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0h02m

How to Install Krita on Windows

Learn how to install Krita 2.9 and Krita 3 on Windows.
Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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Krita is a free, open source painting program designed with concept artists, 3d artists, illustrators and comic book artists in mind: https://krita.org/
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Troubleshooting common issues in Krita

Let's see how to fix the most common issues like a black canvas in Krita.
Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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How to take the most out of these Krita tutorials

Learn how to use Krita 3 and become a better game artist!
Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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I wanted to give you some insights on how you can take the most out of the Krita tutorials. If you want to really improve your art skills, watching the videos will not be enough. I invite you to do all of the assignments that I will provide on the course page on the GDQuest website. The next video will also give you some extra tools and websites you can refer to become a better digital artist.
Krita is a free, open source painting program designed with concept artists, 3d artists, illustrators and comic creators in mind: https://krita.org/
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LINKS
Marty Lobdell - Study Less Study Smart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlU-zDU6aQ0
The psychology of time - Philip Zimbardo: http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_prescribes_a_healthy_take_on_time
The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY
8 secrets of success: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success
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Your Krita learning toolbox

Learn how to use Krita 3 and become a better game artist! https://krita.org/
Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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A single training series want make you a great artist alone. That is why I compiled a few tools for you to learn game art with Krita more easily. I warmly recommend CtrlPaint and Proko in particular for extra art education (links below).
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LINKS

Digital Painting with Krita 2.9: http://louvus.com/
Facebook groups: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GameArtQuest/ - https://www.facebook.com/groups/gdquest/
Google group: http://bit.ly/GDQuest-Google-Group
PureRef: http://www.pureref.com/
Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/

CtrlPaint: http://www.ctrlpaint.com/library/
Proko: https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV

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Introduction to graphic tablets

Learn what types of tablets exist and which one you should start with.
Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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Which tablet should you buy to get started with digital art? The answer: a flat one, on your desktop. These are way cheaper than display tablets, and you can find a secondhand device at a very low price. They take a little time getting used to, but graphic tablets are necessary if you want to paint digitally. They allow you to draw with much more precision than the mouse, and they track the pressure you apply on the stylus to achieve a variety of painting effects.
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LINKS
Recommended tablets: http://gdquest.com/post/recommended-graphic-tablets/
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How to setup a wacom tablet with Krita

Learn how to install your Wacom tablet to work with Krita.
Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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If you have never used a graphic tablet before, it can seem a little tricky to get it set up properly. In this video, I will show you how to download the Wacom driver and how to set good starting parameters on your stylus so have optimal pressure sensitivity in Krita.

Krita is a free, open source painting program designed with concept artists, 3d artists, illustrators and comic creators in mind: https://krita.org/
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Picasa - a free program to organize your reference images

Overview of Picasa, Google’s program to manage your pictures
This video is part of the Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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Any professional artist needs a solid library of reference pictures to work with. Picasa is a good tool to manage them. It is a free photo management program for Windows and Mac that was developed by Google. Although it is not in development anymore, at the time I am making this video, it is my favorite free application to manage pictures on Windows. There are currently no satisfying open source alternatives I know of.
Picasa allows you to add metadata to your pictures, to search through your library, and to organize them effortlessly. It is a great companion for any digital artist, and one I recommend that you check out if you want to follow my Krita training.
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LINKS
Download Picasa: http://filehippo.com/download_picasa/
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PureRef tutorial: a free, cross-platform virtual board for artists!

Learn how to use PureRef, a free application to organize your references for digital art.
Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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PureRef is a great complementary application for digital artists. It allows you to manage references on a virtual board that you can then keep in front of Krita while you are painting. It is completely free and available on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Download PureRef: http://www.pureref.com/
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Quickstart Guide Intro

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Krita tutorial: getting to know the UI

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Navigation on the canvas in Krita

Learn the shortcuts to navigate on the canvas with Krita.
Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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Painting with the freehand brush tool

Learn how to paint with the Freehand Brush tool in Krita
Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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The freehand brush tool is Krita’s most fundamental tool. This is the one you will use to sketch, to paint, but also to erase, to apply filters, and to use all of Krita’s powerful brush engines.
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Working with the selection tools in Krita

Learn how selections work in this Krita tutorial.
Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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Selections, as the name suggests, restrict your drawing operations to a certain area on the canvas. They bound your brush strokes, your filters or the transforms you may apply on your layers.
Krita offers most of the basic selection tools you’d expect in a digital painting application: you can make contiguous selections (the tool is also called magic wand in other programs), you can select by color, or draw an outline to select everything inside of it.
In this tutorial, I’ll tell you how selections work. You might not know it, but a selection is just a black-and-white image, just like your layer masks and color channels. Knowing that will allow us to manipulate our selections with blending modes just like we do with our layers.
We will then take a look at the most important selection tools in Krita.
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Krita layers tutorial: introduction to the layers docker

