Hi Ivan Corredera , thank you. I was concept-artist on the Gooseberry project ( artworks and blog : www.davidrevoy.com/article221/cosmos-landromat-concept-art ) I finished my work on it on October 2014 ( and in final, only the 'tornado' concept remain in the pilot ). Pepper&Carrot animation project is something different , a personnal comic project with open-license. On long terms, I want to also make an animation movie, with only free/libre software, but that's a long term dream who needs more funding to pay a little team. :-)
Sorry to hear that, your artwork is very good. I would like to see more of it in the future. You truly have a gift. What other plans do you have in mind?
Ivan Corredera No problem :) It's normal for concept-artist to end on project sooner than the other part of the team ; just after the preproduction ( a little period where main artworks, script and art direction is done ) Now, my plan is to invest all my time on Pepper&Carrot www.peppercarrot.com/ and get fun in building a free cultural webcomic and enjoy the radom cool surprises provided by the Pepper&Carrot community. :-) It's a very exiting experience.
Great as always. Blending modes can be one of the most difficult things to understand. Sharing your techniques are always so enlightening for me. Keep it up!
Very helpful Kirta painting tips! IMO the best tutorial I've seen of yours so far, David. The examples you show make each blending-mode's usefulness very clear, and the pacing of your voice & content was great. Great video!
Thanks for the explanation! I have been watching a bunch of tutorials all day, and yours is the first to actually explain the differences in blending modes rather than just saying "blend this" or "use multiply."
Thank you for taking the time to let a comment about it. I'm drawing a complex panel this morning and started to feel frustrated about it. By reading your comment, I feel the day will be easier :) thanks!
Hello, David! I know you might not read this since a lot of people have commented on this video but I really appreciate your videos. Krita has been my first choice over other digital drawing apps but I am relatively new to digital painting. I keep searching for several tutorials but I find your videos the most comprehensive. I always search for your name in the search results. You deserve more views and likes. Accent aside, I find your content more useful.
Hi Marge; thank you very much for letting your nice comment. I'm reading comments, even on previous videos (I'm not maintaining a big channel, it is still a little island human sized xD). Thank you very much again.
@@DavidRevoy OMG! You did read it! You have one solid subscriber here in that human-sized island~ I also like your artwork in the Krita manual. Anyways even if this is an old video it's still gold. I agree with some of the people who commented here: often tutorials mention "Here in this layer, I'm using multiply..." But some of us (especially newbies like me) really don't know what they mean and how it affects the art = thus the significance of this video. Please continue to make awesome tutorials! I will be looking into more of your videos really soon~!
the very first sentence was presented russian like in a french accent. it triggered my sense of humour XD thanks for all the information you provide in your videos :)
I've only had Krita for a few months, and even though I primarily work in Photoshop, this was a nice tutorial to help me understand Krita's blending mode! Thank you!
Woowww I just watched a few of your videos in a row about shading, colonization mask and now this one! And honestly I never knew about any of this information, it will definitely help me improve my artwork a lot. Thank you
Your art/interview/videos sold me completely on Krita, very happy I ran across it. I'm just a beginner but the program feels so natural. Really looking forward to more from you in the future!
The color blending mode reminds me of Photoshop's overlay, except not as picky. Sometimes overlay in photoshop would over-saturate and screw up my piece. Thank you for the tips! I wanted to get into Krita for a while. It's a great alternative.
Excellent video. Very easy to understand and very informative. I started using Krita about a year ago and it is a wonderful program. the blending brushes are so much better and easier to use than photoshop.
I am not an artist, I can't even draw a straight line, but I watched your tutorial because it was interesting and very easy to understand. Keep up the good work. PS. I love Pepper and Carrot:) Amazing job:)
Hi David, I would like to know how to open two canvases side by side so I can have a reference pic on one and a another to do the drawing? If I open two canvases the normal way, I can't open the drawing one big enough with all my dockers available.
Hi Alastair Palm : go to preferences ; and in General > Windows (tab) > change the 'Multiple Document Mode' to use 'Subwindows'. Then in your Krita menu 'Windows' you'll have the tile option to put document side by side. :-)
Thank you so much for these tutorials! I'm just getting started in Krita, and I just recently started learning about blending modes, so these are very useful. Also, I think you do a great job with your voice overs, I don't see any problem with them :)
I really have to thank you :) After I start to use Linux, I thought there were no good painting tools like PS. After a while I found MyPaint and then your Homepage, where you Indroduced Krita. Even when it has some Bugs, it is my favourit paintig application ^_^. Thank you :)
Merci beaucoup!!! Cette video est la meilleure video que jai trouve en ce qui concerne les 'blending modes' (mieux que les videos des artistes avec l'anglais comme langue maternelle). Les blending modes etaient quelques choses qui je navais pas compris, donc merci encore pour cette video merveilleuse :D
Multiply is nice because it's very predictable. The value will always be a darkening that reaches the midpoint between black and the colors underneath that matches the colors selected. It doesn't overdarken, is easy to predict the color result, and never has any odd hues.
