Doing so could've easily ballooned the size of the book and, more importantly, could have made for a dreadfully dull and largely uninformative read. Also, despite being a reference book, Digital Painting with Krita 2.9 is not an exhaustive compendium of every checkbox and widget. It's on you and your experience as an artist to decide how exactly you want to put those tools to work. There's a greater focus on what kind of features are available in Krita and how you can optimize the program for your projects. One thing to note is that, for the most part, the book doesn't go into heavy detail on any specific painting techniques. Regardless, the chapters are laid out with a practical structure that starts with simple explanations of the basics and works up to more in-depth and advanced topics on customizing and optimizing Krita for the way you like to work. As a reference book, it isn't meant to be read from cover to cover. And if you read the book from front to back-as I did-you might find yourself thinking, "Oooh, I know something cool I can do with this feature!"Īs you would want from a book about a tool for creating visual content, Digital Painting with Krita 2.9 is packed with good-quality, high-resolution, full-color images and figures to help illustrate where features are and how they work (as well as show off cool artwork made in Krita). References are great for looking up how and why a specific feature works. In a time in which there's a preponderance of tutorial-based resources that show how someone else works with a tool, I really appreciate a book that tells you about the tool and how it works, but leaves the actual use of that tool to, well, the user. Contentsįirst, let me point out that the 230 pages in Digital Painting with Krita 2.9 are structured as a reference book, my favorite kind of book. I received a digital copy of the book for review, so continue reading to find out how well it stacks up. Furthermore, because this book's author has a personal emphasis on Krita's user interface, imagining a better-credentialed person to put this book together is difficult. This is the first book in English to specifically cover the use of Krita in digital painting, and as Krita's popularity grows, resources like this become more vital.
Near the end of last year, one of Krita's developers, Scott Petrovic, stepped up to provide a solution to this growing problem by publishing Digital Painting with Krita 2.9. Materials end up getting spread across the Internet, go out of date quickly, or are conveyed in a variety of different voices and media. Of course, when development moves this fast, keeping up the documentation is often difficult. With everything from big-time performance jumps when using large brushes, to the addition of support for animating, Krita's growth has spiked and the project continues to get attention and high praise among digital artists.
They had a successful crowdfunding campaign over the summer, which helped fund the development of an onslaught of features targeted for versions of 2.9 and beyond.
2015 was a big year for the Krita project.
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