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A Sunday well spent on an wonderful sketch trip with friends. The village was laid back and devoid of all the urgency of the city. Good way to slow down and focus on some skills.

A quick daily personal piece. This was meant to be a practice sketch for a different personal illustration which has a swan in it, but this took its own direction.

I am enjoying this simple graphic series, I need to simplify a bit more. Right now I am doing this in Krita but I am also looking to include inkscape in the process.

This is the first quick tip tutorial post of this year. Today we are going learn about File Layers in Krita. For those who are coming from Photoshop "Smart Objects" may be a familiar term.

I am trying to do a brush pen sketch of the first two persons I see on internet in the morning. This will serve as a caffeine to kick-start my daily painting work.

An easy to follow step by step tutorial for drawing a sunset in Krita. It is easy and anybody can paint it.

Creating a seamless pattern can be a hassle, well not any more. There is a easy and user friendly mode in Krita that makes the tedious task of creating a seamless texture or pattern a piece of cake.

I went on a refreshing trek to Kondana caves with my friend. I enjoyed doing a plein air painting with gouache during this trip.

A quick weekend warm-up painting in Krita. I forgot to record a time-lapse now. But I thinking of doing a draw-along tutorial for this.

Night - a face of nature that can sometimes be beautiful and romantic but it can also evoke fear and be daunting.

A digital painting is inspired by one of the spots I encountered while hiking in the forest

It's friday and what is a better way to wind up the weekend than painting a landscape in Krita so I did a quick 2½ hr session

In this video we learn how to create a lemon slice in Krita from scratch. I try to explain it in easy step by step manner so that you can draw along with me while watching the video.

This is the 6th episode in the series of tutorials for beginners in digital painting as well as Krita. In this lesson we explore various masks in Krita and also learn more about Selection Masks and ho

Some school buses parked since start of the pandemic near my house. Its been a while since children saw school. Instead of a landscape I thought why not paint some vehicles, so I did this [...]

A fun and silly thing that I used to do when I was small and now I see my son doing this. I am sure we all have done this at some point.

Stumbled upon a wonderful street view on mapcrunch, so did a virtual plein-air study

Anybody can cook - Master Chef! A timelapse of Illustration done in Krita

A step by step guide for translating Krita's UI into your native language

Second episode in the quick tip series. Let us check how to auto colorize line art in Krita.

The variety of tools that I use for my work and day to day tasks

This is the first episode in the quick tip series. Let us check how to add clipping masks in Krita.

Sharing some of the handmade texture that I created with Krita while working on various projects

My opinion and workflow about working in CMYK from start to finish using Free and open source creative tools

Once again I took part in the Krita sprint (convention). It was fun to meet and talk about Krita with contributors from all over the world

This is the fifth episode in the series on digital art with free and open source software. This episode covers concept of Layers in Digital painting.