However, the free transform tool can be used for pixel art. The filter they apply to our selection makes it lose its sharpness. We face the same limitations with most of the deformation tools. I personally assigned the Ctrl D key combination to this function. To work around this limitation though, you can paint the area you’d like to select on a new layer, then right-click on the layer name and press the S key or choose the “select opaque” option from the drop-down menu. There are options to cut or copy only opaque pixels from a selection in Krita, but they are a bit cumbersome to use and we can’t assign them shortcuts as far as I know. By default, they apply an anti-aliasing on the cut. The other selection tools can be used to select and move an entire shape, but not to cleanly cut a pixel art drawing in 2 parts. ![]() We can only use the rectangular selection tool and the color based tools for pixel art. In version 2.9.6, the use of selections is a bit delicate. For the fills to work perfectly with pixel art, we just have to activate the fast mode in the tool options. Let us now talk a bit about the other tools that Krita offers for pixel artists. By combining this tool with a selection or the alpha lock, we can easily enrich the texture or the shadows of our drawings. I first draw the brush’s icon, and I then decide to call it GDquest_pixel_dither_1. We can then save that new brush by giving it a unique name. You can invert this behavior by activating the “invert pattern” option at the bottom of the window. By default, the black pixels of the selected pattern are the ones that will be applied on our canvas. To select a texture, you just have to click on its icon. At the bottom of the pattern list, we can find a few pictures that are adapted to pixel art. Krita comes with a lot of textures that we can use in combination with our brushes. This allows us to use a texture that will act as a stencil when we draw. We just have to go back to the brush parameter window, and to check the pattern option. Starting from our pixel art brush, we can quickly create new tools that will apply some kind of dithering. ![]() And we now have a proper tool to draw pixel art! A bit like mangkas, pixel artists often use dithering to enrich the texture of their drawings or to create a gradient effect with few colors. Then, we just have to click on the “overwrite preset” button to save it and to create a new brush. I decided to call mine GDquest_pixel_simple. In order to save our brush, we first have to give it a new name at the top of the window. This icon will be used in the brush presets docker. On the right of the window, inside of the square delimited by the dashed line, we can draw an icon for our tool. For those of you who use a tablet, you will have to go to the flow and opacity tabs and uncheck the use pen settings boxes in both cases in order to have an opaque brush at all times. Those parameters remove the antialiasing entirely on the brush. You can put the threshold value to the minimum, and the strength value to the maximum, that is to say 1 in this case. We have to check the checkbox on the left of the word sharpness to do so, and we then click on the category name to access its parameters. We have one option left to activate: the sharpness modifier. As we can’t directly type in the size with the keyboard, we have to first pull the slider all the way to the left, to put it down to zero, then use the mouse wheel or click on the arrow to the right of the slider to increase the size by 1 pixel. However, we don’t get a round value that way. We can change the size of the brush by clicking on the corresponding slider. We have to put the horizontal and vertical fade to 1, then reduce the size of our brush down to 1 pixel. Let’s first tweak the brush tip, which corresponds to the base shape of our brush. Then, we are going to modify the brush in the central window. ![]() Let us first ensure that the pixel brush engine is selected in the left column. To access the tool’s parameters, we have to click on the brush shaped icon on the top navigation bar. We are going to select a pixel type brush, like the ink_gpen_10 which can be found in your favorite wheel by default. Thankfully though, it is very easy to create them. In version 2.9.6, Krita doesn’t come with predefined pixel art brushes. For instance, you can follow a drawing method based on downscaling and cleaning up a painting, or you can use the HD Index Painting method from Dan Fessler, which we will talk about in the next video. And Krita gives you a lot of freedom with your workflow. Because it’s a digital painting software, it offers a lot of specific tools and filters to tweak your pictures, which you often don’t have access to in specialized software. Thus it’s an interesting choice to draw pixel art. ![]() Krita is pretty easy to use, it’s open source… but it’s also flexible. In this video, we are going to see how we can use Krita’s tools to do pixel art.
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