Is Krita (Free) Good for Making Pixel Art? | 7 Quick Tips & Monster Time-lapse

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Krita is a great free digital painting program, but is it any good for pixel art? Spoilers: Yes!
In this video, I cover some quick tips to optimize Krita for making pixel art, and share a time-lapse of a super big haired monster.
Get Krita here: krita.org
1. Remove Pixel Grid - Toggle off “Show Pixel Grid” from the View menu. This is optional if you don’t like seeing the white grid lines when zoomed in.
2. Cursors - Add the arrow cursor by navigating to Krita - Preferences - General and set Cursor Shape to Arrow. This helps add some precision when you are zoomed in since the default square snaps to the grid.
3. Brushes - Select the pencil brush from your brushes presets on the side panel. This will give you the classic single pixel pencil without any anti-aliasing. You could also try the dither brush or thick pencil for variation, but I just stick with the pencil brush and paint bucket.
4. Palettes - Select a palette or create your own. Show your palette ui on the sidebar by navigating to Settings - Docker - Palette and toggling it on. Select the image by the palette’s name to choose a preset, they have a couple pixel art ones included. I made my own which you can do by first creating a blank palette, then using the eye dropped to select a color, and finally selecting a swatch to assign the color.
5. Paint Bucket - With the paint bucket selected, select the Tool Options from the side tab and set the threshold to 1. This will ensure that colors don’t bleed past a single pixel edge.
6. Exporting - To save your art, export it as a png with the alpha box toggled on if you have any blank spaces (I didn’t for my example). Set it to the max file size so there is no compression.
7. Upscaling - To enlarge an image, right click to open your png in Krita. Navigate to Image - Scale Image To New Size. Then, increase the percentage with a multiple of 100 with the filter set to nearest neighbor. This will keep everything pixel perfect when you upscale. Export this png with a new name. This is the safest, fastest way I've found to export an upscaled image. If I come across any better methods I’ll put them in the description or the pinned comment.
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  • @jertlemiah
    @jertlemiah3 жыл бұрын

    I shudder to remember that i used to do my pixel art through Gimp instead of Aseprite. Krita looks better than Gimp, but Aseprite is delightfully perfect for what I needed

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agreed! Aseprite is a pure joy to work in. I love its pixel art GUI aesthetic.

  • @xLeandroIX

    @xLeandroIX

    9 ай бұрын

    What does Aseprite better than Krita? I tried Aseprite but i have a ton of stuff i miss from it (Like the possibility to add references,blending modes with folders, save presets for canvas sizes etc)

  • @rdmartyr7
    @rdmartyr73 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this! I've been making 3D games for so long and have been wanting to do a 2D game. I've even been watching Pixel Art tutorials to learn how to make pixel art. This is good to know about Krita though

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Awesome, thanks for the comment! I was surprised how well Krita worked for pixel art. It doesn't have the full features of Photoshop or the street cred of Aseprite, but it gets the job done and excels as a digital painting app. Good luck with the jump to 2D!

  • @containerseightandnine9756
    @containerseightandnine9756 Жыл бұрын

    I think this is exactly what i'm looking for , thanks

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    Жыл бұрын

    Awesome! Good luck!

  • @SuperGamingpepper
    @SuperGamingpepper2 жыл бұрын

    thank you for this video it has helped a lot

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    2 жыл бұрын

    Awesome! I'm glad it helped. Good luck with your art!

  • @muhammedsamilalbayrak4672
    @muhammedsamilalbayrak46722 жыл бұрын

    my english is not good but i understand by your energy; thank bro for your works, from Turkey.👋

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Muhammed! Good luck with your art.

  • @stephendelacruzone
    @stephendelacruzone2 жыл бұрын

    Badass Bro! ✨🤟😁

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Stephen! Good luck with your art!

  • @StranzaZA
    @StranzaZA3 жыл бұрын

    guess i wont be using GIMP for pixel art anymore, great video very helpful!

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Haha, awesome! Good luck with your art!

  • @Nightwulf1269
    @Nightwulf12692 ай бұрын

    Damn great video! Saved my life! Earned a sub for that one 👍

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    2 ай бұрын

    Thanks @Nightwulf1269! Good luck with your art!

