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Guest post by Justin Nichol. More game art with Krita! Support the project here on Indiegogo! My name is Justin and I have been making illustrations and game art with open source software for some time, and release my work under open licenses for others to use. I use Linux and Blender, and I initially […]

Could you tell us something about yourself? My name is Iván R. Arós, alias “Esfenodon”. I have been working in computer graphics for the last 13 years, but I think I’ve loved art from the first day I can remember something. I studied Arts at Vigo University, and I have always been using traditional tools […]

On the road to Krita 3.0, we’re releasing today the first alpha version. This has all the features that will be in 3.0, and contains the translations, but is still unstable. We’re fixing bugs all the time, but there’s still plenty to fix! That said, we think we nailed the worst problems and we’d love […]

The topic of the new drawing challenge is Mythical Creatures. Here it is on the forum. Post your entries in on or before April 23, 12.00am UTC, so we can vote in the last week. Happy drawing!

Could you tell us something about yourself? Well I’ve been drawing for most of my life and I’ve always wanted to make art for games, so I pursued a degree at Collins College and I graduated with my Bachelor of Science in Game Design. Do you paint professionally, as a hobby artist, or both? Both! […]

(Guest post by Nathan Lovato) Game Art quest, the 2d game art training series with Krita, is finally coming out publicly! Every week, two new videos will be available on YouTube. One on Tuesdays, and one on Thursdays. This first volume of the project won’t cost you a penny. You can thank the Kickstarter backers […]

“vOpenBlackCanvasMischiefPhotoPaintStormToolKaikai has a frobdinger tool! Krita will never amount to a row of beans unless Krita gets a frobdinger tool, too!” The cool thing about open source is that you can add features yourself, and even if you ... [More] cannot code, you talk directly with the developers about the features you need in your workflow. Try […] [Less]

After Japanese and English, here is the first book for french-speaking people who want to get started using Krita! The author is  Timothée Giet, long time user and contributor and the creator of two of  acclaimed training DVDs for the Krita Foundation, Comics with Krita and Secrets of Krita. And there is also a preface […]

Today was an important day for the Krita project! We entered feature freeze! That means that from now on until the release of Krita 3.0, which is planned for April 27th, we won’t be working on adding new features, but we’ll be fixing bugs, fixing bugs and fixing more bugs! If you want to help […]

This is the first article of short series on ways everyone who wants to put some time into helping Krita can make a real difference. There are many ways of helping Krita, ranging from coding to writing tutorials, helping users on forums to helping with fund raisers. But let’s take a look at one task […]