Hello!

Well, I'm not even a bit as skilled as the other artist who have posted their works here, anyway I wanted to share an attemp I did with beta 6 version:



It looks rather incomplete, mostly because of my lack of experience as an artist and the fact I'm having some trouble getting used to Krita, I'm working in Mint 12, so it's being difficult to configure shortcuts and those things. Aside from that I have some doubts about the software.

Also, I recorded the process on video, so I guees I'll upload it soon also.

What was the problem beside shortcuts?

Hi! Well, The first one is probably related with my tablet calibration, but the first curious behavior is the polygonal lasso tool, it works fine as long as I use it with the mouse, but when I use with the tablet I can't close the selection by double-clicking, as I said, it's probably a problem with my tablet configuration.

However, this problem makes me simply use the lasso with the mouse only, but then there's another strange behavior: pressing down the space bar to pan the canvas when using the selection tool will "lock" the panning and the tool, i.e. if I'm using the lasso in a corner of the canvas and then press the space bar, the "pan" locks in that corner of the picture and won't let me use the lasso. It sounds strange, but I guess I can upload a little video of it.

Now, the canvas rotation is very useful, but as good as it is I always had a problem when doing the following actions while the canvas is rotated:

- Zooming in/out.
- Using any selection tool.
- Drawing with the path tool.

Whenever I try any of those the canvas suddenly spins and ends up in a strange position.

Finally, And because I'm not sure how the layer groups work in Krita, adding a layer to a group will discard it's blending mode information? In the picture above I had a layer in Soft light mode, and when added it to a group it seemed to change to normal mode.

Cool artwork Cezzare ( I like the smoothness and the high color of it ) , and also good feedback.

For the feebback , It would be cool if you could help to report them to the bug tracker ( it need an account ) : https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?prod ... mat=guided
We are not that much testing and reporting bugs, and your report would be really useful. ( for exemple here , I never use the rotate as well as the polyline , so I *never* tested them. My bad too )

I confirm here (compiled an hour ago) , using Qpainter, and not OpenGL canvas :
-The polyline tool not closing with double click of tablet ( trap user in an infinite loop of tracing lines!). Also not work for polygon tool ( closing polygon ).
- Space bar (panning) with other tool sometime switch to panning tool and never come back ( ex : select polyline, start 2 polyline drawing, Escape key to stop it, pan with spacebar = the tool switch to panning, but don't switch back to Polyline )
- Canvas center is totally perturbed with Zoom in / Zoom out while a rotation angle is active
- Inside a 'group of layer' blending mode is back to 'normal' ( the blending mode of the group 'normal' by default override the blending mode of layer inside the group ). Is all layer from a group have to be slave of the group blending mode ?. In my opinion, Groupement of layer should have no influence on the blending mode of the child layer in it , until else specified. ( ex :if the group have a 'normal' mode specified by the user )

What I can't confirm for the moment , because I can't reproduce :
- The selection tools ( square/circle/freehand ) here works ok while rotated.
- path and vector tools behaved ok (bad antialiasing, but ok.

Hello! Thank you so much Mr. Revoy I'm fan of your work! Now, about the bugs, I checked again, and the problem with the vector and selection tools when the canvas is rotated is no longer there, but the Polyline, canvas panning and layer modes bugs are still present, I guess I'll fill the bug report today.

Also here's an old test sketch, from version 2.3.3:

Double click with tablet is usually a bit difficult. Alternative is shift+click to finish.

Hey Cezzare,

Good to see you back! This piece has a really nice attitude / framing to it, although I find the background a bit distracting. The bold colours work beautifully and her hair has a lovely water colour look that I'm still trying to figure out how you did it. I'm still trying to figure out what that bulge on the bottom left is... Is she standing straight, or on her side and leaning upwards...?

Hi Cezzare,

Nice work, I love the colors (very cool effect on the hair as Kubuntiac said…)

About the blending modes/groups behavior, I find it very useful and logical the way it is now (that is blending modes of layers inside a group act only on other layers inside this group, and the blending mode of the group itself apply the result).

@ Animtim: Hello! Well. I must admit I have a very strange way to work, and this picture was a very specific case XD. By example, after I finished all the color and light effect layers, I wanted to rotate them a little, but my computer is honestly an old model and rotating the layers one by one would've taken a bit too long (the little thing freezes), so I decided to group them and then rotate the group (It could've frozen anyway but I wanted to give it a try): firstly adding a layer to a group freezes krita for about 20-30 seconds (blame my processor), then, when I finally had all the layers in the group I found that the group blending mode deactivates the one of the individual layers, so in the end I found it a bit troubling.

I use relatively few layers, but ussually I tend to group them by lineart, effects and etc., so this layer mode handling behaviour is not too convenient for me, again I admit I'm a bit of a weirdo XD.

@Kubuntiac: Thank you so much! I'm happy to be back here! Heheh! that pink thing was supposed to be part of the girl's dress, she's standing straight, and yes, the background is a bit distracting, I guess I can dime it a little.

UPDATE: Timelapse:
http://youtu.be/PE9MbJOrYsM

The colours are really vibrant! Really like how you almost seamlessly blend the colours.

Hi Cezarre,

Can I use the images you posted here in a pdf I'm preparing to show off Krita?

Sure! that would be great!