  • @Nightwulf1269

    @Nightwulf1269

    2 ай бұрын

    @@mobypixel Thank you. I've started creating a roguelike 2D game and decided to use pixel art as the art style. So your video came exactly at the right point in time 🙂

  • @NoirCattoMeow
    @NoirCattoMeow3 жыл бұрын

    Awesome tutorial/review! Definitely a lot of useful tips Could you also by any chance list the song used in the video description? It's very pretty

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! That is an unreleased song I made several years ago. I'd love to put out a lo-fi beats album at some point. Thanks for posting!

  • @NoirCattoMeow

    @NoirCattoMeow

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ohh, I see You have some amazing talents dude :)

  • @emmanuelmendez3624
    @emmanuelmendez36243 жыл бұрын

    Hey, man. I really liked your video, it was very well explained and I needed these tips. But, I only have one question: before upscaling the pixel art, how big was the canvas you used? Or wich size you recommend to use? You really helped me too much with the video and I want to do a little pixel art work in this program that I have been using recently. :)

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching! For this piece the canvas was 120x120. A lot of pixel art in old retro games were multiples of 32. 32, 64, 128, etc. It's really just up to you and how you want to use the art. Best of luck creating!

  • @tPlayerioT
    @tPlayerioT Жыл бұрын

    ok this video convinced me to download Krita, it will be my first time but i liked the layout, similiar to phostohop and its free.

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching, Kayck Br! Good luck with your art!

  • @travishawks5371
    @travishawks53713 жыл бұрын

    Back when I used to try and make the pixels, I used Pyxl Edit, which is not free, but only $9. I've also seen it pop up in software bundles and such. Krita looks like a great option, though. Good video, as always!

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yo Thanks, Travis! I remember seeing Pyxl but never tried it. I'll keep an eye out for a bundle deal. I feel like Aseprite is as good as it'll get for pixel art specific programs, but it can't break my Photoshop addiction.

  • @PSIBoredomOmega
    @PSIBoredomOmega2 жыл бұрын

    Ive seen a massive problem with Krita that even GIMP doesnt have and that is with trying to draw perfect circles with pixel art. Even if you try to hold shift to maintain the circles aspect ratio in Krita, youll still get circles that look like unsymetrical playdough balls, especially on small image dimensions, which is what pixel art is meant to be drawn on, and this happens because Krita is 100% optimized for pixel art and uses something called "Sub pixel Precision" which is meant for Krita's main purpose of digital painting instead of pixel art.

  • @iendedyoui

    @iendedyoui

    Жыл бұрын

    You can use a special pixel art brush with 'pixel perfect' options built into the brush. might make it turn out better, idk. About to try it myself, been using Aseprite and Promotion NG. Would be nice to have the same workflow/program for all my 2D art though.

  • @lucasbastosrodrigues140
    @lucasbastosrodrigues140 Жыл бұрын

    yes baby

  • @eugene9804
    @eugene98042 жыл бұрын

    underated af ps. thx a bunch

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Pancake! Good luck with your art!

  • @instantdigital6022
    @instantdigital60222 жыл бұрын

    please if you give a tutorial slowly with the click of the mouse, in which direction the audience understands better, and klik ZOOM for klik Menu or Objek Is there another video that is clearer and easier?

  • @julesrules1278
    @julesrules12786 ай бұрын

    Not sure whether someone might have already asked it but what canvas size (px) do you start with? =) and thx a lot for the video

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    6 ай бұрын

    Thanks! For the large ones my canvas is 120x120. For individual sprites I like to match the character resolution of whatever system I'm targeting. For example Mega-Man on NES is 24x24. Good luck with your art!

  • @atom32kk
    @atom32kkАй бұрын

    No support indexed color images :/

  • @tiffles3890
    @tiffles3890 Жыл бұрын

    Could you please name the music tracks used in this video? They're awesome.

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks, @tiffles3890! Those are just some tracks I made a while ago. They aren't posted anywhere else at the moment.

  • @tiffles3890

    @tiffles3890

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mobypixel Hmm. That's a shame.

  • @user-td1cs1xg6k
    @user-td1cs1xg6kАй бұрын

    Yo , thx for video , but it’s possible to create it Krita sprites?

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    Ай бұрын

    Sure, you can make sprite with it. You could make different layers for each sprite and export them separately, but there isn't an option to animate between them in the app like Aseprite.

  • @blackcitadel37
    @blackcitadel372 жыл бұрын

    Btw have you tested the animation tools of Krita with pixel art?

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    2 жыл бұрын

    No, I didn't know about an animation tool. I'll check it out. Thanks!

  • @racemanzer8368
    @racemanzer8368 Жыл бұрын

    Now… how do you make the outline snap into place?

