Digital Painting in Krita: A Still Life - Persimmon and Tea

1. Intro: Krita Digital Painting: Welcome to digital painting and Krita. Or are we going to use the free open-source software to create a still-life. Hi, my name is Aaron. I'm a graphic artist and a digital art instructor at a junior college. I have a master's degree in traditional painting, but over the years, I've developed an interest in digital painting. So even though I take advantage of the benefits working digitally, I also rely heavily on what I learned as an oil painter. This course is based on a simple still-life. The course will cover everything you need to know to make this particular digital painting. But if you want to learn other techniques, make sure to check out my other two previous videos. This is the piece that we'll be working on. It's an Alabama style, which simply means it's done all at once. This is something I hope you do quickly. Once you complete that project, I hope you upload it and share with others in the course. I look forward to showing you some new techniques. So pop on over to the next video and let's get started. 2. How Videos are Organized: Here I just wanted to talk about how the course is constructed. Basically, this is me doing a digital painting from start to finish and explaining my process as we go along. But I've broken it up into a number of pieces. I mean, the entire time is about an hour-and-a-half and that's roughly about the amount of time that I spent doing this piece. And there are some bits that are sped up at high-speed when I don't really say anything that I thought was very important. But for the most part, what I did is I started each new segment when I said something important. So if you want to just watch the beginning part, part of the video of each of these lessons. You can maybe watch the first minute or two and then skip on to the next if you're having trouble watching, watching me go through this entire long process. So you can or you can watch the whole thing. It just depends on how you want to consume the information. Another thought is you can watch the beginning and then put it on. Maybe put it on in the background as you create, as you work on your own drawing. Or you can play it at a higher speed if it's just, if there's just too much information. But again, the main point is the important information is at the beginning of each segment, so you do not have to watch the entire video. These titles will be different because I haven't edited these yet. But you can. So you can see repositioning the sketch, blocking in color, making corrections, carving shapes, rotating the canvas, and different things like that. So hopefully this will make this more enjoyable for a number of different people depending on how you like that information. And I hope that you enjoy the course and I look forward to seeing your projects. 3. The Course Project: So the project is basically to follow along with what I'm doing with the demonstrations and create your own digital painting using the reference material that I have here. And once you've completed your digital painting, upload it to the project area, and I'll explain how to upload the file in a separate video. 4. Creating Custom Color Pallet: Hi. In this section I want to show you how to use pallets. Sometimes when you're painting. Often the pop-up palette, choosing the color picker in the hue slider and all that stuff. It can get to be a little tedious because you can't get the same colors all the time. Sometimes you know, you, you lose some of that harmony that you get. Like when you're painting on a regular palette with paint, you use the same colors, you mix them and change them. But there's still a bit of harmony that comes about in your painting because you're using those same colors. And I want to show you one way that I like to do that. While using critter years ago, I used to use prisma colors all the time, and I grew accustomed to using that palette and it affected my style. So what I'm going to show you here is how to find a color palette that you like and use that. Hopefully I won't get myself in any trouble using the PRISMA color palette, but you can use any color palette that you like. If there's a set of markers that you've grown accustomed to and there's certain colors that you like or you paint. You can either scan them in or find those on the Internet. But anyway, here we go. Let's see what we have here. Alright, so I'm open up Krita and I'm in version 5.1, 0.1, what I wanna do here is I'm going to start a new file. And I'm just gonna go with the default is because it really doesn't matter. So I'm just going to hit Create. From here. I've already gone on the internet and I've searched, and I've found this Prismacolor colored chart. So again, you can go to the internet search like I used to use Rembrandt colors, say there's colors, Rembrandt, painting, paint. And let's see what kind of color chart we can find their color chart. Here we go. So say if there was a, a color chart that you liked, you know, different kinds of paints, you could just use something like this or, you know, search, search wherever you like, whatever color palette or again, create your own. I mean, you can hear, just sample directly from these paints here. Okay? Alright, so I'm going to close this down and I like the Prismacolor. So what I'm gonna do, I'm going to open up credit again, and I'm just going to drag this in and I'm going to insert this as a new layer. Okay? Alright, so in order to create this palette, you see here actually this is the Prismacolor palette that I've already created. So I'm going to click right here. Well actually if you don't see this, I'm going to close that. Alright, so I'm gonna come up here to the top and I'm going to choose settings, and I'm going to choose Dockers. And again, if you don't see the Dockers, just make sure you check, showed Dockers. And I'm going to come down here and choose palette. And that pops open. Alright, so I'm going to tear this off of here, this darker. And I'm going to just expand this a little bit. I'm going to move my cursor right here in the bottom. It's a little finicky, but, but when you get that double-headed diagonal arrow, you good. And I can expand that. There are other palettes that are in here. Actually, one of my favorites is right here. I'm going to click right here. You see where it says Prismacolor because this is one that I've already created. I'm going to click right here. And you can see their different palettes. And the one I like is this one right here. It says swatch CMYK or actually swatch RGB. And if you click on that, either of those I just like because they're sort of circular palette. But there's, again, lots of different things here. This is a nice one. And swatches. You can see here actually kinda feels like an oil painting. I think I might like this one. It has lots of blacks in here too, and it goes out to the warm and cool whites. Alright, so if I want to make my own palette, which is quite simple, I come down here again it to get to this, once I have the palette open, I click right here on the little swatches and I click right here. And it may say something different because before mine say prismacolor. If you just click on that little color chip right there. And it opens this up. And then down here, you can choose the little plus symbol, and I click on that. And I'm going to call this PRISMA color. Prisma color too. I'm going to hit Okay, Say palate and the current document. And I'm just gonna hit OK without saving that there. Alright, so I've zoomed in here and I'm gonna go over here to my toolbar, and I'm going to choose the eyedropper. And I'm going to click on that. And then right here I'm going to sample the first color here, cream. I'm just going to click there. And then when I come over here, I'm just going to click. So I want to name these colors. It's a bit tedious to name it, but since I'm trying to match it up with these colors here, I want to remember the names. I mean, when I was drawing with prismacolor pencils all the time, I definitely didn't remember the, the Pantone color. I always went by the name. So from here, I'm just going to select the, make sure the color is selected, That's the first color. And then down below here where it says prismacolor to my palette set, I'm going to click on this little pencil icon here. And from here I can name the color, and I'm going to click on that and type this in here, and this is called cream. One problem that I had is the first time I did this, I went through the whole set with by doing this, by clicking and dragging over, dragging over the name. I'll show you what I did. So make sure you don't do this because you'll just waste your time. Alright, so eggshell, I'm going to sample that. And then I'm gonna come over here to the second spot. Click and do not do this, rename it and think you've saved it because you move on to the next, you think you saved it, but you see when you come back, it still says color too. So make sure you come to the pencil. And I'm going to rename that color swatch name. And I'm going to call that egg Shell and hit okay, Alright, so I'm gonna do one more and then I'm just going to speed this up because I'm sure you don't want to watch me go through all of these. And that's pretty much it. You can probably skip to the next video if you like. One thing I want to mention about this is when you add the colors, is if you click here, it's going to add that new color in each slot. And if I hit undo, oops, as you can see, it doesn't undo it. Edit, Redo, add layer. So what you need to do is click here on the little trash can to get rid of those. And here you can see I'm on this old slot, but I'm going to sample the color anyway. Well, I'm going to click here yellow, orange so I can remember where was that? I'm not going to go to the new slot. I'm just going to see a yellow. Orange was the last one. I'm going to sample the color sample. And then I can click here, okay? And then I can name it. So it's like this. It's kinda tedious, tedious little jazz mine. It tedious little procedure you have to go through. So I'm going to sample the color and you can see what it's doing is jumping up here. What it appears to be doing is jumping to the color closest, closest to what I have just sampled. So I'm just going to get yellow ocher. I'm going to sample it and then click here. And then I can rename that. And that's it. And that's it. I'll see you in a bit. So that is how you can create palettes. You can either create something completely original, creating your own colors, or you can find something that already exists and use the techniques that I showed you here to bring that into Krita. Or you can use my favorite technique which is to find the palate them already comfortable with that exists somewhere else, and then create or add to that on the fly as I work when I create my own colors. Anyway, I hope this was a helpful technique for you and I'll see you in the next video. 