I agree, multiply is probably the blending mode easier to understand because it feels like glazing with a transparent colored ink. So it has a less abstract feeling than other blending modes. Other blending modes needs more practice to be used the same way. (I'm still far from that, but I'm getting pretty good with color-dodge, addition, overlay, hard-light, soft-light and grain-merge. :-D )
Hello! I know you made this like 7+ years ago but as I'm new to Krita I was trying to find something similar to what I used to do with Paintshop Pro 8 (I was very young). What you call grisailles my program would just call greyscaling. Trying to find a program that was simple and similar was hard to find until now. I'm not an amazing artist like yourself or anything, but practice makes perfect and I've really been wanting this kind of knowledge to get back into something I once enjoyed. Thank you so much for sharing all this wonderful information and for being very clear in your directions. I will be watching more videos as they come out. :)
Dat French accent!!! Dude this is awesome, you should do more voiced videos! I tend to use overlay by literally duplicating the layer and setting it to overlay mode to fix when my image is too desaturated (because I'm not very good at picking colors yet, I like to have relatively saturated colors in general) and then I adjust the opacity slider. This is probably not very useful for works such as yours where you actually know what you're doing and got at least some of your contrasts and saturation right, but for someone as bad as me, it is perfect to fix my two biggest beginner mistakes! (Desaturation and too little contrast) until I actually get better at avoiding them. Also, color dodge op, I will definitely use that.
Hey! Your videos are really helpful and informative. Maybe, perhaps you could do a video on blending brushes and configuring personal brushes in Krita? Anyway, thanks again!
Thank you for the feedback! Hehe, true. The reverse also is true: each time I do a decorative acrylic canvas for the house, I wish I could get a big airbrush in "overlay" mode to deepen a bit colors and boost contrast. xD
Hello, this tutorial is very clearly to understand, thanks a lot for it, sir! I wish you could make an other video about smudge tool/settings in krita 2.9, please :D (or how to blur/blend color in krita ... , mypaint 1.2 is very amazing about this stuff) p/s: i've searched a lot around youtube but no clearly videos about smudge tool/settings in krita 2.9, i'm very looking for it :D thank you very much again!
Fantastic video! I'm a Krita beginner and really struggled with what mode to use and how. Question - do you normally use blending modes directly in the painting layer or do you create new layers for various blending modes? It looks like you use a single layer in your videos, however it feels safer to use multiple layers
Thank you. It really depends if I do a (speed) painting then I'll use blending mode directly on the brush and consider the layer stack as a tool to save a previous flat version (so I can still erase and go back in time if I do something too wrong) , or it depends if I follow logical step for doing a comic (in this case, I'll use, eg. 'multiply' on layer for all lines, another one for my shading, and I'll keep effect on top for mist/light beams on a top addition/screen blending mode layer.) This is mostly for getting a consistent look accross all the panel of an episode.
First of all - you are really amazing artist! My question is - do you use Kirta because it's better to draw than Photoshop, or is it about same and you just chose it financially ? I'm somewhat familiar with Photoshop and completely new to Krita, but I see a lot of amazing drawings done in Krita these days, should I learn Krita to start drawing?
Thank you! For all the story, you can read www.davidrevoy.com/article170/the-choice-of-open-source ; I was a teacher in CG school of Photoshop ; but I dislike the buisness model of proprietary software a lot( and the way they abuse data of end user). I need to use a Linux system to be protected from this ; and on Linux and open-source, Krita is the best tool. Photoshop doesn't even has a Linux version... About your question "should I learn Krita to start drawing?" You can. But the most important isn't in the software anyway. You can learn on any software and switch later. It's really similar than asking if you need to use Wordpad, Ms Word or Libre Office to learn how to write a book. Software is just a tool. You'll see, Krita does nothing magic for you; you'll have to learn perspective, proportion, color theory, gesture, anatomy, etc... In any case. Good luck on this long path! Krita 3.1.3 ( the latest release ) is a very good release on my Linux system ( if you avoid the text tool). A rock solid base to learn digital painting.
