Krita is a free open source software that can be used for digital painting by both professional and amateur artists. You can also animate in Krita. Many courses bombard you with tons of information up front when all you want to do is get to work. Krita can have a very short learning curve if all you want to do is paint digitally in a natural and intuitive way. After you dive in and begin creating, you can then come back to the course and learn the finer details of digital painting as well as some tips and tricks that you can use in Krita as well as other software. Then will will show you how to animated using Krita's timeline.

Description

• Beginning students who are interested in learning digital painting and animation.

Course content

• Introduction
  • Introduction
  • What to Expect in the Course
  • Quick Start: Begin Painting in 20 minutes with the Pop-Up Pallet
• Krita Basics
  • Navigation and Workspaces
  • Why and How to Use a Drawing Tablet
  • Using Brushes
  • Selecting Color
  • Understanding Layers
  • Opacity and Blend Modes
  • Selections Tools, Part 1 (Rectangular, Elliptical,Polygonal, Outline)
  • Selections Tool, Part 2 (Similar Color and Contiguous Selection Tools)
• Drawing and Painting Projects
  • Painting an Apple in BW - Then Adding Color
  • Drawing an Apple with Lines
  • Painting and Apple in Color
• Animating in Krita
  • Animation workspace
  • Timing and Onion Skinning
  • Make a Bouncing Ball
  • Adding Simple Audio to Animation