Hi!

I'm going to be creating a comprehensive video tutorial series/course on Krita over the next couple months and I was hoping to get some feedback.

I'm a new computer teacher at a public high school and I've switched my lab almost completely to using FOSS. Although I've been able to mooch wonderful, professional, and free training from YouTube for most of the software (Inkscape, Blender, etc), there doesn't appear to be anything for Krita, other than a few odds and ends.

I purchased the Muses DVD and have been using it, but my high school students aren't exactly stoked about having to read subtitles while trying to figure out how to use a Tablet and Krita at the same time! haha...

I posted a few demos on YouTube as part of figuring out my workflow, and to get feedback on. I would appreciate your comments either here, or on YouTube.

There will be two series, the main one about Krita, which will be OS agnostic (the first video will be redone to separate out the Linux specific parts) and the other will be about using a Wacom tablet with Krita on Linux (which my lab will be switching to next year if they let me =)

Krita 2.9 Tutorial Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 1UE9P5LUvZ
Linux - Wacom - Krita, Tutorial Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... vc8dz8bOxl

A few specific questions I have so far that you could help me out with?

0. ANY feedback you can give me about ANYTHING to make this course professional and useful! Nothing is too nitpicky!
1. 720 or 1080? I want 1080, but everything is so small! All the tools and buttons are hard to see unless your full screen and streaming HD, and I don't think there's a way to increase the size of the UI elements in Krita?
2. Topic list for the Krita series or Linux-Wacom-Krita series. I'll post a work in progress list below. Eventually I hope to get through Krita's entire feature set (ambitious, I know =)
3. Would it be out of line to request donations or would this have any success as a Kickstarter, with the sole purpose of purchasing more drawing tablets for my public highschool classroom?

Potential Playlists:

Krita 2.9 Tutorial Series

Intro
1. Getting started (the bare minimum to get painting)
2. New document settings
#. Brush Presets basics
#. Layer basics
Drawing Tools
#. Freehand brush tool (each of the tool specific tutorials will go comprehensively through the Tool Options available to them)
#. Line Tool
#. Rectanlge and Ellipse Tools
#. Polygon and Polyline Tools
#. Vector Layers
#. Bezier Curve and Freehand Path tools
#. Dynamic Brush tool
#. Multibrush tool
#. ...

Linux - Wacom - Krita, Tutorial Series

1. Mapping a Tablet
2. Disabling Touch
3. Wacom Express Keys
#. Express Keys Advanced
#. Resetting Krita's docker layout
#. Adding new brush presets
...


Oh, one final caveat, I'm not actually an artist myself... more the coding type, but I can draw kickass stickmen, snails, and chasms! =D

Your links for the youtube playlists are invalid.
Krita 2.9 Tutorial Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaGRTLvEbVzyj48oczt9gkV1UE9P5LUvZ
Linux - Wacom - Krita, Tutorial Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaGRTLvEbVzxF5tGBZ_M6Prvc8dz8bOxl
I'm looking forward to completion of your tutorial, since there aren't still so much information about how to use krita.

Thanks for bringing this up.

I have tried to collect some helpful tutorials and training and put them up on krita.org. If there is anything better that you find or create, please let me know.

For your training agenda, you aren't clear on what the course is focusing on. Is it just to learn the tools in krita, or how to create paintings? I imagine if you aren't an artist, the painting part is going to be a little more difficult.


There is a lack of training right now on Krita with all that it does. I have been in the process of writing a book for the past few months. I have a book proposal out to a publisher, but need to bug them again (currently in their review process). There is a lot that I have learned just because I talk with the developers frequently. There are many tricks and tips that you cannot find online.

For your training agenda, you aren't clear on what the course is focusing on. Is it just to learn the tools in Krita, or how to create paintings?

It will most definitely be focusing on the Tools, and will not be a painting/drawing course.

I did have an idea, however, to create a "Bob Ross to Krita" conversion tutorial series =D It would show you how to set up Krita (Palettes, Brushes, equivalent strokes and methods, digital mixer) so that you could follow [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvJ6XCn_plQ"]Bob Ross lessons[/url].