That's quite a story, thank you for answering, David! Yes, I realize that no program gives neither magical skills of using it nor the vision for it, and I'm not hoping to do anything close to your awesome creations any time soon :) I'm just choosing the most convenient tool to quickly start drawing game art for my projects (at the level I am capable of, of course) and to learn certain skills and techniques (not many art channels are as useful as yours, for instance - that's one of the reasons to think about Krita for me). And in the world I come from - music and composing - DAWs (audio workstation programs) have significant differences in usability. I've been composing and producing music/sounds for like 18 years now and I'd never go back to FL Studio from Ableton Live, even though Live is more buggy, heavy and somewhat unreliable, but its interface just makes much more logical sense and this convenience makes it an appropriate tool to implement all kinds of ideas. That's why I'm picky I guess :D So I think I'll just start learning what I need in terms of drawing and then will move from there. Was happy to hear from you!
could you perhaps explain how you achieved the glow with the color dodge mode? like how many layers you used to build it up? did you use the color dodge on a separate layer or the same one as the rest of the flame/ painting? but great video, I find your tutorials very helpful and enjoyable to watch
+Drewy Kun Hi, I use SimpleScreenRecorder to record screen, then I use Kdenlive to do the cut and speed up or slow down the video. For the audio, I use Audacity.
Très bonne vidéo ! J'avais du mal à utiliser les brosses que tu as présenté ici, mais maintenant je pense avoir compris. Dommage qu'il n'y ai pas de sous-titres, mais bon, j'arrive globalement à comprendre alors ça vas. Hâte de lire tes prochaines histoires et bonne continuation !
Thanks again, David! Just a question: do you have a post at your page with the script of this video written? I wanted to have this explanation printed. Thanks!!
The thing that I cant understand about the BRUSH blending mode, is that it doesn't work when on a different layer-I will use a grey ball as an example. 1. Using hard round brush on normal blending mode, make a circle on a layer. 2. Still using the same brush, but setting the blending mode of the brush to multiply on a new layer above the layer with the grey circle expecting it to make it darker-it does nothing. If this is not the correct way to go about it then it sort of takes the flexibility out of the brush blending mode....UNLESS I am not thinking correctly what way it is to be used?
Hey! Blending modes needs to compare a Pixel A with a Pixel B and apply a math on the mix. If you don't have any pixels on a layer; then the blending mode on your brush (pxA) will not have any target for comparison (pxB). That's why AND brushes AND layers can receive blending modes. Blending mode on brush will still need a layer with pixel on it. Blending mode on a Layer, will apply to all the layer and compare to the projection of all layers under it.
Hi. Very nice and educating video. Question: how did you get 2 or 3 different independent canvases opened in the single Krita Document? Thanks in advance!
Hey! This is just a single document with a top layer having block of the same color than the background. I did that to ease the presentation of the video.
I lost a lot of time to understand when to use the "overlay" with dark colours or just "multiply". Then I got it: "multiply" mixes the colours like they were real pigments, so subtractively (yellow+blue=green, to be really simplified) and "overlay" operates additively, like they were, in reality, coloured light beams crossing together (green+red=yellow.) Am I right?
+Christian Stocco , for multiply , yes; for 'overlay' it's different ; it's two blending mode in one ( grey 50% = 0 change ) : lighter value is a 'screen' so your explanation of additive light beam apply for bright tones , but under 50% value, it's a 'multiply blending' mode.
Really nice videos David, discovering Krita pretty recently and loving it! Would you have workflow recomendations in Krita concerning "shade painting" (the cat in the video) ? I usually like to start from silhouettes than buildup the shades progressively . Thanks
Thanks for the reply David, I was refering to the brushes used for shading.But I find what I needed: I'm pretty happy with your "2c flat" brush. Thanks for those. I've watched al your videos! Loving your tips and presentations. Nice work
Hi David, very informative video, I have a question about the tools. I can not for the life of my find the pan tool, at around 0:35 you moved across on your canvas, similar in Photoshop, where is the tool in Krita?
Saa Xac Thank you :) Navigations is not a tool in Krita, but a mode ( every tools can enter this mode ) . You need to hold and grab canvas to trigger it. If you combine with or you can zoom / rotate. The numpad keyboard key [5] reset rotation. Good luck !
