Shading workflow for comics - Krita
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- Learn to shade a comic in Krita the way I shaded Episode 34 of my webcomic Pepper&Carrot ( www.peppercarrot.com/en/artic... ). The video is detailed and goes step-by-step to explain in details what I'm selecting; and more importantly maybe, why. It might sounds like this setup is long to do, but if I'm not explaining it; adding the hardlight, the mid-grey and the selection by color label can be done within a minute. It then allows to shade quickly the panels. This video follows a series of two videos: a timelapse about inking a page of this episode, and a detailed video about the flatting of the page with the colorize-mask feature of Krita.
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*Timeline:*
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:24 Demo descripion
- 01:24 Setup the layer stack
- 03:33 Inherit Alpha and group
- 04:39 Hard-Light blending mode
- 07:41 Color-picking shade color
- 08:54 Select by color label
- 14:15 Timelapse shading
- 15:22 Color balance
- 16:21 Conclusion
*Previous video mentioned:*
- Timelapse inking: • Timelapse: inking a co...
- Colorize mask video: • Krita Colorize-Mask: A...
- Color grading comic: • Color Adjustements for...
- Magical effect! • How to add turbulence ...
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Video and artworks by David Revoy
www.davidrevoy.com
*Soundtrack:*
- Intro: Fabian Measures - Hanami (CC-By)
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- Timelapse: Kevin MacLeod - Perspective (CC-By)
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- Outro: Kevin MacLeod - Backed Vibes Clean (CC-By)
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Edited with Kdenlive 20.12 on Kubuntu Linux 20.04
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Thanks. What I didn't understand is why you used the 50 % grey when you actually shade the character with color? What is the advantage of using a grey?
David will probably answer but I can already tell you what he explained on a previous video : the mid-gray used with hard light blending mode allows to color pick a shading in respect of the opacity, whereas if you color pick the same shading without the mid-gray, you will obtain a 100% opacity color even though it was not applied at full opacity. Sorry if this explanation is not clear... :-)
@@jeckos150 Thanks a lot. I will rewatch his previous video then.
@@catchyou29 Sorry if I wasn't clear about it; Yes, it is related to solve opacity issues and color-picking (and also later using filter; like Color balance).
A black brush stroke at 25% opacity on hard light will render the same than a solid 100% opacity 25% gray. But one will be picked all the time as black color; other one will be all the time at 25% gray color.
When I started to experiment with Hard-Light; I quickly saw it was a pain to get transparency on it for shading. So, I build the habit to start it with a Mid-Gray to solve this issues.
@@DavidRevoy Thanks a lot for your explanation.
@@DavidRevoy Brilliant! Multiply Below 127 and Screen above 127; You are a genius, sir!
I never stop being amazed at how much I learn about Krita everytime I watch one of your videos, David. You're incredible!
Thank you very much for your feedback!
I just think is so amazing how you use Krita, I'm still learning, videos like this are so good, thanks
Thank you for this very in-depth tutorial on shading comics with Krita. This was actually a topic I was struggling with a little bit. I will try out your method as soon as I can, but from what I've seen I like it already.
Thank you for another great tutorial, especially for the tips about hiding the ants and selecting by layers marked with color labels.
Oh yes; the 'selection by color label' is so powerful. Thanks for adding a comment!
My gosh, my mind was blown several times in this video. Setting the magic wand to select by a color layer is simply amazing. I'm so glad I found you, I learn a lot from your videos! Thank you so much! Your art is beautiful!
Wow, thank you!
Thank you for showing us your process! Very helpful.
Thank you, David. Your tutorials always illuminate things I wouldn't even think to look for.
you always have the best tutorials
The label selection "trick" is absolute gold! Worth the entrance fee alone. Keep up the great work.
Thank you so much! This was very interesting. I will definitely try this next time I shade my drawing. Your tutorials are a big help.
Thank you David and co-worker...
Although, your assistant seems to have worked way harder than you! Hahaha
😻
Simply magnificent!!!
Thank you for showing your workflow! That was very helpful
I love your tutorial style - thanks so much for making this video! It's very helpful the way you don't assume people know all the shortcuts etc - I've learn a lot
Awesome vids! It's a lot of effort to record and produce a vid like this, it's well done and I'm grateful you put the time into it especially since I'm learning krita.
