Since I started illustrating, very recently (two years ago or less) I have used adobe photoshop. Surely because it is the most used program in professional illustration, but I also think that it is because those of us who have had to learn on our own find the greatest amount and quality of tutorials in which they use this application, as well as the courses or workshops.

However, today, when I already feel able to use adobe photoshop in a quite fluid way, I have decided to learn to use other platforms to experiment in the processes and results.

This is how I came to Krita.

Krita is a free alternative to photoshop. It is fast, flexible and open source, and it has the many functionalities that we graphic artists need.

One of the advantages of using krita are the tools that are available by default, such as the color wheel. In this way we do not have to install a plug in, as in photoshop.

Here are three of the things that attracted me the most: the possibility of working with native photoshop files, so that you can work with krita without fear of losing your work done on PS; a very familiar interface to which the users of photoshop are used to, however, like any new tool, it is necessary to assign and learn the corresponding shortcuts; and the default templates for creating comics, along with certain brushes that would make life easier for any comic artist.

If you want to learn more about how to make comics in Krita, I recommend you check this link. Here, César Mosquera explain how to make comics using krita, and show examples with images of the book illustrated by him "El pueblo donde mataron a Dios" ("The town where God was killed"). 100% recommended.

Here I share a childish illustration that I did in Krita, something quite basic for some. However, it is a style that I wanted to try, and since it was in a new software it seemed quite appropriate.

I made my hand sketch and then i painted in Krita.

This time I wanted to make something for my girls. One of her favorite movies is Kiki's delivery service. This quarantine have us in Studio Ghibli mode.

I hope you liked this post. Please don't forget to check the links above about Using krita for creating comics, leave a comment and tell me if you have used krita and what do you think about it, or if you would like to use it.

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