Hey I’m Enkidu I’m new to painting and drawing. I like to make sketches in my free time and downtime at work, and want to begin learning how to draw and paint characters and objects for the novels I’m writing.
I’ve recently gotten a Wacom Intuos tablet and am beginning my digital art journey on my Surface Go with Majaro as my operating system, and I’m surprised by how second-nature the hand-eye coordination became, it was almost instant!
I made this painting of this apple-ish-thing using, if I remember correctly, the Adjust Multiply brush for blocking, and largely the Airbrush Soft for the rest. And the Blender Blur (the Q-Tip) for smoothing the edges where I made some blunders and to also make it look more smooth. And the fill tool for the background.
The problem I run into is, I don’t know how most of the tools work, and I’m still trying to learn what my style will be. Whether to just, make paintings without linework, or to make the sketches first, and then fill them in with painting, and what’s the best way to go about it, and how to use and manipulate layers.
Part of the reason I used the blender tool is because I didn’t know how to select specific objects in a layer and move them to another layer. Took me about half an hour to learn how to do it, and then the table and apple looked like a cutout
Me personally, I want to get as close to the traditional experience of working with physical material as possible. So, only two layers: The canvas, and then everything that goes on the canvas.
I was wondering, what are some good courses or YouTubers for learning sketching and linework, as well as painting, in Krita? Who specializes in working with just one layer? Or is that needless handicapping?
