Getting Started With Digital Painting Using Krita (Udemy.com)
The complete beginners guide to the open-source digital painting software Krita.
Created by: Danan Thilakanathan
Last updated April 2017
What you will learn
- You will be able to start painting in Krita
- You will become familiar with most of the powerful tools that Krita has to offer
- You will know some useful shortcut keys to speed up your workflow
Quality Score
Overall Score : 72 / 100
Course Description
Krita is a free open-source digital painting software made for both professionals and newer users. It allows you to paint comics, illustrations, concept art and textures to name a few. Just a simple Google search on Krita will show you some amazing artworks created by people using the free painting software. Thus, mastering this tool can really help you get a headstart on your digital painting career.
In this course, you will get a complete overview of Krita. The course is designed to be concise and easy to understand so that you will be able to master most of its functions in a very short amount of time.
What's in this course?
The course provides a complete overview of Krita.
Specifically,
- You will start by downloading and installing Krita.
- You will learn about all the tools in the user interface that you can use at your disposal as a digital painter.
- You will learn some important shortcut keys that can help speed up your workflow.
- Finally, you will learn some tips and tricks on how to make your digital painting experience more satisfying through using pen and touch tablets.
Who is this course for?
This will be perfect for the absolute beginner of Krita and the world of digital painting in general. The course is designed so that all concepts and tools are explained in a simple and easy-to-understand manner.
There are no prerequisites, however, having some passion/interest for digital painting might be beneficial.
What is the expected outcome after the course?
By the end of the course, you can expect to go away and start painting whatever you like in Krita. You will have an understanding of the complete interface and functionality of Krita.
The next steps after completing this course will be to go to the next step and learn the concepts of digital painting in general.
This course will continue to expand as new features get added in or if you feel that I haven't covered an aspect that you would like to learn.Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in getting started with digital painting
- Anyone wanting to migrate to Krita for digital painting
Instructor Details
- 3.6 Rating
76 Reviews
Danan Thilakanathan
Hi, my name is Danan. I am a Software Engineer by day and a Filmmaker/Animator/Educator by night.
I started out making an animated short film for fun using Blender a few years ago. It was during this time did I realize I had a huge passion for 3D filmmaking. I have spent the past 5 years making animated short films and have learnt a great deal about the entire process of filmmaking and animation.
This is something that I do as a hobby. Animation and filmmaking is something I'm quite passionate about and I spent a few years trying to learn and master this skill. Through heaps of trial and error and researching on my own, I feel I have come a long way. I would now like to impart this knowledge towards others who feel a similar way.
I know very well, animated filmmaking is hard. Very hard in fact. One of my main goals, is to make the learning process easier for other people. Feel free to check out any of my courses and I hope I have helped you in your quest to achieve your dream! :)
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Reviews
By A.H Hernandez
Se entiende perfecto
By Cornia V Wyk
great course! thanku !
By Teddy goldman
Well done....and thats from a thirty year veteran high school art teacher
By Kacie McWilliams
I have already learned some interesting things about krita from this course.
By Tamiya Cooper
Very informative, especially for beginners.
By Jeanette Seijo
I needed basic information on the program and I got it. Fun and intersting.
By Baeza Daniel
excellent introduction to get familiar with krita
By Demetrius Robinson
I was expecting more of an in depth demonstration of the Krita tools in use to achieve result similar to the painting shown.
By Geoff W
I took this course wanting to know more about Krita and how the software works. I was glad to see people offering courses on Krita.
I had hoped the instructor would go over things like the brush engines, what they are or how they work, what all of the tools do, layer settings, the program settings like the display settings, canvas input settings. The impact of different settings and brushes on performance.
The course was ok as a very brief overview, but doesn't really get you started, leaving many questions about the program. It was presented reasonably, but the course was very basic, only briefly glossing over the basic tools without much explanation as to their uses. None of the tool options within each tool were introduced or explained.
No real explanation about layer grouping, alpha masking selections.
The interface section didn't really contain much information about Dockers (Krita's tool windows) or how you can have any tool window docked (pinned to the sides) or move them around, resize them, how you can create tabs on them. Or even what the different docker types are.
There are many great things about the Krita software, the tranform tool's other modes are very powerful, the autosave feature is handy, the brush engines offer great flexibility, but none of these things were covered. I thought the instructor did well enough presenting the user with Krita, but not enough about the software was explained, even for just getting started.
By Andreas Morasch
Der Kurs umfasst lediglich absolute Basisfunktionen, ist dafür allerdings kostenlos. Ein wichtiges Thema fehlt meines Erachtens, nämlich wie Addons (z. B. Pinsel) integriert werden können und ob es weitere Möglichkeiten gibt Krita bei Bedarf zu erweitern.
By Uldis Bekmanis
Don't buy this. You can learn this on your own in 1 evening.
There are none tips&tricks here. Nothing useful.
This is just a Krita UI guide for all you see when you launch Krita.
Nothing more...
It's like unboxing video for Krita.
By Ryan Zerwekh
Not a bad intro course. I like the instructor and his delivery. A couple times he gave some wrong information about a tool, such as saying the foreground/background swap button was just a tool to switch easily between two colors. He also references Photoshop a lot. This is fine for people that know photoshop, but for others, saying "layers work just like they do in photoshop" doesn't offer much information to the green user. As said, not a bad course, though it is very basic. It strictly covers the basic tool available in Krita, without much elaboration. Some very important tools are just breezed over, only mentioned for a few seconds. If you can get this for $5 or $10, not too bad, but had I spent any more, I would surely request a refund.









