Tutorials and documentation
Userbase Wiki: This is currently under heavy development. Volunteers are always welcome to add content!
Comics with Krita: This series of Youtube tutorials will show you how to create comics with Krita from start to finish:
- Intro
- Interface: Document creation, overview of general interface, tools, dockers and preferences
- Frames: Grids, vector frames and shapes, alternatives
- Sketch: Disable alpha to restrict painting to frame, brush settings and presets, sketching, transform tools, assistants for radial lines
- Ink: Inking with the sketch brush, bucket tool, patterns, gradients on erase mode, hatching tool,assistants
- Color: Solid colors, shading with Modes, brush settings (Sketch brush, Airbrush etc.)
- Export: Export options, file type conversion, import into Scribus, options and adjustments in Scribus, pdf conversion
Support Krita by buying the DVD here!
Start to finish
- Pencil to Digital: Start to finish with pencil, Gimp, Krita and MyPaint
- Painting hangout: Long video explaining both the painting process and the interface
Krita interface tutorials: This series of tutorials explain Krita's interface and brush mechanisms.
- Basics ( Original ) : Some of Krita's most useful interface features
- Layers and editing ( Original ) : Layer management and features, masks, selections and transformations
- Brushes - General ( Original ) : Common "issues", brush management, drawing modes and assistants
- Pixel Brushes - Part 1 ( Original ) : Brush tips, paint built-up behaviors and blending modes
- Pixel Brushes - Part 2 ( Original ) : Shape and color dynamics
- Color Smudge Brush ( Original )
- Curve, Particle and Dyna brushes ( Original )
- Sketch, Hairy and Chalk brushes ( Original )
- Hatching, Grid, Spray and Experiment brushes ( Original )
These tutorials were originally uploaded on Deviantart. The wiki version was created on KDE Userbase for the community to easily submit improvements, updates and translations. For this reason, the wiki version may be more up to date.
Krita interface and tools
- Tablet setup in Ubuntu
- Composition docker
- Brush creation tips: Brush engines and dynamics
- Brush engines, presets and preset management
- Brush resizing
- Textured brushes in Krita
- List of keyboard shortcuts
- Other list of keyboard shortcuts
- User interface - working values tips
Other tutorials and how-tos
- Gear effects in Krita
Timelapse Videos
- A girl, a cliff and the landscape cloud: Made with Gimp and Krita
- Owl Princess: Made with MyPaint and Krita
- Princess Krahe
- Robot sketching
- Character design
- Animal sketching
- Girl with puppet
- Quick sketch and inking of a girl
Resources
Brush sets
- General brush set by Deevad
- General brush set by Ramon Miranda
- General brush set by Al-dy
- General brush set by meemodraws
- Square-themed brush set by Stalcry
Texture packs
- General texture set by Deevad
Others
- List of blend modes
- List of predefined brush tips
Commercial support
KO GmbH offers commercial support for the 3 versions of Krita:
- Krita Sketch: touch-based painting for ultrabooks and tablets
- Krita Desktop: the main Krita desktop build, on Linux and Windows
- Krita Studio: HDR painting for the movie and VFX industry
Support offers
- Packages for CentOs
- Access to priority support
- Priority bug fixing
- Feature request implementation
- Bridges to other programs
- On-site training
KO GmbH was co-founded by Krita maintainer Boudewijn Rempt.
Please contact the sales representative for terms and possibilities.

