Hi guys,

I'm a complete amateur at digital painting in its entirety, so I apologise if my questions are ridiculous and basic.

Currently I'm a traditional artist, using mostly ink and whiteout. I focus on thin linework to create depth, character and so on.
I import my artwork into Krita, and then I get lost. I want to basically manipulate the image without tracing over it, as this would just be incredibly time-consuming.

Of course, scanning in the art causes the grains in the paper to be visible, the tone of the ink slightly shifting in various places on the piece, and so on. Is there a way I can manipulate the colours without tracing over my work? (Currently it's black for the ink, and white for the paper, no other tones) so could I somehow control all white and make it whiter, ridding the piece of the paper's grain effect, and also control all the black so I can make it ultimate black?

If any of you are interested in seeing my work you can find it here www.facebook.com/delanceythroneartrw and perhaps you could get a better understanding of what I mean and what I'm after.

Thank you so much to anyone and everyone that helps!

http://www.davidrevoy.com/article239/cl ... h-in-krita

Check out this article.

Although you don't necessarily need to do a blue sketch, you can just turn white above a certain threshold into transparent. It might just end up looking a bit messier. But you can always do some manual cleanup with the eraser

There's a couple of tutorials you could take a glance at.

http://theratutorial.tumblr.com/post/65 ... he-rise-of

http://theratutorial.tumblr.com/post/66 ... layers-are

And

http://davidrevoy.com/article239/cleani ... h-in-krita

Basically, you should be able to do a lot with the filters under filter->adjustment. The levels filter for example could be useful
Another filter that is useful is the one under filter->color, called 'color to alpha', this filter will allow you to make the white parts of your drawing more transparent.

Hope this helps!

My recommendation would be to check out David Revoy's guide for "blue sketch to digital in Krita". http://www.davidrevoy.com/article239/cl ... h-in-krita

The scanner does help with this process. I see some of your artwork uses a camera to 'digitize' it. That is ok, but I always get a bad vignette effect on the outsides that make it difficult to work with and edit digitally. Maybe if you had good even lighting on the art the camera technique would be better.

Thanks very much for your help, guys! Definitely improving my knowledge and work on Krita now.

Love it.