5. Installing Brush Bundles: So for this digital painting, I am, I actually broke out my camera and put up a light and took a few pictures of my own. I kept this still life, very simple, but this time there's two objects. Actually, if you want to count the spoon and some of them, there are actually three objects. There's a teabag here and I left that in there because I really liked the contrast, so that green up against the orange. So here I am going to choose one of these. But you can feel free to use a different one of these images if you decide that you just want to do something a little different. So you can still follow along. I think I'm gonna go with this one here because I like this one. But this one has the, has the little green of the teabag. And I doubt that I paint those flowers in on the cup, the design of the cup. I'm sure, I'm pretty sure I'm going to simplify that quite a bit. So I guess that's it. So from here, let me open it up. Open with always open this up in the preview mode. And I'm going to open up Krita. So I'm going to go up to here to Image, Resize Canvas. And I'm just going to flop these. Well, there's 8.27 and I'm just gonna go eight-and-a-half by 118. No, that's the width. I'll make that 11. And make this 8.5. That's an American letter size document, not 5.58, 0.5. But you can do just rotate the A4 size if you prefer that. And when you happy with that, I'm just going to hit, Okay? Alright, so from here, actually that kind of fits this image, but you can extend it however you like. It's a little cramped here at the bottom. I'm probably going to extend that a bit. Alright, so I just uploaded these new brushes. So I have these here. There's a folder called speed paint, but I also put these in here in this folder called sushi brushes. If you watched my last video where I went in and I made, and I installed these brushes right here. Here's another one that you should install because I want to work with these brushes here. Alright? And I'm going to bring them in and then I'm going to install them. So make sure you install this one. Credit for. If you want to follow along exactly, you don't have to follow along with exactly the same brushes, but it'll, it'll be nice to try some of these out and see what, see what you like. So critical for. And it says extra credit for extras free brushes. And I'm going to click on that. And you can see here is a list of all the brushes and he has a little demo of what how you can use them. I'm just going to cruise through here because you can see I have this one in this group. Um, so, yeah, so there's this palette knife looking thing. There is actually, that looks interesting right there. And this canvas one, I like a lot. I really like this, it. And I'm going to bring you can see I've already brought that in. And then we have, this is a very this palette knife, although I don't think that's from within here. That might be one of the defaults. You know what? I'm just going to make a separate video. So here I'm just going to show you exactly where I found each of these brushes. So well. These first 41, while not the first four, these four here, 1234. These are the speed painting brushes that I showed you how to download. Now, I just need to find this eraser. I believe this, this and this. These three are also in the from David reservoir but in a different, a different set, a different bundles. So I'm going to hover my cursor and you can see, there we go. Alright, so I'm just gonna go back to my sushi brushes or speed painting there these. And if I hover my cursor here, you see if I move my cursor disappears, but if I leave my cursor alone, you see the name at the top and at the very bottom, you can see it says this is in a bundle speed painting is under brushes, be painting for credit five. Alright? And you can do that with each of these brushes. So by doing that, I can go to the squishy brushes and I can do the same thing. There we go. So you can see this one is in, it says Dryad. Hang on. It's divide bundle 2021. And this is I believe is the same thing. Extra credit for extra bundle, okay, this is a different one. Alright, so this is credit for extra bundles. Okay, Let's see where this one go. Okay, I just loaded that one. Alright, this one, and you can see it says credit for default. So this is my, I thought this was one of the default brushes, so critical for default resource bundle. And this should probably be the same as that credit for default resource bundle. So that's how you can locate all of these brushes in there. Basically, I believe Hang on. I missed this one. This one's in credit for default resources bundles. So they are in the three, there are the, therein, the speed painting and their defaults. And then there's that critique for bundled by David where Ofwat's. So that's where you can find all of the brushes if you want to use the same ones that I am using. 6. Creating Your Document: If you don't have credit installed on your computer, just do a quick search of Krita on Google. Ita, and you can download it, install this software from there. It will not work on a, at least as far as I know, create a will not work on a Chromebook or a drawing pad. You'll need a regular laptop computer, either Mackintosh PC or Mac, Macintosh, Windows or a Linux computer. So here I'm just going to click on this alias of the application to open it up here. We're in version 5.1, 0.1. There is a new version out now, but it's a minor version, a minor update that, so I haven't bothered to update it yet. Alright, so we're going to open this file up. And I am going to click right here where it says New File. I'm going to hit New. And you can see the have documents sizes here, pre-made document sizes that you can choose. But I'm gonna go with custom. If you don't want to bother with the customer, I would just go with an A4. But what I'm gonna do again, I'm in the US, so I use a the American letter size document. So I'm going to change this 2 " and I'm going to make this horizontal. And you can actually, mine was I think it's saved this from the last version. It's eight-and-a-half by 11. I don t think yours would say that, but if you want to work on the exact same size document that I'm working on. This is it, but you can change the document size as you, as you like. So the important part though, is to have a document roughly this size and the resolution at 300 pixels per inch. If by some chance your computer is slow or struggling, you can lower this to 200, see how that goes. Or maybe even lower it to 150. You can lower it more but I wouldn't but I definitely would not go below 72. Okay. That's as low as I would go, but these are the settings that I'm going to be using. But again, you don't have to use these exact settings. Alright, and now that I'm ready to go, I'm just going to click Create. And you can see when this new document I have a background layer and I have a paint layer. Just make sure you, when you begin painting that you are on the paint layer and you are good to go. Well, that is not exactly true. We are not good to go. You want to save your file, so I'm going to go File, Save As, or just hit save. Since it hasn't been saved yet, it's going to force me to give it a name and then just give it a name and make sure you pay attention to where the file will be saved. You can click and choose a spot. But critic does have an autosave and it will save these extra documents. So you want to keep an eye out for those. If you don't want them to clutter up your clutter up your computer with all these extra file. So I tend to try to save regularly and I will go back and toss those extra backup saves when I have the chance. But anyway, give it a name that you can remember and that you'd like. Then just hit the save button. So for this little demo, I'm just going to call this painting and hit the save button. And it will save it as a K. Our angle on it should be in here. Oh, wrong file. I put it here. Alright, so it's inhibited some other things. There it is, painting, critter. And this is not the final file, is saved within credit and it will not open up within all the files. So when you're done with it, we're going to save it as either a JPEG or PNG. But for now, we want that working file as a credit file, and that's it. 7. Start Painting: We have our image. And again, whichever one you choose, if you want to download the reference images, click on Projects and Resources, and you can download them right here. And the very first one is the one that I used. So you choose to use, I'm going to make this really small. Here we go. Alright, so what I'm gonna do here, so you can see how I work with the keyboard. So right now, Oh, I think I lost my drawing tablet. Yeah, you got to turn it back on. Connected. Alright, now I'm going to hold the space bar and I can move that n. Not sure what's happening right here with this. I'm just going to paint that white click on that layer because I find that rather distracting. So, alright, I'm on the top layer and the first thing I need to do is to build, to sketch these things in. So none of these are really great sketching brushes, but anything will do so I'm gonna go with this. I'm also using those colors that I used, that I create it from the Prismacolor pencils. You can use whatever you like. You don't have to use these. And actually to start out, I'm going to do a base layer and hang on. Yes, So I'm gonna do a base layer. I'm going to start out with a just something because the background is very dark. So I'm going to start out with a very dark background, maybe a gray, grayish blue. And then I will start to draw on top of that. Alright, so here we go. I'm going to use this one, this brush right here, which is the come on, show it to me. Flat paint, brush creamy, although it's gonna be doing a little blending, but I really don't care about that. The blending, I'm going to hold the Shift key and just stretch out that brush. I'm not going to tell you every time I'm using a key commands, but I do want you to see how I'm doing that. So I'm going to start. Yeah, that looks good. You can see this is kind of moving my there's a quite a bit of a lag here using such a big brush. But it'll get everything in there eventually. Alright, now I'm going to hit this with this canvas. Again, make that a little larger using the little canvas brush, you can see that nice texture you're getting with this canvas brush. Now I'm going to make a new layer here. Alright, so we have this one thing I'm going to do here. I'm going to right-click. And this is the brushes that I've been using previously. And you can see I have some of these brushes here, but I still want to use these, but I want to get to that pencil. What is, what are these cold here? I'm just going to grab a pencil here. Whatever brushes you have, I'm sure if you use the standard, you should have the base. Let me see. Basic. No, we don't want that tag. I'll just go with paint. And then I can use one of these thin brushes to draw. Alright, so I made a new layer here, and this is where I'm going to sketch. And this time I'm going to sketch with a light color. Okay? So I am just going to just sketch it out and get them on a new layer. So I don't have to worry about messing up everything below it. I'm not real concerned about being very, very precise. I just want to knock this in here and get this done fairly quickly. It's more enjoyable. There are times when I want to be very precise. There are times when I want to be very precise, but this isn't one of them. I just want to get this in here, but I'm still going to take a little bit of time. So what I'm doing, I'm just comparing the constantly looking at the shape and the size. And you can see how here in that fruit that intersects, and this is a persimmon and it just sort of intersects that bottom corner. So that's what I'm using for my relation. And I'm just going to go ahead and do that shape. Alright, then I'm going to shoot straight across here and then try to get that nice and round. Again. I'm not going to be real. I'm not really concerned too much about I'm getting that precision right. But I'm still trying to try my best, but I'm not going to kill myself over. So I'm just checking a relationship and I can see that shape that's forming if I ran a line across here. So if I ran a line across here to get that shape, it should be connecting about right here. So that should be the shape. Then I'll just sort of not that shape in there. And I'm just gonna do a general, the general shape of that piece up top. And if there are any button this out there, you probably can tell me what would that thing has got. Alright, so now I'm looking at the different shapes. Hang on. I got a weird I clicked on that. There we go. I'm just trying to check the shapes of each of these things. But again, like I said, I'm not going to drive myself crazy because I want to enjoy this. There are times when I will want to be more precise. 