If you are completely new to digital art using any of these programs can be pretty overwhelming. (Btw yeah, I'm gonna add some tips too, but arguing with someone is often easier than to think about something actually useful.) Or when someone doesn't want to use the lowest or highest values of pressure. The exception is, of course, evidently faulty pressure curve in cheaper tablets when you get 90% of 'pressure' with 50% force, which can and I feel should be determined in Tablet Tester. (That's why I still have straight line there.) But in that moment it's easier to adjust all new brushes to the wrong straight general pressure curve than adjust general pressure curve and then readjust all previous brushes. Only after some time when they see that all of their brushes needs the same adjusting they can adjust the general pressure curve and fine tune other brushes that needs something different. I mean when someone sees 'oh, this brush gets opaque too quickly' their first instinct should be to adjust the pressure curve in the brush preset, not the general pressure curve. I mean you can't know that you need to adjust this curve unless you know brushes already and know that it'd help you, meaning that it is easier than to adjust those brushes that you use but deem their pressure curve wrong. I don't know if this is a good thing to suggest beginners in digital art.

M Mirror view (makes you see your drawing in a new light) The only time I hold down Shift to resize the brush is in eraser mode when I want the eraser to be larger. If I need a larger brush, I pick another. If I want to fix a mistake, I press E to toggle the eraser. You will most likely need to finetune the overall brush pressure. Also, make sure “Snap to Assistant” is turned off. Open the Tool Options docker, and set the Brush Smoothing to “None”. In the drop-down at the upper-right, select “Big_Paint” So lock it, and create a new, transparent layer to paint on. This default layer is filled with white, and not at all good for painting. There's some technical aspect worth knowing, but mostly, you need ordinary drawing/painting skills.Ī typical newbie error is to create a new document, and then begin drawing on 'layer 1'. Think of it as a digital simulation of pencils and brushes. As a general principle, don't think of Krita as a 'program'.

Digital art with krita