My Krita-only sketchbook for anything not directly storyboard-related (For now, in no particular order)
Jenny running sketch (Krita brush test)
Sept. 30, 2023 - 5:17-8:29pm (Saturated & signed Oct. 1, 2023 ~2:46pm)
Art Timelapse:
Spur-of-the-moment Jenny sketch Jenny sketch from last night, while trying out my Krita recreation of Adobe Fresco’s default pencil brush.
(Tbh, I made it a free brush bc still have significant kinks to work out imo.
Also, I don’t feel like recreating the brush myself into other file formats.
*Note: at the bottom is my krita-artists.org post instead, to avoid too much of a shill-like, unethical redundancy.)
MINI REFLECTION
Felt really bad about how disjointed the gestures of my figure/gesture drawings have been near the end of this week. Also, with me wanting to really test my Adobe Fresco Pencil recreation for my loose sketches and me getting another Jenny sketch idea, I jumped into it.
Really got loose here, even leaving her pretty off-model imo. Left it, bc I mainly wanted to test my brush with a(nother) sketch. Also, starting to get far looser. Still a little stiff & proportions could be better, but some de-rusting. (Better than earlier. I did 2 other test sketches, as elaborations of some doodles. They’re too stiff-looking. I’ve just left them on my NG sketchbook forum & dA Sta.sh)
My fiddling here was far less than in the “Jenny slightly pulling back” sketch. Still fiddled on her belly button too much. On the other hand, kinda worth it; less intense highlight on it.
BEHIND THE SCENES
Brushes: Lot of trial and error. Far from exact though. Drawing a tilted, perpendicular stroke seeps it over, and I haven’t been able to get the brush to taper just like Fresco’s Pencil brush, but pretty good replication.
Color management: think I fixed my issue! Oh, the issue was that my exported images were more desaturated than in the Krita documents. Looks like exports aren’t desaturated—my laptop’s display oversaturated my document! I changed my display’s Krita color profiles to match their build-in profiles to fix that. After that, I tried to compensate by adding a Filter Layer to bump up the saturation by 22-33. Not quite accurate values, but more accurate saturation!
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Note: I may have worked out my problem.
Once I’m finished documenting my solution’s steps & testing if the solution works (with a more objective test and a new artwork), I’ll make a solution post. -
Possible color management test, albeit with another guy’s photography examples
Performance: Oh, and did with Krita’s A5 @ 300dpi document dimension. No lag. (I wonder if it could handle 11x14 @ 300dpi. I hope so. )
ART SUPPLIES
Hardware: Alienware x14, Huion Inspiroy H610PRO V2 pen tablet, & IMAGE Light Pad Stand A3
Software: Krita (art & timelapse)
Brushes:
- [v 1.0] Adobe Fresco Pencil (Krita Version) - linework. My custom brush
- j) WaterC Flat Decay TIlt - pigtail shadows; crop top, skirt, boots, & belly button base colors; BG wash
- j) WaterC Spread (Hue Shift) - pigtails and main hair base colors, skirt & boots shadows. My tweaked brush (added hue controlled by pressure)
from that day
(The pencil brush was pretty good, though.
Also, I like the Colorize Mask tool
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Found it in 
Between getting ‘rona again & readjusting, I took a longer break than I intended. Guess this drawing of worry is kinda subconscious
. I’d actually been meaning to try that out on a piece; tbh, I just like red-orange/vermillion-colored pencil sketches.
but that makes me wanna work my way up to sketching fanart of a scene I would’ve liked to have seen.
So far, at least of my Krita art, 
(never had cable:woman_shrugging:). That’s the internet/new media age for ya!
