This method I’ve talked about below this point is still useful for custom textures though. G’MIC Artistic Stylize: pencil, charcoal and pastel

See this development diary entry for more details: Update: The pencil textures I made are available as presets in the Artistic Stylize filter in G’MIC from the 2.7 version onward. If it isn’t you can create a layer underneath it and fill this with a colour (white for example) then merge the layers together. If you are looking to use an existing image for this technique you need to open the image you want to apply the pencil stylize effect to in Krita.ĭuplicate your image (so you have a backup copy) and then make sure the background is opaque. I’ll supply a ready made template on my Gumroad page you can look at for reference of how to put your own file together, but here are the steps.

I did this with another picture a while ago of a squirrel I initially painted in Affinity Photo. You don’t have to start with a 3D render for what I’m going to show you by the way, it could be any image whether you started it using other digital painting brushes or whatever and then decided to go in a different direction with it. I’ll talk about the 3D process in another article. The actual pencil drawing bit I’m going to talk about in this article took around 10 hours to complete. The image above was worked on further in Krita to get a pencil drawing look. I started developing this Illustration by making 3D models using ZBrush, Curvy 3D and 3D Coat which I composed into a scene and rendered out using Blender. G’MIC comes ready installed with Krita but you can also use more up date versions of the Qt plug-in for Krita (3.2+) from the G’MIC website or download plugins for other software that are currently supported.

I wanted it to look like a pencil drawing so I employed the typical hand drawing skills you would expect but I also used a great feature in G’MIC which can be accessed in Krita to make a nice textured base as a starting point. I employed both 3D and 2D techniques in its creation. Over the last month or so I’ve been working on this Illustration.

Drawing krita