Weekly 2018-03-11

Hi Patrons! I spent the first part of the week around the Krita project (I still had to work on the default presets/tags/bundles/palettes) and then in the last part of the week I took time to experiment and beta-test how the new features of Krita 4.0 can help me to produce my artworks (Krita 4.0 will be released this month). 

First, I made a presentation of all the new default brush for Krita 4.0 in my weekly wednesday live-streaming. Brush after brush, explaining how to use them. You can find the full replay here (2h00).

Then I worked on a new default palette for Krita; a simple collection of greyscale, then warm and cool colors. They are all sorted and named.

I also tested a new feature made by Wolthera and fixed by Boud; the possibility to add Hue/Saturation/Value to the Color-Smudge brush engine. The effect is really good: look how this brush stroke change of color at low pressure ( violet to blue ). It's like having two colors loaded on the same brush.

Then I made experiment around the new feature Colorize-mask. It's a tool for quickly coloring lineart, similar to the filters I was using so far a lot with the GMIC project but this time directly integrated into Krita. The documentation of the feature is extremely well done, and it was easy to get started. 

I still have a lot of black and white drawing thanks to the Inktober challenge of October 2017, it wasn't hard to find something to color and test in my folders.

Here are two artworks I colorized using colorize-mask feature and new brushes.

I really liked the results I could obtain with this coloring method over my ball-pen artworks. I'll certainly explain the method I used in a future video tutorial. The coloring process wasn't a cascade of trial and error but very predictable and logic. Each step were building over the previous one. It's rare I like the result of a coloring done with such "logical steps". I'll certainly give this work-flow a try on the next episode.

That's all for this week, have all a good Sunday afternoon (or evening) and thanks for your support!