Morning Ride
Today was a beautiful sunny day. I saw this on my way to get groceries. It was such a relaxing ride. The license is CC-BY-SA , feel free to use it as a wallpaper or anything. Here is the high resolution file
Raghukamath – Digital Painter and Freelance Illustrator from India
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Fishermen on the beach
I went to nearby beach last week, it was really a pristine and calm place. The beach is Padubidri Blue Flag beach. It is in the Pudubidri town in coastal Karnataka India. The beach was less crowded and the fishermen were enjoying their work. Some a group of small fishermen were getting ready to depart for fishing and were having some fun moment during inspecting their boat. I tried to capture this…
Setting up Debian Linux with Btrfs, KDE Plasma for a creative workstation
Hello Everyone 👋🏽, recently I distro-hopped to Debian Linux from Fedora Linux. And I thought I should write down all the steps that I did during this migration and installation of Debian to use it as my creative workstation. This can be of help for me in the future as a reference note and also for others. You can skip this introduction and jump right into the steps and get started . Choice of…
My new Linux personal computer
My computer was showing signs of retirement and old age, so I assembled a new desktop computer for my workstation use. The old one was assembled in 2014. While working on my recent projects, the unbearable sluggishness, made it obvious that I needed an upgrade. Although a bit late now since I purchased and assembled this computer in September, I am going to share my experience with this exercise.…
Automatically updating nightly builds of Krita on Linux
When chatting on Krita IRC deevad mentioned that he uses a script to automatically download Krita nightly update and manage the launcher icons etc. So I thought that it is a cool idea to use script to automate the update process. Usually I used to click on the update button and then manually adjust the filename of the Appimage etc. I rename the files of appimage to stable and nightly respectively…
Huion H610X Graphic Tablet - review and setup on Linux
Disclaimer: This post is not in any way sponsored by Huion or anyone related to them. All the things stated here are my opinions and your mileage may vary. I do not guarantee it will work for you the same way it worked flawlessly for me. Recently I have been visiting my village house a lot and I have been trying to set up an alternate workstation there so that I don’t need to carry the…
The cat, the hen and a boy - Sunday Sketch Trip
A Sunday well spent on an wonderful sketch trip with @coolkarnisam and friends. The village Ambeshiv is located on the banks of the Ulhas river near Badlapur. The village was laid back and devoid of all the urgency of the city. Good way to slow down and focus on some skills. These were done with brush with black gouache paint and Kuretake Sumi ink . boy cat hen house-door-01 house-door-02
A Swan in a lake
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 trying to explore lines and new textures for this series. By print from here . A swan in a lake
Weekly Graphic - Offerings
आज रविवार का दिन है, तो धरती पर जीवन चक्र के स्त्रोत सूर्य को नमन । - translation - Since it is the day of the sun we bow to the sun which is the source of all life on earth. 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. Print is available from my society6 shop graphic…
How to use Smart Objects in Krita?
Greetings Everyone 🙏🏼 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. Let us learn about file layers in krita In my recent advertising illustration project, I had to paint lots of small elements on a page. The page size was huge and the final…
Strangers on Internet
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. I intend to follow this routine and share the sketches here. The sketches won’t be very detailed. I have set a time limit of 10-20 minutes for this exercise and the scans will be as is no corrections nothing. Hopefully this will…
How to draw a sunset painting - Easy step by step Krita tutorial
Krita sunset tutorial - completed image Greetings everyone. This is the second post in the step-by-step tutorial series and today you and I are going to draw a sea-side sunset painting in Krita . If you need a quick tour of the interface of Krita then you can watch my earlier videos about it. Step 1 We start with a new document in Krita. Open Krita and click on the New File button, the shortcut is…
How to create a seamless pattern in Krita?
