This is a follow up to our first post on Krita Brushes Galore My test run of Krita focused on a still life to get a feel for the different brushes.  Most of my work uses the Charcoal brush and a heavy use of the blending brushes to get the shading just right. One of my favorite features is the list of colors that are already in your image to the right of the color selector, this makes it easy to keep yourself confined to a given set of colors. I accidentally turned on the Wrap mode that allows your brushes to wrap from one edit to another similar to the way the ship moves in Asteroids. Turning any brush into an eraser is a handy trick but after a while I kept reaching for the undo button from the menus. Final Result Animation Without reading any documentation I jumped right into the animation section of Krita and through sheer trial and error I managed to whip up something quick. This will not win any awards, but you can see how you can get a quick animation up...

Krita Free and Open Source Digital Painting https://krita.org/en/ In their own words: Krita is a FREE and open source painting tool designed for concept artists, illustrators, matte and texture artists, and the VFX industry. Krita has been in development for over 10 years and has had an explosion in growth recently. It offers many common and innovative features to help the amateur and professional alike. Supported Platforms: Windows Linux Macintosh Price: $0 A huge step up from Paint  Krita is both a raster and a vector graphics program presented in an easy way for digital artists to create. Before finding this software my go-to editor was Photoshop Elements. This editor is stuffed full of features including fading brush strokes, mirroring, unlimited layering, digital pen support, masking and algebraic geometry including vector primitives similar to Inkscape. The documentation is provided online so be aware you need to be connected to the internet when try...