Krita Brushkit V2.1

26 january 2013

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zoom on Krita preset docker with brushkit V2.1

[ V2.1 update for adding texture pack for 2.7pre-alpha , V2 published the 14 January 2013 ]
[ This article is an update of the old V1 preset for Krita , published in June, 2012 ]

I like to take care of my brush preset.
As a proverb in France say ; "Un bon artisan prends soin de ses outils" ( can be roughly translated by "a good worker take care of his tools" ).

So, here is the new pack of my presets ( reworked, cleaned links, cleaned dependencies , new icons ! ... what a work ... ) compatible with the upcoming Krita 2.6 and the dev version of course.

I also added presets for the Texture option available in Krita 2.7 (dev) and later.

Content of the brushkit

Example based on picture, scrap, sketches,test found on my disk.
I pasted on the top the brush used to give you an idea of the rendering.

My inking, sketching and filling tools

A smudgy preset mixing nicely color with a sort of bristle simulation

My speedpainting tools : dry and textured, layering value in opacity

A mix of preset ; a dulling brush with soft bristles, splatters textures and experimental brush.

Wet techniques : using preset based on the mixbrush engine

Various demo of 'ready-made' pattern : clouds, grass, herbs ... I tend to less and less use this type of brush.

Experimental brush, splatters and airbrush

A sample preview of the smearing/smudging presets : Various textures

Miscellaneous presets : A tubular pen for drawing with geometric shapes,
A clone brush tool preset ready to use, and a airbrush in dodge blending mode, for speed highlights and Fx

additional preview for the extra pack of textured brush for 2.7

My preset don't use all 'brush-engines' proposed by Krita, only the one useful for my workflow and own preference.

Download :

V2.1 Core preset :
for Krita 2.6 and later ( may work in 2.5 ... not tested ) :
2013-01-14_deevad-kit-Krita_v2.tar.gz 4.3MB
picture preview

+ Additional textured preset ( Green family ) :
for Krita 2.7 and later ( a pack of *.kpp files )
2013-01-26_deevad_brushkit-additionnal-texture.tar.gz

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Texture pack : 25 PNG for the pattern folder :
( already in 2.7pre-alpha , git master )
2013-01-26_Krita_texture-pack1.tar.gz

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Old V1 preset , less fancy ( but does the job ) for Krita 2.5, 2.4 and 2.3 and later

2012-06-04_deevad-krita_preset-v1a_for-2.5a.tar.gz

picture preview

Install :

The tar.gz ( to download ) contain 2 folders :
brush and paintoppreset
you have the same preference folder on Krita ( on Linux : ~/.kde/share/apps/krita )
So, just extract them , to make brush in brush and paintoppreset in paintoppreset as in the picture bellow :

folder view : click to enlarge

Uninstall notes : Brush have deevad_* as filename prefix , you can easily identify them in your folders and erase them manually.

Note for texture pack : unpack the *.kpp inside the archive in the 'paintoppreset' folder of your ~/.kde/share/apps/krita

License:

This brush , icons and presets are released CC-0 / public domain

Images and text in this article are CC-By-Sa
"www.davidrevoy.com "

Brushkit V2 in Krita dev version ( 2.7pre-alpha 14-01-2013 )
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58 comments

1. Marco

monday 04 june 2012, 22:35

High five!

2. Danni Coy

tuesday 05 june 2012, 08:43

very nice brushes it -- it would be great to get things so that get new hot stuff, unpacks the brush files correctly.

3. Milad Thaha

thursday 07 june 2012, 13:44

I still haven't gotten around to using Krita, have to do so. Nice brushes, especially the bristles.

4. Microbulle

friday 08 june 2012, 17:11

Merci pour cet ajour

5. kot-barbos

wednesday 20 june 2012, 17:13

Thx David, you as usual do a great job!))
I just start use Krita (from debian unstable repo), and can't set a favorite brush preset (http://timotheegiet.com/images/krita/07-FavoritesPopup.png). Can anyone explain to me, how to do it?

6. David REVOY

thursday 21 june 2012, 05:18

@kot-barbos : thx for the feedback ! for setting a favorite in the pop-up right click palette, use the 'save to palette' button on the toolbar. A dialog will appear to setup it.

