An awesome list of Krita resources.
Krita is an open source cross-platform raster graphics editor geared towards 2D animations.
- Contents
- General
- Brushes
- Plugins
- Textures and patterns
- Tutorials
- Courses
- YouTube channels
- Forums
- Miscellaneous
- Contributing
General and official resources for Krita
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 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 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.
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
Krita courses
YouTube channels that make Krita-related content
- David Revoy - David Revoy's YouTube channel.
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.
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.
Contributions of any kind welcome, just follow the guidelines!