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    Жыл бұрын

    I usually draw my outlines pixel-by-pixel but you could duplicate the character 4 times underneath your drawing, color them all black, and move one of them up a pixel, one right, one down, and one left. I'm not sure if the Krita outlines have nearest neighbor.

  • @linuxrant
    @linuxrant Жыл бұрын

    Krita has one caveat for pixel art imo. When you use line tool, it does not snap to your selected pixel, it snaps to one of the four corners of your pixel. It makes it extremely irritating when you want to draw a perfect line, because you have to take into account pixels four corners of pixels when drawing, and then at the end of the line you dont have any feedback saying to you what part of pixel you select, you have to wait for the line preview to update and to show if you didnt f*&$ something up, then to correct those weird angles that don't care what kind of line you tried to draw. Maybe it is fixable, but I couldn't find the option to turn this off. Whoever had an idea to use this feature as default should go on a permanent vacation from coding pixelart graphical programs.

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Linux Rant! What's strange is that if you draw a line quickly you don't get that same behavior.

  • @Utrilus

    @Utrilus

    29 күн бұрын

    I disabled snap to pixel under view > snap to > snap pixel. That removed the snapping problem that snaps to pixel edges.

  • @linuxrant

    @linuxrant

    26 күн бұрын

    @@Utrilus interesting and counterintuitive...I'll check it out, thanks.

  • @NREKAI
    @NREKAI5 ай бұрын

    When I export my image it still comes out blurry and I was wondering how to fix that if it’s possible, I’m making an rpg so it being blurry is a no go

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    5 ай бұрын

    You have to select nearest neighbor when upscaling. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qXeJs7qQj9vbqpM.htmlsi=bgr2gIFMt4RMHr6e&t=157

  • @Luneloveyou
    @LuneloveyouАй бұрын

    can you make animation with it ? like move

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    Ай бұрын

    Yes Krista does support exporting layer animations, but I have not tried it. I just saw there are some good tutorials about it on KZread. Good luck 🙌

  • @yuzii_art
    @yuzii_art3 жыл бұрын

    LIBRESPRITE VS ASEPRITE PLEAAASSEEEE

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the suggestion! I hadn't heard of the open source version of Aseprite. I'll have to wait until it comes to Mac. Thanks for watching!

  • @xxfirewarxx7305
    @xxfirewarxx73052 жыл бұрын

    NFT's ?

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    2 жыл бұрын

    No NFT plans at the moment. Thanks for posting!

  • @EuMestre
    @EuMestre3 жыл бұрын

    Krita is a good for pixel art and it has a good animation tool. For photoshop... doesn't worth the money

  • @EuMestre

    @EuMestre

    3 жыл бұрын

    Should try the fill brush

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for checking out the video!

  • @simpson6700
    @simpson67005 ай бұрын

    i don't get the hate for gimp. it's not like you use any special tools for your pixel art and in the end of the day gimp can draw pixels and has a fill bucket. i would understand it if you used any brushes, filters or effects, but you don't.

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    5 ай бұрын

    I'm all about free, open source tools. Maybe it has gotten better since I tried it last. I think the biggest issue I had with Gimp was input latency. It might be better on PC, but on Mac if I draw a line, it takes a second before the pixels are render on the screen. It made it unusable as a realtime art tool for me. These days I tend to use Affinity Photo for everything--not because it's the best, but because it's what I have. Thanks for the comment!

  • @simpson6700

    @simpson6700

    5 ай бұрын

    @@mobypixel i get what you mean. this usually only happens to me with more complex brushes and krita is definitely better in that regard.

  • @yuh6840
    @yuh6840 Жыл бұрын

    im so fcking tired with krita, man. we've been togther for 5 fcking years. and now ive been looking for pixel art software. and the one i saw ppl like is asepirte. but damn i can't torrent yet. so yeah, im stuck with krita for doing pixel art for the rest of my 1st year life.

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    Жыл бұрын

    I like Aseprite. I've been using Affinity Photo for everything recently, not because it's great but because it's what I have. There is an open source version of Aseprite you could check out: github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite

  • @guysome3263
    @guysome32633 ай бұрын

    A gimp belongs into the basement with a latex mask and not into the toolshed of a pixel artist.

  • @mobypixel

    @mobypixel

    3 ай бұрын

    😂🤣

  • @Clash-yp8qy
    @Clash-yp8qy3 жыл бұрын

    No

  • @RathXV
    @RathXV Жыл бұрын

    "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16

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