Learn Krita 5 with simple Exercises: Beginner Digital Art (Udemy.com)
Digital Painting and Drawing for Beginners with free Software Krita: Exercises for Brushes, Tools, Selections, Layers...
Created by: Duplo Designs
Last updated May 2024
What you will learn
- Learn to make digital art from the ground up
- Get a complete understanding of Krita's interface and functions
- Get to know tips and tricks to speed up your work
- Let an experienced artist & designer guide you through the process
- Explore different tools like layers, shapes, filters and selections
- Learn how to customize Krita to fit your personal needs
- Create different digital paintings for practice
How it compares
Against the other 175 rated Udemy courses in Digital Painting on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 54% of them
- Reviews34#159 of 176 by number of reviews
- Length1.5 hoursshorter than 86% of them
- Last updatedMay 2024more recently than 75% of them
Course Description
Welcome to the Krita 5.0 Basics Course - Digital Art for absolute beginners!
If you want to start making digital art, the free software Krita is probably the best choice out there.
It has everything you need to create digital drawings and paintings, but it's still beginner-friendly and easy to understand.
However, if you're completely new to using digital art softwares, it can be quite confusing and time-consuming to figure out everything yourself. And with all the different features, it's easy to miss shortcuts and functions that can save you countless hours.
I'm "Duplo", experienced artist and designer from Germany, and I've been using Krita for quite a few years now. I have used the software to create countless tilesets, game assets, digital drawings and paintings, flyers and thumbnails and vector logos. And after all these years, I'm still very content with Krita and I'm grateful for it's existence.
But I have also observed many beginners struggle with the software and use it in a very inefficient way, which allows for mistakes in artworks or wasted hours of creation.
I have created this course for you, to efficiently take you through the entire process of understanding and learning Krita.
With this course, you will learn everything that you need to know to get started with creating your own artworks:
From the installation process of the software, to the basic process of using it, creating and saving your pictures, the basic functions, brushes, layers, selections, image editing and much more.
But we all know that knowledge and looking at things isn't enough, so I have prepared simple exercises, that will get you as comfortable with Krita as it gets. You will create a tree painting, an abstract artwork and a continue-picture of a landscape.
All at an appropriate point where we've covered a set of new functions, that you can try out yourself through these exercises.
This course is for you, if you want a quick and easy start into digital art, without any wasted time or overly-technical jargon.
With an experienced instructor to guide you, you will learn everything you need to know and practice it immediately.
If you're interested, you can watch the preview lessons to get an idea of where this is going.
Have fun!
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
34 Reviews
Duplo Designs
Hi, I'm Duplo.
I am a passionate digital artist and graphics designer from Germany. Visit my website to view my artworks, read my articles and check out my projects!
Over the years I've created many many designs and artworks that express my love for the matter, and worked on several big projects including games, courses, websites, operating systems and classic art projects.
I especially enjoy landscape painting, abstract art, web design and developing new practical theory for art and design.
Apart from that, I have become somewhat of a productivity expert and I've spent a lot of time figuring out how to manage time, how to break down big projects efficiently and how to optimize development processes.
My goal with my online courses is to share my knowledge with others and to professionally break down complex topics so everyone can understand them. I want to enable people who watch my courses without wasting their time and give them the skills and knowledge to create something themselves.
Be it beautiful artworks, modern and effective designs, systems to achieve goals or routines to make your life better.
No BS, no talking around, no shortcuts, just useful and valuable information packed together with some fancy visuals and mediocre jokes, narrated with a German accent.
In my courses you will learn the good stuff.
I appreciate you checking out my profile, have a good day :)
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Reviews
By Tom Horn on 3/25/2026
Easy to understand, helps to overcome first steps and actually start doing something
By Edward McCarthy on 5/18/2025
Actually, this is a great course. Thanks! And yes, I did all the exercises.
By Daniel McCartney on 4/17/2025
This is an excellent course for anyone interested in digital art or Krita. It will not take much time, but every minute is packed full of useful information and good tips.
By Samanta Silva dos Santos on 2/15/2025
Gostei do curso, é uma apresentação concisa de cada ferramenta e suas aplicações, é curso que parece um guia para quem é novo com a Krita, e também ajuda muito quem esta começando na arte digital.
By Algoeraello on 10/11/2024
I think it's a good course to get started, but in my opinion it needs more examples, and it needs to show how to do it step by step, like the field of flowers it shows.
By Anna Paula Costa on 5/18/2024
It's a nice, simple and direct course with great exercises! I felt some difficult to follow the mouse arrow during the explanations. Other than that I could understand very clearly everything. Thank you!
By Winston Williams on 11/24/2023
Finally, someone who shows all the tricks that you want to know at the start
By Mohammed Arif on 7/20/2023
Its ver basic, exercises are not clearly explained, completely disappointed, unbelievably short course, complete waste of money!
By Nelson Dal Cin on 5/31/2023
This is a course to explain the main tools in krita, not a tutorial on how to do something. But it covers most of the things I wanted to learn for sure.
By Kimberly Patton on 4/20/2023
Being new to Krita this was very helpful in learning many of the tools and what they do.
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Overall Score : 92 / 100









