Hi all
I'm entering the world of graphics - self-teaching - with the goal of creating enamel pins and potentially t-shirts and other similar items. So, I'd love to know are there others here who use Krita for graphic work of this kind?
A quick search didn't show anything, so hopefully I'm not re-hashing another thread.

Cheers

Hi,
I'm don't work on making pins or goodies, but I'll try to answer anyway.

Krita is good for creating visuals from scratch. And you can print the result in various format and size (choosing the initial siez wisely for no quality loss obviously). Some formats as png take the alpha (i.e. transparency) into account, which is usefull for some designs (I did it myself for a print on a T-shirt with non-opaque transfer paper). So it all depends on the process of making the pins...on what do you want to print your artwork ?

For "simple" designs, you could also consider creating you design in vector drawing, so you can shrink or make it bigger without resolution issues. In that case I cannot answer for Krita. Krita 4 has vector features, but I don't know them. I can advice you Inkscape for vector drawing.

Good luck with you self-training, and have fun

Do you already have experience of making enamel pins and printed t-shirts, or having someone make them for you? If not, then I'd suggest that's the most important area to get right because it involves spending money and needs other people such as suppliers of materials. For printed t-shirts, a printing company would need delivery of artwork in a particular format, for example. These and other considerations would be very important for your success, in terms of not wasting your time and money. There are probably various forums and online communities devoted to these activities for that sort of advice and background information.

As for Krita itself, all you need is your own time and a willingness to experiment and to learn. It's capable of producing any artwork you might imagine so good luck with it and use the this forum to ask about anything you need to know.

The documentation is useful too: https://docs.krita.org/Main_Page