Hey, it's a part I had to cut or the video would have been a bit too long. You can skip this part and the rendering will be similar; exept you'll meet a bug as soon as you'll try to color pick a light or shadow only on this layer (with Ctrl+Alt+click to restrict to a single layer). If you use a black brush on a transparent layer at 50% opacity; the shadow will be equal to a 50% gray (in a nutshell) but when you'll color pick the layer; Krita will select black. If you paint the same stroke over this mid-gray layer; krita will pick the midgray because all the color on the layer will be solid. On a comic page, this is very useful because the shading is often consistent accross the same scene. So, color picking was necessary and I had this bug I could solve this way. It also allows to do filter tweak because all the color are solid (color curve filter, to deep the shadows, etc).
@@chunkyturtle5001 when you choose a color, and paint on the canvas once, it'll be saved next to the color wheel which after you can then select it to use it again
I started using krita a while ago because of your videos. It's really a great program and your tutorials and art are amazing. Thank you for promoting free/open source software, especially for beginners it's great to see you can achieve highly professional results with free tools.
Don't worry, David. Your explanation was pretty understandable. Even though I'm still bad at putting values in my drawing, this tutorial give me a bit of push to do experiments. Thank you.
Je teste dès demain je comprennais vraiment pas comment faire des ombrages propres ... Ayant un projet de Webtoon ça va vraiment m'aider je pense ^^ merci bcp pour la vidéo
Same here!. I just recently started realizing "and what if I start coloring the background to set the color mode" and then I saw this video, proving that's a really good way to do so and it absolutely works. Thanks David!
Dear David, although this Video is a few months old I really want to thank you! I've startet with digital art a few weeks ago, and your videos made the learning process so much easier and motivating for me! There are so many possibilities and features in Krita, it was overwhelming for me and in some kind of way, that really frightened me. Your videos helped me so much in breaking them down and understand these features. Sure, I'm still int he learning process, but it's much easier for me now. Also, I really enjoy your drawings and comics! They are adorable! Lot's of thanks, the best wishes and greetings from germany! =)
hello, I have a question, how you choose the flat color? I think that the flat color can change a lot than final ilustration, how you plane this? (I don´t writte well english, sorry)
Hi! That's indeed THE very good question. Thanks for asking. I had no time to detail this part while recording the previous video and I had to do choice in the shading video to not be too long. For a good choice with this technic; you have to consider the 'hard-light' blending mode helps at increasing saturation but can't decrease it. So the color must be slightly desaturated and bright. It's easy to build up saturation at shading and contrast with darkening and lightening areas. When I color, I imagine the character being surrounded by white (colored neutral) neons. That's how I pick the base flat colors.
This was such a huge help! I started using Krita recently and this tutorial has definitely saved me a bunch of confusion and frustration. Thank you! Also your art is amazing :)
Pour une certaine raison, la miniatures m'a fait penser à Borderlands, peut être parce qu'il vont annoncer un nouveau borderlands dans 4 heures D: Sinon c'est cool (même si j'ai plus de pc ;-;)
Salut ! J'ai vu que tu étais Breton alors je te parle en français ! Super vidéo, on apprend beaucoup de chose sur Krita. Continue ton WebComic, il est juste génial, l'histoire et mimi, drôle et magique, tandis que le dessin sont juste magnifique : j'adore ton style ! Pourquoi avoir choisi Krita ( peut être que Photoshop est trop chère mais je me dit que si tu es pro ... ) ??? Et comment faire pour diminuer la taille du brush sans aller dans la barre du haut ? Continue tes vidéos, c'est pas commun des tutos krita ! Ha, aussi, T'es vidéos sont géniale car JE COMPRENDS TOUT GRACE A TON ACCENT !!! ( sans vouloir être méchant, mais ton accent français est vraiment cool pour moi qui n'ai que des bases !
