Today we’ve got a second guest post by Andria Jackson who has created a new course on using Krita to create 2D animation! Hello, Twinimation Studios is back with a brand new course and a brand new website! If you love old timey, Fleischer’s style animations like Betty Boop and Koko the Clown, yo...

Today we’re releasing the second beta for Krita 5.1! For the full list, check out the work-in-progress full release notes! Or check out Wojtek Trybus release video!   Krita is a free and open source project. Please consider supporting the project by joining the Krita Dev Fund, donations o...

We’re releasing the first beta for Krita 5.1.0 today. Krita 5.1.0 is packed with new features! For the full list, check out the work-in-progress full release notes! Krita is a free and open source project. Please consider supporting the project by joining the Krita Dev Fund, donations or by bu...

After a LOT of research, Ramon’s new video is done: this time he investigates how to create vector libraries in Inkscape for use in Krita. And there are two cool libraries he has prepared for you all to play with!...

This year’s Google Summer of Code is different from previous editions: there are both larger and smaller projects possible, and it’s no longer limited to students. We have two participants this year: Reinold Rojas and Xu Che. Reinold Rojas previous cleaned up and improved the recorder do...

Today we release Krita 5.0.6. This is a bug fix release with two crash fixes: A crash when working with vector layers or vector selections and using undo a lot: BUG:447985 A crash deleting a vector layer with an animated transparency mask: BUG:452396 Krita is a free and open source project. Please c...

Could you tell us something about yourself? My name is Jessica, but my art name is J2J-Art. I am a self-taught artist, I was born in 2004 in South Africa and I have only been creating art for 4 years now. I draw both digitally and with graphite pencils on paper. Do you paint professionally, [&hellip...

Krita 5.1 Release Notes The first release after the big 5.0, Krita 5.1 comes with a ton of smaller improvements and technical polish. This release sees updates to usability across the board, improved file format handling, and a whole lot of changes to the selection and fill tools. Much thanks for Da...

Today we release Krita 5.0.5, probably the last release before Krita 5.1.0 comes out, hopefully in June. Note on the numbering: you didn’t miss 5.0.3 and 5.0.4. Some stores, if they think a certain package isn’t good enough, insist you upload a package with an increased version number, a...

One of the exciting new features in Krita 5 is the recorder docker. Ramon shows you how to use it in this new video:...

Yesterday, French publisher D-Booker released the 3rd edition of Timothée Giet’s book “Dessin et peinture numérique avec Krita”. The first edition was written for Krita 2.9.11 in 2016. In this 3rd edition, Timothée has updated all the text and screenshots for the interface of Krita 5.0, and...

We’ve released a new video! Ramon talks about the new perspective assistant in Krita 5:...

Hot on the heels of Krita 5.0.0, we’re releasing the first bugfix release of Krita 5! It’s 5.0.2 because if you upload a beta with the version number 5.0.0 to the Windows Store, you cannot upload 5.0.0 final, but it has to be 5.0.1… So, don’t worry, you didn’t miss 5.0....

A bit later than planned… Our overview of last year and a look forward to this year! We’re all still alive and working hard — sometimes a bit too hard. We kept the same core team this year, but we also had a lot of contributions from volunteers. Over a hundred people made all in [&...

Could you tell us something about yourself? My full name is Simon Sterling Rollins. Most people call me Simon. I was born in July 2005 in the state of Georgia. I’m autistic. I’m still in high school, but during my free time I draw artworks to share with the world. Do you paint profession...

Krita 5.0 is here! This is a huge release, with a lot of new features and improvements. Some highlights: The way Krita handles things like brushes, gradients and palettes, as well as tagging, has been completely revamped. The new system is much faster, uses much less memory and is much more dependab...

Following the botched macOS build yesterday, we’re releasing Krita 5.0.0 beta 5. Beta 4 didn’t happen: while it was building, Dmitry Kazakov fixed an issue which we really wanted tested right away. Krita is a free and open source project. Please consider supporting the project with donat...

Today we’re releasing the third beta for Krita 5. There are a lot of fixes compared to beta 2. We’re aiming to release Krita 5 before Christmas, and are beginning to feel a bit confident about that. Of course, the nightly stable builds already have a number of fixes compared to this beta...

Today we’ve got a guest post by Andria Jackson who has created a new course on using Krita to create a 2D film! Twinimation Studios first online course has launched. This course, How to create a 2D Film on a Budget, is for anyone who wants to create their own animation, but isn’t sure ab...

Check out Ramon’s latest video, showing off Krita 5’s awesome new brush capabilities.   Ramon has created another bundle of impasto brush presets to go with this video. To use the brushes, download the latest version of Krita: Krita Plus. Take care, this is still beta software! Down...