7. Pedro

friday 22 june 2012, 00:48

Hi! Congratulations on your site. You draw some beautiful stuff!

I recently discovered the wonders of foss, moved away from windows, and started playing around with the gimp. Last week I decided to buy a graphic tablet, and start learning a bit of digital drawing in my spare time. Since you use these foss programs professionally, I was wondering if you could recommend me some documentation to get started, like books on drawing, on the software.. I have watched tutorials on youtube, but I would like to fully understand the software's capabilities, and not just learn how to do a glossy button on gimp. Btw, I am most interested in Krita. It feels fantastic!

Thanks!

8. David REVOY

friday 22 june 2012, 09:15

@Pedro : Hi Pedro, thanks for the feedback. For the moment, there is a lake of documentation in general for digital painting. You can find of course the 2 DVD I did at the Blender e-shop ( or for free read them as Youtube video on the tutorial section of my website ) and you can also see the DVD made by Animtim for Krita and comics ( link/info certainly on Krita website ).
For drawing ; I would recommend every books about. They mostly repeat all the basics, and every books have good tricks. A good start point can be with a classic ; from A.Loomis for composition/perspective/method , to Bridgman for anatomy , etc..etc...
For Foss, you can also learn them by looking on youtube tutorial made with proprietary softwares, http://www.ctrlpaint.com/ is a good website with basics about digital painting with Photoshop. User with Mypaint, Krita or Gimp can reproduce 80% of the tips of the video. The 20% laking are feature you can do differently.
I also think I will start to prepare a DVD about Krita soon ( autumn ) , but it still abstract in a way, and I didn't started to think of it seriously.

9. Pedro

friday 22 june 2012, 16:42

Thank you very much for your answer! I thought your Blender shop videos you made were for blender. I will check the books you recommended, and get started as soon as my tablet arrives!

I'll stay tuned for future updates! Please, do keep the great work coming!

Greetings from Spain!

10. Pedro

friday 22 june 2012, 16:44

Wait. They are for blender !haha

11. kot-barbos

friday 22 june 2012, 17:46

Pedro, Chaos & Evolutions DVD training dedicated painting with Gimp, MyPaint, some Alchemy, but not a Blender.
http://www.davidrevoy.com/article/44/artworks-from-my-dvd-chaos-evolutions.html

12. Pedro

saturday 23 june 2012, 00:49

I realised it when I watched some clips. But he does use blender in the blend and paint dvd. Very interesting stuff, and useful for noobs like me.:D

13. Jose

sunday 24 june 2012, 09:33

"I also think I will start to prepare a DVD about Krita soon ( autumn ) , but it still abstract in a way, and I didn't started to think of it seriously".
That would be really cool David I started to use Krita on Windows and I'm looking forward to learn how to use it better and practice more.

14. Shaun

wednesday 11 july 2012, 01:00

Hi David, thanks for sharing this. And I too think it a cool idea for a future Krita DVD :-D I bought your 2 DVDs last year and found them very educational as I was a newbie to linux and digital painting. Krita development has progressed quite a lot on both Linux & Windows this last year and more people need to know of it's existence!

Completely unrelated: I recently got an Intuos4 and was looking for a current way to use the OLEDs and I see you were asking about it too for 12.04, on ubuntuforums... I have posted there about my working (more or less) OLEDs: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1380744&page=29

15. David REVOY

wednesday 11 july 2012, 14:11

@Shaun :Thanks for your feedback. Yep, a Krita DVD is a project I think more and more.

Thanks for the news on ubuntuforum for the OLED on 12.04 ; I accidentally forgot to suscribe this epic thread, and I see only now the answer.
thx!

16. nezumi

monday 30 july 2012, 13:39

Those presents man... Are EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thank you so much! Another project started in Krita and hopefully in Krita will be finished Photoshop is staying behind a bit... At least for digital painting. Oh well

17. Max

monday 14 january 2013, 23:09

David! Thnx for your work! Can you sent for me your shortcut keys for gimp,mypaint and krita in kde (wacom intuos 4) please?

18. joker

monday 14 january 2013, 23:30

do youplan to use the leap motion for drawing, when it will be available for linux, it's 100x more accurate than the kinect and tablet ... and it's 70 $
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6KuiuteIA

19. deburger

monday 14 january 2013, 23:35

so cool brushes!
so many comments!
thnx!

