Krita

Ten hours before the end of the Kickstarter (Tuesday June 7, from 21:00 to 23:00 CEST, UTC+2), David Revoy will draw in public! You can follow it on the official Krita channel on twitch.tv:  https://www.twitch.tv/artwithkrita Read more about it on David’s website

Could you tell us something about yourself? My name’s Sara Tepes, I’m 17 years old,  I was born in Romania but grew up in the U.S. and I live super close to Washington D.C. I love roses, rabbits, tea, and historical movies. Do you paint professionally, as a hobby artist, or both? I work on […]

The Kickstarter has been funded so we’ll be needing T-shirts! Here’s your chance to earn fame by designing the one we’ll send to our backers: Special June drawing challenge! The topic is: FLOW — interpret it any way you like. If your design wins the poll, it will be printed on all the Kickstarter backer […]

People sometimes assume that free software developers are only interested in adding cool new features, getting their few pixels of screenspace fame, and don’t care about fixing bugs. That’s not true – otherwise we wouldn’t have fixed about a thousand bugs in the past year (though it would be better if we hadn’t created the […]

Updated builds with the fix are here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-2016-lets-make-text-and-vector-art-awesome/posts/1594853! People sometimes assume that free software developers are only interested in adding cool new features ... [More] , getting their few pixels of screenspace fame, and don’t care about fixing bugs. That’s not true – otherwise we wouldn’t have fixed about a thousand bugs in the past year (though it […] [Less]

Today the Krita team releases Krita 3.0, the Animation Release. Wrapping up a year of work, this is a really big release: animation support integrated into Krita’s core, Instant Preview for better performance painting and drawing with big brushes on big canvases, ported to the latest version of the Qt platform and too many bigger […]

Could you tell us something about yourself? I’m Neotheta, 23-year-old from Finland and draw colourful pictures with animals, furries and alike. Drawing has been my passion since I was little, I was also interested in digital art early on but had a love&hate relationship with that because computers were not for kids, unstable and tools […]

Last weekend, ace Krita hacker Dmitry Kazakov attended KomMissia, the annual Russian comics festival. Best quote award goes to the Wacom booth attendants, who install Krita on all their demo machines because “too many people keep asking about it”! ... [More] Here’s Dmitry’s report: enjoy! Last weekend I have attended the Russian annual comic festival “KomMissia”. That […] [Less]

Funding Krita We’re running this kickstarter to fund Krita’s development. That sounds like a truism, but free software projects actually trying to fund development is still a rarity. When KDE, our mother project, holds a fund raiser it’s to collect ... [More] budget to make developers meetings possible, fund infrastructure (like this, Krita’s website) and so on, but […] [Less]

We’re getting closer and closer to releasing Krita 3.0, the first version of Krita that includes animation tools, instant preview and which is based on Qt5! Today’s release candidate offers many fixes and improvements over the previous beta releases. ... [More] The Animation and Instant Preview features were funded by last year’s successful Kickstarter, and right now […] [Less]