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This will open the G’MIC interface where you can select different image effects and filters. Then go to Top Menu > Filter > Start G’MIC-QT Select your image below the texture in the layers panel. You should have the texture above your image in the layers. I found this can cause problems in some of my earlier experiments if both images don’t match size and ratio of each other. To be on the safe side make sure you go to “Image > Trim to Image Size” as well so it is definitely matching the source image size and there is no overlapping in the layers. I found that the image for the stylize filter in G’MIC needs to completely cover the layer, so this approach is more versatile. Incidentally this video I made shows how you can turn a flat texture into one with enough tone to work with the filter.įor some things a radial image like the one I created for the stippling technique may work better to create fewer artifacts to fix afterward, but as a rule a linear one will be fine and is much easier to create.ĭrop your tiling pattern into Krita as a new layer, then use the create pattern from current layer with this texture.Īs you can see, I made the pencil shading scale into a repeating tiled image so I could use it in documents of any size or ratio I wanted in future. It won’t work well with a flat value image. Hand drawing it means you get the lovely grainy texture and imperfections / happy accidents as well.Īs I wrote about in one of my development diary entries for a stippling technique using the same method you can get it to work in the G’MIC stylize filter as long as you create light to dark values using a gradient and appropriate layer blending mode. I’ll include this pattern with the document template file, but it is good practice to make shading scales if you want to practice your skills and it is fun making your own textures to experiment with.įor the texture to work well it needs to have a good range of values from light to dark, hence the need of the shading scale from light to dark. I created a hand drawn pencil shading scale (if you want it to look hand drawn it needs to be hand drawn in my opinion), scanned it in and then made it into a tiling pattern. Now you need to create a layer above this image which will contain the pencil shading texture (or any other texture for that matter) for the style transfer with G’MIC. 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.
#Gmic krita update how to
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.
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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.
#Gmic krita update software
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.