Tutorial Grayscale to Color - Krita Digital Painting - Character design
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I just posted a new video tutorial! A commented step-by-step guide and advice on how to paint an original fantasy character design from scratch in Krita.
- Ytb: https://youtu.be/Q7kMT78iBSg
- Ptb: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/eGXzGxkAJpJXaBGopryD9T
- Src: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2024-02-17_Character-Design_by-David-Revoy.html
Timeline:
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:48 Setup
- 02:05 Silhouette
- 06:32 Lambert Lightning
- 08:00 Grayscale painting
- 10:30 Color
- 15:10 Painting
I explain my interface layout here: https://youtu.be/uYdEkOyFUn8
Brushes are here: https://youtu.be/s7rV88734pE
Soundtrack:
- Opening background: A Ghrà, CC-BY Damiano Baldoni , opengameart.org
- Intro: Fabian Measures - Hanami (CC-By) , www.freemusicarchive.org , www.soundcloud.com/fogheart
- Background: Village Ambiance CC-BY Alexander Nakarada , https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com/royalty-free-music/celtic-fantasy
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ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
Wow, that’s awesome! I didn’t know #Krita could do this!
Does this also work with scanned pencil drawings?
#freesoftware #art
davidrevoy
@ArneBab Hey, thank you! Yes, it can work in theory. I saw the other day a new generation of pencil: the 'mate' or 'black' (Staedler and Faber Castel) that behaves a bit like colored black pencils, and in general less shiny and metallic than usual pencils. If I see them on my artshop at next visit, I'll try them, because I'm curious also about trying to tone greyscale on my sketchbook as a softer alternative to what I do with ballpen right now but usual pencil shines a bit too much for me.
4 ★ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
I have 6 of those Faber Castell matte here,, but I didn’t yet test the difference side-by-side.
I can test them and scan the result if it helps you ☺
Or do you need a photo (I could take a rough photo with the webcam)?
davidrevoy
@ArneBab Oh nice you have them, so yes maybe you can enlight me about something: do they smudge easily? It's for a problem of sketchbook; my 2B pencil drawing often transfert easily on the other side of the paper when I close the sketchbook. I know I can spray fixative, but I often don't have the spray while traveling. I'm looking for dark pencils that don't transfert (and no problem if they can't erase well).
★ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
Firstoff: the erasing works ☺ (I love these squidgeable rubbers: https://www.faber-castell.de/produkte/ArtEraserKnetgummigrau/127220 — I can simply prod the drawing repeatedly to take away part of the line)
★ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
For smudging: I just tried rubbing the sheets together and didn’t see any smudging, but I think I didn’t put on enough to actually see that. I’ll try making it darker …
here’s a first test without smudging and without any postprocessing.
🖼️ e401d8e2e35f0006.png ★ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
Here’s an adjusted version with a line erased into the eyes and aggressive smudging with the finger over the mouth (left is the normal pencil, right is the matte, I do not see a significant difference …) and three hash-tests: 12B, 6B, 2B, all three smudged for about 2 seconds with the finger (I only see smudging for the 12B, the others seem clean).
I rubbed the two sheets again, but still don’t see anything transfer to the other side.
🖼️ 3f17a9c81de98b4b.png ★ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
The left eye is with a normal HB pencil, the right eye with a 2B matte (but not sharpened …), the left part of the mouth with a 2B mechanical pencil (0.5), the right part of the mouth with a 2B matte pencil (but sharpened), the whole nose is with 6B, the chin and below is with 12B matte.
Is there another specific test you’d need?
🖼️ 672e73b70c853511.pngdavidrevoy
@ArneBab Oh thanks! 😍 That's perfect, thank you for the time you took doing that. Super interesting to see the smudge tests and the erasing. I think I'll get them on a online artshop this evening so I can play with them later next week. 😊
★ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
I just bought the ones I used from the creators: https://www.faber-castell.de/produkte/PittGraphiteMattBleistift6erMetalletui/115207
★davidrevoy
@ArneBab ... and I just bought them :) I should receive them at the end of next week, I'll try to post sketches done with them before the end of the month.
★ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
I hope they work well for you!