Bonjour! Pas Breton, je suis Rémois d'origine et Montalbanais d'adoption mais bien français. Merci pour ton retour sur Pepper&Carrot, ça fait plaisir! Alors pourquoi avoir choisi Krita: j'explique ça dans ce blog post: www.davidrevoy.com/article170/why-i-m-using-100-open-source Pour diminuer les brosses, c'est avec la touche majuscule + click sur le dessin. Merci pour l'accent :-3
Does anybody know a good tutorial to explain how these programs work? Digital painting is sorcery to me. Whenever I try to follow these types of tutorials, I get lost very quickly because I don't understand computers.
Wonderful as always David. I've been a fan since I don't know how long. Your chaos and evolutions is still one of my favs to go back to (glad you put it on youtube I still have my dvd somewhere in my library). I don't currently use krita but I still love the program. Thank you again for all your efforts. If you ever get an opportunity, I would love your input ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RI3y32rxqi0.html Thank you again.
Hey, thank you for the feedback, and your commented digital painting video was a pleasure to watch (and allows me to discover a bit ClipPaintStudio, it looks like a good painting app... too bad it's not Free/Libre ) you have a good skill and a nice style!
Thank you so much for your response and for visiting my video. I loved Krita for the longest time because of your ability to demonstrate its capabilities. I had a few issues with it (hardware based because I use a mac now) and had to leave it for the time being. I'm sure I'll revisit it in the near future. Your talents and ability to teach are astounding. I can only hope that I will be able to illustrate with the ease you demonstrate while telling a story. There is no wonder why you have so many followers. Thank you again.@@DavidRevoy
Hi, krita isn't the only free software anymore, Sketchbook pro now is free too, what do you think in make some brushes for sketchbook? It would be amazing! I use your brushes in krita, but i really need some like their in sketchbook! By the way, i love what you do, your tutorial help me a lot, i'm really grateful for this!
This is so helpful! I received a lot of formal traditional art training, but no digital art training, so I had no idea what the hard light layer actually meant. I can see now that I've definitely been under-utilizing it, and I can't wait to experiment with what you've shown me! Digital art has always frustrated me, because I can't afford lessons and I just don't understand what most of the tools do or how to practically apply them. As a result, there's a pretty big difference in quality between my traditional work and my digital work. Your videos are making digital art much more accessible for me, so thank you!
Great video, going to have to give this approach a try! One small correction through; the color that passes through a surface, such as flesh, isn't due to the color of the blood, but because of the wave length of the light that can manage to pass through. Red is at the longer end of the spectrum, so it just happens to be the color of light that is least likely to get absorbed or bounced back.
Bonjour et merci pour ce tutoriel très intéressant. Cependant avec Krita 4.3, je n'arrive pas à trouver le mode de mélange équivalent pour faire ces ombrages. Hello and thank you for this very interesting tutorial. However with Krita 4.3, I can’t find the equivalent mixing mode to make these shadows. Merci. Un breton qui apprend Krita après avoir abandonné Procreate (Ipad pro grillé)
The tutorial is amazing and very simple that I *who is a very very beginner at digital drawing* could understand it...thank you so so so much it's very helpful and useful and thank u again!🤩
Thank the lords! I was struggling to find a tutorial for coloring and shading ( colorize masks are great, but i didnt know how to shade ) and this was my saving grace right now! I really love your art, keep going, good vibes from belgium
i just discovered your channel today and this is amazing. subscribed, and turned notifications on. no doubt a ton of material here to help me up my krita game
Maria j'utilisais Krita mais j'ai évolué à clip studio paint. C'est meileur que animation et c'est ce que je faite. Mais je trouve ses vidéo vraiment utiles même
Thank you for this tutorial, j'ai essayé ta technique et ça fonctionne super bien sur mon dessin merci pour ton aide! C'est marrant car je comprends trés bien ton English je crois qu'on a le même le niveau et accent mdr))
Beautiful tutorial. One question though: Why do you need to make the shading layer a midtone grey? What is the difference between making a midtone grey shading layer and making a standard shading layer? Thank you.
Hi Derek, thank you. I fill the layer with a midgray because it allows later to color pick the shadow tone with Ctrl+Alt+click (pick the layer color only). if I leave the layer transparent, and I paint with a black brush preset doing transparency, I'll get - let say 50% black painted - but when I'll pick back the color of the shadow, I'll pick ... 'pure black'. Painting on a mid-grey layer (interpreted as pure transparency by the blending mode) avoid this possible error and makes the process way more flexible.
