Awesome Krita

An awesome list of Krita resources.

Krita is an open source cross-platform raster graphics editor geared towards 2D animations.

Contents

• Contents
• General
• Brushes
• Plugins
• Textures and patterns
• Tutorials
• Courses
• YouTube channels
• Forums
• Miscellaneous
• Contributing
  • Contributors

General

General and official resources for Krita

• Official Krita documentation
• Official Krita resources

Brushes

Krita brushes and brush bundles

• Realistic Ballpoint Pen Brush - A single brush preset that mimics using a ballpoint pen.
• Rotating light brushes - A WIP collection of animated RGBA brushtips that using a rotating light in Blender.
• Human skin bundle - A collection of brushes for drawing human skin textures.
• Concept & Illustration Lite Bundle - A minimal brush bundle.
• RGBA-Mix brush - A single brush that mixes colors.
• Experimental Pencils and much more - A brush that mimics using grainy charcoal.
• Leafy watercolor brush - A bundle of brushes for painting foliage in a watercolor-style.
• Blenderz - A bundle of brushes for blending with various grains.
• Speedpaintings Brushes: Flat brushes - A bundle of four brushes by David Revoy for speed painting.
• Krita 2023 brushes - A bundle of brushes by David Revoy.
• Krita Brushkit 7 - A bundle of brushes by David Revoy.
• Krita mix-brushes - A bundle of brushes by David Revoy for mixing colors.
• Charcoal pencils - A bundle of brushes by David Revoy that mimic charcoal pencils.
• Gymnart’s Brush Bundle - A bundle of brushes for painting foliage.
• Water Color Brush SAI - A collection of watercolor brushes.
• DayPaintStudio Favorite Brushes V2 - A collection of brushes from DayPaintStudio.
• Paint and Blend - A brush that mimics the "Paint and Blend" brush in MyPaint.
• Square brush alphas - A collection of chiseled and square brushes.
• Rakurri Brush Set - A collection of miscellanous general-purpose brushes.
• Ink Pen (CSP-like) - A brush that mimics the Ink Pen brush in Clip Studio.
• Expressive Inks - A bundle of brushes that emulates non-traditional drawing tools, such as wooden reeds, small branches, etc.
• Hair Brushes - A collection of brushes for drawing hair.
• SK Sketching in Krita V1 - A bundle of brushes for sketching and doodling.
• Small watercolor and lineart bundle - A bundle of brushes for watercolor and line art.
• Clooms Concept Art Environments Brushes Pack - A collection of hand-drawn brushes for creating environments.
• Bug Craftsmanship - Brush bundle - A small collection of miscellanous brushes.
• Brushes inspired by BRUSH RUSH - A collection of brushes inspired by Brush Rush.
• Concept Art & Illustration Bundle - A collection of brushes for concept art and general illustrations.
• Nahum’s Ink pens (for manga) - A bundle of brushes for drawing ink-pen style manga.
• Set of Watercolor Brushes - A collection of watercolor brushes.
• Awez Flat Brushes - A bundle of six flap brushes.
• Awez Basic Brushes - A bundle of baisc brushes.
• Wavenwater Concept art traditional medium Beta - A bundle of brushes that mimic standard drawing tools like Copic alcohol markers.
• Venu Brush Pack - A bundle of brushes mimicing ink pens.
• AuraNed E-pencils - A bundle of brushes mimicing ink pens.
• Brush Pack (280 Brush Patterns) - A large bundle of brushes.
• MDFM’s Everyday Brushes Bundle - A collection of general-purpose brushes.
• ED's Hair Brushes and Blenders - Contains 12 hairbrushes and blenders for digital hair painting.