Gone are the days when you had to manually arrange the edges of a texture or pattern. No more copy-pasting, aligning, and offsetting the tiles. There is an easy and user-friendly mode in Krita that makes the tedious task of creating a seamless texture or pattern a piece of cake. Game developers and textile artists will find this feature immensely helpful and time-saving. I was blown away by this…
A trek to Kondana caves
After postponing it for 2-3 weeks due to work load, this Sunday me and my friend Sameer , finally managed to take some time out in our schedule and go on a trek to Kondana Caves . I have decided to do such type of treks at least once a month to refresh my mind. The visual library in the mind gets updated and it becomes really a good educational exercise too. I get to absorb new things, texture,…
Sunset - landscape painting warm-up
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. Buy a print of this painting here . final painting
Night - Time-lapse Painting in Krita
I tried to paint a personification of the night. Beautiful calm and romantic yet sometimes eerie and daunting. I think the beautiful side won in this painting. Here is the process. May be next time I’ll move more towards the fear aspect. You can buy the print for this painting on my INPRNT page . Here is the final image Credits Artwork by raghukamath licensed under Creative Commons…
One With Nature - Time-lapse Painting in Krita
It is Friday again and I went on a small hike with my friend yesterday, as we were walking amidst the forest on a small trail, the calmness of the surrounding nature seemed almost meditative to me. It instantly drained all my stress built up during the week. This painting is inspired by one of the spots we encountered while walking in the forest. Here is the final image Credits Artwork by…
Virtual plienair from streetview - somewhere in Tokushima Japan
It’s friday and what is a better way to wind up the weekend than painting a landscape in Krita. Did a quick 2½ hr session. Fullscreen mode in krita with all desktop notifications off, mobile switched to do not disturb mode and some soothing music along with it, just pure bliss. Do you paint like this for relaxing yourself? Here is the final image Credits Artwork by raghukamath licensed under…
How to Draw a lemon slice - Krita digital painting tutorial - Easy step by step for beginners
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. The goal here is not to make the coolest lemon illustration but to learn krita while creating something along with me. So feel free to draw by pausing the video Episode Credits Video recorded by raghukamath -…
Digital Art With Free Software Episode-06
This series is about creating digital art in free software. For those who don’t know what free software is please read this . This is the 6th episode in the series of tutorials for beginners in digital painting as well as Krita. Episode Notes In this lesson we explore various masks in Krita and also learn more about Selection Masks and how to use them in digital painting. Episode Credits…
Waiting For Unlock...
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 outdoor study. Here is the final image Few details Credits Artwork by raghukamath licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Summer Fun - Timelapse
I am sure we all have done this at some point. Here is the final image Credits Artwork by raghukamath licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Virtual Plein-Air Wandering At Daybreak
Stumbled upon a wonderful street view on mapcrunch, so did a virtual plein-air study with it. Here is the final image completed painting Credits Artwork by raghukamath licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Background Music - Chasing Daylight by Scott Buckley - Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Master Chef Timelapse
Here is the final image Credits Artwork by raghukamath licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Intro Music - Stream Countdown 10s & Background Music - Forest Wak by by Alexander Nakarada ( www.serpentsoundstudios.com ). Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License Intro Background Video by Miguel Á. Padriñán. Licensed under Pexels License
How to translate Krita to your own language?
While painting in Krita one day, out of curiosity I switched the application language to Hindi which is one of the major local language in India. Some parts of the UI were translated but most of it was untranslated. I thought about fixing this problem and started to research about how to get started in translating. While there are many workflows for translating I found Lokalize to be the easiest…
How to auto colorize line art in Krita?
This is the second episode in the quick tip series. Let us check how to add clipping masks in Krita.
My Tools Of Trade
I have written earlier about how I made the switch to free software workflow and the experience I had after making the switch. It has been 6 years since then and I haven’t yet regretted my decision or found any trouble doing my work. Here is a list of software, hardware, and other tools that I use for day to day work, entertainment, and computing needs. I will try to keep this page updated as I…
How To Add Clipping Masks In Krita?
This is the first episode in the quick tip series. Let us check how to add clipping masks in Krita.
Seamless Handmade Textures
I am sharing these free seamless handmade or hand-painted textures.These were made while I was working on various projects. Not all are hand-painted some are scanned and prepared from the original item, for example, the cartridge texture is a scan of a paper, some might have made by using resources in the public domain. These are shared under CC-BY-SA license, so you are free to reuse modify or…
Is working with CMYK worth it?
Over the years it has been an unspoken rule to choose CMYK right at the start when creating new documents for artworks that are going to be printed. Many old-timers may remember working in CMYK from start to finish, carefully choosing colors and keeping an eye on the out of gamut warnings while color picking. Despite such efforts it would often lead to unsatisfactory results. In the Free Software…
KritaCon 2019
The Krita team - Photo courtesy David Revoy/Krita Foundation - CC-BY Once again this year, I participated in Krita sprint held at an awesome historical town of Deventer . Thanks to KDEeV and Krita Foundation for sponsoring my stay and travel. I got to meet some old friends again and had a chance to be acquainted with new members of the Krita community. I also feel happy to say that this is so far…
Digital art with foss episode 5
This series is about creating digital art in free software. For those who don’t know what free software is please read this . This is the fifth episode in the series on basics of painting in krita. Episode Notes In this episode we learn about Layers, their types and way to manage them in Krita. We also see a basic and simple setup of layers required to create a drawing in Krita. Episode…
Designing Posters With Free Software
A few months back I was asked to design some poster for a local Free Software Foundation Event. Richard M Stallman was visiting our country, and my friend Abhas Abhinav wanted to put up some posters and banners. Due to me being down with flu I couldn’t do the number of banners and posters that I initially intended to do. However, I managed to create two posters for RMS’ talk in Bangalore. This is…
Krita Sprint 2018
I had an awesome opportunity to be a part of this years Krita sprint in The Netherlands. Once in a while artists and developers who are working in Krita meet to discuss bugs, improvements and road map for Krita. The Sprint was organised by the Krita Foundation and KDE e.V. I got to meet all the people that I know only by IRC nicknames. Halla and Irina were excellent hosts and made sure that…
Digital art with foss episode 4
In this video, I am going to talk about digital brushes. In real life brushes, pens, knives are the tools used to apply and manipulate colours on canvas, similarly in digital painting we have a brush tool that helps to add and manipulate pixels. First, we will see what digital brushes are made of, which will help us in tweaking and creating our own brushes in future Digital brushes in Krita…
Digital art with foss episode 3
In this episode we will learn how to navigate around the canvas in Krita. This video will have lots of shortcut so for your convenience I have prepared a PDF with list of these shortcuts as a PDF with all the shortcuts mentioned in this video, you can download it from the link here . Episode Credits Sitar music in the background by Kaiho Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC…
Digital art with foss episode 2
This series is about creating digital art in free software. For those who don’t know what free software is please read this . Workspace and Dockers Episode Notes Krita’s flexible workspace is really easy to customise according to our needs. In this video we see how to customise and create our own workspace. We also learn about dockers in Krita. Episode Credits Swaramandal by…
Digital art with foss episode 1
This series is about creating digital art in free software. For those who don’t know what free software is please read this . This is the first episode in the series on basics of painting in krita. Episode Notes Krita is a free and open source digital painting application. We take a tour of Krita’s interface and learn how to create a new document in Krita.
