Krita 3.0 Development Builds

I never like or rather decently use Krita 2.9. For some reasons Krita 2.9 doesn't run very well on my system. So I stay with Krita 2.8 and hold my hope high for the next Krita, the 3.0. Which is still in development.

The latest Krita hit Beta stage few days earlier and now the development build is ready to be tested.

I test it and what I found it is faster than 2.9 and  that alone is music to my ear and pencil to my fingers.

The only bug I found so far is browsing in reference image docker hung Krita. But that was a one time only, I couldn't reproduce it.

The best thing about this is you can try it without interfering your stable Krita installation and no installation necessary. Just download Krita and run it.

Here's some Krita 3.0 Beta screenshots:

How To Protect Your Drawing Tablet

I am a little obsessed with protecting my gadgets, they're not cheap and I can't afford to buy them again and again.

My drawing tablet gear is no exception.

Wear and tear from daily use is no doubt will leave scratches, if you are like me then you want to keep its mint-ness  preserved.

Just use screen guard, like the one used in handphones and tablets. Find the size that suits your drawing tablet, I think a little bigger than the drawing area is better, that way your digital pen won't bump into a slightly elevated borders.

I put 10" screen guard over my 6" x 8" drawing area and then I can sleep well . 

Gpick | Make Your Own Color Palette From An Image

What if you found a great color combination in the wild? In a photograph? And you want to incorporate that in your painting? First thing first, capture it and then...

Meet Gpick, an advanced color picker. It is not just a color picker, it is also a color palette editor and creator. One of the feature is a tool to make a color palette out of an image. So all you have to do is take photos and let Gpick turns those great color combination into a color palette.

Install Gpick (of course) from Linux Mint/Ubuntu Software Manager. Open Gpick and go to Tools -> Palette From Image. There is a 100 colors limit per image though.

Here's an example. I want to get a color palette from this picture.

WIP - Let's go scavenging, R2, BB! #starwars #fanart #r2d2 #bb8 #rey #jedi #desert #jedi #droid #digitalart #digitalillustration

A photo posted by @pakepensil on Apr 8, 2016 at 3:52am PDT

With Gpick tool, I process and save it as color palette.

And then open the newly created in MyPaint Palette Editor.

Easy and convenient right?

Just remember, capturing colors from real world is not accurate since it depends on your camera sensor quality but still it is a a great leap from guessing.

Skin And Body Color Palette for GIMP, MyPaint

I am in the middle of a project and that is painting the skin of a character, choosing from the default color palette is a trial and error process,  it's a learning process in itself but for me the time is better spent in sketching and drawing.

Luckily there is a shortcut, a ready to use skin and body color palette. The links are below.

Skin and body color palette with description

The colors it still a base

Link :

- Flesh tone, skin color palette from inkscape. Copy the code and save it as .gpl file. After that you can import it from color palette editor (wrench icon in color palette docker) -> add.

- Skin Palette for MyPaint V2 by MeryAlisonThompson, this one comes in image file you use it with color picker tool in MyPaint to use it. Or you can install Gpick and turn it to color palette with Palette From Image tool".

A Girl And Her Guardian

Yet another work in progress with MyPaint.
This one is about a scared girl and her companion, her trusty Husky.

WiP red haired girl and her trusty husky #digitalillustration #fantasy #adventure #girl #husky #digitalart #instaart #MyPaintApp

A photo posted by @pakepensil on Apr 5, 2016 at 11:50pm PDT

I depict Husky as a guard dog, which is not. So don't get a Husky to be your guard dog because of this painting :)

Get it on 15x15/30x30 (cm) canvas.

The Resource Gatherer

Here is one of my painting with MyPaint, still work in progress. 

WIP 3 | The Warrior Next BG #digitalpainting #art #girl #catsuit #beast #rider #fantasy #scifi #girl @charmingfantasyworld @__fantasy_art_

A photo posted by @pakepensil on Apr 1, 2016 at 9:56am PDT

The main idea is a female warrior/resource gatherer in an alternate universe where bio-engineering is so advanced that you can control any living thing instead of pollution maker big machinery. But no matter what technology route taken, the world is always at war for resources.

And the plan is to show that in the background.

Up to this stage with layers and everything, it already has a whooping 250 MB in file size, this is getting too big for my laptop to handle. I will have no choice but to downsize the DPI or I would not finish this.

Or I could upgrade my PC, which is always a tempting yet pricey option.

Available in 15 x 15 and 30 x 30 (cm) canvas.