Hi, I wish I had more time to do them. I'll see if I find enough sponsorship to do progress about it. True, Krita evolves quickly and old tutorials would need newer GUI.
Hey, the fill option reacts to the opacity and the eraser blending mode: check if you don't have a eraser preset selected (or the eraser mode icon highlight on the toolbar) and if you use opacity 100% (or the fill action will follows this setting and filling with eraser = filling with nothing, same for feeling with 0% opacity). I hope it will be the right fix!
Hey! (thanks for 'master' :-) Unfortunately, it's not a feature and a trick: the three panels in the video are just in a single image with separators painted the same color as background to do the illusion.
I had a problem because I have a red night sky I couldn't choose the right colors with shadow and light, what do you propose me to do next time when I'm working on a different atmospheric color?
Unfortunately, each picture, comic panel or illustration always comes with specific set of pictural/rendition problems. Some of this problematics will sometime require more preparations, studies and color sketches before starting. Maybe flat your colors more near to the target ambiant you are looking for? Or maybe add a in-between color manipulation step over your flat color to influence them as near as the tones of your final scene. Then shading/light pass will help in setting the half-tones variation only.
I'm setting up my layers just like they are in the video, but when I go to paint on my shading layer nothing happens. I can't figure out what I've done wrong
It's a bit hard to troubleshot without seeing what's going on. check if you haven't a mini selection somewhere and you cant paint outside it; or something like that. It's just a mid-grey layer with hard-light blending mode. Good luck!
Hey, thanks! A how to draw series is high on my list; but I'm still working on my own art skill to be sure to not waste the series with poorly drawn art and not effective advices. I'm learning a lot, writing a lot; I hope I'll make it a reality at some point.
hi I tried applying the hard light blending mode but it keeps turning my flat colors darker I followed the steps you said and put it on a separate layer but on the same group, but it still turns out that way I know it's supposed to look exactly the same as flat colors cuz you said mid gray is transparent in hard light it would mean so much to me if you could help me figure this out, thank you!
Hi Wendy, maybe your document is set accidentally to another color space than the default ? ( RGB/Alpha (8bit integer/channel) sRGB Built-in (or the default ICC profile)
u kno there's like 60 seconds tops of information in your videos if you just did all that at the start it would save everyone alot of time. Just do it in a simplified example....start with a literal blank canvass and do a 5s drawing and then apply all the steps to it. and then anyone who wants 20m of filler can watch 20m of filler. especially helps on rewatch....all the little things u might get wrong r then at the start and u dont have to parouse around 25m of stuff each time. cause thats what u do u learn with the teacher....then later u go off and try it on ur own...u forget little things make mistakes....u look back at the reference after to see if there's anything there u forgot and want to remember.
Bonjour David. Je découvre tes vidéos en même temps que je découvre Krita et j'ai une question : pourquoi remplir le claque des ombrages avec du gris? J'ai testé avec et sans gris, mes ombrages ont la même allure... peux-tu expliciter la logique derrière ça? merci!
Bonjour! Oui, c'est une pratique qui a un but: quand on a une ombre quelquepart qui est plaisante et qu'on veux utiliser la pipette (Ctrl+Alt+click pour la pipette que sur le calque) he bien grace au gris, ça prend la bonne couleur, car toutes les couleurs sont solide. Ce mode de fusion est bien transparent à 50% sRGB gris (127,127,127). Si une ombre est faite sur un calque transparent avec du noir et un pinceaux laissant pas la pleine opacité; on se retrouve avec du noir transparent; qui a la pipette fera toujours du noir. Alors que sur un fond gris; ça prendra bien la valeur de résultat. J'aurai du en effet détailler ça dans la vidéo, mais j'ai raccourcis pour pas que ça soit trop long.
Hi, if you can't undo; I'm affraid to understand you filled your line-art layer with a solid grey color and not on a new layer. I hope you'll can undo (Ctrl+Z)