20. joker

monday 14 january 2013, 23:38

ho forget to give this link

windows paint used , go to minute 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iERrs-Lf3CQ

21. Mery Alison Thompson

monday 14 january 2013, 23:44

Thank you very much for this brushkit David

22. Dave L. Johnson

tuesday 15 january 2013, 02:53

Thanks for this new brushset! I am looking forward to trying them all out, especially that experimental brush that looks like it does what Alchemy does Once again, you have made a significant contribution to digital foss art!

23. Riccardo Bocci

tuesday 15 january 2013, 13:53

Are those brushing working also on 2.7a ? (the one i installed with your script on linux mint 14 KDE), because i manually extract em and put those 2 dirs in standard krita dir (the one under user/.kde/share/apps/krita) but i can't see them when i restart krita...

24. David REVOY

tuesday 15 january 2013, 14:33

@Riccardo Bocci : Hey, sure, I also use 2.7a ; I did a screenshot of my folder , to help you see how it's on my instalation : http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/5509/selection021.jpg ; I'm sure it's just a error of copy paste or extraction. ( also check down the preset list, because my preset appear at the end of the list and not replace the default )

@Dave L. Johnson : the experimental is indeed similar to the alchemy brush ; it was added by Lukáš Tvrdý on Krita at version 2.3 In post next series ( 2.6 ) the experimental brush get a boost on performance and is now usable in production.

@Mery Alison Thompson : Hey Mery ; thanks for the feedback !

@joker : Hey ! I doubt this device will be good for painting or creating painting ( lake of precision compare to a tablet / lake of pressure / tilt / sensors ) . Maybe suited for spectacle ( and obviously video games, or human interactions )

@deburger :

@Max :Yes no problem , but I use a Azerty keyboard ; ( french keyboard ) so I doubt it will be usefull for the keyboard layout ( Krita 's one default is really near of my ideal layout, btw , I change only brush size to ; and : ) For my Intuos 4 , I keep for the major one :
e (eraser )
Ctrl+z (undo)
Shift (trace line, or for krita , brush size)
Ctrl ( color picker )
M ( mirror image )
Other are set for Mypaint specific ;
W ( pick context
F2 ( save as scrap )

25. Riccardo Bocci

tuesday 15 january 2013, 23:27

Thanks David, i fixed it, my fault!

26. David REVOY

wednesday 16 january 2013, 07:13

@Riccardo Bocci : Good ! thanks for reporting it worked I added the picture to the article 'install' part for less confusion.

27. Endoraniendo

sunday 20 january 2013, 09:52

Love all your brushes. Your speedpainting brushes always breaks the status quo when i'm on an empty canvas. Your brushes played an important part when I switched from Photoshop to Krita. I felt at home directly when I started painting with the brushes. Made by artist for artists.

28. Ramon Miranda

tuesday 22 january 2013, 12:05

impressive work on icons. i am curious how you did it. I found really hard to create custom icons well detailed.
Downloaded the brushes, i hope to test them these days and let you know. Thanks for the hard work.

29. Riccardo Bocci

tuesday 22 january 2013, 14:00

David, i changed my Linux Distribution and now im not under debian/ubuntu, i compiled pretty well mypaint on GIT , but i have problems with Krita, being unable to compile it alone (without calligra).. Is there any way to do it?
Using Fedora 18

30. David REVOY

tuesday 22 january 2013, 14:57

@Endoraniendo : Thank you ! Very cool feedback. It gives me energy to continue.

@Ramon Miranda : Thx! in master 2.7pre-alpha, Sven and Boud fixed the opening of *.kpp as image in Krita. So you can open each *.kpp as a picture and take time to edit. There is also a new feature to clean old backup revision of kpp in edit > ressources. This 2 points make it easier, way easier. But still around 2 or 3 days of work around it , to make the pack beautiful and also the preset adapted and reduced to the strict one I use.

@Riccardo Bocci : yes, there is a way to compile only Krita & Karbon together with a flag -DCREATIVEONLY=ON ( but you keep the source of whole calligra ) . When configuring it.