Plugins

Plugins for Krita

• Pigment o plugin - A Krita plugin that adds a full featured color picker that very customizable. Much better than the built in color dockers in krita.
• UI Redesign plugin - A Krita plugin that changes the interface to feel less cluttered and more modern. Adds an option to have a collapsible Toolbox and Tool Options over the canvas.
• Krita Ai Diffusion - A Krita plugin that adds a streamlined interface for generating images with AI. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required.
• Auto Sd Paint Ext - A Krita plugin to add custom backend API for Krita Plugin & more
• Krita Batch Exporter - A Krita plugin to batch export layers and groups with maximum flexibility. Scale, trim, export multiple copies of your layers.
• Shortcut Composer - A Krita plugin for creating complex keyboard shortcuts.
• Blenderlayer - A Krita plugin that allows you to stream 3D View from Blender into Krita, behaving like a normal layer: You can trace over it, change the blending mode and even apply layer styles!
• Imagine_board - A Krita plugin for browsing images and creating image boards.
• Defuser - A Krita plugin for working with Stable Diffusion.
• Tk Krita - A Shotgun Toolkit Engine for Krita.
• Pixel Borders - A Krita plugin for pixel borders.
• Krita Plugin Bashactions - A Krita plugin to execute Bash commands and programs as Actions on your current Images from Krita.
• Vscode Krita Plugin Generator - A Krita plugin to create Krita script templates from VSCode.
• Oca Krita - A Krita plugin to export animation keyframes from Krita to a JSON format + PNG.
• Krita Leonardo Ai - A Krita plugin for the Leonardo.Ai.
• Kritacustompreview - A Krita docker for displaying a custom preview of your image.
• Krita Plugin Mdp - A Krita plugin for importing MDIPACK.
• Krita Bulk Actions - A Krita bulk action plugin to perform assigned actions on marked layers.
• Rgb565preview - A Krita plugin that shows a preview in RGB565 of the document you are working on.
• Krita Sneaky Visibility - A Krita plugin that lets you change layer visibility without adding to the undo stack (works for multiple layers at once).
• KanvasBuddy - a Minimalist Toolbar - A Krita plugin that floats on top of the canvas packed with enough features to let you spend as much time in Canvas-Only mode as possible.
• Compact Brush Toggler - A Krita plugin that allows you to quickly toggle individual brush properties.
• Tool tweeks - A Krita plugin with a collection of tweeks for the tool options docker.
• BuliCommander - A Krita plugin that mimics the Midnight Commander file explorer.
• Label Box - A Krita plugin that adds a a box to set color labels to layers in the docker menu.
• Resource and Docker Menus Plugin - A Krita plugin that adds two new menus in the menu bar one for Resources and another for Dockers.
• Reference Tabs Docker - A Krita plugin that adds a docker for containing reference images in separate tabs, with basic view manipulation (zoom, pan, rotate, mirror).
• Blender Layer - A Krita plugin that allows you to stream 3D View from Blender into Krita, behaving like a normal layer.
• Palette Generator - A Krita docker that generates color scheme palette randomly or based of the selected scheme.
• Eraser Shift plugin - A Krita plugin that adds shortcuts for brushes and erasers.
• Better Color Cycler - A Krita plugin with improved shortcuts and support for dial accessories.
• ColorPlus - A Krita plugin to simulate watercolor painting.
• Oughtasave - A Krita plugin that replaces the default autosave feature.

Textures and patterns

Textures and patterns for Krita

• Paper & Canvas Textures - A collection of paper and canvas textures.
• Raghu’s Seamless Patterns - A collection of hand-made seamless textures.
• Metaballs - A collection of metaball textures.

Tutorials

Krita turtorials, how-to's, and guides

• How I create stronger watercolor edges using GMIC
• Learn how to remove background in Krita
• Overlay mode great for making fur
• Quick Sharpening of blury sculpting layers (upscaling technique)
• Beginner Series For Krita - Including Donut Tutorial
• Shade selectors
• Achieve the “vibrance” color adjustinging effect
• Installing brushes made easy
• How to put a grid on your reference image which matches the grid on the canvas
• How to blend or mix colors in Krita

Courses

Krita courses

• Simón Sanchez’ “Learn to Create Pixel Art from Zero” course on Udemy

YouTube channels

YouTube channels that make Krita-related content

• David Revoy - David Revoy's YouTube channel.

Forums

Forums for Krita artists

• Krita Artists Forum - A forum for Krita artists to share tips, tricks, and resouces.
• r/krita - The Krita subreddit.
• Art Mastodon - An inclusive community for artists of all kinds.

Miscellaneous

Other miscellaneous resources for Krita (e.g., palettes, themes, references, third-party tools, etc.)

• Zoldyako's Themes for Krita - A collection of custom Krita themes.
• BeeRef Reference Image Viewer - BeeRef lets you quickly arrange your reference images and view them while you create. Its minimal interface is designed not to get in the way of your creative process.
• Radial Menu (on-screen Wacom type) - A small project to emulate the radial menu that Wacom distributes with some of their products but with per application menus.
• Pencil & Charcoal Palette - A palette of common charcoal colors.
• Story Board Template for Krita - A filly editable story board layout that comes with a layering system and a vector template.

Contributing

Contributions of any kind welcome, just follow the guidelines!

Contributors

Thanks goes to these contributors!