Published 14th May, 2018
Well, I think I am a human shaped thing also known as Aedouard A. and also as El Gato Cangrejo, who loves making drawings and listening to music.
I’m really trying to make it professionally, “very hard thing” but also I try to keep the fun in it so I would have to say both.
I like to let my hand and my pen go to wherever they want to go, and then I begin to think about those traces and it leads me to different shapes, themes and genres. I can build an script for a comic or for a short film, an illustration or even sounds based on a web of random traces on a digital canvas or on a piece of paper.
I love the paintings, illustrations, designs and movies from these people: William Boguereau, Alphonse Mucha, Albrecht Durer, Jules Lefebvre, William Waterhouse, Masamune Shirow, Haruhiko Mikimoto, Shoji Kawamori, Mamoru Oshii, Quentin Tarantino, Hideaki Anno, Hayao Miyasaki, Ralph Bakshi, Guillermo del Toro… (not mentioning musicians, they are such an endless source of inspiration, I only can work while listening to music)
I tried digital painting for the first time like 12 years ago, I bought my first PC and I tried with a software called Image Ready from Photoshop, I did a couple of landscapes with the mouse and then I tried scanning my drawings and retrace them in Corel Draw, also with the mouse.
The production time, everything is like 10 times faster, expensive materials and the super powerful Ctrl-Z.
I like to search for new tools and I try to use libre software. I can’t remember when I tried Krita for first time but I think it was like 7 years ago and it ran very very badly on my old PC.
I hated Krita at the time, now I love it!
The shortcuts are essential, the brushes, the animation tools, “insert meme here” it’s free!
The performance in Linux, I recently changed my OS from Windows 7 to Linux Mint and I have noticed a significant difference in performance between the systems. I noticed a difference in performance between working in grayscale and working in color too, and and also I’m waiting for some layer FX’s as the ones in photoshop, specifically the trace effect, which I used a lot when I worked with photoshop.
As I said earlier, the shortcuts are essential, the animation tools combined with those awesome brushes makes a powerful tool for animation, and I love the fact that Krita has been made for professional use but you can also have tons of fun with it.
I would choose Distant.
I like the “Airbrush_Linear” a lot. I set it to a big size and the opacity to 10 percent, then I use the “Eraser_Circle” the hard shaped one, to define shapes, also I use a lot the “Smudge_Soft” I like to play with it taking the paint from one side to another. When I grabbed Krita again it reminded me of my old times drawing with pencil and paper I just loved.
https://gatocangrejo.deviantart.com/gallery/
If you are the pretty invisible friend, thanks and I’ll see you in a parallel universe.
If you are the Sorceress, I really sorry about the silence, I had a couple of good reasons…
If I owe you money, I’m trying to pay it.
If you are the extraterrestrial, stop it man.
If you are the C.I.A. stop sending stuff to my invisible friends and to the extraterrestrial.
If you like my drawings, keep your eyes peeled, I’m going to start a patreon/kickstarter campaign that involves comic, animation, Krita, Blender and other libre software.
If you are from Krita staff, thanks for Krita and thanks for the interview.
If you don’t know Krita, just give it a try, it is awesome. You don’t need to be an artist, you just need to have fun.
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