Krita Course

Lesson 1 • Navigating the Canvas

Teaches zoom, pan, rotate, and mirror shortcuts for efficient canvas control. Fluent navigation reduces friction in every drawing session.

Lesson 2 • Customising the Workspace

Demonstrates docker arrangement, toolbar customisation, and saving custom workspaces. A personalised layout accelerates workflow throughout the course.

Lesson 3 • Installing and Launching Krita

Covers system requirements, download sources, and first-launch setup. Establishes the baseline environment every subsequent lesson depends on.

Lesson 4 • Creating and Managing Files

Explains new-document templates, resolution settings, and save formats. Students can start projects correctly and avoid data loss from the first session.

Lesson 1 • Understanding the Brush Engine

Introduces brush presets, the brush editor, and engine types available in Krita. Knowing engine types lets students choose the right tool for every task.

Lesson 2 • Fills, Gradients, and Patterns

Explains the fill tool, gradient editor, and pattern fills for covering large areas. These tools complement brush work for efficient base-colour application.

Lesson 3 • Drawing Assistants and Symmetry

Introduces ruler assistants, vanishing points, and symmetry modes for guided drawing. Assistants help students produce accurate lines before advanced techniques are introduced.

Lesson 4 • Colour Selection and Management

Teaches the colour wheel, HSV sliders, palette dockers, and colour history. Accurate colour selection is foundational to every painting and illustration task.

Lesson 1 • Blending Modes Explained

Demonstrates Multiply, Screen, Overlay, and other key blending modes with practical examples. Blending modes are essential for shading, lighting, and texture compositing.

Lesson 2 • Masks and Alpha Channels

Teaches transparency masks, paint-through masks, and alpha inheritance for precise compositing. Masks enable non-destructive editing central to professional workflows.

Lesson 3 • Layer Properties and Opacity

Explains opacity, lock options, visibility toggles, and layer naming conventions. Proper properties management keeps complex documents readable and editable.

Lesson 4 • Layer Styles and Effects

Covers drop shadow, inner glow, bevel, and pattern overlay layer styles. These effects add polish without requiring manual painting on separate layers.

Lesson 1 • Basic Transformation Tools

Explains move, scale, rotate, and shear transforms with handles and numeric input. Accurate transforms are required for layout, composition, and asset placement.

Lesson 2 • Refining and Modifying Selections

Covers grow, shrink, feather, border, and invert operations for precise selection editing. Refined selections prevent unwanted artefacts when painting or transforming.

Lesson 3 • Selection Tool Overview

Introduces rectangular, elliptical, freehand, and contiguous selection tools. Knowing each tool's strengths lets students choose the fastest method for any shape.

Lesson 4 • Advanced Warp and Cage Transforms

Demonstrates warp, cage, and liquify-style transforms for organic shape manipulation. These tools extend beyond rigid transforms to support character and concept art.

Lesson 1 • Colour Grading and Final Touches

Covers hue/saturation, curves, and colour balance adjustments applied as non-destructive layers. Final grading unifies the colour mood and prepares the piece for export.

Lesson 2 • Blocking In Base Colours

Teaches flat colour blocking using fill tools, selections, and base-colour layers. Solid base colours establish the colour structure before shading is applied.

Lesson 3 • Rendering Textures and Details

Demonstrates skin, fabric, metal, and hair rendering using specialised brush techniques. Texture rendering elevates a painting from rough to portfolio-ready quality.

Lesson 4 • Sketching and Line Art

Covers gesture sketching, construction lines, and inking with stabilised brushes. Clean line art is the structural foundation every rendering technique builds upon.

Lesson 1 • Combining Vector and Raster Art

Demonstrates layering vector shapes over raster paintings and rasterising vectors when needed. Hybrid workflows maximise both precision and painterly expressiveness.

Lesson 2 • Node Editing and Path Operations

Teaches node selection, cusp vs. smooth nodes, and Boolean path operations. Advanced node control produces complex shapes from simple primitives efficiently.

Lesson 3 • Working with Text

Explains the text tool, font selection, kerning, leading, and text-on-path features. Integrated text tools allow designers to add typography without leaving Krita.

Lesson 4 • Vector Shape Tools

Introduces rectangle, ellipse, polygon, and star vector tools with fill and stroke options. Vector shapes remain resolution-independent and editable at any stage.

Lesson 1 • Artistic and Stylise Filters

Demonstrates oilify, pixelize, emboss, and edge-detection filters for stylised effects. Artistic filters expand the visual range beyond traditional painting approaches.

Lesson 2 • Colour Adjustment Filters

Covers desaturate, hue rotation, colour to alpha, and channel mixer filters. Colour filters enable fast global mood shifts and special compositing effects.

Lesson 3 • Adjustment Layers and Filter Masks

Covers brightness/contrast, levels, curves, and colour balance as adjustment layers. Non-destructive adjustments allow unlimited revision without degrading pixel data.

Lesson 4 • Filter Layers and Scripted Filters

Teaches persistent filter layers, G'MIC integration, and batch filter application. Scripted filters automate repetitive effects and unlock hundreds of additional operations.

Lesson 1 • Colouring and Compositing Animation

Explains flat colour layers, shading layers, and background compositing across animation frames. Consistent layer structure across frames prevents colour drift in final output.

Lesson 2 • Drawing and Refining Animation Frames

Covers rough animation passes, clean-up passes, and in-betweening strategies. Structured passes produce smoother motion with less rework between iterations.

Lesson 3 • Exporting Animation Files

Demonstrates GIF, WebP, and video export via FFmpeg integration for animated deliverables. Proper animation export settings control file size, loop behaviour, and playback quality.

Lesson 4 • Animation Timeline Basics

Introduces the timeline docker, frame creation, and onion skinning for frame-by-frame animation. Understanding the timeline is prerequisite to all animation production tasks.