Exemple on my way to do it in the script ( on a directory /build at the same level of /src with sources and /inst with KDE path linked ):
cmake ../src -DCREATIVEONLY=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELWITHDEBINFO -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../inst
make
make install

There is also probably a difficulty getting all the dependencies. But also most distribution offer a similar solution to the Ubuntu/Debian way ; sudo apt-get -y build-dep calligra
I also add to the dep, this ones:
sudo apt-get -y install cl-fftw3 liblcms2-dev cmake liblcms2-2 liblcms2-utils git xserver-xorg-input-wacom oxygen-icon-theme kde-runtime wget liblcms1-dev kdebase-runtime systemsettings qt4-qtconfig qtcurve libwpg-tools libwpd-tools poppler-utils opengtl-tools libcxxtools-dev phonon-backend-gstreamer

31. Riccardo Bocci

friday 25 january 2013, 20:38

thank you David, it's working flawlessy now under fedora 18!
Oh, do you know any good drawing/sketching book for a guy doing elementary school?
Something that explain a lot like xhatching and stuff like this, i would like to buy to my nephew, thanks

32. Shaun

sunday 27 january 2013, 22:59

Impressive work as always David. Your preset icons are really well done and illustrative. I'd like to try your texture presets "green family", but it seems your download link is for the previous v2.0 preset which doesn't have them .

33. David REVOY

monday 28 january 2013, 00:02

@Riccardo Bocci : Thanks ! About the book , the one I know are pretty technical. For younger audience, I think the series of Tom Bancroft books about character can be good.

@Shaun : Hey Shaun, true ; the first link is the old 2.0 , to keep compatible with the upcoming Krita 2.6 ( and still 2.5 ). The 'green' textured family is in a 'additionnal' download just under ( only a set of *.kpp, the 'texture' mask are in dev master )

34. Shaun

monday 28 january 2013, 00:47

Hmm I just updated Git Master and I downloaded the 'Texture Additional Pack'. There are 25 texture maps in PNG format, but no *.kpp? These are the same texture maps in your previous blog post titled "Texture pack 1".
I still don't have the green icons I think I must have misunderstood your instructions? Or maybe you have linked to the 'wrong' file on this page?

35. David REVOY

monday 28 january 2013, 07:45

@Shaun : No , you didn't misunderstood , I just checked again and the fault is mine ; I selected the wrong link in my 'document manager'. Sorry about it, and thanks for helping me to fix it with your feedback.
I hope the link will work now.

36. David REVOY

monday 28 january 2013, 15:33

Update: I also added a better image preview for the 'green family'

37. Shaun

tuesday 29 january 2013, 22:54

Thanks David! Works like a charm now.

38. Riccardo Bocci

friday 01 february 2013, 16:48

Hi again David,
i have a cheap wacom bamboo fun tablet and i have 4 tablet buttons + 2 stylus one. Could you suggest me what would be a good setup in order to use them as shortcuts in Krita??
Thanks

39. David REVOY

friday 01 february 2013, 17:07

@Riccardo Bocci :
Hey, no problem. 4 buttons is enough.

For the tablet buttons :
/ ( in Krita 2.7 dev, switch to the previous preset, so you can pick a eraser + a pencil ) , or e (eraser )
Ctrl+z ( undo )
Shift ( brush resize )
M ( mirror view )

For the stylus button
bottom one : Here I use 'Control' , I like to pick color this way while painting.
Top one : ( default right-click ) pop-up palette

40. kwak

thursday 07 february 2013, 15:51

Salut David je ne connaissais pas krita 2.6 je cherche sur le net un petit probleme que j'ai avec krita c que quand je dessine les lignes suivent le curseur sans arret "BUG?"

Je suis sur windows7 64

Intuos touch 5 y a-t-il un rapport avec mon probleme?

Merci Donald

41. David REVOY

thursday 07 february 2013, 16:13

@kwak : Bonjour Kwak, oui, c'est un problème. Sous Windows tu as du voir que le lien était expérimental : la version Windows est une version test pour testeur. Krita n'est stable que sous Linux pour le moment. Je ne teste pas et n'est pas Windows moi même ...
Je t'invite à participer à déposer tes remarques , copies d'écrans, modèles de tablette graphique et autre infos utile aux développeurs eux-même pour améliorer le logiciel : https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=krita&format=guided

42. Kwak

thursday 07 february 2013, 16:21

Merci David... tu es rapide a repondre , merci encore

43. Drai

saturday 09 february 2013, 14:20

I came to this site from your timelapse of the dragon princess.
Your work is amazing! And Krita looks also like and amazing tool.

