Krita - Blog Posts
Aww! this is Adoable!
Bothersome beast, comforting friend
Julian fan art
This little guy took me from January of this year to finish it in July ;-;
It was supposed to be a birthday gift for my lil sis but art block hit like a truck ╥﹏╥
heeey remember my last drawing from Goretober? you know....the Monstersona? well i finalized the design!
brain went “Oalthairan” so that’s the species name.
though, part of this feels FAR to familiar, not as in “i know i made this and its mine” or “deja vu” more like “i’ve been this”? i think I’ve heard people in spiritual communities talk about it on TikTok or something. But I can’t for the life of me remember it...
You saw it in front of your door, your actions
Wip
He's so cute. ^_^
Character art for a comic I’ll be posting :)
Eeeee finally finished my first illustration on krita :))) Sweater based off the beautiful work of Ýr Jóhannsdóttir (Icelandic artist) (link below) I found her while researching knitting for my final project and she makes really cool stuff.
Also I tried a different type of shading, what do you guys think?
GIMP too works as a great substitute for Photoshop! Also super vouching for LibreOffice, Writer is fantastic and I don't see much of a difference between it and microsoft word at all.
It used to be that when a company released hacky, closed-source, propriety software, those facts alone would make them an object of ridicule amongst mean nerds on the Internet for years. Now we just kinda performatively bitch about Adobe every couple of months.
finally got around to designing a self sona :3
my first time drawing in seventeen million years. new oc. his name is teddy. he's divorced and sad. he's also more nuanced than that but it's a secret at the moment
theme for my english class creative project was solitude and isolation
haven’t done any digital art in a month and i wanted to try something new, so i did a self portrait in a paintery style
repost from instagram
drawtober 2024 week 1: vampire!
i wanted to lean into the undead aspect and add some bat features :3
haven't seen an acadian miku yet so i decided to hop on the trend! typically in traditional acadian dress, the women would have their hair tied up in their caps, but i gave her braids because 1) i wanted to show off miku's hair, and 2) a lot of modern acadian families--mine included--have some indigenous heritage because many of our ancestors married indigenous people and i wanted to pay homage to that part of acadian culture as well
testing krita brushes for line art with my oc desirée. ignore the fact that each version is different shut up shut up shut up
The Babs | Saffron, Monarch, Marine, Rosewood, Duke, Tyrian, Pitch | Choice by Jack Stauber
September 14 - December 31, 2024
Programs used:
IbispaintX - Drawing
Krita - Minor drawing edits and timing
Openshot Video Editor - Exporting/cropping
Finished animation meme based on these thumbnail sketches.
Decided to do it in ibispaint to test out their animation thing (I usually use krita to do everything related to animation). it's good until timing comes into play. Def gonna use it if I ever make random gifs
This still took a long time to make (I'm slow, okay), but the repetitiveness helped a lot in cutting down the work.
Tried to export using krita but the sequence after all the glitch effects would export improperly, so I had to insert it all into openshot video editor and then the exporting worked better (it was a struggle). There's some timing issues I feel but not so bad that I can't live with it.
**I'm in the process of redoing it so that it's a perfect loop and the timing's a bit better, just posting it now because it's holding up the rest of the line
Spirited Away | Bathhouse, No face
June 2023 - October 30, 2024
~June - July 2023 - Preliminary Sketch in Krita
October 10, 2024 - Transfer to IbisPaint
October 29-30, 2024 - Majority of the illustrating process
Time: 19:58 Krita + IbisPaintX
This has been in the works for a looong time. Making posters out of it for Anifest finally gave me the motivation to work on it. Really surprised I got it done in time, too.
I think it's so magical to be able to go back to a wip like this and actually finish it. Not everything has to stay unfinished and I like collecting my wips in the event like something like this happens. A burst of motivation years later.
Anyways, 3-point perspective (which I have little experience with) of a very complicated building with hard-to-come-by ref pics?!?!! ...Yeah, I like throwing myself into the deep end with new things (see: MIA poster).
The 3-point perspective was so damned hard. Out of the 20 hours I put into this on IbisPaintX (which doesn't include my first struggles with it in Krita), ~6h was for sketching because it was killinggg me. I also went back and forth with IbisPaint and Krita during the sketching phase because it was a REAL struggle.
(Also I downloaded the mp4 video to check the above times (the video was bugged and would freeze at ~1.5h in IbisPaint) and encoding it took over an hour 💀))
I just kept fucking up the perspective. Idek how because I was using the perspective tools but it kept happening (I think I was accidentally shifting them in IbisPaintX so it was ruining me) (also that's one thing that Krita is actually better at. while their process to set up the rulers is much more complicated, you can use them all simultaneously. having to switch btwn them in ibispaint was making me go crazy) especially for the curved roof bits. Those underwent a loooot of revisions.
Rendering it was really fun, spent practically all my time out of lecs to work on this before the deadline to send the poster designs off to get printed.
Actually really proud of myself for this one. I especially like the gold bits
April 2024
Krita
Another drawing I did to embed in a fic. Not even gonna tag it with hazbin stuff because it's 99% noncanon shite.
Hazbin Hotel | Alastor
April 2024
Krita
"Alastor landing in hell and seeing himself for the first time" moment I drew.
Made it to uh embed in a fic that I wrote,,,a klalfghg, d, a,,, Ughhghghg dude if anyone I know irl ever reads this it's over for me like forreal🙃🙃🙃🙃
Drew this using krita on my tablet and exporting/saving the .kra file without it becoming mysteriously corrupt was such a struggle. Krita is absolutely horrendous on my tablet.
January 4, 2024 - January 9, 2024
Discord art server pfp challenge with the prompt "winter"
First illustration I did on the tablet I bought for uni notes and drawing because my wacom tablet was bugging out nd making me go crazy. Used krita though and it was just as annoying cos krita works like ass on my tablet
i present to the world, for the first time in forever, art drawn with an actual art program and not photoshop or ms paint
full drawing + speedpaint below cut warning for eyestrain + a little bit of blood
quite happy with how the background turned out :>
i drew him in a suit yet again
i joined an alterhuman friend group last year. i thought the odds of me ever meeting another alterhuman irl were abysmally low, but turns out, there's actually quite a few of us out there! if you're from a small group or community, whether it be alterhuman or not, and you get chance to meet others like yourself, don't let the opportunity go to waste! ik how intimidating it can be, but i promise it'll be worth it! tysm to all of my friends i love ya'll so much <3
speedpaint + base bg below cut
have this drawing i made of licorice about half a year ago :3
forever in spin
colon three
putting them in a suit may be a slight addiction
speedpaint below cut (finally remembered to record lol)
i put them in a suit :>
the campaign they're from is going crazy
anyhoo bonus drawing:
chat i made an animation meme
i joined the trend for once :>
MORE STRING BEAN ART YIPPEE
i love them so much
i want to throw them in a blender with all my other ocs and make a soup out of them <3
got some themes of substance abuse, so view at your own discretion :<
stayed up all night drawing it i need to make some more wholesome art of them :<