Hello! Your tutorials are amazing.. and Krita has been my favorite program since I found out about it! I was wondering, what brush are you using for your color dodge blending? Thank you :D
+Meredith Schreibstein: Cool! and thank you for the feedback :) I'm leaving here the link for other potential readers of this comment: www.davidrevoy.com/categorie12/download
+David Revoy I have another question.. I see you using the Overlay tool, but when you color over the grayscale, the color stays inside the border of your drawing, and doesn't go outside the lines. How did you do that? I've been looking everywhere for answers, but can't find any. Thank you!
Meredith Schreibstein Hey, there is no special tip about this. It's just painting/coloring the area with adjusting the brush size to just paint the inner zone and know the boundaries of the brush. But It's easier with a larger tablet, and more difficult with a small tablet ( and large screen). It's precision, and it comes with practise and time I guess. If you really want to prevent painting on or outside an area with digital tools, it has to be setup before ; the computer as to know the area boundaries ( multiple method: protecting 'alpha/transparency of the layer with little checkerboard icon on the layer stack, or by creating a selection with the many selection tools, or with a transparency mask layer...etc ).
Hi David, if I may ask a question? Is there a difference between the blending mode and the layer mode? For example if I choose blending mode -> color dodge v.s. layer mode -> color dodge will the only difference be that for the layer mode a new layer must be created to exhibit those properties?
Hi, yes, there is a difference; the blending mode ( color dodge ) on the layer will limit you to single pass , and the effect will not be too strong. On another side, applying the blending mode effect on the brush will be additive at each stroke, and the effect ( suble hue shift and increase of saturation/ligthness ) will be able to build up. For some situations, the blending mode on layer is easier to use ( eg. for multiply, on a glazing ) and allow more flexibility of editing ( erasing ). Both have pro and cons depending the situation , and it's something the artist has to manage.
In regards to the voice overs, you are very articulate and easy to understand. You sound great.
Darken Marr thank you ! It will help me to build more confidence for recording a next video.
*****
I can't wait. :) I feel I learned so much with this one. Great job.
I know I would... well, maim atleast.
Hello, here is my new video tutorial 'painting with blending mode' , I hope you'll learn something about them and enjoy to test the effects.
Hello there, I really like your artwork. Aren't you working with gooseberry projects in order to create your own movie.
Hi Ivan Corredera , thank you. I was concept-artist on the Gooseberry project ( artworks and blog : www.davidrevoy.com/article221/cosmos-landromat-concept-art ) I finished my work on it on October 2014 ( and in final, only the 'tornado' concept remain in the pilot ). Pepper&Carrot animation project is something different , a personnal comic project with open-license. On long terms, I want to also make an animation movie, with only free/libre software, but that's a long term dream who needs more funding to pay a little team. :-)
Sorry to hear that, your artwork is very good. I would like to see more of it in the future. You truly have a gift. What other plans do you have in mind?
Ivan Corredera No problem :) It's normal for concept-artist to end on project sooner than the other part of the team ; just after the preproduction ( a little period where main artworks, script and art direction is done ) Now, my plan is to invest all my time on Pepper&Carrot www.peppercarrot.com/ and get fun in building a free cultural webcomic and enjoy the radom cool surprises provided by the Pepper&Carrot community. :-) It's a very exiting experience.
***** Thanks David this was very helpful.
Great as always. Blending modes can be one of the most difficult things to understand. Sharing your techniques are always so enlightening for me. Keep it up!
Very helpful Kirta painting tips! IMO the best tutorial I've seen of yours so far, David. The examples you show make each blending-mode's usefulness very clear, and the pacing of your voice & content was great. Great video!
David's Art is so Beautiful. Just looking at any of his works takes all the stress out of my life ^^
Thanks for the explanation! I have been watching a bunch of tutorials all day, and yours is the first to actually explain the differences in blending modes rather than just saying "blend this" or "use multiply."
Love your voice! Very soothing to listen to, thanks for the tips 🙏🏻
Thank you!
I dont think I can thank you enough, with your tutorials my artwork has drastically improve, thank you so so much
Thank you for taking the time to let a comment about it. I'm drawing a complex panel this morning and started to feel frustrated about it. By reading your comment, I feel the day will be easier :) thanks!
Super intéressant, J'ai toujours galéré avec les blending mode, donc cette vidéo explicative vient à point nommé ! Bravo et merci ! à la prochaine ;)
And here I am doing so many complex paintings with normal mode only.
Thanks for the tips, this will help me a lot.
Hello, David! I know you might not read this since a lot of people have commented on this video but I really appreciate your videos. Krita has been my first choice over other digital drawing apps but I am relatively new to digital painting. I keep searching for several tutorials but I find your videos the most comprehensive. I always search for your name in the search results. You deserve more views and likes. Accent aside, I find your content more useful.
