Hello everyone, I just finished a presentable version of the lineart for something I plan to fully color. It still has a few rough edges, like the wing, lack of detail on the body, and no teeth, but it is almost finished.

It was done by using Krita from start to end, EXCEPT for the starting super-rough sketch, which was done using MyPaint. Certainly the infinite canvas of MyPaint is the most awesome sketching feature I've ever seen in any painting application; but once the sketch is done, MyPaint (and even The Gimp) lack certain features which I thoroughly enjoyed in Krita.

Let me be a little enthusiastic:

• Transform tool = LOVE IT. MARC!, AWESOME TOOL!, So fun to use, so useful!. (I also catched a bug while using it, and reported it Bug #253828). I warped and rotated and warped and GOSH it helped me visualize things, SO USEFUL IT MAKES ME DIZZY.
• Select by brush tool = I couldn't have used the Transform tool without this!, Excellent tool!, beats the "lazo" tool by leaps.
• Hotkeys = Love them!, SO GOOD!. From resizing the brush to using ctrl+shift+z to redo instead of ctrl+y, to the right click to spawn a color selector (but UGH it has a terrible slow-down bug that I just reported Bug #253826). All I need now is a hotkey to invert the foreground and background color!.
• Stability = Love it, it didn't crash a single time!, I can finally DO ART in Krita!. NO CRASHES, NONE, NOOOOOO CRASH, and it's a debug build!. PARTY TIME!. It used to crash on my face every 5 minutes.
• Mirror image = Love it!, This makes sketching much easier!, specially for me as I do not have a Cintiq and rely on my screen being good to me for better sketching. (But it had a bug with brush resizing which I also reported Bug #253718).

Overall, since the freeze, Krita has improved dramatically for me. In fact dramatically is an understatement. See, it's hard to agree on what makes a good program, but we can all agree on what makes for a BAD program:

• Doesn't install.
• Crashy.
• Slow.

The "Doesn't install" problem needs to be fixed for the Windows guys, but for IT DOES INSTALL FOR ME . IT DOESN'T CRASH and it is NOT slow anymore!.

Did I yell enough to make my point?

So to show off here I share a lineart done almost completely in Krita, the only thing done outside, as I said, was a very broad sketch, done with MyPaint.

What can I say?, even the bug of not being able to produce something presentable vanished for me. Thank you everyone!, this is wonderful!

The original image is larger and done in 16-bit Linear RGB (SO GOOD!, another thing that The GIMP doesn't have).

In case you forgot this character:
You can find it here
And here

The concept refines a little more with every iteration.


Original Kra file

Transform tool is an AWESOME tool. I used in my stuff to fix Traven's perceptive and rotation.

I use X to switch foreground and background color while painting.