09-24-2025, 07:16 PM
@cgmythology - Thanks a lot! I definitely learned a bit from that piece.
@darktiste - Some of the stuff you mentioned I have done, like locking the alpha, using inherit alpha groups (since there is no “clipping mask” in Krita, but this does the same thing), and doing some organizing. Though organizing is something I should improve on more. I do actually use color labels, but about half way through the creation of that image I kinda just stopped, and just sorted thing within groups. What I usually do currently is try to group via object, so like the droid is 1 group, the creature is another, the background, etc. Then make sub-groups within them for more and more specific elements of each object. But I still am not 100% set in my process, it always seems to change a bit every time lol.
So I do need to get my process a lot more streamlined which would reduce my time some overall. Also I should start watching other artists too, I haven't really done that for some time. Just to see how they work, and how they organize things and tackle particular problems. I could get some good tip or ideas of ways to improve what I am doing, or just flat out find out things I didn't even think or know of. Thanks for the useful info as always!
There's a useful shortcut in Krita I learned about online recently that helped me out a lot which was learning about the Layer Picking tool. By pressing R and clicking anywhere in the image it will go to the layer those pixels are on. Also another useful shortcut I found online was Ctrl+Alt, which pick's the original color, ignoring any effects added to it like blend modes or changing the opacity of the layer which helped speed things up. Just wanted to throw it out there, cuz it's hard to find anywhere info about them. They aren't even shown in Krita's Keyboard Shortcuts options.
So I now plan to start actually studying art (finally) more rigorously, for lack of a better word. First I wanted to get some stuff in order before I begin, which thankfully I've already done 90% now. These things include figuring out my goals when it comes to art - why do art? What is the purpose of doing art? What are your end goals? What art style(s) do you want to do? What subject types do you want to get good at (people, vehicles, creatures, aliens, ships, landscapes, etc.)? Do you want to make money from it? If so, how do you plan to do so? etc. Also setting up a work space, figuring out how I plan to take notes, making a schedule, better learning techniques & strategies, etc. etc. etc. I won't bore y'all with that stuffs. I am pretty much done figuring all that stuff out for the most part.
The next step is figuring out what the best, as in most optimal, efficient, and effective path is to take for learning art, from absolute very beginner basics, to the high end advanced stuffs. So while looking into that, I also plan to finish tying up any loose ends with my prerequisites and finish up The Natural Way To Draw art book. I am near the end of the book, so hopefully by around the time I finish it I'll have everything figured out, or at least figured out enough to get going!
With that all said, here are some random things I made recently.
@darktiste - Some of the stuff you mentioned I have done, like locking the alpha, using inherit alpha groups (since there is no “clipping mask” in Krita, but this does the same thing), and doing some organizing. Though organizing is something I should improve on more. I do actually use color labels, but about half way through the creation of that image I kinda just stopped, and just sorted thing within groups. What I usually do currently is try to group via object, so like the droid is 1 group, the creature is another, the background, etc. Then make sub-groups within them for more and more specific elements of each object. But I still am not 100% set in my process, it always seems to change a bit every time lol.
So I do need to get my process a lot more streamlined which would reduce my time some overall. Also I should start watching other artists too, I haven't really done that for some time. Just to see how they work, and how they organize things and tackle particular problems. I could get some good tip or ideas of ways to improve what I am doing, or just flat out find out things I didn't even think or know of. Thanks for the useful info as always!
There's a useful shortcut in Krita I learned about online recently that helped me out a lot which was learning about the Layer Picking tool. By pressing R and clicking anywhere in the image it will go to the layer those pixels are on. Also another useful shortcut I found online was Ctrl+Alt, which pick's the original color, ignoring any effects added to it like blend modes or changing the opacity of the layer which helped speed things up. Just wanted to throw it out there, cuz it's hard to find anywhere info about them. They aren't even shown in Krita's Keyboard Shortcuts options.
So I now plan to start actually studying art (finally) more rigorously, for lack of a better word. First I wanted to get some stuff in order before I begin, which thankfully I've already done 90% now. These things include figuring out my goals when it comes to art - why do art? What is the purpose of doing art? What are your end goals? What art style(s) do you want to do? What subject types do you want to get good at (people, vehicles, creatures, aliens, ships, landscapes, etc.)? Do you want to make money from it? If so, how do you plan to do so? etc. Also setting up a work space, figuring out how I plan to take notes, making a schedule, better learning techniques & strategies, etc. etc. etc. I won't bore y'all with that stuffs. I am pretty much done figuring all that stuff out for the most part.
The next step is figuring out what the best, as in most optimal, efficient, and effective path is to take for learning art, from absolute very beginner basics, to the high end advanced stuffs. So while looking into that, I also plan to finish tying up any loose ends with my prerequisites and finish up The Natural Way To Draw art book. I am near the end of the book, so hopefully by around the time I finish it I'll have everything figured out, or at least figured out enough to get going!
With that all said, here are some random things I made recently.