★davidrevoy
@ArneBab I received them yesterday afternoon (that was quick!). I love them, it's really like the "pierre noire" I'm using in signing session and a bit like colored black pencil but a little bit less waxy. Very smooth on bristol paper and cool variation of grayscale in the line. Defintely adopted! Thank you again for the tests and recommendation. 👍
ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
very cool! I’m glad my little test helped you!
★jfml@mastodon.art
Very cool video, as always! Did you use OBS to records this or can the Krita recorder include the interface?
★jfml@mastodon.art
Ooops, you say in the end that is really OBS, awesome!
★thomy2000@fosstodon.org
I don't know why I watch your videos as I'm not an artist. I guess I just started to like the "journey" of art more than I do the destination during the last year. Amazing video and great art as always.
davidrevoy
@thomy2000 Thank you 😊
★glutfuchs@digitalcourage.social
thank you for your helpfull tutorial. 🙏 In fact, I was on my way to look for tutorials on this very topic. Now I will just need enough time to start studying the whole process.
The character is really great and perhaps a suitable name will come to my mind.
davidrevoy
@glutfuchs Thank you. I haven't checked the comment on ytb this morning but so far the name are:
★- Estelle
- Lyra
glutfuchs@digitalcourage.social
nice 🤔 what about Zoe ?
davidrevoy
@glutfuchs Noted! Thanks.
About the recent ones:
- Pandora
- Elsa
deathbunnygirl@mastodon.social
Such an amazing tutorial! I set the key shortcuts up in my Xencelab Quickkeys (Works on Fedora perfectly) and it works like a dream! it's like sculpting but for 2D
davidrevoy
@deathbunnygirl Thanks! Oh, I'm curious about something about Xencelabs; do you need a proprietary driver on Fedora for the tablet or the remote Quickkey? I had an email last year from them for a review/video but as usual I say I'll test hardware with FLOSS only, and they had no idea if it could work (and I couldn't know more, because those who send email are marketing departement, they rarely know anything tech about their products... )
andre@fedi.jaenis.ch
Hey,
thanks for the recordings.
I was wondering whether you have a transcript or subtitles somewhere.
My daughter is hard of hearing and discovered Krita the other day.
Her Debian doesn't have an offline manual (as far as I can tell). The online one is English. So having that plus a series of video tutorials might be a good start.
Meanwhile I am going to research how the translation process for Krita looks like.
davidrevoy
@andre Hey thanks! The only subtitles are the autogenerated one by the Youtube AI. I had a quick check, they are ok. Unfortunately, impossible to download them as *.srt file to tweak them and propose them for translation.
★In the past, I tried the Kdenlive module that could also convert voice to subtitle. It worked ok, but required a lot of postprocessing ( eg. 2h of typing and fixing). Unfortunately, it was too long and tedious to do, so I decided at my scale to stop making them. :/
andre@fedi.jaenis.ch
As much as I dislike the company behind it but Whisper by OpenAI is packaged for Linux systems and yields good results.
★You already have a pipeline for translating comics. Perhaps it can be extended for timestamping and translating videos?
andre@fedi.jaenis.ch
Ah, looks like that's what Kdenlive is using under the hood:
★https://github.com/KDE/kdenlive/blob/master/data/scripts/whispertosrt.py
The community had scripted around the limitation for years it seems:
https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/98#discussioncomment-3727299
davidrevoy
@andre I'll have a look! Thanks for the links. 👍
★Th3s3us@mastodon.art
Great tutorial and magnificent technique
davidrevoy
@Th3s3us 💜 Thank you!
Th3s3us@mastodon.art
--- Name Challenger ---
(It's hard but I'm trying)
Young warrior (pride and strength), shield (tank), dressed in the colors of the sun.
Lionelle => courage and strength (image of the lion);
Eileen = > slender of the sun;
Claire => shiny, luminous, shining.
davidrevoy
@Th3s3us Lionnelle is a very good one. :blobaww: 🦁
Thanks for the list! I'll try to make a follow-up video in a couple of weeks with the result I'll pick.
tora2023@pixelfed.uno
one word: wow
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