8. Repositioning Sketch: Alright, so I can see that I have gotten, this is too far off center. So I'm gonna go here to the move tool. The arrow hits that guy right there. So I'm going to click here and you can see I can reposition it and put that in position. Now, I'm just going to take the eraser here and click here. Well actually I need to go back to my brushes. Can hit B, and then there we go. And there we go. I can just scale that up. And again, if you're more comfortable using the pop-up palette for the size are coming up here. That's perfectly fine. I just find using some of the key commands of just a bit faster. And once you get used to it, it becomes quite intuitive. And once it becomes second nature, you really move quickly. You don't think much about it. Okay, that looks good to me. Alright, so that's my sketch. 9. Blocking in Color: So now I'm going to make another new blank layer. And here I'm just going to start dumping in the color, but I think I'm going to start out with this black and chunking. Dig in some of those those dark values. Actually, I'm painting with my paintbrush. I'm like, why is this being so weird? Here we go. Okay, So I'm kinda switch. Actually there are other brushes that are ready to use. Let's go with this one. I'm going to again just hold the Shift key, knock that to hit that. So it comes up and I'm after. I'm trying to get some of these strokes in here because I want it to have a bit of a painterly look and I'm going to go back and paint over that because I wanted to have a little bit of life. I'm not being very precise right here. And let's see, I'm going to start mixing some colors. So I want to knock in some darks, but I also want some, some color in here. So there we go, that nice dark blue, little too dark. So there we go, That looks good. I just overlap them and then I can sample the color until I get something that I like. I actually got lucky. It might be easier if you wanted to click on this little blending stump. You can smudge it a little bit. It'll be a lot easier to mix those colors, that, that's a lot easier. And then I can go back to that palette knife and I can sample where I want. But right now, I'm still interested in and keeping a lot of brushstrokes going here. I don't want to don't want to get too smooth just yet. So I'm just going to knock that in there. Again, this is all on a separate layer. But if at anytime you feel like, oh, I really like what I have going on here. You can always loops. You can always go back and choose a new layer, make a new layer. So it'll be easier to hang on. You can always make a new layer on top. I'm just going to, normally, I'm still happy with this. I'm gonna make a new layer here just to show you what I'm talking about. So yeah, that's all. And just go back-and-forth. And one thing that I like to do is to zoom out. So I can see the zoom-out or flip it so I can hold the, the, the amount of Mac I'm holding the command key and the Spacebar and I can just drag out. And I kinda like that. Alright, another thing I can do, I can right-click to bring up the pop-up palette. And then I can use the flip tool, but flip the canvas, but then it's just easier. Hit the M key. Although by flipping it just now. 10. Making Corrections: You probably hang on. You probably already saw this, but I couldn't see it. Is my cup here. Looks a bit wonky. I, when I flip it, I can see it's, it's wonky, it's not symmetrical. So here, from here, I can fix that. Actually, what I'm going to do is see if I can use one of these nice thin brushes. And if this is the base, That's where the base would be. See if I can fix it. I mean, I say I want it to look nice and relaxed and all that. But I still want it to look. I still want it to look real. I don't want it to be so relaxed that nothing looks right. I think it might be time to switch brushes. I'm going to go to this one and this one. And actually it'll work a lot better when it's smaller. You can see it. If I draw a Hang on, I'm going to sample the black and paintings of the blue. And you can see what it does. It just sorted. It trails off, but watch it. It almost blends a little bit too. I find it a little hard to control just a little bit, but I do like this. I like the way it adds a nice soft touch. We go. And you'll notice I'm not covering up all of my all of these brushstrokes I can kinda leaving, leaving some showing through. I'm sampling the blue by holding the Command key. I get the eyedropper. Again, if you're on a PC, that's probably the Control key. So a lot of these key commands and things I'm doing, I am now I'm going to switch over to this other brush because I want that brushy feel to it. I'm holding the Shift key and you notice I'm reducing, enlarging the size very quickly, just sort of on the fly. And then sample, I just hold the command key to sample it. Bring that back. And you see I'm kind of trying to keep those strokes and I have to build that handle at some point. Alright, so here, I'm happy with this. I'm going to make a new layer. And I'm going to come up here and I need to add that orange. I'm just going to knock it in there real quick. I want a little too far here, but I'm not real concern that I went too far over because all I have to do is hold that, hit the E key, bang, and there's my eraser. You can either come up here and turn that on and then I can just trim that off of there. And it's all C or pop-up palette. Same thing. Alright. Okay, I go back to B and hit the heat and get off of that. Okay, I still on E. And what I'm gonna do here is I'm going to hit a little red in the back, although that red is not quite right. So I'm going to start mixing these up a little bit. Actually, I'm going to go to that smudge, brush, smudge. See if I can smudge out a new color and then I'll go back to this other brush. Now I can sample it. Looks good and need a darker color here. And if it's not blending this, these pencils, they are very much like a pastel look. So if you want a softer edge, it's a lot easier to control two legged at sea. But I don't know, I just like the very brushy strokes but whatever whatever floats your boat as they say whatever you like, I'm just going to swing across and try to get this all in one stroke. Here we go. And then I can hit E and try to take it out. Again. This is working like this because I'm on a separate layer. I'm going to sample that in this color I know is off. I'm going to sample it, bringing some of that end. And again, this is supposed to just be a quick little quick painting here. Again, I'm trying to keep this nice and relaxed. We go. Another thing to keep in mind is pay attention to those darks and lights. Actually, I haven't been checking it, so zoom out. Get a good look at it. Alright, flip it. That's the M key. I can still see the cup is still a bit off, but we'll keep going. All right, zoom in. Actually, let's try this. Oh, I like this brush here. It's that one. And I know this color is overkill. I know it is not the same the same as what this the cup actually is. But I like the color. I guess this is what you would call artistic license. Now I need to darken this up and I kinda feel like I got some things going on here. So I'm going to make a new layer in case I, so I don't have to mess it up. I'm going to try to get that white rim in there rather than go hit the white. I'm just going to see if I can sample from within the painting on this sketch, but it's not coming out wide. Here we go. Bang, bang. There we go. Alright. And see if I don't hit it right, Just hit that Z, Command Z or Control Z to get rid of it. Hit the E, c. This is one of those things that I like. If I am just going to erase this, I could come in here with a very sharp pencil or brush and draw E. And draw that line. Actually. That worked out pretty good. I kinda like that. 11. Carving Shapes: Alright. Alright. So I guess I'll leave it. But what I usually do is say, I want to draw this part here. What I normally do is I'm just going to knock in that shape actually, I don't want that brush. Let's try it with this. Here we go. I'm going to knock in that handle. Again. I'm not worried about it being 100% precise. What I'm more concerned about is that it looks real, at least with this. There might be times when it is more important. But here, again, as I said, I'm just having a good time. So I'm going to sample, makes sure that shape hit the E key. And then I'm just, just chipping away rather than trying to draw it all at once. I'm just sort of chipping away at it with the eraser to try to go back and forth if I take too much Alf and I'm just trying to keep that brushy next to it. I think that looks good. Again, if I go too far, just hit the E key and Chairman away. Alright, so now I'm going to sample, and again, remember I am on a separate layer. So I don't have to worry about going too far. So if I, oops, mess up, I'm not touching those layers below. 12. Rotating Canvas: So I think I like that. Alright, so here I'm having some trouble getting my hand into the right angle. So I think I'm on this drawing tablet. Actually. Let's see, rotate. Hang on. There we go. So I can rotate the canvas like this here. Or I can use the pop-up palette and I can rotate the canvas here. No, not here. Here. So I can rotate it so I can get that angle right there. Now I forgot what I was trying to do. Hang on. Maybe click rate to bring it back. Alright, It'll come to me what I was trying. I was trying to do this angle right here. So if I rotate it that way, I can space bar to get that up. Now I can not quite right. Whoops. Now I can get that angle here, but I'm going to sample some of the dark. Actually, this wasn't what I was planning on doing. What I was planning on doing was less rotation. And I wanted to come across here so I get those strokes going across in that direction. Like that. See, I just loved the brushstrokes that this makes, but it's not always the easiest to control. Don't always know what I'm gonna get. You see, I'm sampling and read and pushing it back. Maybe I'll sample the dark and bring it out and then bring it back. But I'm always after those brushstrokes right-click, just click there, bring that back. Again. The shape of this cup is off, but I'm not going to worry about getting it. Perfect. Although I keep saying that, but I keep tinkering with it. Alright, so here I'm going to come across with that black because I want that black line. And what I'm gonna do, hit that eraser and then I can trim it back. Actually, I'm going to sample the blue to see if I can get that. There we go. Sample black and blue and bring that back. I can see my shadow is not quite right here, so I'm going to enlarge that. 13. Soft Brush Instead of Blender Brush: I can see that this shadow is nice soft, it's nicer, create nice crisp edge here, but it goes very soft. So I'm going to switch to this group of pencils brushes here. And you can see it has a nice soft, soft look. So I can blend this, feel free to blend, but I tend to avoid the blend just because not just my preference. Um, I just prefer using the brushes rather than blending. I'm