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Beginners Digital Illustration with Krita

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Your First Steps into Digital Painting, for Free

This is the free first section of a larger digital illustration course, built entirely around Krita — free, open-source painting software that's a genuinely capable starting point before you ever consider paying for commercial tools.

What's Covered

Getting started with simple doodles
Basic brushes, including creating a wood texture
Krita's core tools
Sketching fundamentals
Adding color, shading, and highlighting

It's aimed squarely at complete beginners who haven't picked up digital illustration before, with exercises built into each topic rather than passive watching. The course has also been updated with extra videos to account for Krita 4.0's overhauled default brush set, so the material stays aligned with the current version of the software. If Krita's price tag of zero is part of the appeal, this section is a low-risk way to find out if digital painting is for you.

About this course

Welcome to Section 1 of my course Essentials of Digital Illustrations with Krita.

This section is absolutely free, but it consists of only the first section of the course.

This section is targeted at the complete beginner and covers taking the first steps in digital illustration.

Krita is a highly acclaimed digital painting software, and it is completely free and open source. If you want to get started in digital illustration without splurging on license fees then this is a great place to start. Once you have gained confidence digital painting you can easily and painlessly switch over to commercial software if you want. (Or you can continue using Krita of course!)

Contents of this section:

Get started creating simple doodles
Learn about basic brushes and create your first wood texture
Learn about the basic tools available to Krita
Learn to make a basic sketch
Add color, shading and highlighting
Lots of tips
Lots of exercises

Want more free goodies? Check out my youtube channel: Open Source Tutor

Update: Krita version 4.0 comes with a brand new set of default brushes! This is great on the whole, but makes the videos a bit confusing! So I added some extra videos to help.