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Published: 2016-03-09 03:20:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 323; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 0
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Probably not one of my best - Used this to test out (Yet another!) Digital art programme, 'Paint tool sai' - Less complicated than Krita, and I liked the atmosphere that I feel could come with a progression of time and skill level (Did I mention that every art programme always seems to have a slightly different feel about it?) I still haven't found the smudge tool however, which always seems to be a running issue with me and art programs!Β[...okay so apparently I was drawing with the smudge tool all this time. Odd...] Meaning that I had to try and be a bit clever about use of color and shading, specifically as the brush I was using didn't seem to have much of an opacity setting.Β
I may or may not take to using it immediately, may take a bit of a while to try and build up my confidence level and skill
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Ah, cool to see another person having tried Krita
I can see you mostly used the smudge brush yeah, most strokes are very blurred, but I do like the watercolourish effect that that brings!
You could try to combine it with some more opaque strokes to create a nice combination between the two. Something the helps quite is to paint over a layer with the "addition" setting when you have a dark opaque underground.
You can also do it the other way around, starting with a light colour and then applying darker tones ontop of it, but I usually find that it makes the highlights a little muddier. ^-^
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Yeah I'm a real newbie to alla this, so please dont be offended if none of your words really make that much sense to me!!Β
Ironically enough, I found the the smudge tool I was originally looking for, it was called something like "blur." The painting tool I was using is called watercolour, and is it just me or do these brushes literally have no opacity setting?? Like, I found ONE way that was sorta opague, but it just made the colour more faint, you couldnt really paint and then paint again over it and be semi-see-through, unless you manually loaded up more layers Β Β Β Β Β And for stuff like shading I found that's sooooo drawn-out!Β
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Oh they are hidden somewhere in the interface. For opacity check here:
In krita you can find the opacity/flow buttons here: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67β¦
In some installations they might be hidden and the "size" bar might be there, but just click the little arrow to make it pop up.
For general brush-settings, I usually just use the normal brush and edit it directly. This is one of the most silly things in UI-design I have seen so far, but the brush-settings is hidden here:
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67β¦
The button right next to the white/black color picker.
I wouldn't know about Paint Tool Sai; I've never used it.
And indeed, using layers for to make things darker would be very inefficient to work with. But try using those opacity sliders. Krita is really not that difficult once you get to know those basic settings.
You need your opacity/flow sliders. You do not necessarily need the size slider, as you can press left-shift + hold left-mousebutton to change the size of the brush.
If you want to know anything else, feel free to ask all-right 
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