going to sample this. I'm gonna go back to this brush here. Now, I need to be precise here. Well, actually no, I don't. I'm going to make a new layer. That way. I might need to start consolidating these layers soon. Nci, sometimes I move over, get to some funky position to get that angle rather than tilting. But you can always go and hit that tilt by using the canvas rotation. Actually, let's just try that. I'm going to hang on. Let me switch. Here we go. I'm just going to rotate. This is just a lot, a lot easier than going to the pop-up palette. There we go. Actually, I don't like that. Put that back e. Now. There we go. Okay. So I'm going to pop up palate boom. And it's just easier to put it back that way. Okay, so I can see this is coming along. I have some red in here. I'm going to sample. We get that shape. I'm seeing there's a highlight right here. I'm going to sample from when the net within that color, just because that's a little too light. And see what happens. There we go. 14. Freehand Selection Tool: Sometimes if you want to get a very precise shape, we can use this selection tool right here, the free hand selection tool. And if I click on that, I can very precisely draw this area here, this shape. It's easier than controlling a brush. Then I can go back to my brush. And then I'm going to sample in here and I can just swipe across here and you can see I stay within that shape and the controls that now I'm going to get out of this by going select, de-select. I'll do that again a little bit just so you can see it. I'm going to make another shape. Let me see my brush. I'm going to sample here. Yeah, so if you didn't catch that, I'll do it again. I'm just waiting for another moment to get that. Alright, so here we go. This freehand selection tool, I just clicked right here. It looks like a bean and I want that red shape. So let me try that again. I'm gonna go select. De-select are already de-selected. So here we go. There's the shape. There we go. And now I can add a nice dark red go to B for my brush and just paint it in. I'm actually I don't want to scrub it in because it's going to have a really hard edge. Let me see if I can brush it, cross it. See it's sampling the colors beneath and given me a mix that I don't really want. Alright, let's see what that looks like. Select, de-select. That looks okay. I need to get the shape right here. So I'm just gonna, I'm having trouble carving that out. So I'm going to go back to B. Sample. There we go. That looks good. And then select, de-select. That looks pretty good. I tend to leave the highlights to last, but I'm going to close to last, but I'm going to go ahead and knock that highlight in there. Right now. Bang, and then I'll hit E for the eraser. Take that out, take out the half of that. Alright. The shape of this is not looking good. Like I keep saying I'm not worrying about it, but this shapes when the shapes aren't, right? That's not good. Okay. Let me start going on this Persimmon. Just going to block and actually I should probably make a new layer. And some of these old layers, actually, I don't need to keep them separate. So I'm going to right-click and I'm going to flatten image. Oh, that's not what I wanted to do. I hit Command Z. I want to right-click and I want to merge down. Merge with the layer below. I'm gonna, it's gonna be a little more tedious. Merge with the layer below, marriage with the layer below. And I think that looks good, merge with layer below, but I don't want to flatten everything. What is the, oh, that's my sketch. Alright, so now I'm gonna make a new layer. And now I'm going to start blocking in, finished blocking this N. It's going to do it quickly. And I'm not going to worry about the shape too much because I can always come back with the black and control that shape that way. And now I'm going to bring in some of these orange. To do, do I have to tell myself, remind myself I'm on a new separate layer so I don't really need to be careful. Sometimes I'll come in here and I'll trim off more than I need. Say, it's wonderful. Alright, I'm gonna go with this brush. Let's just see what happens here. We can get a little bit of a softer edge here, because this one, it's, you can see how it is. It's like the other brush but not is the strokes aren't as defined. Which is kinda nice. Sometimes. It's nice to mix them, mix them up. Although here I want a nice hard, hard edge loops, ammonia eraser. Take that off. I'm going to rotate the canvas because I'm having trouble getting that angle. E. Okay? Always go back here because it's easier to just click there then to wobble it back in place. Alright, so I'm gonna go with a darker orange. Now that doesn't look dark. Maybe hit a little brown in ASC if I can mix some colors here. Gotta go darker. Actually, I'm gonna make a new layer. New layer. There we go. See if I can make some color. Actually I'm going to go actually this smudgy, smudgy palette knife. Let's see what we get here. This is one that I used to use all the time. Let me just bring in some colors. See how I chose this dark color here. When I bring it in, it just blends it. I can press really hard and it comes in. But if I go lightly, it just smashes everything. The only thing I don't like so much as it doesn't have a it doesn't have many brushstrokes to it. It's just a flat color. So I like to always go back and switch things up a little just to add more that start to lighten this up. And sometimes, rather than keep going and sampling colors here, I'll just click open a pop-up palette and move that over. Just choose a lighter color. Sometimes it's just, it's just easier. And it'll just go with the flow. And everybody finds their own way and works in just a little bit different, different way. Actually, I want some dark for that area here, so I'm going to pick that, that's maybe a bit overkill on that purple color. And E. Okay, I'm not grooving on that. Let's go here. Whoops. E for eraser. We go. This brush right here, which is called the wet knife, is very nice. It's sort of a nice blend. It blends, but it also leaves a nice brushstroke. I still sometimes have trouble controlling it, at least controlling it the way I want. I'm constantly sampling it. I don't know if you're watching my thumb here. Whenever I do that, I'm just sampling the colors so I don't keep going back to my color palette. I just sample from the, from the painting here. Alright, let's see. Hit the E and take away some things here. Okay, I'm going to sample some red and trim that back. Although you see how muddy this looks now, I have all these nice brush strokes and now suddenly it just looks. This brush makes things look a little muddy and soft. Here. I think soft looks good. So I don't want that edge there, so I gotta, gotta bring some of that back. There we go. So I just want a nice sharp edge right here. Okay. And I'm not a fan of this one. It just has too much going on for me. I think. Here we go. See, when I want those softer edges, I just choose a different brush. This brush has a nice soft edge. There we go. But I just tried to mix them up. Okay, I want a more intense orange. Let's just go here rather than search. 15. Warping Image to Make Correction: And I need to be hit that button. Boy. Heck up is so DB. Alright? Alright, here's another trick. Alright, You see how, why wobbly that is? It's funny that again, I just don't see it until you hit that, you flip it. But again, I'm sure you all have seen it from the beginning going That looks terrible. So I'm gonna go to this selection tool here, the bean. Alright, and I'm going to move this, oh, actually, I do need to merge these in order to do this. So I'm gonna go select, de-select and merge down. One more, merge with layer below. Alright, so now I'm gonna go to this one. I'm going to make a selection around this guy. Alright? I don't know if I've showed you this trick in the previous two videos. So from here, I want to try to straighten this out. Actually I'm going to hit M again because until I flip it, I just don't see that that cup is that off? Whoops. What just happened here is my hand hit the rotate and I need to fix that. Alright, I'm just going to right-click Pop-up palette. But I'm in here now so it doesn't want to work. Here we go. Alright, so now what I'm gonna do here is I'm going to use the warp tool. I mean, I mean it's going to right-click here and choose Transform. And I am going to choose to transform tool. And you can see I can stretch it this way, but what I'm gonna do here again, on top of this is right-click and hit warp. And I get this thing here. Now from here, I can go in here and fix this wonky cup. This is one of the great things about digital painting. Just can't do in the real world. There we go. So one of those things that if I couldn't do that warp thing, I would be going back-and-forth, struggling, trying to get it because you push it a little further and a little further in the real-world. And it just, it just takes a while before it clicks. You just push, push and it just doesn't get it. Alright? Okay, so now I'm going to de-select this. So I'll select, de-select. And now you can see I have these bits where I have to patch it up. I'm going to hit the M key to flip it back. Kinda don't like this. Okay, so I can see that's not lining up. So we'll just go ahead and use that selection connect. It's just easier. Now I'm gonna come in here with the brush tool and sample to get the black, reduce the brush size. And notice I'm using the Shift key. And then I can just come in here. There we go. But do you see that line connected nicely? There we go. And now I can go select, de-select. And now since we have that hard edge, you see here the edge is soft. And you see this is an, its shadow is just kind of a soft edge. So I'm just going to, actually, I'm going to make a new blank layer because I may blow this. So there we go. I can sample, sample that and just soften that edge of it. Didn't come in here exactly the way that I wanted. But let's see. Now I can hit the E key to get the eraser and I can trim back on that. I'm going to resample. And then E for my eraser and I can soften that just a little bit. Now, hit E, C, I'm just going back and forth. I get it. I'm just going to add a little black in here, sample. Hope I didn't lose the shape of my cup. Here we go. Alright. Now I'm going to hit the mg is still a little bit off, but we don't want to be here all day. We'd go. Again. I've put the edge there and then I just trimmed back. I just generally, I find that to be a lot more pleasant than drawing a hard line. Although I drew a hard line here. And it did work too far, can always hit Undo, but I usually just redraw. And I know this isn't exactly right. It's not exactly the same as what's here. It's more of an ellipse, but I'm going to stick with it since I've already started and I kinda like the way it looks, so we'll stick with it. I'm just sculpting it. Actually. Sometimes harder. Straight lines tend to look a little better than trying to get it perfectly round. Perfectly, perfectly. There we go. Alright, so we got all this. I'm going to go to a new, actually this doesn't seem to be a lot going on here. So I'm not going to worry about making a new blank layer. I think I can sample this here. Maybe I'll sample here. Add a highlight and a highlight. I'm gonna go ahead and make a new color or sample a new color. And then I'm just going to trim back. Yeah, I kinda like those going on now. Actually, this brush here is a little easier to use. Alright, so let's add some of that. Same no. Oh, I'm on my eraser. There we go. Alright, so now I need to start defining some things here. On this, I'm going to sample