Hi Marge; thank you very much for letting your nice comment. I'm reading comments, even on previous videos (I'm not maintaining a big channel, it is still a little island human sized xD). Thank you very much again.
@@DavidRevoy OMG! You did read it! You have one solid subscriber here in that human-sized island~ I also like your artwork in the Krita manual. Anyways even if this is an old video it's still gold. I agree with some of the people who commented here: often tutorials mention "Here in this layer, I'm using multiply..." But some of us (especially newbies like me) really don't know what they mean and how it affects the art = thus the significance of this video. Please continue to make awesome tutorials! I will be looking into more of your videos really soon~!
Your Artwork exuberates an aura of calmness And peace. Totally loved it! Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for all the tips. I like when you show the tools in real artwork!
the very first sentence was presented russian like in a french accent. it triggered my sense of humour XD thanks for all the information you provide in your videos :)
+Eybietie Haha :) have fun painting !
Thank you so much! I have been using the blending modes, but I didn't understand them totally, so it's really great to know exactly what they can do!
The most useful blending mode video so far!! Thanks for sharing the techniques.
This is the best blending mode tutorial on the web. thank you for making this!
Thanks for all your efforts, your blog is amazing and completely changed the way I draw.
I've only had Krita for a few months, and even though I primarily work in Photoshop, this was a nice tutorial to help me understand Krita's blending mode! Thank you!
Woowww I just watched a few of your videos in a row about shading, colonization mask and now this one! And honestly I never knew about any of this information, it will definitely help me improve my artwork a lot.
Thank you
Thank you for the nice words!
Damn, why can I give only one thumb up?? This guy is just stunning awesome crazy...
Your art/interview/videos sold me completely on Krita, very happy I ran across it. I'm just a beginner but the program feels so natural. Really looking forward to more from you in the future!
Jonathan Walsh Thank you Jonathan , and many thanks also for your support.
Thank you David. This was great! And your english is more than adequate!
The color blending mode reminds me of Photoshop's overlay, except not as picky. Sometimes overlay in photoshop would over-saturate and screw up my piece.
Thank you for the tips! I wanted to get into Krita for a while. It's a great alternative.
I've learned so much from your videos, I can't thank you enough!
Your artwork is amazing! P.S.: Great tutorial!
Excellent video. Very easy to understand and very informative. I started using Krita about a year ago and it is a wonderful program. the blending brushes are so much better and easier to use than photoshop.
+Joel Ghany : thank you Joel for the feedback and the nice words about the video and about Krita.
I am not an artist, I can't even draw a straight line, but I watched your tutorial because it was interesting and very easy to understand. Keep up the good work.
PS. I love Pepper and Carrot:) Amazing job:)
corkaczarownicy Many thanks for the feedback ( and for Pepper&Carrot! )
Thanks David for this great Tips :)
Dear David. I'm South African and I love your voice overs and absolutely appreciate all your tutorials!Don't stop!Merci!
+Alastair Palm : A big big thank you for the encouragements!
Hi David, I would like to know how to open two canvases side by side so I can have a reference pic on one and a another to do the drawing? If I open two canvases the normal way, I can't open the drawing one big enough with all my dockers available.
Hi Alastair Palm : go to preferences ; and in General > Windows (tab) > change the 'Multiple Document Mode' to use 'Subwindows'. Then in your Krita menu 'Windows' you'll have the tile option to put document side by side. :-)
Thank you so very much. This was driving me insane.
thank you so much. i have never known what mixing mode did what.
Thank you so much for these tutorials! I'm just getting started in Krita, and I just recently started learning about blending modes, so these are very useful. Also, I think you do a great job with your voice overs, I don't see any problem with them :)
+Lady.Chamomile Thank you !
Thank you for the video, it's very useful and you are very clear
+Enrico Penaglia : Thank you for taking the time to share a nice comment about it!
I really have to thank you :)
After I start to use Linux, I thought there were no good painting tools like PS. After a while I found MyPaint and then your Homepage, where you Indroduced Krita. Even when it has some Bugs, it is my favourit paintig application ^_^.
Thank you :)
Thank you David, glad you do these videos! Much appreciated!
Thank you. This is a great tutorial. I have tried multiply, lighten and dodge. I like them.
+Luspear Soram Thank you for the feedback!
Your welcome.
