’m wondering if maybe procreate would be an easier software for me to use. I really love krita but I’m just struggling so much with it. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks
I can only suggest watching the tutorials made by @CelticCoco, a.k.a. Blade & Quill on YouTube, Corinne offers a wonderful door into the world of Krita:
And one of my beloved tips is a tutorial series that is originally geared towards kids, offers its lections in easy digestible bits of ~5 minutes length and if you can bear and accept the fact that the intended audience is kids, you will perhaps love this series as I do. Especially for users who may have learning disabilities, like ADHD, or are a dyslexic person, these vids can be the material they searched for, at least I loved watching the 35-parts it lasts:
For brushes, you should start with those Krita offers before you dive into the ocean of brushes made for Krita, and to hear this from me, a brush addict really should give you to think. If Krita’s brushes won’t offer what you are looking for, you can crawl our resource category, and if even that is not enough, I can name you a lot of sources you can not find here.
Krita can be pretty overwhelming if you’re not used to this kind of software, with all the features it has. Especially when you are still pretty new to digital art.
For the start I would recommend to stay away from downloadable resources for now and get to know Krita first. The problem people often have with other peoples brushes is that it often takes some experience to know how to use them. It’s their tool and often they’re are not really made with other people in mind. If you have to learn a new software and someones brushes at the same time, that can makes things much harder.
Krita’s default brushes are all pretty good. I used them for years and still have not ever felt the need to download brushes (I do make my own nowadays, though). They can carry you very far, I drew Anime/Manga style and paintings a like, you don’t need any special brushes for that.
Resources > Tutorials Contains a lot of tutorials specifically made for Krita, perhaps you can find something you need.
Hi,@Zombifiedkitten; I’m only just beginning to do digital fine art, despite being a traditional media illustrator for upwards of 35 years. I’ve used Krita, Procreate, ArtStudio Pro, and CSP; I find Krita to be the closest to Procreate in terms of beginner friendliness. I managed to get hold of a tutorial course by a guy named Widhi Muttaqien from Expose Academy. went through it and found it to be one of the best I’ve seen, although maybe a bit technical. Also he’s got this outrageous accent that makes it loads of fun (sorry if you’re reading this, Mr. Muttaqien). Also a book by W.Gardner called Draw and Paint Better with Krita.
I’ve seen videos on YouTube by a JustCallMeISane (https://www.youtube.com/@JustCallMeInsane) that have useful information, and I believe should be fairly easy to follow for beginners.
Beyond that, what particular aspect of Krita is giving you the most difficulty? You mentioned seeing some things that you tried to do yourself but couldn’t manage with the brushes you used. If you could share what you were attempting to do, we might be able to offer more direct help in those areas.
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