a sample that green right-click. And then just bring that down there. Rather than go and try to find some color. And what you wanna do here, at least what I'm gonna do is try to find these dark spots and just knocked the dark spots. And I'm not looking for a lot of detail. I'm just knocking in those dark spots. Okay. Let's just see what this looks like. I'm just gonna put in the dark spots and then I'm going to zoom out. And that almost, almost gets there. It because let's see, it's a little lighter here. I'm just going to sample right-click and then drag it to a lighter. Let's see. Is that light enough? Yeah, that looks good. And I know mine is a little green, but that's brown eyes. I just don't want to make this too brown. It's just we're going to do this. I'd rather have an make my, make this look a little bit fresher than it actually does. Because, why not? Alright, I am using some smaller brush strokes here. But I'm trying to add a little bit of detail. And maybe at some reference strokes here. And I'm holding the Shift key if you notice and making it smaller, I'm just brushing it. But again, you can always size or use the size up here. Alright, I think that looks good. Now I'm going to add in a, actually, I want to add something darker. I'm just going to sample the black. Here we go. Now I'm gonna go back to the orange. Get this shape is a little highlight there. Bring that back. And again, I'm here. I think I kinda like that nice hard edge. Again, these straight lines doesn't need to be perfectly curved. There's something about having those straight brushstrokes. I don't know. They just makes it look painterly to me. You see, I'm just sampling. I'm going into red back-and-forth if I want a hard edge, okay, this is where it moved when I use that warp. So there's a little space there to fix. Okay, I think that's all my tricks. So from here, I think I am just going to paint the rest of this out while at high-speed and stop talking so much. I think I showed you all my tricks here. F a few more up my sleeve, but I don't want to throw them all out there at once. Here we go. Alright, new blank layer. And one thing that I really like I'm going to hit undo is you see how that little miniature thing is there, the little miniature painting. It almost looks real to me there. So when I zoom out, you can see, just start checking your shadows and the contrast is super-important. Although I can see here, I need to add some more darks in here and I need to add, yeah, it just needs more contrast. I think the shape cup isn't perfect, but it doesn't look, doesn't look wonky anymore. So I'm good with that. I'm gonna go to a new blank layer. Here. I'm gonna go to this little canvas brush. And I'm just going to start knocking in some canvas, but I'm going to try to knock it in a little bit darker. Actually, I don't like that. Um, and again, I'm on a new blank layer. So whatever I do here, doesn't really matter. I'm going to right-click. This doesn't have the tilt sensitivity. So I can come in here and change the angle of this. My pop-up palette, not groove in on that. There we go. Then I can eraser, maybe add some blue here. 16. Squint to Simplify Values: Something I haven't mentioned squint a lot. See now I'm starting to see it. Squint. Squint. I'm not seeing it. When you squint. That's another way to see. As opposed to reducing the size, it helps you see the to get that contrast right. So squint. Make sure you save regularly. I can't believe I haven't saved yet. Okay. I think I'm going to quit here and I will check this out in the morning. I forgot the tea bag. I mean, the TEA the teabag tag. Anyway, I'll get that in the next session. 17. Fresh Eyes: A Second Sitting: Typically I tried to do these in one sitting and I could say that I'm finished. But I think I want to push this just a little bit further and actually I want to fix a few things. This cup is still looking just a little off. Here. It has less of a oval. Here it has I have this. It's more of an oval and there's a little v point here. It's almost like a square shape. Here. It's not matching up, down at the bottom. I'm not so concerned about this. I mean, I can see that angle now that maybe I'll try to fix it. I'm going to try to fix it. I'm going to merge these layers. Right-click, see what I can fix. And I'm right clicking on the pen tip here. Okay, So here we go. I'm going to use the, go back to the free-hand selection tool. Let's see if we can fix this. Go back, take a little bit more care. We go Command T or Control T on a PC. And then I'm going to going to right-click and I have a right-click button here. Or I could just grab my mouse and right-click and I get the, the, the warp. But since I have the button, but this is only if you don't have the button on the mouse. So again, right-click. And I get the warp tool, and I'll click there. That didn't go. Try that again. Warp. Strange. Let me 0 command T. There we go. Okay, My computer is running a little bit slow here today and I'm trying to get rid of that. That little pointy bit in there. Alright, problem I'm having here is it's not it's pushing down too far in the middle. It's not giving me exactly what I want, but you know what, I'm going to hit Undo. I am going to hit the Enter key and hit Command Z. Now I'm going to go Command T again. Oops, I don't want that command T. Computers rented a bit slow. I think I have to do many windows open. Alright, now let's try this again. I'm on the transform tool. Hang on. There we go. I'm just going to scrunch this down. There we go. That looks a lot better. It's fitting that shape a lot better. Actually, I'm not going to come from the bottom, I'm just going to come from the top. And it actually kinda softened out that little V that I had in there. There we go. That looks good. Okay, So select, de-select. Yeah, I like that better. And it actually matches up with what's going on down here that I'm going to darken this area here, B for brush. I'm going to hold the command key so I can get my eye dropper and sample that, that black area. And I'm just going to shave in there a little bit. Actually, I'm doing this. I'm going to hit Undo. I'm going to do this on a new layer. Why take a chance messing things up when I don't have to. We go, I'm on the wrong brush. This is the one I want. It thought it looked a little off. See this one sort of blending so that black behaves a little differently. There we go. Actually, I want to smoosh this up a little bit, so I'm going to use my wet knife here. See how that goes. There we go. So it's kinda, kinda getting a lost edge here where it's just sort of receding into the distance. Alright, that looks good to me. I'm gonna go back to this one. We go try to get that, sharpen that edge up a little bit. And the shape of this isn't quite right. Because you can see this comes along. Okay, so you can see here, we got some problems going. So I'm going to just hit that with this red. And then I'm just going to shave it till, hit E and shave this till I can get that shape bright. Oops. Thought I was on the eraser. There we go. That looks better. I'm going to turn this off and on. Yeah. It looks a lot better. Okay. The shape of this is still a little off. I'm going to right-click merge with layer below. Go back to my selection tool, Command T, right-click warp or Control T again. And let's see if we can get that shape. Okay, let me try this again. Hit the Enter key, let's try select, de-select. And to do that again, this time, I'm going to be a bit more selective. Go Command T, right-click Warp. Now let's see. I'm not happy with that. Yeah, that's kinda kind of working. Yeah. I think that looks better. Then kind of stretching it back into place so I don't have to patch that. I got a little bump going on here, but I'm, I'm good with that. Alright, so select, de-select. Actually. What does that shift command a. Alright, so remember the key commands when you start using something a lot. It's always a good idea to try to remember those key commands can save you a lot, a lot of time. I can't always remember them because I'm switching often switching back and forth between different software. But if you find, even if you just try to remember it for a day, it can make. 18. Adding Highlights: I'm sampling the white here because I want to highlight there. I'm going to hit undo a few times. I want to be on a new layer. That way I can kinda hit that in there, actually going to rotate. I'm going to hit that in there. Hit E, and then I can sorta shape that highlight. I'm going to right-click, get my pop-up palette, bring that back, just click in the background and get rid of that. Let's see if I can. Whoops, I'm still only eraser. Actually. I'm going to fade that out a little bit by just kinda brushing over that with the eraser. Actually, yeah, that was e. Now I'm going to shrink the brush down holding the Shift key. And I really want that highlight to pop. Let me make sure I got something nice and bright. Maybe a little bigger. Shape it. Yeah, I like that. Maybe it's a little too bright there, but Alright. What else? We got a little reflection, got lips, a little refresher flexion going on here. E shape it because it's a little too thick. But again, I'm trying to avoid lines, maybe make that pop a little bit more. I think I said I wasn't going to go for the plant, the flower, but I think I'm gonna go for it. A little white here. That the, when I say the plant, what am I talking about? I'm talking about the little design, the flower, flower design here. Oops, hit the wrong key. Okay. What else? Make that a little bigger. Maybe blended a little. I'm using this wet palette knife. Oh, that's not doing any doing what I want it to do. Okay. I'm on the eraser. Just kinda smudge it out a little bit. Erase here, I'm going to press hard. Okay, Let me just look at everything hit M to flip my canvas. I'm seeing the shape of this is still a little off. It's seems to be going down a little too much and, uh, yeah, I see that up here. I'll fix that. I'm going to sample that. I'm going to stick with this one, but you see the size, it's a little bit smaller. Actually, I'm going to make it bigger because this edge is a little bit harder than I want. I want that. I don't want it to be so hard. So what I'm going to do is this one. Let's see. Yeah, that looks a lot nicer. Having a bit of a soft edge, I'm going to sample the red, come back, keep missing it. But I can just keep going back-and-forth either side. I'll get it. Not that time. If you are watching this and you feel like I'm getting too heavy and that is the detail. But let me know. I'll try to keep some or maybe mix them up. Do some that have a little bit more detail and some that are a bit quicker, a little bit easier. Okay? Alright, I like that. It's starting to hit me where I don't see so many things that are off. 19. Flower Design on the Cup: And say I'm done with this, hit Command S to save it Control S on a PC. Now let's see. Oh, I forgot to little teabag thing here. Alright, so I'm going to merge this down, right-click merge with layer below. I'm going to add a new layer. And now I'm going to add that teabag. And actually I'm going to do the flowers first. And what I'm gonna do here, I'm gonna do it with, let's try it with this Canvas. Canvas color. There we go. And I'm just going to smudge it all in. And then what I'm gonna do afterwards is, excuse me, is erase what I don't want. Alright, so hopefully this will work. I'm gonna go to this brush. Make sure I'm on the eraser. And let's see. I'm just gonna do the general shape here. Actually this is looking a little smokey. I don't want this one. Let's try the canvas again. Is that going to E? Now, don't like it. Let's try this one. Okay, there we go. Maybe not. I want something that has a nice hard edge. E. There we go. I'm just going to knock these in quick. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this. Whoops. Now, okay, I made a mistake, but let me hit Command Z, see if I can get there we go. We got one flower here. Sorry, one leaf here. One leaf here. Come down to that stem, narrow that out. Leave here. Can just knock it in there. I'm not going to get too picky, scrub it out. And now what I'm gonna do, I'm going to cheat a little. Go back to that selection tool. We go make that shape. Oh, I'm on the wrong deal of thought. It wasn't working. There we go. Alright. We go. I'm just going to hit Delete. There we go. Easy, easy. Alright, same thing, get that shape. I'm just going to hit delete. Don't want to go too far. Alright, much better. The leet. Okay, I see a little crack here I need to fix from when I worked at Command D to de-select, Select, de-select, I'm going to go Shift command a bool. Alright? Okay, so now the fun part, actually not there yet. Let's get this shape. Is a leaf here. Delete, come down here, delete. Let's see if we can get this shape stemmed down. And I'm just going to try to get all that stuff that's left. Delete. Oops. And get that. Oops. Okay, I see there's a little bit of white peeking in there, but I'm not going to worry about it. Alright, delete. There we go. Okay, Now what now we got to fix these. I am going to come in here with this hard brush. And I hang on, I'm not on my brush. And I'm gonna hit command desk just to save it. Actually what I'm gonna do is I'm going to duplicate this layer, duplicate layer mask. I'm going to turn it off just in case I wreck this up. So I'm on the wrong layer. And then I'm just going to come in here because I'm not exactly sure how I want to do these, these leaves actually. I'm going to right-click, go to my pop-up palette and pick one of these brushes here that's precious sensitive. And let's just see, I like that one. You don't need to go with the exact brush that I have. I'm just trying to find something that comes to a point because you see the shape of these and I'm erasing. Alright, I think I don't like what's going on here. Nope, nope, nope, nope. I don't care. I'm just gonna go back to this one. Which one was I used them before? That guy. I'm not going to worry about it being I'm just going to not even eyeball it I'd hit to this, have a sense of what I'm looking at. King, king. And these are the petals. I'm not grooving on these because there's no point to them. And I can keep that edge in there. What I think I might do just because I don't really want this to stand out and I don't want to spend like all day working on this. If I want the detail, that's fine. See the other problem I could have. If I put too much detail into this flower is, then everything else needs more detail. It needs to be is lightened, fluid as everything else. Or I'm gonna make even more work for myself. Alright, it boom, boom. There we go. Alright. Now let me zoom out and see what this looks like. It's standing out a little bit. Alright, I'm going to duplicate this again, to duplicate. Alright, turn that off. And again, this is, I'll delete those after I just want to save them in case I screw up. Because what I'm gonna do is I'm going to take my canvas and put it on eraser and zip across. And actually just so I can take it down a bit so it doesn't stand out as much. 20. Cheating: Duplicating the Flower Design: Alright, You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna cheat even more. Yeah. I'm going to take this. Come across that select, I know these flowers are different here, but we are not going to draw those. I'm going to copy that. Edit copy actually because I don't think I've done I don't think I've done edit copy yet. Sorry, I'm looking in the wrong spot. I don't think I've done Edit Copy here yet. So what I'm gonna do is take a little time to show you how to do that. So I'm going to go edit. I usually just go Command C or Control C on a PC edit, copy. And I need to de-select that. And we have already gone over that and then edit, paste. There we go. It pasted it in the same spot. So I need to go to my move tool. Now, there we go, double-headed arrow, Alright, so I'm gonna move it over here. I'm gonna make it a little bigger. Command T or control T. C. No one will be the wiser. Hit the Enter key and I'm going to go edit, paste or Command V, control V. Move that over Command T or control T. I'm going to squish it because this is on the side of the cup. Hit the Enter key. Now I'm going to go back to my, I was going to use the selection. Was going to go with the selection tool right here. Just trim it. Let's see what happens. That looks good. Now, I'm going to use the brush. Put it on an eraser. I actually want that one. Eraser. Whoops, wrong tool B. B and de-select. Okay, I had to think about that. Reduce my brush size, make sure I hit the right key and that way I can control what's happening there. And I'm going to scribble out here because it looked like when I copied and pasted it, I picked up a little bit of something else there. Here we go here and just paint that, oh, it's on a separate layer. I'm going to merge, merge this down, merge with layer below, and merge with the layer below. So because whenever I copied, whenever I copied and pasted each of these things, they always makes it a new layer. Alright, here we go. Knock that out. I don't like it. Alright, so see, I should have left them on a separate layer would have been easy to move this up and down, but now these are all on the same layer. So what I'm going to need to do is select one of these flowers. I'm going to make this one bigger because I'm seeing it's looking a little small. If you look here, coming all the way across here. Yeah, significantly smaller and the leaves are a little higher. So I'm going to re-select that. I'm going to go to my move tool. 21. Skewing Object: And I'm going to go Command T. And I'm going to, whoops, oh, that was kinda cool. I hit the diagonal by accident, but I kinda like that. Let's see. There we go. So if I move the arrow here, I can skew it. Here we go. I actually do kinda like that. Make it a little bigger. I need to get myself some tea. My voice is so rough, I still got the morning voice. That's what happens when I stay up too late. Hit the Enter key, select diesel and select de-select. I'm just going to hit Command Shift a. And if you're on a PC, just check to see right here select. You can see what it says. Which is probably going to be Control Shift a. Alright, anyway, I'm going to zoom out, check it out. Yeah, those flowers kind of blend in nicely. Alright, so now what I'm gonna do, I want to add the teabag. I'm definitely going to go into new layer. I don't need these extra extra layers that I made here, so I'm going to delete those. Those would just backup in case I screwed something up, I can always get back to it quickly. I'm not sure what that is. I think there's nothing I don't think there's anything there, but I'm going to merge down just in case merge with the layer below. Whoops. What's going on here? Alright, I think I hit the wrong one. Cut layer. Cut layer. Alright. Okay, so now I need to add the teabag, new layer. Boom. I'm just going to make this. I'm going to grab my, one of my favorite brushes here right there, that is called the flat paintbrush, creamy. Grab a nice lime green on the brush and brush tool. There we go. I'm going to hold the Shift key, scale this up and just try to get this all in a couple of quick movements. Maybe come up here to my advanced color selector, grab a little darker, I'm going to move that darker. Keep the vibrance and see if I can. There we go. Now I'm gonna do it with this brush because this is going to soften that up a bit. Oh, I don't like what it's doing here. Actually, I'm going to overdo this. We go, sorry for the sound effects. If I weren't recording, they'd probably be a lot more sound effects. Alright, I'm gonna go back here because it has a nice hard edge. Hit E for eraser. Come across that. Go across here, boole. And again, I'm doing the sound effects. All right, now, not happy, not happy. Take my time. 22. Adjusting Layer Opacity and Wrapping Up: I think it's time to call it. Alright, that's one thing. When you're painting. When is it done? It's really hard to say. You know, sometimes you'll say a, it's done now and then other times, you know, you'll come back to it and then you realize, no, it's not really done. So you'll continue working on it. So let's try this eraser. See we get going on here. And don't forget, I'm, I'm only working on this layer here. So this is the new who, much better, much, much better with that extra bit of contrast. Darken that up. I'm going to zoom out. Maybe a little too heavy handed. So I'm going to click on this layer here. So it's a little too heavy. I'm just going to drop the opacity and see how that goes. Now let's try it. It looks better. Actually, I'm going to zoom out a little more. Off on maybe a smidgen heavier. Zoom back in. M4 to flip the canvas. Again, that's on the pop-up palette right there. Something feels a little bit off. Like the tilt of the cup isn't quite right. I'm going to work on it right here. And then I'm going to call it for real, as they say for reals. Alright. Sample. Make it small. Like the age, actually kinda like going over top of that. All right, just add that. Okay, alright, I'm done. I'm going to zoom out, flip it. And that's it. Alright, so we'd done here, I hope you found this enjoyable and I look forward to seeing what you post in the project area. And remember, I posted more than one photograph. So if you want to do something just a little bit different, I mean, you can use the techniques here and do something completely different. Setup your own completely different still-life. But if you want to use the photos that I have here, there's some, a little bit more variety. Feel free to use those as well. And hopefully you'll find these techniques useful. 