I have a question. I'm brand new to digital art and would like to know if can I make really large, say 60cmx330cm, simple posters on Krita? I'd like to replace Inkscape with Krita and use my new tablet for it. The poster(s) wouldn't be detailed pictures, more like for grammar points using line drawings, stick figures, maybe with some colour, and will be displayed on my English boards at school. I have access to a large printer at school just not sure if large posters are doable.

I've been making these posters on Inkscape...

https://alt-english-board.dudaone.com/

..but would like to do it in a more freehand and organic style.

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks.

Most definitely you can, those are not extreme dimensions but you need to keep a few things on mind if you want to do it.

-Krita can't print directly, you save your file, you export it to a image format then you print it with your usual software for the task.
-Usually, the dimension limits are "set" by your computer capabilities, large files in Krita can consume lots of memory and require plenty of processor power, thus you need to check in increments how big you can get with your own hardware.
-The dimensions, color spaces, and dpi are separate settings, many users would set dpi too high and use higher than 8bit color spaces, this would amount in huge files that may crash krita due to the pc inability to process such information.
-Seen the work you doing (nice posters by the way ), I would keep everything to default, 300dpi for printing is default but don't feel constricted by it, you may get along with lower resolution for the kind of graphics you doing without affecting printing quality. Same goes for color space, if you are not picky about color (extreme picky) the defaults are just fine.
-Seen what you do, I find a bit puzzling you want to switch from Inkscape to Krita, but sound like a fun thing to do non the less, you can even use both programs as you can copy/paste vectors from open files to and from each other and maximize the things you can do with these software.

All in all, I think you shouldn't have any problem doing it, but let us know if you manage.

Your posters are technically and artistically very good and Inkscape is a good choice for producing that style of large printed image.

In krita, a 330cm x 60cm image at 200dpi (about 26,000 x 4,700 pixels) with three layers will occupy about 2GB of RAM and krita will take up about 4GB of RAM in total. At this size, you may find that panning, zooming and changing colours and brushes can be quite slow. At 300 dpi the situation will be worse. It depends on the amount of RAM and CPU power of your computer.

I took the .sgv file of your 'Pink Pig Game' and exported it as a 200 dpi .png file then opened it in krita and made a small addition to it. This was possible for me but is quite slow and needs patience and planning. There is a screenshot extract below this post. If you zoom in a little, you can see the jagged edges on your original vector artwork and the choice between 300 dpi or 200 dpi (or whatever) is a matter for you to decide. There is a distinct difference in style/tone between the 'rainbow rings' I added in krita and the original vector artwork. Using krita would give you the possibility of many different styles and effects.

The best thing to do is to try krita at various levels of dpi resolution and image size to see how it feels and what results it gives you. It costs you nothing but your time and your patience and perhaps a bit of your sanity

Hello Quiralta, thanks for the response.

I am a poster fanatic. My compulsion knows no ends. I'm very happy to read that it's doable, however, having no idea about all that digital art entails, it remains to be seen if "I" can do it. For example, I have no idea what 8bit colour spaces are etc etc, but I guess I'll just have to get stuck in and learn.

Quiralta wrote:Seen what you do, I find a bit puzzling you want to switch from Inkscape to Krita...

I'm looking to change my posters up with a more organic, hand drawn look. But I'm so early in my research that I'm not even sure if my new, yet-to-be-drawn posters (which I'll make in Krita) will appear pixelated or not. The posters I've been making up until now on Inkscape all have clean lines after printing out at the large size. I'm worried that I won't be able to achieve a hand drawn feel at the large print sizes without any pixelation. I'm basically trying to get away from using my mouse to draw to using my hand instead. I'll be using an Alienware R3 with 16GB of RAM and my new tablet (bought for my wife and I), a Huion 15.6 v2 which is sitting under the Christmas tree as we speak.

My quest to provide posters, done in a hand-drawn style, for my students knows no bounds.

Happy drawing adventures, friend! Perhaps we can share some drawings some day.

weegie

Hi ahabgreybeard, thanks for your message.

ahabgreybeard wrote:I took the .sgv file of your 'Pink Pig Game' and exported it as a 200 dpi .png file then opened it in krita and made a small addition to it.

A big thank you for doing this ahabgreybeard. It's very kind of you and much appreciated. I really have no idea what to expect and how it will turn out. I feel like I'm driving in the dark learning all this new tablet stuff and trying to read as much as I can about Krita and my head can't retain all the info that's coming its way. Just part of the learning curve I guess, but it makes me feel my age, that's for sure. Do you think it would be too extreme for me to convince the wife that we should open "our" Christmas present early? Well, just a passing thought.

Best,
weegie

weegie wrote:.... I have no idea what 8bit colour spaces are etc etc, but I guess I'll just have to get stuck in and learn...

... I'm worried that I won't be able to achieve a hand drawn feel at the large print sizes without any pixelation...

weegie

It seems you will have capable software at hand, thus I wouldn't worry too much for pixel artifacts, just stick to drawings that are more than 5000px per side and you will be fine, again, you probably want to do your hand drawing on Krita but would be better (in my humble opinion) that once you do a drawing on Krita, then port it to inkscape for the final poster composition, as it gives much more control to move and organize objects. besides you will probably (depending on the composition) can manage larger images if you do them by parts.

Just pay attention to the dpi and don't go beyond the defaults, don't worry for other parameters, I'm on the same boat (mind you with little more than three years of using Krita) as I still can't "digest" the whole color space thingy, but I don't need that level of technicality for what I do, recently I did some printings and believe me, I was way too worry for the sharpness and color of the drawings, results were much better than expected! , thus, I would recommend to experiment a bit first (may be a couple of prints) and see how much detail you can get at some specific size. From there you can always go either smaller or bigger depending on the outcome.

weegie wrote:...Happy drawing adventures, friend! Perhaps we can share some drawings some day.

Any time you want to share a drawing do so, we will be happy to see them, you can do it here on the Art section of the forum, and there are groups all over the social medias (and many of us are on them sharing what we do), like devianart, facebook, tumbler, twitter, mastodon and we just open one on mewe (to replacle G+ that is closing), thus welcome to the club!

Thank you Quiralta.

The suggestions you made are very helpful:

Quiralta wrote:...you probably want to do your hand drawing on Krita but would be better (in my humble opinion) that once you do a drawing on Krita, then port it to inkscape for the final poster composition, as it gives much more control to move and organize objects. besides you will probably (depending on the composition) can manage larger images if you do them by parts.

For example, you have helped me understand what I can (and probably should) do. I didn't consider drawing on Krita and then porting to Inkscape. I also didn't consider making my posters in parts and porting each part over as I go. This would definitely save resources especially with larger images.

Thanks for giving me something to think about.

Keep the shiny side up,
weegie