Cette vidéo était vraiment super enrichissante. Tu as répondu à beaucoup de mes problèmes de shading, Merci beaucoup ! Bon courage et bonne continuation !
Beautiful. Just in time to try out the new version!
Bless your soul lol. I’m loving digital art because of you.! Thank you.
Thank you so much! Your explanations are very thorough and helpful. I really appreciate it! Looking forward to seeing more Krita tutorials from you! :)
Thank you!
Your tips are absolutely best, thanks, i love your videos so much, you saved me so much time
thanks David, this was immediately incredibly helpful for me!
😊
This is great! Thanks for showing your skills!
Merci pour cette 2ème partie du tuto!
😊 merci!
Thank You so much for your tutorial on Krita 💗
It is awesome to see you still making these videos and using Linux. Your work is inspiring! Thank you for sharing.
Merci beaucoup! :)
Thank you Nomane Bear! I couldn't unfortunately do new video (the move from Freenode to Libera.chat took me all extra my time budget last weeks). I'll try to record new soon.
Thank you, I learned a lot from this video.
Thank you very much!
Great video! I need to learn more about Krita! :)
I have to say, it took me a while to get into Krita, I didn't understand it at first. But after trying a few paid apps (procreate, photoshop etc) I'm actually REALLY impressed at what it offers completely for free.
Great tutorial thank you! 😄
ive never seen a shading technique like this with using the hard light mode im going to try this on my next piece :)
Thanks! Yes, this technic (as many on my channel) are homemade research and dev. Good luck trying it; it might be unconfortable at first; but it offers a real economy of 'layer switching' and items on layer stack to manage shading+light+ambiant+effects in a single pass.
Thank you very much for your advices and kindness
Thank you ;)
True master of Krita Tools!
😊 Thank you
Thank you for your Videos. I've already learned so much from you.
Thank you for the feedback! 💜
Your an amazing teacher bro recently I seen your videos related to krita 💗they are so awesome and beginner friendly 🙏thank you so much
Oh, thank you for your nice comment!
Super boulot, Maître ! (Et vous aussi, David)
Thanks! Learned a lot
😊
Merci infiniment ! Ces vidéos sont tellement riches d'informations ! On y apprend à la fois des techniques de dessin et des fonctionnalités insoupçonnées de Krita !!! :D (sélectionner par la couleur du calque wahou !!!)
Merci :-)
this tutorial si awesome but there's something i notice this is like when you are doing a drawing with gray scales then use the blending color layar and add the color but in reverse layers the grey is up and the color is in the bottom, still love the tutorial and its pretty useful
thank you!! i just needed to know that i need to do Cntrl+U. No one cant to say that
David, I love your tutorials - they are so helpful. I wonder if you could do a tutorial about creating backgrounds? I've progressed a lot with my character composition and detailing, but my backgrounds let my work down.
Anything you think you could show us?
Thank you very much ! Noted about the background, I'll think about it, thank you for the suggestion.
Is there any video of yours where you show how you create the "Speed" effects?
Would love to see that creation process
Hi, you'll find a chapter about it in the Line Art tips video, a bit of an old one, I'll try to update it soon.
What happens when erasing? Does it erase the grey too? So do I have to fill it again with grey?
Hey, so when Erasing, it will just erase and the area go back to transparent at this place. If you don't plan to color-pick this area later; it should be fine. But if you paint on it with black color and a brush managing opacity (eg, a 20% opacity stroke of black); if you pick color at this area, it will pick 100% black. That's not a big risk :)
I'm curious how you learned so much about Krita. There are so many different tools and shortcuts I didn't know about the program before I found your channel, did you go to art school and learn all of this or did you learn some other way?
I simply use Krita for my work since 10 years now (almost daily) and I was the first professional user to switch to it fulltime back in the day when it was still available on Linux only and part of an office suit: Calligra. I followed Krita development since this time and gave a lot of feedback and bug reports, I went at Krita sprint(IRL events). I made many workshops. I participated to paper (the origin of Colorize mask, a couple of Gmic filters)... I feel now a big part of this software was adapted/customised for my specific need between 2012 to 2014 when there wasn't a lot of user around; a bit like a second skin. I keep following development daily (on IRC channels; I read some of the code commit description too). That's how I keep knowing what is happening in Krita. But since Krita 4; many things are evolving quickly; and I'm no longer a 'now-it-all' of Krita; areas like Animation and specific brush settings are new lands to discover for me.