23. How to Upload Your Course Project: An important part of this course is to do a course projects. So I'm hoping you all will participate. So I'm going to open mine up here and you might want to refer back to this later. So here I've opened mine up. I'm going to upload mine to the project area in order to show you how to do that. So you might want to refer back to this at the end of the course after you've completed your project. So the first thing I'm gonna do is save this as a JPEG or PNG right now it's a credit file, and I don't think that we'll be able to be read once you upload it. One. Another way you can do this is to simply just take a screenshot of the image. So I'm gonna go File Save As. And right here you can see it has dot k IRA, which means this is a credit file. And I'm going to click right here and move down to JPEG. And you can either do JPEG or PNG. Either one is fine. So I'm going to release right here and pay attention to where you're loading. Where are you saving the file? And pay attention to where you're saving the file. I'm going to load mine into this folder called stage. And I'm just going to hit Save. And it's going to ask you about the quality. If yours is lower, I just crank it up to 100% and hit, okay? Alright, so I'm going to close this out and I'm gonna go back into Skillshare. So here we are on the course. And just make sure you, down here it says about reviews discussion, and you wanna be on the project and reviews. And notice here at the bottom you have about reviews, discussions, et cetera. And you want to be on the project and resources. Okay? So from here, you can actually, since I'm here, I'm going to show you this is where you can download the example images that you'll be using to create your piece. The very first one is the same image that I use. You can use any of these that you like or create your own still-life. But if you want to use the exact same photograph that I used, you can use this very first one. Alright, so in order to upload that piece, we just need to click on this green button here, Create, Project. And from here, you want to select upload image and navigate to the folder where you have the file. I'm already there and I'm just going to click on this button right here that says persimmon painting dot JPEG and click Open. It seems like a lot of the images that have been uploaded in previous courses. Part of the image is cropped out. I don't know if this, I think this is a change, so make sure that you slide it all the way to the left to add the entire image. Or if you really want to crop it out, you can crop out what you want. But I'm just going to slide it all the way to the left and hit that green Submit button. And then for the project title, I'm going to have, I'm just going to call this course exam bull. And for the project description, I'm going to type course in inch door example and a Smiley face. Alright, and from here I just hit the green Publish button and I'm good to go. And of course, when you upload your project under project description, just leave any comments you want to leave. Anything you would like to say to me about the piece before when you're uploading it. And that's it. And I really look forward to seeing what you create. 24. Bonus: Quick Keys: Hi. This video I'm doing this video because Mel requested a video on using the shortcuts within Krita. So here we go. So the first thing I'm going to do is show you some navigation tools. These are very basic, and you probably already know them. If I hold, let me switch cameras here, here we go. All right. So here's my keyboard. I may have to slide this back and forth a little bit as I'm working, but most of the everything is set up on this side. All right. So when I'm working to navigate around, I will hold just hold the space bar, okay? You hold it. I don't know if you saw my let me move this. You see my cursor. When I hold the space bar, it shifts to a little hand. And then it disappears. I don't know why it doesn't stay there, but it is on the hand tool, and then I can click hold and move this around. Okay, another is to zoom in and zoom out. I have a mouse right here, and I can just scroll in and scroll out if I'm using a mouse. But if I'm using a drawing tablet, I'll be using a stylus. And this stylus does not have a um, doesn't have a wheel on it. And this is actually what I use most when I'm painting more than I would be using a mouse, but I'm going to be using the mouse for this demonstration here. But the other way is to hold the space bar, then add the command key, okay? And you can see if I hold them together. You see, I get that little magnifying glass, it just sort of disappears, but you can see it gives you that signal. And if I drag upward, I zoom in, I drag downward, I zoom out up in down, out. Okay? Now, if I add the Ault key, and you'll see on my keyboard right here, it says Option. This is a Matt keyboard. But there's that symbol that stands for Alt. It used to be in the old days, I don't know if it was that old, but I had an old keyboard, and it used to say Alt and option. And sometimes in my videos, you may hear me referring to the Alt option because I used a wired keyboard for a long time up until recently, I finally decided to switch to the wireless keyboard. And that's when I realized this is a little bit different. So that's the ult key on my Mac keyboard. So if I click, hold the space bar, the command key, and the option key, I'll do that again altogether. You see, I get sort of this rectangular magnifying glass, and if I drag upward, it goes in increments. And then when I drag downward, it goes incrementally. It's a little easier to control than the other one that just kind of zooms in, zooms out like that. Okay? So That is how you can use that. And you see I'm just holding the space bar and repositioning this. Okay. Now, if I want the move tool, that is this tool right here. Also, I would like to say something about these here. You'll notice right, if I move my cursor over any of these tools, if they have a key command assigned to it, you'll see it off to the right there. So the move tool is T. So I can just hit T on my keyboard, and you say I have the move tool, and then I can click and move what I have here. Okay? Now, I want to undo this, and I'm sure everyone knows this. I can go Command Z, and that will be control Z on a PC. So command Z, and that you know, it doesn't undo, okay? So I'm going to click in the background just to deselect that. Now, I want to go to my brush tool. Again, you can see if I hover my cursor over it. You can see it has the B in parentheses at the end, telling me that that is the key command for my brush tool. So if I just hit B on my keyboard, B, we have the brush. Now, there's two different ways that I can enlarge or reduce the size of my brush here, is if I use the bracket keys on my keyboard, you can see, there's the left and right, the right bracket will make my brush larger, and the left bracket will make it smaller. That's pretty easy to remember, and easy to control. Now if I want to make it larger, I can quicker, I can just hold the button, and it will scale up faster, and the same with the left bracket to make it smaller. Hold the button down. Now, there's another way, and this is the way that I tend to use it. If I hold the shift key, I can drag to the right and it makes it larger and I drag to the left, it makes it smaller. I'm just holding the shift key, actually, let's see. And this is what I'm doing here with my mouse, which has been offscreen. Drag right, drag left. Drag right, drag left. Now, if I want to erase something, I can just hit E on my keyboard. You'll see up here in this bar right here. Right there, you'll see there that's the eraser. I can click on that, and I go to the eraser. It keeps the brush the same, and then I can click to take it out. Now, if I hit the E Key, it turns it on, and I can go to the eraser. I'll just watch the eraser tool, and I hit E, and it turns it off. If I'm using the pop up palette, I will right click. Here's the keyboard shortcut. I'll just right cli Now, just make sure I'm on the brush tool when I do this. When I right click, the pop up palette pops up. And again, you can see you have access to all these controls here. And I will right click to make it go away. Now, if I'm using the pop up palette, if I hit the tab key, you know, it clears up more space. So say if I'm using a small monitor? If I use the tab key, it clears away a lot of this stuff. And that way, when I right click, I have a lot more space to draw. Okay? So if I zoom in, you know, I have a lot more space to work. And again, tab key. And this is an important one to know just because it's so easy to accidentally hit that button and go, Oh, my gosh, I just cleared away everything. Well, how do I get it back, tab key? One thing to remember, most of the time when I'm talking about these things, on a MC, it's going to be command and on a PC, is going to be control. So sometimes I'll say command control, meaning either or. I say if I'm going to go to my move tool here, actually, I'm going to go T. And if I select this, if I want to rotate this or transform this, So if I want to transform this, I hit command T control T on a PC. And then from here, I can rotate this by moving my cursor out to the side, I can make it larger, distort it, grab from the corner, and enlarge it, make it smaller, I can hold the shift key so it doesn't distort it, so it constrains the proportions, and to get out of this, I'm just going to hit the escape key to get out of it without accepting that. And then I'm going to click away. Okay, so I'm going to go back to the brush tool. I'm going to hit B. And if I'm painting, Oh, make sure I'm on the paint layer. All right. And if I'm painting, you can see if I want to paint a straight line, I can hold the letter V as in vector, hold it, and when I paint, you can see there's the line, and I release it, we'll fill in with paint. I'll just click, drag, and it will fill that in with paint. Okay? Now, I'm going to hit command Z to get rid of these things. Again, control Z on a PC. Okay, now, if I want to select everything, I can go Command A or Control A, and you see the dotted lines, the marching ants around here. Now if I want to deselect everything, I can hold the shift command A in that D selects. So again, if I use this free hand s the free selection tool, I can make a selection. If I hit T, I get to go to the Move tool, and I can move that, and to deselect that, I can hit command Shift A, and it will deselect it. I'm going to hit command Z to undo that. Now, now, if I want to just select something, I get that rectangular the rectangle tool, I can go command R, and you can see I can draw out this box here. And if I want to add to it, I hold the shift key, and it will make another like first, you can see I can draw box, and it will replace that box, that selection. Now, if I hold the shift key, I get a little plus symbol next to my cursor, and now I can draw that, and it will add to that selection. Now, if I hold the ult key, I get a minus. Now it's going to subtract from that selection. Okay? Now, if I want to get rid of all of that, just drag across everything, and there it goes. Often when drawing, I'll want to flip the Canvas. You can see if I let me go to the B brush tool. If I right click, there's this thing right here where I can flip the Canvas, and that's just sort of to give you an idea of what is, you know, what your drawing looks like, so I can hit M. I just tap the M key, and it flips it. It just sort of breaks that the way your mind is seeing what you're drawing. Cause often if you're working on a drawing, you don't see that something is off because your mind makes adjustments to it. And have you ever walked up and looked at someone's drawing and you go, Whoa, that I is really out of whack, and you pointed out to them and they're surprised. And that often that happens to, you know, the person you know. That's because, you know, if they flip the canvas like this, you know, that's a good way to break that adjustment that your mind is seeing. And it just makes things a little easier to see. So, again, the key to flip flip that. And here's another tool. You notice up here here the foreground color and the background color. If I hit x, you can see I can just tap that and it flips those. And let me see. If I hover my cursor over that, it doesn't say x here, but you can just tap that and it'll flip. All right. So now I'm going to show you the settings. And that is where there's a couple of things that I want to add. Like, one is, I want to rotate my brush. One of the things that I actually nel, thank you so much for requesting this because by me doing this, I actually learned that they'd added this into the system. Up until the last time I went through these kind of things, it wasn't there. So often I will have a brush, and it doesn't rotate. You know, the brush tip. It won't let me make this brush a little larger. And I'll either have to come up here and then I'll click here and I'll rotate, and then I'll come back up here and rotate that back. Or I'll Oh, actually, and I believe I put this here. You can click here, and you can change this, okay? So you can choose whether you want