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Open Source Software for Concept Artists, Digital Painters, and Illustrators

What is Krita?

Krita is a FREE sketching and painting program. It was created with the following types of art in mind:

  • concept art
  • texture or matte painting
  • illustrations and comics

There are a lot of great features that can help you make art. See Features

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Mar282016
Interview with Eris Luna
Could you tell us something about yourself? Well I’ve been drawing for most of my life and I’ve always wanted to make art for games, so I pursued a degree at Collins College and I graduated with my Bachelor of Science in Game Design. Do you paint professionally, as a hobby artist, or bot...
Mar272016
Free Krita tutorials out every week on GDquest
(Guest post by Nathan Lovato) Game Art quest, the 2d game art training series with Krita, is finally coming out publicly! Every week, two new videos will be available on YouTube. One on Tuesdays, and one on Thursdays. This first volume of the project won’t cost you a penny. You can thank the K...
Mar242016
Ways to Help Krita: Work on Feature Requests
“vOpenBlackCanvasMischiefPhotoPaintStormToolKaikai has a frobdinger tool! Krita will never amount to a row of beans unless Krita gets a frobdinger tool, too!” The cool thing about open source is that you can add features yourself, and even if you cannot code, you talk directly with the d...
Mar162016
First Krita Book in French!
After Japanese and English, here is the first book for french-speaking people who want to get started using Krita! The author is  Timothée Giet, long time user and contributor and the creator of two of  acclaimed training DVDs for the Krita Foundation, Comics with Krita and Secrets of Krita. And ...
Mar142016
3.0 Pre-alpha 3 is out!
Today was an important day for the Krita project! We entered feature freeze! That means that from now on until the release of Krita 3.0, which is planned for April 27th, we won’t be working on adding new features, but we’ll be fixing bugs, fixing bugs and fixing more bugs! If you want to...
Mar142016
Ways to Help Krita: Bug Triaging
This is the first article of short series on ways everyone who wants to put some time into helping Krita can make a real difference. There are many ways of helping Krita, ranging from coding to writing tutorials, helping users on forums to helping with fund raisers. But let’s take a look at on...
Mar142016
Interview with Anne Derenne
Could you tell us something about yourself? I’m a French illustrator currently living and working in Madrid – Spain. I’ve been drawing since childhood but I studied economics instead of art, I was really interested in political news and geopolitics. After university, I began to work in adminis...
Mar52016
March 2016 drawing challenge!
A new drawing challenge on the forum: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=277&t=131341 This month’s subject is Fan-Art-Remix. Please only post fan art when the creator gave you the explicit permission to make fan art or the creator explicitly allows fan art in general! (And don’t f...
Feb292016
Interview with Mozart Couto
Could you tell us something about yourself? I was born and live in Brazil. I have worked as an illustrator and comic book artist since 1979 and a few years ago I started to use only open source software. I published my comics in Brazil, in Europe (https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/couto_mozart.htm) ...
Feb152016
Interview with Wes Nunes
Could you tell us something about yourself? My name is Weslley but everyone since my childhood calls me Wes, that’s why I sign my works as Wes Nunes. I’m 24 years old and I live in São Paulo, Brazil. I’m militant for the LGBT cause in my country and I work as a writer and […]...
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