@@DavidRevoy Ah thank you you for so much input that makes a lot of sense! I’m happy you’re kind enough to share your knowledge with us! Love your videos :)
I've learned that the best way to learn Krita, all the weirdest tools and shortcuts, is to help other users. If someone has a question about a tool, you usually need to check the tool yourself and explore to see if what they are asking about is possible or not, or for example when you remember it is possible, then to tell them exactly how to do it. That way you learn quite fast. At least I learned a lot.
@@DavidRevoy When I joined Krita team, I was able to be engaged in everything, test stuff that was interesting to me, help others and keep an eye on everything. Now, only two years later, it's just too much ;) I'm learning to let go of even things I am interested in but they can be handled by other people, like the Height mode for textures... And just keep track of those that need me most (or those I like most... :P ).
// tiar
@@tymondabrowski12 Thank you for passing by the channel; and as you can see; your "selection by color label" (so powerful) was fully adopted for all episode 34! Very good feature!
QUESTION: how do you force your cat to always sleep at the same spot right at a time when you shooting your videos? Is there a secret technique for this?
It's really easy: I have three cat and a little house (my workstation is a corner of the living room) ; and this spot is one of their favorite place to watch everything in the room, so there is competition for it (but the red tabby often win it). If you look to previous video; my other one younger brown tabby appears also. The third one female likes this spot only by night when the two other are hunting outside. They usually like to be around, and they sleep a lot of hours during day. So, it would be harder for me to shoot when they are not around (I usually record that on wednesday afternoon). My light setting for shooting the video is very intense (to get web camera to catch many frame per second without noise) and they probably also very like it. I hope it will stay this way, but if one day I record a video and there is no cat; it will be ok too :-3
Ctrl + U does not work o.o even when I choose the filter by hand in the menue... o.O Any ideas?
Hi, it's a floating windows; so I guess it is a bug in your Windows Manager. Are you using Android? (I ask, because I don't think this system has a any floating Window, no idea how the developpers team adapted to that.). All in all, it's a bug; please report to the developpers with references of your device and system.
Personnellement je préfère simplement verrouiller l'alpha de mon calque "lineart"
Et passer avec soit une couleur différente, valeur différente ou encore choisir un mode de mélange. 🤷♂️
ou alors:
-Ajouter un calque au dessus de mon calque" lineart".
- faire un groupe
-Activer l'héritage alpha comme ça je modifie sans détruire 🤔
N empêche, l'héritage alpha de krita est juste génial , j'adore cette feature et je l'utilise probablement de trop🤣
Ce serais super si il y avait des sous titres Français ! Ya-t-il une possibilité d'ouvrir les sous titres créé par la communautée ? (je ne sais pas comment ça s'appelle réellement)
CZcams (Google) à supprimer la fonctionalité en Septembre 2020; ils ont dit que cela posait trop de problèmes d'abus et spam. Ca n'avait jamais été le cas sur ma chaine.
Les sous-titres anglais devrait facilement être téléchargeable sur ma vidéo; (ou sur Peertube), si on me les renvois en Français; je les ajouterai manuellement. Merci!
7:17
how is it not pixels ?
It's pixels, raster images. But if you wonder why you don't see the pixels when I zoom, I just ensure to start my canvas a large size. So I have room until I reach zooming over 100%.
Bro it won’t let me erase my shade that I do, I don’t know what to do
Hi, to erase the shadows on this type of special layer: you have three options in Krita: 1. the E key to erase , 2. A selection then the 'Del' (delete) key, 3. paint with Mid-Gray color because of the blending mode on the layer.
If you check this three methods, and none of them works, try to isolate your layer and see what's going on. (eg. Move it on the top of your layer stack ) . A rare case might exist where the Layer Group has trouble to refresh. But it's rare and I saw that only on very unstable Krita development version. But if it happens on your computer, please report! Thanks and good luck.
@@DavidRevoy okay I’ll try it, thank you so much!
@@DavidRevoy yea it’s still not working, I think it’s because I have a rinky dink laptop, because when I erase or try to change the color, it shows the colorize mask instead of getting rid of the shade
As much as I love Krita, I don't think using it to create comics is a good idea in terms of workflow, given how limited the text tool is.
Well, you are right. But if you care about your freedom&privacy and use a GNU/Linux system; there is not a lot of other options.