Meet Nayobe Millis!

Published    29th July, 2013

Hi to all, today we have for you an interview with Nayobe Millis. She is a young girl from United States (she is only 16) who has collaborated with us in the webshop, giving us permissions to make merchandise with this cute artwork: Sheep’s Pan Flute. She is our younger artist! thanks to her and enjoy the interview 🙂

Hi Nayobe, Do you paint professionally or as a hobby artist?
Right now I paint as a hobbyist, but I wish to improve my art skills so I can paint professionally.

When and how did you end up trying digital painting for the first time?
I remember it being years ago when I was a little kid in elementary school. I used to go on the computer and scribble on MS Paint using a laptop trackpad. I wanted to see if I could actually draw something on the computer like how I drew on paper.

What is it that makes you choose digital over the traditional painting? or Do you still prefer traditional means, if so, why?
I like both digital and traditional painting. It’s easier painting digitally for me though, because you can really put in detail without worrying if you mess up. I haven’t really painted much traditionally so I cannot compare that.

How did you first find out about open source communities? What is your opinion about them?
Well, I was always stuck with MS Paint, but then I learned about GIMP through DeviantArt. People who used it says GIMP is like Photoshop except it’s free and I always heard how good Photoshop was, so I gave GIMP a shot. GIMP was the only open source community I heard about, I only learned about Krita through a DA user named TysonTan and I found other open source communities by watching speed paint on YouTube.– yay! Tyson Tan is the artist who made our mascot!–

Have you worked for any FOSS project or contributed in some way?
I have not contributed to any FOSS projects for I had no clue what they were or if that even existed. I guess doing this for Krita will be my first.

What was your first take on it?
Woo, at first, I found Krita quite confusing to work with. I was just transferring over to it after using Paint Tool SAI so I had no clue how Krita worked. Took some time getting used to it. I’m still vague on it now, but I’m slowly starting to understand the way how it works. C:

What do you love about Krita?
The thing I love about Krita is the brushes and the way you can paint on it. There were so many brushes to experiment with. I personally like the square/rectangle brushes, it gives a painting effect. I also love how Krita keeps the color you used after you use them.

What do you think needs improvement in Krita? Also, anything that you really hate?
I can’t really think of anything needing improvement. Maybe a curve tool that doesn’t need you to connect back to point you started with in order for the line to be filled. There isn’t anything I hate about Krita C:

In your opinion, what sets Krita apart from the other tools that you use?
I guess it would be the brush variety.

If you had to pick one favourite of all your work done in Krita so far, what would it be?
I barely did much pieces with Krita, but I gess it would be my most recent one Sheep’s Pan Flute

What is it that you like about it? What brushes did you use in it?
I like how I did the sky, grass, and the sheep itself. Sure it’s not perfect, but I like painting messy. I used the default brush to sketch and ink and I used the “Block_Paint” brush for everything else, as well as using the “Basic_Airbrush” tool for the highlighting glow.

You can see her DeviantArt here. Thank you so much Nayobe and thanks for trust in Krita 🙂