Krita Free Painting App Tutorial

Project: Krita, free and open-source digital painting software krita.org/
Character: Kiki the Cyber Squirrel, the mascot of Krita
Description:
2014-07-25: Source file has been made available. Please feel free to translate this tutorial into your native language!
2014-07-23: Shortcut chapter update, Typography improvement.

As requested, I'm sharing my Krita experience here as a
comprehensive, 24 pages tutorial. This tutorial shows how I created a
new picture of Kiki (the mascot) for Krita 2.9 startup splash, covering
many Krita related know-how such as:

• Brushes of choice
• Customizations
• Layers
• Ruler assisted drawing
• Transformation
• Mask
• My 2 drawing strategies
• and more!

I hope this tutorial helps. Good luck and happy drawing with Krita!

High resolution versions:

• Krita 2.9 splash full
  
• Krita 2.9 splash cropped
  
• Krita 2.9 splash cut out
  
• Multuply example Kiki
  
• Multuply example Kiki (source)

Links

• This tutorial in a ZIP file
• Source Files of this tutorial
  
• Krita Official website