Merci beaucoup!!! Cette video est la meilleure video que jai trouve en ce qui concerne les 'blending modes' (mieux que les videos des artistes avec l'anglais comme langue maternelle). Les blending modes etaient quelques choses qui je navais pas compris, donc merci encore pour cette video merveilleuse :D
Multiply is nice because it's very predictable. The value will always be a darkening that reaches the midpoint between black and the colors underneath that matches the colors selected. It doesn't overdarken, is easy to predict the color result, and never has any odd hues.
I agree, multiply is probably the blending mode easier to understand because it feels like glazing with a transparent colored ink. So it has a less abstract feeling than other blending modes. Other blending modes needs more practice to be used the same way. (I'm still far from that, but I'm getting pretty good with color-dodge, addition, overlay, hard-light, soft-light and grain-merge. :-D )
Thanks for tips and The way you do your awesome artwork!
Hello! I know you made this like 7+ years ago but as I'm new to Krita I was trying to find something similar to what I used to do with Paintshop Pro 8 (I was very young). What you call grisailles my program would just call greyscaling. Trying to find a program that was simple and similar was hard to find until now.
I'm not an amazing artist like yourself or anything, but practice makes perfect and I've really been wanting this kind of knowledge to get back into something I once enjoyed. Thank you so much for sharing all this wonderful information and for being very clear in your directions. I will be watching more videos as they come out. :)
Thank you very much Sugar Woofle. 👍
Excellent tips here! Thank you, David
David you do a amazing job. 👍
Awesome tips! thanks so much!!!
Thank you David! This is a GREAT video!!!
Buenisimos tutoriales, como siempre....
Thanks for the video. The word you didn't know how to say is called gray scale. It's when an image is only tones of black and white.
You are awesome! please keep making more! I can't believe so few have watched this video :p
Dat French accent!!! Dude this is awesome, you should do more voiced videos! I tend to use overlay by literally duplicating the layer and setting it to overlay mode to fix when my image is too desaturated (because I'm not very good at picking colors yet, I like to have relatively saturated colors in general) and then I adjust the opacity slider.
This is probably not very useful for works such as yours where you actually know what you're doing and got at least some of your contrasts and saturation right, but for someone as bad as me, it is perfect to fix my two biggest beginner mistakes! (Desaturation and too little contrast) until I actually get better at avoiding them.
Also, color dodge op, I will definitely use that.
+Cestarian Inhabitant ; hey thank you Cestarian!
I am gone watch this video everyday until I memorize this.
I was looking for it long time! Thanks man ! i enjoy your videos !
Nice video! Thank you!
Best video I see in ages!
Your art is beautiful!
loved it ❤️
Hey! Your videos are really helpful and informative. Maybe, perhaps you could do a video on blending brushes and configuring personal brushes in Krita? Anyway, thanks again!
👍🏼very good thank you.
Thank you. Very clear explanation.
Such a great tutorial. thank you. I have subscribed.
As someone who worked for years with acrylic colors on canvas .. it looks like cheating XD
Thanks for the tutorial
Thank you for the feedback! Hehe, true. The reverse also is true: each time I do a decorative acrylic canvas for the house, I wish I could get a big airbrush in "overlay" mode to deepen a bit colors and boost contrast. xD
excellent! thank you
Thank you so much! I love your videos! They are so helpful ;)
Vallhalla background music? xd Thank you for the tutorial!
You give me a great help! Thanks!
thanks so much for the informativ videos you do! they helped me a lot!
Hello, this tutorial is very clearly to understand, thanks a lot for it, sir!
I wish you could make an other video about smudge tool/settings in krita 2.9, please :D (or how to blur/blend color in krita ... , mypaint 1.2 is very amazing about this stuff)
p/s: i've searched a lot around youtube but no clearly videos about smudge tool/settings in krita 2.9, i'm very looking for it :D thank you very much again!
Thanks
Fantastic! Helped me a lot!
Fantastic video! I'm a Krita beginner and really struggled with what mode to use and how.
Question - do you normally use blending modes directly in the painting layer or do you create new layers for various blending modes? It looks like you use a single layer in your videos, however it feels safer to use multiple layers
Thank you. It really depends if I do a (speed) painting then I'll use blending mode directly on the brush and consider the layer stack as a tool to save a previous flat version (so I can still erase and go back in time if I do something too wrong) , or it depends if I follow logical step for doing a comic (in this case, I'll use, eg. 'multiply' on layer for all lines, another one for my shading, and I'll keep effect on top for mist/light beams on a top addition/screen blending mode layer.) This is mostly for getting a consistent look accross all the panel of an episode.
@@DavidRevoy that makes a lot of sense! Thanks so much for your reply!
Obrigado.
