In this lesson video, we are going to continue customizing Krita so we have more faster workflow when doing digital painting or illustration in general. We have already tweaked the UI in the previous lesson. Now in this lesson, we are going to focus on brush assignment. Our digital painting workflow is quite simple. We only need six main brushes each for a specific task in our workflow. We need one brush for sketching one solid brush for filling out areas or making silhouette.
One brush for adding shades and highlights. Another brush for smearing or smudging colors. Next, we need one brush for blurring or mixing color. And finally, we need one brush for adding details. These are the six main brushes we are going to use. But beside these brushes, we can also add one Additional brush dedicated for erasing.
Now you can skip the eraser brush if you want to, because in Krita, all brushes can act as an eraser. But I found out that in sketching face, it is more convenient to have a dedicated eraser brush. Why? Well because changing the pencil brush to eraser will result an eraser that is too small in size. You have to do brush sizing back and forth if you don't have a dedicated eraser brush. Basically this eraser brush will save you a ton of times, especially in sketching face.
So with the eraser brush portal, we have seven favorite brushes. Let's make each of these brushes one by one. Okay, so first for sketching, we need a pencil brush. You can pick any pencil or brush you like. Personally I like this one pencil for soft so We'll take this brush with attack name. To do that, right click on it, choose assign to tag, and then in the new tag input field, type the name you want to use.
I'll just name this production. You can use any name you like as long as you are consistent with that tag name. Next, we need a brush for filling out color or making silhouette. For this brush, we need the size of it to be controllable by the pen pressure, but the opacity of it should be fixed. Essentially, we want the opacity to be always solid or 100% opaque. If we browse Krita Brush Preset, we can see the stroke preview in the brush icon like this one actually fade out to Transparent when we loosen the pressure on the pen.
So this is not what we need. This one is always solid, but as we can see so does the size size one change no matter how we press our pen. Now this brush is what we need. We can see the transparency is fixed, but the size of it is dynamic. So let's take this one with our previous tech before and that will be production. Remember to tag all of the brushes we want to use with the same name, otherwise it will be useless.
Okay, next we need a brush for adding shadows and highlights. Now this brush is the opposite of the previous brush. We want it to have the size fixed, but the transparency of it is dynamic. You can use this brush but personally I like how this airbrush soft behaves. So for now, let's pick these airbrush for our shedding brush. Take it again with the production tag.
Next we need a brush for smearing colors in Krita brushes that can make sense colors can be seen in their icons. They all have this water droplets symbol, but this brushes here, they mix color but also produce color. We only need something to mix existing colors, we don't add any new color into the mix. My favorite brush for this task is this brush called blenders mirror. So let's take this brush with production tech also. Okay, then we need a brush for blurring colors.
This is useful for mixing colors without the need to drag around the pixels. For this task. I personally like this brush called Blender blur. Let's drag this also with production tag. Okay, next we need a brush for detailing. Now in most cases, we want the pen pressure to control only one factor in our brush.
Either the size of it or the opacity of it really We want the pen pressure to controls two things at the same time. But this detail brush is an exception. This brush should have both the size and the Opacity dynamic, keeping up with the pen pressure level. And this basic five size Opacity is just what we are looking for. So let's take this one with our production tag. Finally, for eraser, let's pick this brush and tag it with our production tag.
Okay, now make sure we are in the brush tool mode, right click to open up the proper palette and change the tag in here to production. By doing that now the pop up palette will only display the brushes that are tagged with the production tag. So now we can see our seven favorite brushes that we have big before accessible in a Papa pellet. If for some reason You'll see a brush that is not supposed to be in here. It means you may have mistakenly tagged the wrong brush. To remove it from the proper palette, you need to unpack it in the Brush Preset panel.
So to do that, you can click on the brush that you want to remove. Then open the Brush Preset again. The brush will already be selected or highlighted. Right click on it, remove from other tag, then choose production. Now I don't actually need to remove this brush so I'll just hit the Escape key