Tutorial: an illustration from A to Z with Krita
Channel: David Revoy
Date: 2022-08-15

A long 1h22min Krita video tutorial fully commented. A real full length course suited to beginners, but also advanced digital painters. It starts from scratch with default set of brushes, preferences and break-down all the process. The repetitive parts while painting were all accelerated and can be skipped easily (a timer in overlay appears on display) Check the Timeline codes under to navigate in the video. 

Subtitle are unfortunately not available, sorry for my (heavy) French accent and poor vocabulary. It was too long to write them this time. I hope the auto generation will work and you'll have not a lot of trouble to understand me mumbling sometime. 

I recorded over 6h of material, and at the end I was totally brain washed. Painting and talking while recording really overheat my brain, and I also recorded that under a super hot weather, 39°C , and I had to turn of all the fans to reduce the noise on the microphone. That was a real challenge. 

Big props also to the OBS studio team (for the recording software) and Kdenlive team (for the video editing software). Of course, to the Krita team too! 

Link to high resolution: https://www.davidrevoy.com/data/images/blog/2022/kiki-mascot-in-my-own-style_final.jpg
Krita website: https://krita.org/en/ 

**Timeline, Table of Content:**  
- 00:00:00 Intro
- 00:00:40 Chapter 1, Customisation of the Krita Interface (Intro)
- 00:01:31 Reduce size of toolbar icon
- 00:01:57 The Advanced Color Selector
- 00:02:41 Two columns of dockers
- 00:03:37 From Tabs to Subwindows mode
- 00:05:10 Third Flow sliders, and new toolbar buttons
- 00:07:14 Canvas border background color
- 00:07:46 Brush outline and cursor
- 00:08:42 Tool Options, not as a docker but in toolbar
- 00:10:02 Document creation, A4@300dpi sRGB 8Bit
- 00:10:33 The Overview docker
- 00:11:23 Navigation on Krita canvas, with shortcuts
- 00:12:16 The Default brush presets set 
- 00:12:37 Chapter 2, Finding the idea (Krita artist contest)
- 00:13:43 Chapter 3, References with BeeRef software
- 00:15:54 Chapter 4, Thumbnails
- 00:16:27 Basics of Krita (Fill, Transform, Selection)
- 00:19:35 About values in painting, the big "scheme" for portraits.
- 00:21:23 Starting to draw the thumbnails
- 00:24:20 Painting colors on the thumbnails
- 00:25:31 The Blending Modes (on brush) Overlay
- 00:29:17 Filters of Krita (Curves, HSV adjustement, Color Balance).
- 00:32:37 The concept of "Dirty" brush preset, and cleaning them.
- 00:35:47 Chapter 5, Drawing. Transform of the thumbnail, resolution and layer setup.
- 00:39:09 Drawing (Timelapse)
- 00:41:47 Chapter 6, Painting under the line-art
- 00:43:37 The Deform Brush Engine
- 00:45:20 "Grain Merge" blending-mode on the line-art
- 00:46:45 Introduction to creating brush presets
- 00:51:21 Brush usage, hard edge, spikes, glazing and replacing colors
- 00:51:50 Paint under, Timelapse
- 00:52:55 Chapter 7, Paint-Over (setup)
- 00:55:04 Paint-Over (timelapse)
- 00:56:11 Adjustements, and self-criticism
- 00:56:46 Values, Reading Histogram docker
- 00:59:21 Values, fixing with Curves filter
- 01:02:19 Color temperature, fixing with Color Balance filter
- 01:03:50 Background painting (timelapse)
- 01:04:22 Silhouetting the character with the Lighten Blending Mode (fog)
- 01:08:10 Paint-Over fix, removing the squirrel's hears (timelapse commented)
- 01:08:52 Lens Blur Effect for the depht of field (Filter Mask).
- 01:11:46 A special thanks for the idea of the video
- 01:12:29 Another pass for thinner details (big timelapse)
- 01:16:27 (pre)Final, and saving/archiving the file.
- 01:17:56 Appendice, fix pushed "One day after" (timelapse)
- 01:19:55 The final artwork
- 01:20:05 Outro
- 01:21:58 Credits, Attributions and License

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Video and artworks by David Revoy  
Kiki is a character design created by Tyson Tan (CC-By)
www.davidrevoy.com

**Soundtrack:**  
- Intro: Fabian Measures - Hanami (CC-By) - www.soundcloud.com/fogheart
- Timelapse: Kevin MacLeod - Perspective (CC-By) - www.incompetech.com
- Outro: Kevin MacLeod - Backed Vibes Clean (CC-By) - www.incompetech.com
- SoundFX: Oriental Harp3 by Soughtaftersounds (CC-By) - Freesound

Edited with Kdenlive 21.04(appimage) on Fedora KDE 36

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