After a day of binge watching a lot of Krita tutorials, from animations to sketches to oil paintings and regular paintings, why grayscale is cool but why some prefer not to as a complete newbie I didn't come out much wiser. Already having had some experience with layers from a bootleg photoshop copy from a friend way back I thought hey, let me just try sketching a little bit to begin with and see how easy it is to do so with the mouse. 

I lowered my DPI to my CS:GO DPI and I have to admit there was a lot of zooming in to get some good lines and my left hand was constantly on ctrl-z to undo lines I wasn't happy with. This is one thing I already started liking about digital arts though as in real life I'd have to use the eraser each time but by hand it wouldn't be as messy and as many mistakes though.

First off I started with something I considered to be easy, Pokemon! Googled Ash Ketchum and quickly decided on this image:

https://assets.papelpop.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/pokemon.jpg

then I figured I'd record the process since I have OBS here for the usual streaming and uploaded that to youtube. Here's the recording but of course watch it at faster speed or just scroll past it to watch the end result.

https://youtu.be/Pyskm2ezQZ0

and here's the end result in an image:

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/acidyo/84jy5Xc7-image.png)

Some mistakes I noticed straight off the bat, #1 the icon on his hat turned out too small, in the video at the end you can see me attempting to use Krita to increase it but not sure how to yet, lol, will need to research a bit more there. #2 jaw too big on the right side, #3 Pikachu's face too much to the left side, #4 shoulder too high up.

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/acidyo/Da9aNgoH-image.png)



Then I felt like drawing One Punch Man and googled an image of him I fancied but apparently it was from a youtube clip so had to take the screenshot from here: 

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/acidyo/dEDgSQqn-image.png)

and it turned into this, this one took a lot longer as I was trying to get all proportions correct, zooming and out more often really helped to get the perspective better not to mention a few extra layers for the head and the body to get the proportions somewhat better so I didn't have to start at random places like in the previous one: 

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/acidyo/azGROTqs-image.png)

Some things I wanted to point out here, there's obviously a lot of lines missing such as #3 and #4 and some sloppy lines on the shoulder of #2 and on #1 I added some lines for the shadow even though I should just be using different colors for the lines there but I'm just starting out and this is just a quick sketch.

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/acidyo/xDpyUjzA-image.png)

Next up I'm going to be focusing on trying my hand at the shadows, maybe a different sketch altogether or this latest one as it's still up on my Krita. The colors here are important cause they mix as the shadows as well to form new lines. Another thing I didn't do in these quick sketches is resize the pen for different lines, for instance the shadow lines that you can see between the fingers and those on the rest of the body that give this kind of "damaged" or having gone through things view that we are used to seeing in Anime. Whenever there's been a fight these lines start appearing everywhere giving the impression that they've been hurt/damaged right there. :p

After I'm better with colors I may dabble in the glow/light effects as well which is probably an important finisher.

Anyway, til next time! Krita has been really easy to work with as a beginner and I really haven't spent all too much time researching/watching tutorials, had I known what to look for better it would have saved me even more time than delving into oil paintings and all that stuff. For my comics/manga interest I don't think I'm going to be needing too much research into those so not sure why I bothered binge watching all those tuts but oh well, the more you learn.