to change the opacity, the flow, or the size, and I chose rotation, Okay? So yours may not be there. I almost forgot about that. All right. But the way I used to do this, too, is I'd right click, and you can see here's the angle here, but look how tiny that is. It's really difficult to Oh, click on that and make that rotation. But I can make the brush rotation go clockwise by tapping the y key, and by adding the shift key, I can make it go counterclockwise. But that is not on by default. I have added this in myself, and I'm going to show you how to do that. So if we go up here to where it says, RTA preferences, and if you're on a PC, this might be under settings, but I'm going to go here preferences under a MAC, and you'll look for something right like this. There's General and right below General, you'll see keyboard shortcuts. And I'm going to open this up all the way so we can see this a little easier. These are all the different things you can change, and I'm looking for something that says painting, right here. I'm going to toggle that open, and there's a ton of things. And as you can see, most of these tools do not have key commands or shortcut keys. But you can add them as you like. If there's something that you're not using, you can take it away from something or if it's getting in your way, or you can add to things that you use a lot. These keyboard shortcuts, you need to pay attention to the way you work. If there's something that you use a lot. It's a good idea to make it a keyboard shortcut. It can really save you time. Okay, so, as you can see right here, I'm going to go find I'm just going to look for a Y. It's a lot easier here. So this says none. And it says rotate brush tip, clockwise. And here's another that says rotate brush tip, clockwise, precise. Okay? So I put a Y, and I'm going to do the precise one, okay? And I'm going to click on it, and you see it opens up. So I'm going to try Alt Y. I'm going to click none and see input, and I'm going to choose Alt Y for the precise, and it accepted it. But often you'll get something that tells you if it is already taken that keyboard shortcut is in use by something else. You can't override it, but be careful with that. You know, you want to make sure because sometimes it could cause a conflict. But this was clear, so I'm happy with this, and I'm going to hit. All right. And now, if I go to brush y, clockwise, shift, counterclockwise, and this is going to be precise, so it's just going to go a little bit shorter. And you can see it's moving clockwise, but in a smaller increment. Okay? I'm never going to remember this. I have to remember to remove this. All right, so there's one more that I wanted to show you that you can add, and that's the opacity on your brush. So you can see here is my brush. Let me make that larger. Use the bracket key. Okay? And let me try this, W. That'll work. Now, I'm going to reduce the opacity of this. And I believe I used I And you can see my opacity up here going down, I, I, and if I go O, it will go back up. Okay? And I'm pretty sure the defaults for that are none. So let me check this. I'm going to go preferences, and let's see if I can find that opacity. I'm just going to look for the I and the O here. It's a lot easier. All right. I, I see the O and I decrease opacity. All right. So I'm going to click on that. And you can see, it's, Okay, the default is I. Oh, k, sorry. I thought that I created those. So the default is I. And so that's okay, and there's the O increase is the default is O. So we're good there. You can use I to decrease the opacity and watch the opacity up here, the opacity bar. I tap that and it goes in 10% increments, and when I paint, Hang on. And I tape O, and it increases. Okay? So if you can see as I tap to increase that opacity, it becomes darker. Okay? Now, tap O, I mean, I, I reduce that opacity. And I'm sure with a different brush, this would be a bit more obvious. Now I'm going to undo command Z on each of these. Oh, okay, so the one that I wanted to show you was how to program the Freehand selection tool right here. Okay? So if I move my cursor over this, you can see there's nothing. All right. So I'm going to go back to preferences. And let's see. W is select? Select down here. Okay, I'm having a little trouble finding this Freehand selection tool, so I just want to show you this. If I can't, I want to find a tool here in the preferences. I'm going to move my cursor over it, hold, and you can see it says Freehand Selection tool. Now I'm going to go back up here to the preferences. Click. And there's a search bar right here, and I'm just going to type in Freehand. And there you go. You can see free hand selection tool. And I can and there's nothing assigned to it, no shortcut assigned to it. So I'm going to click on that. The thing is, I actually want to know where this is located. It says tools. Okay. It's under tools. I'm going to hit clothes. Now let's see if I can find it. I'm just curious. SVG tool. Okay, tools. But again, you can always find that in tool shortcuts. Here we go. But you can always find it again with the search once you have the name. So tool shortcuts, and There it is. Freehand selection, and there's nothing assigned to it. Okay, so I have nothing assigned to this. So I'm going to make this this Freehand Selection tool, a W. Okay? So I'm going to click, Toggle this open, and you can see, default is none, and custom is none. I'm going to click right here and I'm going to t W, hopefully, nothing else is assigned to it. And it accepted it, so I'm going to hit. All right. Now, when I'm going to go to my move tool. Okay, here we go. Let me space bar, move that over. Now I'm going to tap the W K, and you can see there's the Freehand selection tool. Okay? Now, if I want to add to this, I can hold the the shift key, and you see I get the little plus symbol, so I can add to it. If I want to subtract, I'm going to release that, and I'm going to hold the option key, and I get a minus. So even if I'm not very precise with this, I can go back in here and subtract and edit that down till I get it just right if I go too far, now I'll go back to the shift key, and I can add if I take too much off. It's very versatile. And another thing that I can do with this, I'm going to command shift A to deselect everything. If I start with this tool, again, that I'm going to go to B, and I've assigned this as a W, so I tap W. Okay, so if I click and start dragging and I want to make this a straight line, I'm going to hold the command key. And you can see if I keep drawing, it still remains free hand, but if I let go of it, it gives me a straight line. So I took my finger off the mouse button. Okay. And now I can click release, click release, click release. Click Here, and now I'm going to release the command key, and you can see it closes up. I'm going to do that again. So Shift command A to D select everything. Okay, so I'm going to go around this leaf. I'm going to click, drag, go around. And when I get to here, I'm going to add the command key. Now I'm going to release the mouse button, and you can see it goes to a line, and I can click, click, click, click. Then I release the command key and it will close up. All right? So this is quite useful. And I believe that that's everything. Let me check my notes. Ah. And there's one more thing, las, so I see here my notes. I have one last thing. If I hold the shift key and tap the backspace button, that's on a PC, actually, it will fill whatever selection I have with the foreground color. On a mac here, it's the delete key. Okay? I mean, you have two on mine, I have this extended keyboard, so I have the delete here and delete here. This is backspace. And this is actually delete, but this is the equivalent of the backspace. And I'll just tap that button right there. So again, backspace while holding the shift key, and it will fill with the foreground color. And you'll see up here, that is the foreground color. Okay? So if I switch those, I'm going to toggle that. I'm going to hit X, and you see the foreground color in the background color switched. Now, if I hold the shift key and I tap the backspace button or delete on a mac, it will fill it with what is now the foreground color. Alright, now, I'm in the I'm going to I haven't completed this yet, but this is something called a stream deck here because I'm completely switching directions here. And this is called a stream deck. They come in different sizes. I have one. There's a medium size one, which is about $150. This is a large, the Excel, which is 250, and they actually have a six button version that is about $80. And what I do with this is because I'm often using different software, and it's hard for me to remember the key commands for all these, if I'm constantly switching between different programs. So you can see here, I have different programs key commands set here. And here's Krita. And if I click on that button right here, this has all the different key commands. I don't have icons for these, which are, you know, aren't great. But hopefully, you can see what's happening. There's one that says flip. You can see if I tap the flip key, see it's flipping the Canvas. And let's see what else we got Pop up palette. No, pop up. I'm not on the brush tool. That's why I didn't get the pop up palette. Okay, brush. Hang on. Let me click to get away. Okay, so here we go. The brush. Now I'm going to tap pop up. Okay. And there's the eye dropper. Oh, that's one I didn't hit. Okay, we got to go backtrack a little bit. Alright. I'm going to come back to here. And I'm going to go to shift command A to D select. I'm on the brush. And say if I'm brushing something, Okay, let me crank that opacity back up. I'll just do it right here. Because some of these key commands that I'm telling you, I don't use all the time. Because I don't usually use this opacity thing right here all the time. There are certain ones that I use a lot and others, I don't. But say I want this and I want to sample a color. This is one I use a lot. I'll just hold the I'll hold the command key or control on a PC while I'm on the brush tool, and you can see I get an eye well, when it first goes, it shows me the eye dropper, but then it changes. But I can click there, and now you can see that's the color I've sampled, and then I can paint. I can click here, sample and paint. And that's really important. I can't always just hit the P key as it says right here and go there, but I almost never well, I never do that. I just when I'm using the brush, I'll hold the the command key, and then I can sample and then paint. And then, you know, when I do that, again, I hold the command key. I get the eye dropper sample, I release, it goes right back, and it's that easy. Okay, so I think that's everything. Let me know if you have any more questions, and I will get back to you when I can. And and I apologize for this one taking so long. I actually contemplated doing a whole course on this, like, I wanted to do one, include all the information about the stream deck. But I decided to just too much time had passed, and let me just go ahead and get this out. And hopefully all of this is helpful. And yeah, let me know what you think. Alright. Take care. Bye. 25. Wrapping Up: So thank you very much for taking this class. I hope that you are able to create something that you are happy with, or at the very least, I hope you enjoyed the experience of creating the piece. If there's something that you think needs to be changed or you'd like to see implemented in my next class, please let me know if you have any suggestions for the next class, please let me know. So until next time, take care.