Today, with the help of the Krita and FOSS digital art communities, and many hours of hard work by digital artist Animtim, pre-orders for the first ever, official Krita training DVD are open! Drawing Comics with Krita, helps you learn how to draw, color assemble and publish comics yourself using Krita, the free and open source digital painting suite. The DVD, comic book combo shows you, step-by-step how to use the most important of Krita's flexible painting tools. These are skills that can be used in any drawing or painting project. Better yet, each purchase helps fund getting creative commons training out there to help get more digital artists into Krita, free culture and free software in general.
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The "Comics With Krita" is a combined package that comes with two parts:
1. "Comics With Krita" Training DVD
The first ever Krita training DVD includes 6 Hours of HD video focused on creating comics from scratch, including:
- Explanation of Krita's user interface
- Around an hour of HD video tutorials
- See 3 pages of comics created in Krita, all in timelapse (compressed down 400% from 20 hours of video!)
- Step-by-step instructions on sketching, inking, painting and exporting your pages
- An introduction to Scribus to build professional PDF files ready for print or web.
- All of the files used to create the printed comic book that comes with the DVD.
All video and tutorials, show a workflow being used for real production work with Krita, today.
Format:
1920x1080p Webm video files (playable in VLC, Firefox 4+, Chromium and other players)
All commentary overlaid onscreen in simple English
2. "Wasted Mutants / Wisdom Mountain" Comic Book
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A printed (yes, actual paper!) 20 page comic-book, featuring two short comics in both black & white and full color, all made in Krita:
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100% Happy, Guaranteed.
Ok, we're not going to go into some corny line about how mind bogglingly ecstatic you're going to be or we'll insist on cheerfully refunding you your every cent. Here's how it works though: You like it, or return it to us in it's original condition within 60 days and get your purchase price (but not shipping) back. Pretty simple, right?
Hi! Here is some news from Animtim about the training dvd:
The project is on its way. I've finished the tutorial plan, the storyboard and character design for the next pages (see the little WIP preview under).
My Krita git build looks stable enough to work, some bugfixes I was waiting have been committed right on time (special thanks to Pentalis), and also some cool new features…
So today I've started recording the pages drawing process that I'll use as base video material for the dvd. This new little story will go on the 20 pages comic-book, along with the "Wasted Mutants" story.
We'll start pre-orders as soon as possible, but in the meantime if you haven't already you still can help us and support the project with a donation (and then have a special discount on the pre-order, and a personal dedication+drawing on your comics ;) )
David Revoy was the last artist on that memorable Saturday morning who showed us his way of working and gave his comments on Krita. David is of course well known from his training dvd's, like Chaos and Evolutions or Blend and Paint, and those are the main inspiration for Animtim's DVD project.
David goes over the unique challenges and strengths of using Krita
versus other applications and some interesting workflow / performance
hacks showing how he manages to create stunning images so quickly, while
creating a beautiful fantasy style portrait and discussing usability improvements -- some of which have been fixed to Krita already!
It's an exciting time to follow Krita, and I intend to do a writeup of all developments in git that have happened since the sprint on Saturday.
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Also today: the videos from Lukas and Animtim's Libre Graphics Meeting talk have been published:
- Lukáš Tvrdý: Krita: Professional Digital Painting
- Timothée Giet: Comic Book Drawing with Krita
Well worth watching as well!
Today artists and Krita developer Silvio Heinrich shows how he works his paintings. Again completely different from Animtim and Bugsbane's way of working, he starts with an underpainting which he then colors in another layer. Silvio's style of working is far more painterly than anything we've seen before.
Check out his other cool work at DeviantArt!
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We're now at €291,41 or 15% -- after Paypal's cut -- for Animtim's Training DVD project!
Krita's training DVD producing hero, Animtim, shows in this video how he uses Krita to create a full character. He did this before, at LGM 2011, but the recording of his presentation there isn't up yet. Note how he handles layers by creating a group for them, the sketching with the sketch brush, inking with the sketch brush and creating a coloring layer. This sessions showed us that the sketch brush is way cool and that we have some work to do with the fill tools! Also, Animtim exposed a bug in the layer box that is now fixed, and some more inconveniences that Pentalis is working on. Pentalis and Silvio Heinrich (tomorrow's demoing artist!) committed their improvements to the preset editor yesterday.
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We're doing well with the fundraiser for the training dvd project -- but we haven't reached the goal yet (note the cool progressbar our webmaster and yesterday's showcasing artist Bugsbane added to the website) :
And the very cool Project NEON now has daily builds of Calligra for Ubuntu and friends: a few simple commands should be enough to get you the latest Krita to play with:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neon/ppa \
&& sudo apt-get update\
&& sudo apt-get install project-neon-base \
project-neon-calligra \
project-neon-calligra-dbg
If you paste that in a terminal, you should have a completely safe install of Calligra in /opt, ready to play with!
Over the coming days, I'll post the recordings of the sessions we had with Krita artists Bugsbane, Animtim, Silvio Heinrich and David Revoy during the Krita sprint in Amsterdam. Each artists had about half an hour to show the developers and artists their way of working with Krita. And they had the freedom to complain about everything!
I'm splitting up the posts because the total viewing time is well over two hours. And also because of our ongoing DVD fundraiser, of course!
This is the first session. On the one hand, it's an instructional recording showing how to work with Krita in one particular way -- starting with the particle brush to create shapes, working with layers in different ways to build up the image. On the other hand, for us developers it was immensely valuable to see all the little roadblocks... Some of which have been fixed in the meantime!
So enjoy Bugsbane painting bugs!
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And don't forget our DVD fundraiser. Help Animtim create some great training material for artists everywhere!