Thank you David, it's helps a lot!
Merci Mr, c'est un anglais qui passe bien pour les non natif donc tan mieux :)
Thank you :) i hope you will do more of them!
Color dodge, amazing!
you are the best!
Most helpful! Thank You
Thank you so much this was very helpful.
Too bad that i can't press "like" button more than once. Great tips David, thank you!!
this is brilliant! thank you!
First of all - you are really amazing artist!
My question is - do you use Kirta because it's better to draw than Photoshop, or is it about same and you just chose it financially ? I'm somewhat familiar with Photoshop and completely new to Krita, but I see a lot of amazing drawings done in Krita these days, should I learn Krita to start drawing?
Thank you! For all the story, you can read www.davidrevoy.com/article170/the-choice-of-open-source ; I was a teacher in CG school of Photoshop ; but I dislike the buisness model of proprietary software a lot( and the way they abuse data of end user). I need to use a Linux system to be protected from this ; and on Linux and open-source, Krita is the best tool. Photoshop doesn't even has a Linux version... About your question "should I learn Krita to start drawing?" You can. But the most important isn't in the software anyway. You can learn on any software and switch later. It's really similar than asking if you need to use Wordpad, Ms Word or Libre Office to learn how to write a book. Software is just a tool. You'll see, Krita does nothing magic for you; you'll have to learn perspective, proportion, color theory, gesture, anatomy, etc... In any case. Good luck on this long path! Krita 3.1.3 ( the latest release ) is a very good release on my Linux system ( if you avoid the text tool). A rock solid base to learn digital painting.
That's quite a story, thank you for answering, David!
Yes, I realize that no program gives neither magical skills of using it nor the vision for it, and I'm not hoping to do anything close to your awesome creations any time soon :) I'm just choosing the most convenient tool to quickly start drawing game art for my projects (at the level I am capable of, of course) and to learn certain skills and techniques (not many art channels are as useful as yours, for instance - that's one of the reasons to think about Krita for me).
And in the world I come from - music and composing - DAWs (audio workstation programs) have significant differences in usability. I've been composing and producing music/sounds for like 18 years now and I'd never go back to FL Studio from Ableton Live, even though Live is more buggy, heavy and somewhat unreliable, but its interface just makes much more logical sense and this convenience makes it an appropriate tool to implement all kinds of ideas. That's why I'm picky I guess :D So I think I'll just start learning what I need in terms of drawing and then will move from there.
Was happy to hear from you!
could you perhaps explain how you achieved the glow with the color dodge mode? like how many layers you used to build it up? did you use the color dodge on a separate layer or the same one as the rest of the flame/ painting?
but great video, I find your tutorials very helpful and enjoyable to watch
Thanks!!!
David may i ask what screen recorder you use and how you timelapse your amazing creations? Absolutely beautiful art right here :)
+Drewy Kun Hi, I use SimpleScreenRecorder to record screen, then I use Kdenlive to do the cut and speed up or slow down the video. For the audio, I use Audacity.
Très bonne vidéo ! J'avais du mal à utiliser les brosses que tu as présenté ici, mais maintenant je pense avoir compris. Dommage qu'il n'y ai pas de sous-titres, mais bon, j'arrive globalement à comprendre alors ça vas. Hâte de lire tes prochaines histoires et bonne continuation !
David Revoy can you please show us how to sketch, Ink, and also paint a Anime character.
Thanks again, David! Just a question: do you have a post at your page with the script of this video written? I wanted to have this explanation printed. Thanks!!
Awesome! Thank you!
What was the program you said you used again? Grisa? I've never heard of it. This is an awesome video! Thank you for creating it.
Darken Marr found it! "krita"
This looks like an awesome program. Thanks for introducing me to it. I'm going to try it. :)
Darken Marr Thank you! The software I'm using is Krita ( krita.org/ )
[edit : ha, nice you found it while I was typing ).
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I was so interested in the program I went on a mad search. haha. XD
Amazing channel especially if you love using Krita. Still watching... just saying... Understandable even for a beginner like me.
Thank you!
Thx for sharing this tutorial :-)
The thing that I cant understand about the BRUSH blending mode, is that it doesn't work when on a different layer-I will use a grey ball as an example.
1. Using hard round brush on normal blending mode, make a circle on a layer.
2. Still using the same brush, but setting the blending mode of the brush to multiply on a new layer above the layer with the grey circle expecting it to make it darker-it does nothing.
If this is not the correct way to go about it then it sort of takes the flexibility out of the brush blending mode....UNLESS I am not thinking correctly what way it is to be used?