Swatantra 2017
ICFOSS is an organisation set up by Govt. of Kerala, with a goal to spread free software knowledge by connecting and collaborating with international free software communities and organisations. I was invited to be a part of their triennial conference called Swatantra 2017. There were close to 22 speakers from all over the world and this time there was a section on art in open source. This is the…
Twilight orchestra in Inkscape
I mostly use Krita for my professional and personal illustration work. Every now and then when I require vector illustrations I turn towards Inkscape . I have done some professional illustration in Inkscape but they were not so detailed in nature. I am trying to bring more and more vector art into my portfolio. This piece is just to practice and polish my Inkscape skills. I already know the…
Digital Landscape paintings
I have been following the awesome James Gurney for quiet some time now. His book Color and Light- A Guide for the Realist Painter is an excellent resource for painters. Inspired by both his book and his youtube videos, I wanted to spend some time studying landscape painting and improving my understanding of colors and values present in nature. Here is the first set of such paintings I also…
Festival of lights - timelapse painting
I am grateful to krita foundation for giving me an opportunity of getting published among the fine artists from all over the world. My illustration is chosen for the first art book by Krita foundation called Made with Krita . This art book will be given as rewards for the backer of the kick-starter campaign I recorded the process of the painting, below is the time lapse video of the process.…
The hunt - timelapse painting
I recorded my screen during the last painting session. It took me 5hrs to do this piece the video is sped up so that it can fit in 5 minutes. I plan to record more such painting it helps me to find weak points in my work flow :) Finished Illustration – The hunt Details
Brush pack for Krita V2.0
In my previous post , I had shared some of the brushes that I use while painting in Krita . This is the second release of that brush pack. In this release I have added some more presets to the pack and also tweaked some of the brushes to utilise newly added parameter in Krita such as ratio . I have also reduced the brush tip images used in the pack and utilised the default auto tips. An example…
Brush Pack for Krita
In my previous post , I mentioned that I switched from Photoshop to Krita . The workflow is much better and, I really enjoy working in this application. The brush engine is very robust and one case lose almost hours playing and experimenting with it. There are in total 16 brush engines in Krita, it can be somewhat overwhelming for a new user at first but you will definitely be surprised the level…
Experiments with linocut
Last year in early March me and my friend Sameer decided to try out Linocut. I thought documenting the process will be good. I am fairly late in documenting this. We collaborated in producing some canvas murals for a client , the canvases were done in acrylic paints. We mostly work in digital medium so after having a taste of traditional medium we thought trying out some printing technique would…
New year new journey
From some time I have been contemplating to start a new project, since everybody is in a mood of undertaking new year resolutions. I think it is time for me to take one too, and I think a resolution to kickstart and build a base for this new project would be good. I have done some initial research and brainstorming for the concept, I’ll be uploading the sketches here soon. Writing a story…
Mermaid illustration process
An illustration done in free time using Krita. This piece was done in between work, I have recorded most of the process, you can watch the time-lapse video below. The fish scales were fun to paint , it was easy to paint them in wrap around mode of Krita a real time saver Credit Music : Jellyfish In Space - Kevin MacLeod The completed illustration Finidhed Illustration of Mermaid Facial details
Two hour speed painting
2hr speed-painting in krita. I tried to finish this painting in 2 hr, I might have taken 5-10 minutes extra :) Credits Music - Living Voyage by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 International License. The finished painting
Process - character illustration
Recorded my process for the first time. It was a great experience to analyse my process while viewing as a third person. Can’t say this is a tutorial, but I tried to explain certain things on the go. I’ll improve next time. Part 1 Part 2 Final Illustration of the character – A maharaja P.S. I am in love with this application - Krita . Let me know what you think.