Hey everyone, It’s my first post so I apologize in advance for any mistakes
I’m not that new on Krita but I have a history of being excited to use it often but ending up giving up because I have a hard time with the stabilizer.
Even with the highest and heaviest option, my lineart still looks shaky, wonky… not smooth in general, I use the program’s Ink-3 Gpen and I don’t know if it’s the brush, the tablet pressure setting(I use One by Wacom) or if I really don’t know how to set my stabilizer properly.
So how do you guys usually set your stabilizer for Lineart? If you use the same brush or tablet as me what are your settings?
Thank you for reading and for your time I’d really appreciate the help because I genuinely want to use Krita for my artwork I think it’s an extremely complete program with lots of resources and I don’t want to not enjoy everything it has to offer due my own incompetence lol
In my eyes, it is better to learn to paint without stabilizer, it is a false friend. Create a workspace where you have enough freedom of movement and can use your tablet properly, you will probably have more fun in the long run. Also, a well-calibrated tablet is important, especially the pressure curve/pressure sensitivity should be comfortable for you, then the better strokes will soon come by themselves.
Can you upload a full screen screenshot showing your lineart and the Tool Options docker so we can see the brush smoothing option settings that you’re using for the freehand brush tool?
Personally I don’t use the brush smoothing at all if I can avoid it. It messes with your muscle memory and ultimately prevents you from developing a sure hand because the program always changes your inputs and you instinctively fight it with your hands/arms and then get inconsistent results. There are a few advice I can give you
Check if your Tablet is calibrated correctly. I use Wacoms on Linux and by default they’re pretty good but I heard on windows you can have issues, for example with Windows-Ink and Win-Tab, one of which pretty horrible and gives you bad lines because of different reasons. If you can put a cup or a coin on your tablet and trace it’s outline with the stylus and it looks perfectly circular (or straight when using a ruler) you know it’s your hand, not the software. If the lines are wonky or jagged or the circle is an oval, something is wrong. Check if the screen mapping is working (depending on your Wacom tablet the aspect ratio can be different from your screen)
Use the whole arm for drawing, not just the hand or wrist. This gives you more control and prevents you from drawing ( shapes instead of straight lines, which often happens when just using the wrist.
Zoom in for drawing the lines, just enough that you can do the whole line in one go
When checking your linework never do it zoomed in. No one is ever going to zoom in 200% into you artwork and check if your lines are a little wobbly so why should you. Check it at 100% at most but better yet at “fit screen”, the size people are going to most likely see it. There is no good reason to obsess over perfect line art. Truth is, you can always zoom in a bit closer and find “mistakes” if you really want to.
Use the Line tool for straight lines if you need to. Some people will tell you that real artists free hand everything but that’s just nonsense. Krita also as pretty good assistant tools and you can make use of them if you need to.
use a brush preset that is more forgiving, one that has rough edges maybe even one that is not round (although a bit more difficult to use then), will give your lineart a potentially cool look too.
If you upload a screenshot with some examples we can give you more specific advice.
Thanks for the warm welcome!<3 I already tried to use this tool before but I still see the same problem as the freehand brush, but I’ll try it again next time, ty for the help!
Hmm I didn’t do that, I’ll search how to access that.
And I guess I didn’t express myself properly I’m sorry, the lineart is just not smooth, that’s what I meant
I’m really sorry, I didn’t get the notifications, well I have no open wip at the moment but fortunately, I think I found something that might help me, I thank everyone’s help and sorry if I couldn’t provide any useful information
@SeaMuun Go into Settings > Configure Krita > Tablet settings. At the bottom of the window there is the tablet tester. Make a few strokes and the text output will tell you lots. You should see both mouse and stylus movements and you will also see % to show that pressure is registering.
It was that!! Thank you a lot! The brush speed smooth setting was too low, I changed it and tried again and it’s looking so much better now, thank you again <33
Just for your info: this setting has zero influence on stabilisation. It’s only for the speed sensor, which can be found in the brush editor, and is hardly ever used - certainly not by the Ink-3 Gpen.
So it must be something else that led to the improvement you’re experiencing.