Hey! Blending modes needs to compare a Pixel A with a Pixel B and apply a math on the mix. If you don't have any pixels on a layer; then the blending mode on your brush (pxA) will not have any target for comparison (pxB). That's why AND brushes AND layers can receive blending modes.
Blending mode on brush will still need a layer with pixel on it. Blending mode on a Layer, will apply to all the layer and compare to the projection of all layers under it.
My god, very thanks!
Hi. Very nice and educating video. Question: how did you get 2 or 3 different independent canvases opened in the single Krita Document? Thanks in advance!
Hey! This is just a single document with a top layer having block of the same color than the background. I did that to ease the presentation of the video.
@@DavidRevoy Ha-ha. Thanks. Nice trick and I'm a dumb *facepalm* :D
I lost a lot of time to understand when to use the "overlay" with dark colours or just "multiply". Then I got it: "multiply" mixes the colours like they were real pigments, so subtractively (yellow+blue=green, to be really simplified) and "overlay" operates additively, like they were, in reality, coloured light beams crossing together (green+red=yellow.) Am I right?
+Christian Stocco , for multiply , yes; for 'overlay' it's different ; it's two blending mode in one ( grey 50% = 0 change ) : lighter value is a 'screen' so your explanation of additive light beam apply for bright tones , but under 50% value, it's a 'multiply blending' mode.
fantastic!
Really nice videos David, discovering Krita pretty recently and loving it!
Would you have workflow recomendations in Krita concerning "shade painting" (the cat in the video) ?
I usually like to start from silhouettes than buildup the shades progressively . Thanks
Hey thanks!
I think you'll be interested by this page:
www.davidrevoy.com/article270/making-of-episode-7 :-)
Thanks for the reply David, I was refering to the brushes used for shading.But I find what I needed: I'm pretty happy with your "2c flat" brush. Thanks for those. I've watched al your videos! Loving your tips and presentations. Nice work
Hi David, very informative video, I have a question about the tools. I can not for the life of my find the pan tool, at around 0:35 you moved across on your canvas, similar in Photoshop, where is the tool in Krita?
Saa Xac Thank you :) Navigations is not a tool in Krita, but a mode ( every tools can enter this mode ) . You need to hold and grab canvas to trigger it. If you combine with or you can zoom / rotate. The numpad keyboard key [5] reset rotation. Good luck !
I see, thank you very much!
Hello! Your tutorials are amazing.. and Krita has been my favorite program since I found out about it! I was wondering, what brush are you using for your color dodge blending? Thank you :D
Nevermind, I found your brush sets on Krita!
+Meredith Schreibstein: Cool! and thank you for the feedback :) I'm leaving here the link for other potential readers of this comment: www.davidrevoy.com/categorie12/download
+David Revoy I have another question.. I see you using the Overlay tool, but when you color over the grayscale, the color stays inside the border of your drawing, and doesn't go outside the lines. How did you do that? I've been looking everywhere for answers, but can't find any. Thank you!
Meredith Schreibstein Hey, there is no special tip about this. It's just painting/coloring the area with adjusting the brush size to just paint the inner zone and know the boundaries of the brush. But It's easier with a larger tablet, and more difficult with a small tablet ( and large screen). It's precision, and it comes with practise and time I guess. If you really want to prevent painting on or outside an area with digital tools, it has to be setup before ; the computer as to know the area boundaries ( multiple method: protecting 'alpha/transparency of the layer with little checkerboard icon on the layer stack, or by creating a selection with the many selection tools, or with a transparency mask layer...etc ).
nevermind i found out its krita good video btw
Hi David, if I may ask a question?
Is there a difference between the blending mode and the layer mode? For example if I choose blending mode -> color dodge v.s. layer mode -> color dodge will the only difference be that for the layer mode a new layer must be created to exhibit those properties?
Hi, yes, there is a difference; the blending mode ( color dodge ) on the layer will limit you to single pass , and the effect will not be too strong. On another side, applying the blending mode effect on the brush will be additive at each stroke, and the effect ( suble hue shift and increase of saturation/ligthness ) will be able to build up.
For some situations, the blending mode on layer is easier to use ( eg. for multiply, on a glazing ) and allow more flexibility of editing ( erasing ). Both have pro and cons depending the situation , and it's something the artist has to manage.
Thank you for your reply! That really helps :)
what brush did you shade the first picture with the boy and the fire with? btw this is a really good tutorial
Hi, thank you! I used a airbrush preset for the flame/glow effect
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