


It's useful for reducing the noise in the crosshatching and almost get them replaced with thin gray. It is like drawing with the perfect pencil on a perfect smooth bristol paper. This drawing tool has a very digital and plastic feeling. It has a subtle grain and a soft rendering that will reveal a bit more expression than my previous "Pencil 2" preset now default in Krita 4.x. I used this pencil preset on the line-art of a lot of artworks over the last year. The rendering is not realistic but I find the pressure curve and the way it build-up softly and slowly the lines very good. I'm starting this list with a preset I use for sketching. In fact, Krita is easy to like because it clearly has the best digital illustration app, and because it’s also completely free, we definitely recommend you give it a try.Here is my notes about how I use them: Drawing tools: Try Krita and support its development with donationsĪll in all, Krita is a complete and powerful digital painting application that focuses primarily on digital painting, but is also great for managing vector images and retouching photos. Since layers are one of the most powerful digital editing tools, Krita provides advanced layer options such as visibility settings, edit lock, transparency lock, and alpha lock. In addition to filters, the app comes bundled with an interesting set of customizable special effects. Krita’s filters can be applied directly to your paintings, or as filter masks and layers. You can also add multiple axes and modify parameters such as origin center, angle, etc. You can easily select various shapes and add, delete or intersect them by selection.Īdditionally, the Symmetry tool provides you with drawing aids such as perspective grids and shapes with magnetic settings.


What’s more, Krita’s advanced selection and masking tools give you the edge you need to select and edit difficult parts of the canvas. Unleash your inner artist with Krita’s impressive toolset As you’d expect from such a comprehensive app, you can also create and save your own brushes or presets. While wrap mode allows you to apply textures and patterns easily and quickly, a large selection of brushes lets you choose the perfect blend mode and brush to suit your style and needs.Īdditionally, the app comes bundled with the following brush engines: Pixel, Smudge and Color Smudge, Copy, Mesh, Particle, Sketch, Chalk, Shadow, Particle and Spray.
