Krita is a painting program that has been around for a while, and in the last few years, underwent major changes and improvements. Because of these improvements, many artists are using it not just because it is free, but because it offers amazing features. These are by no means all of the great things Krita has to offer, but simply some of my favorite features of the program.
1. The Brush Engines.
Yes, engines. As in plural. There are many. And they all do different things. There is no way you could possibly capture all of its possibilities with one screen shot, but here are just some of the possibilities. Along side standard round, square, and shape, and textured brushes, there are brushes that smear, blend, and create interesting abstract strokes. There are brushes for filters, and one of my favorites, the Experiment Brush, which is basically a pre-filled lasso tool.
Brushes also support weighted smoothing, or brush stabilizers.
This is incredibly useful for line art. And while I do not usually use this feature, it is something that I feel many programs are lacking, such as Photoshop.
But its brushes aren’t the only thing about Krita with variety.
2. Color Selector Customization.
Whether you prefer something basic, or something more complicated, Krita will likely have what youre looking for. You are not likely to find yourself missing your other program’s color wheels. There are even more options than this, and other color selectors.
Gotta love that customization.
Krita also has some great naviation tools.
3. On the fly rotation, zoom, and brush sizing.
With krita, zooming, rotating, and brush size scaling are all smooth, and dynamic with the use of hot keys. These are features I miss when in other programs. To zoom, Ctrl+Middle mouse button, hover over the screen to zoom in and out. The same with shift rotates (press the ‘5’ key to reset rotation). Holding down shift and draging your brush on the canvas dynamically changes its size, allowing you to see the change, and get the exact size you want without brackets. Brackets also work, if that’s what you are used to. Krita also has highly customizable hot keys.
4. The Pop Up Pallet
The pop up pallet is a set of your 10 favorite brushes (which you can edit), and a built in color wheel that appears when you right click on the canvas. It is incredibly useful for switching between those few brushes that you use in almost every picture.
5. Real time, seamless tiles creation.
Pressing the W key in Krita will infinitely tile your canvas, and allow you to work real time on simple to complex tiled images. You can zoom in and out to see how your tiles work form a distance, and paint freely to create seamless artwork easily, without having to check using filters and manually tiling. Very usefull for patterns, backgrounds, and games.
6. The Symmetry Tool
This one goes without saying, Krita supports both horizontal and vertical symmetry, along with a brush that is capable of radial symmtry with as many directions as you like.
Go nuts, kid.
There are many more reasons why this program is awesome. And it is only going to get more awesome. And the coolest thing about it, is that it is 100% free. So go check it out! There’s nothing to lose. Krita isn’t for everyone, it can be hard to get the hang of, and it is not meant for photo editing, it is a program completely focused on digital painting from start to finish.
Give it a go and see if Krita is the program for you.
Men are so fuckin weak dude I swear. Women are out there grindin like nothing’s wrong while bleeding out of their vaginas 7 days a month, cramps so bad we can barely function, pushing a human out of our hoohas, taking pills that fuck with our horomones just so you can hit it raw and you have the damn nerve to judge the size of our hips that have birthed the civilizations of the world like they were made to be admired by you? No. Next time you get flicked in the balls I don’t wanna hear u talk about how it’s so much harder being a man. Damn. Shout out to women. Don’t let men tell you shit.
Let me stop you right there, cumcatcher.
First of all, you are SUPPOSED to bleed out of your vaginas once a month, and are SUPPOSED to experience those cramps, and are SUPPOSED to push humans out. So stop acting like a fucking martyr who volunteered for duty when you are doing precisely what nature made you for.
Secondly, the only reason those hips of yours have birthed out civilizations is because men put those civilizations inside you to be birthed out. You didn’t do shit; your BODY did, with or without your knowledge or instructions of what to do. Your body is a machine doing what it was made to do, and your view or opinion of it doesn’t mean a damn thing.
Thirdly, you don’t have a fucking clue what it feels like to get hit in the balls. You are bitching about our comments on you about things we can’t know the feeling of, while doing the exact same thing; talking down about a condition you know NOTHING of? Well, let me tell you why getting injured in the testicles is worse than your little bleeding fits. You don’t even start having periods until roughly a decade into your life, you have it roughly twelve times a year for roughly four decades, give or take. Males are born with our testicles out and ready to be hurt from the day we are born to the day we die. And any pain we experience there does not come at a more or less predictable time that lasts for a more or less predictable length. When our balls are hit, it comes out of nowhere, with no warning, and it can happen multiple times at any given moment. And, unlike a woman’s period and all that comes with it, it’s not SUPPOSED to happen. Add on top of that the fact that men have a greater pain tolerance than women. Yes, that’s right; women only have a greater one during childbirth because their bodies create massive doses of natural painkillers to lessen the intensity of it. Have a man go through childbirth with those same chemicals being released and he’d be able to handle it slightly better than a woman because his pain threshold is already naturally higher from a base level.
You bleed from your vagina for a week? Hah! At least that’s supposed to be happening. We bleed from our penis for ANY reason, and it is ALWAYS because something is wrong.
So keep your little female complaints about the natural workings of your body that indicate it’s functioning properly to yourself
Shout out to men. Let these bitches know that they don’t know shit about groin pain.
And you have the option to bring back one of your dead friends…
One of them refuses to kill animals, one of them has only ever killed animals, one of them is still technically alive and one of them is A TACTICAL GENIUS WHO STUDIED MILITARY HISTORY EXTENSIVELY AND HAS SHOWN THEY ARE CAPABLE OF TAKING OUT A LOT OF PEOPLE WITH MINIMAL EFFORT!!!
can there be a thing called self insert day where everybody just draws themselves hanging out with their fave fictional characters and we all have a collective party so nobody feels self-conscious about posting self insert fanart online
omg this is gaining rapid notes and everybody seems so pumped for this. Can I pick a day and we actually do this?? um. um. How about June 27&28? Self insert weekend!!! that gives ppl three weeks to prepare!! (tag things as #self insert weekend if you actually do it cuz I wanna see your guys’ drawings hehe)
as super happy i am to hear that the gigapause may end soon, and that homestuck wont be finished all at once…
is it just me, or does hussie sound really reluctant to deal with the fandom again? not to say i know anything about him personally, but he seems kind of….tired.