I am just drawing for hobby, so I am always overwhelmed when there is so many choices on brushes and settings ... But this page gives a good choice amongst them and a clear and simple explanation to use them. I find this really really useful ^^

44. David REVOY

saturday 09 february 2013, 17:04

@Drai : Thanks for the comment Drai ! and welcome around

45. Ludwig

monday 11 february 2013, 12:53

Hey David! Thanks for all your work that makes all those FLOSS painting tools so much fun to use for us hobbyists.
One question about your wonderful brush icons: Is it in some way possible to edit the brush icons outside Krita's brush editor? I'd like to modify my own brush preset icons to give them a consistent look. If I just simply open them (PNG), edit and save them again, they won't work as a brush preset any more.

46. David REVOY

monday 11 february 2013, 14:07

@Ludwig : Hi ludwig, thanks for the comment about FLOSS.
For Krita brush preview, yes *.kpp files are *.png with the preset embeded as DATA. Most of other software don't respect the DATA field of PNG file format specification and erase it unfortunately. On Krita dev ( 2.7 pre-alpha ) you can open the Kpp in Krita to edit the preview. Thats how I did. I prepared a background 200x200 images, then I drag and droped on Krita 'insert as a layer' for having same background. Then I painted the icons.
Good luck !

47. Jai

monday 18 february 2013, 20:31

Hi, David. Just today Krita got updated to 2.6 in openSUSE, so I'm dowloading your excelent brushkit! I'm starting now to drwa with krita, but I see the potential and I'm excited!

48. EscapedNight

thursday 21 march 2013, 11:18

No way to make those 2.7 brushes work in 2.6?
when 2.7 official is coming out?

49. David REVOY

sunday 24 march 2013, 00:00

@EscapedNight : Hey ; they work in 2.6 , just you may have different result with the row of 'green' stroke one ( with texture ). Other should be exactly similar. 2.7 is still in dev, and scheduled for summer.

@Jai : Hey ! thx for the feedback. OpenSuse is a fantastic distribution , and I keep an eye on it. For the moment I'm keeping Ubuntu based distro because I'm used to 'apt' and also Mint default settings.

50. doozer88

friday 29 march 2013, 05:27

@EscapedNight: I've just tried the latest build by Boudewijn, the 2.6.8.7 version. All the brushes work great, even the 'green' group. On my win7x64 it runs smoothly, no tablet bugs (as in 2.6.0 - infinite stroke, which made Krita useless) - everything worked fine, when i tried it. Try it here: http://heap.kogmbh.net/boud/krita_2.6.8.7.msi
@David REVOY: Thank you for the brushkit and inspiration!

51. bittler

saturday 06 april 2013, 12:03

hello, how to install in windows version?

52. David REVOY

saturday 06 april 2013, 15:33

@bittler : Hi Bittler, sorry , I have no idea. 4 years here without touching any Windows Os ...

53. Cyril

thursday 25 april 2013, 18:25

hi all,
Many thx David your brush are very good, like mypaint.

@bittler extract all in C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Roaming\.kde\share\apps\krita for MSwindows 7

54. David REVOY

thursday 25 april 2013, 19:55

@Cyril : Thx ! and thx for your reply to Bittler

55. Tom

monday 29 april 2013, 18:28

Thank you for making your presets available! Sadly, I can't download "+ Additional textured preset ( Green family )" and "Texture pack". I get a "404 page not found" error.

56. David REVOY

monday 29 april 2013, 19:50

@Tom : Thanks for the report ! For the 404 error : I updated my website last sunday and moved hosting a bit , so there is little link problems. I'll fix that . Should be ok in the next 30min.

57. David REVOY

monday 29 april 2013, 19:59

@Tom : Fixed! thx again for the report

58. Ricardo Almeida

tuesday 07 may 2013, 20:18

Hello!

Thanks for the excellent brushes!

How do I access the recent used brushes? There's something like that in MyPaint.

Thanks.

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