Learn how to manage your layers in Krita in this intro tutorial.
Find the exercise sheet on the Krita tutorial page (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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This tutorial focuses on the basics of layer management in Krita 2.9. A future video will cover all of the changes brought by the 3.0 version.
Layers are hard to get into if you’re not used to digital image retouching. Yet, they allow you to achieve a great deal of time saving operations. They allow you to change the way parts of your image blend together. In Krita, you can apply filters and nondestructive effects to specific layers.
Layers also allow you to rearrange your images’ composition at any time! You can keep your characters separate from your background, and work on them without messing up your painting. There is even a parameter to prevent you from painting outside of existing pixels on a layer.
If layer management is hard to get into, you should really take the time to learn it. Mastering layers will save you a lot of time as you learn new features in Krita.
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Krita's pop up palette and color picker

Krita 3 tips: learn the pop-up palette
Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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The pop-up palette is like your traditional artist's palette. It allows you to pick colors, to quickly switch between your favorite brush presets, and it displays a history of your last used colors. It is a great time-saver.

Then, if you want to get more precise with color picking, Krita features a dedicated panel called the advanced color selector. It can be resized and customized to your liking. We' re taking a look at it in this video.

Krita is a free, open source painting program designed with concept artists, 3d artists, illustrators and comic book artists in mind: https://krita.org/
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What’s New in Krita 3: Krita Review

In this Krita review, discover all of the major new features added in version 3.0!
Krita brushes for game artists: https://gumroad.com/l/krita-brushes-for-game-artists
Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
Support Krita on Kickstarter now! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-2016-lets-make-text-and-vector-art-awesome/posts/1580376
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LINKS
Krita 3 review, the article: http://gdquest.com/new-features-in-krita-3/
Krita animation tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uvju6sUNJA
Official animation docs: https://docs.krita.org/Animation
Gmic colorize tutorial by David Revoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigbVY9s6gU
Krita's New Features since v2.9.5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIKfrqk09Hk
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Krita 3.0 is a major update to an already powerful application. New rendering engine, animation toolset, grid, guides, snapping... there's a long list of new tools for you to discover. The developers released 11 updates throughout 2015, adding a ton of smaller features as well. There's a lot to talk about, so let's get to the video!
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Krita brushes tutorial - How to use the color mixing brushes

Premium Krita brushes: https://gumroad.com/l/krita-brushes-for-game-artists
Free Krita brushes: https://github.com/GDQuest/free-krita-brushes/

Krita tutorial series: http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/course-public/
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This tutorial will show you how to use the painting presets in the Krita brushes, presets based on the color smudge brush engine set to the dulling mode. You have 2 of these in the Lite pack. You can use the brushes to both block-in assets and mix colors on the canvas, making them quite versatile.
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Free Krita Brushes for Game Artists

Free Krita brushes: https://github.com/GDQuest/free-krita-brushes/
The premium brushes: https://gumroad.com/l/krita-brushes-for-game-artists

Companion tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5XZVx7yYP4
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Want to become a faster artist? Here's a set of Krita brush presets carefully designed by a professional game artist, just for you. It is completely free, and I will update it over time to make it even better!
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Overview of the game asset creation process in Krita

Learn the 4 big steps game artists follow to produce game assets!
Krita brushes for game artists: https://gumroad.com/l/krita-brushes-for-game-artists
Krita tutorial series (free): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/course-public/
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In the following series, we’ll learn how to create a game asset in Krita, and we’ll look at every major step of the process. I’ll also share some of the tricks I learned working as a professional game designer, to help you produce your own assets faster.
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Krita's Fill tool: fill outlines and selections

Let us see how we can fill a selection or our strokes in Krita.
Krita tutorial series (FREE): http://gdquest.com/game-art-quest/volume-1/krita-tutorial-for-game-artists/
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In the previous videos, we have seen how to pick colors, how to make selections, and how to paint with the freehand brush tool. In this tutorial, I want to show you how to use the fill tool to fill strokes cleanly. Will also see how to fill selections using a few simple shortcuts like shift backspace, which fills the selection with our foreground color.
As far as the fill tool is concerned, Krita offers 2 different behaviors: on one end, it can work the same way as in Photoshop. This is the fast mode, which you toggle on or off by clicking the corresponding checkbox in the tool options docker. In fast mode, your fill will be aliased, but the tool will work very fast. Use this option when you want to do pixel art, concept art or quick sketches.
Then, there is Krita’s regular fill mode. This one offers a few extra options to feather and to expand the flood fill area. That way, you can get a very clean result when you color an illustration.
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