Krita: Sketching and Inking

Welcome to section 2 of my course Essentials of Digital Illustrations with Krita.

Krita is a highly acclaimed digital painting software, and it is completely free and open source. Getting started in digital illustration without splurging on license fees has never been easier.

This section is targeted at students who have a little prior knowledge of Krita. Have a look at Part 1 of this course to get a good grasp of the fundamentals.

This course focuses on teaching the Krita tools which help us with sketching and Inking. A number of exercises and examples are included.

We will cover the following topics:

• Transformation tool
• Assistants
• Bezier curves
• Stroke smoothing

Take a look at the roadmap to get an idea of the contents of the course.

• Introduction
• Transform tool
• Assistants
• Exercise: Isometric Cube
• Exercise: A Simple Landscape
• Exercise: Figure in Perspective
• Bezier Curves
• Exercise: Bezier Curves
• Inking with the Assisstent Tool
• Stroke Smoothing
• Final Exercise
• Appendix A - Basic Forms
• Appendix B - Foreshortening and Perspective