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[youtube]ZSQ0hRAtL8Q[/youtube]
- Ptb: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/videos/watch/31c7aaa6-db17-4f3d-9546-f0c981991ce4
- Ytb: https://youtu.be/ZSQ0hRAtL8Q
Learn to shade a comic in Krita the way I shaded Episode 34 of my webcomic Pepper&Carrot ( https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article467/episode-34-the-knighting-of-shichimi ). The video is detailed and goes step-by-step to explain in details what I'm selecting; and more importantly maybe, why. It might sounds like this setup is long to do, but if I'm not explaining it; adding the hardlight, the mid-grey and the selection by color label can be done within a minute. It then allows to shade quickly the panels. This video follows a series of two videos: a timelapse about inking a page of this episode, and a detailed video about the flatting of the page with the colorize-mask feature of Krita.
Subtitle available.
**Timeline:**
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:24 Demo descripion
- 01:24 Setup the layer stack
- 03:33 Inherit Alpha and group
- 04:39 Hard-Light blending mode
- 07:41 Color-picking shade color
- 08:54 Select by color label
- 14:15 Timelapse shading
- 15:22 Color balance
- 16:21 Conclusion
**Previous video mentioned:**
- Timelapse inking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkveeXHUy04
- Colorize mask video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-NNUdnPgbM
- Color grading comic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQiC_RujLHo
- Magical effect! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vopP_8kJMj8
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Video and artworks by David Revoy
www.davidrevoy.com
**Soundtrack:**
- Intro: Fabian Measures - Hanami (CC-By)
- www.soundcloud.com/fogheart
- Timelapse: Kevin MacLeod - Perspective (CC-By)
- www.incompetech.com
- Outro: Kevin MacLeod - Backed Vibes Clean (CC-By)
- www.incompetech.com
Edited with Kdenlive 20.12 on Kubuntu Linux 20.04
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I wasn't satisfied with the composition of many panels on my storyboard for episode 35. The little break I took last week-end at Penguicon was a good time to take a bit of distance. Meanwhile, I decided to read again my books. The sentence under caught my attention:
> "Howard Pyle used to say that he liked to do fifty thumbnail sketches for every illustration. Even if he felt confident of the first one, he had to do the other forty-nine anyway just to be sure." ~ Imaginative Realism, James Gurney, page 30.
Even if I don't have the time budget to do fifty thumbnails per panels; I could nonetheless try to paint a couple of iterations for the most problematic ones. Especially the key 'exposition' shots, because I have rarely problems with the composition of the reaction shots.
After some experimentation, the result of this experiment was fruitful; I have now a better understanding of the layout of my scene, and I could make many more iteration than the one on the screenshot above (many more not effective were just painted over). I'll now backport that to the storyboard and continue the production. For sure, I'll include this step as mandatory now in my future productions.
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Hey, it's already the last day at [Penguicon2021](https://2021.penguicon.org/) virtual event, and I'm taking a little break between panels to post the artworks I made.
## Workshop
The workshop was about the character design of a Penguin Wizard. I put a focus on black&white character creation, shapes and iteration to play between the archetypes (a set of features so the audience can directly identify the character as a penguin and as a wizard without the necessity of dialogues or backstory about it) and what will bring a hint of originality to the result. I want to thank here the participant for submitting their ideas during the livestream: the goat horns, the sachel and the cup of tea. These constraints helped to create this grumpy short penguin wizard, probably specialist in beverage made with herbs.
Here is a rendering I made of the character −codenamed "Pengalf"− developed during the workshop and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, so feel free to reuse it:
[](data/images/blog/2021/2021-04-24_penguicon_workshop_character-design_penguin-wizard.jpg)
_Pengalf, CC-By (click to get full resolution)_
And here is under what was on my monitor after the 50min of the workshop. On left you can see research using black and white and the symmetry tool to invent without the technical constraint of color, shading, posing, perspective and forms. Then on right a quick color sketch trying to input back these constraints but after getting the idea and design.
[](data/images/blog/2021/2021-04-24_penguicon_workshop-result-at-the-end.jpg)
_The research on my screen at the end of the session (click to get full resolution)_
My wish was to communicate to the audience to split the 'concept' part and the 'execution' part. I wanted to underline that, because it's easy to feel lost when approaching the visual development or concept-art of a character; especially when being used to see online on social medias mostly skilled artist showing the impressive 'execution' part and trying to replicate that without preparation.
## Lobby room live doodles
On Friday and Saturday evening, I joined the 'Lobby' room moderated by [Rider](https://penguicon2021.sched.com/speaker/proulxmo) (and powered by a Jitsi Meet server). One of the best parts about Penguicon is seeing who you can meet up with in the Lobby! Well, It's Lobby Con time in a Virtual Space, so I started to share my monitor and launch Krita and doodle what I was listening.
During the Friday Lobby discussions: we had UFOs, Bob Ross, bots fighting/battlebots, dogs at home (fart and way to wake up), CD-Roms/DVD, Extraterrestrial, super-heros T-shirts, Penguins, Icecream, squirrels, discussions about the real hotel on the previous IRL conf, Vodka, Snorkies, Speedy Gonzales, bread, butterfly, catfishes, Dragon Maid (anime), cat, cross stitching, Animaniacs, problem with cat's litters and evil cats, octopus, Firefox, funny cloud and that's probably all.
[](data/images/blog/2021/2021-04-24_01h06_lobby1_doodle_at-penguicon.jpg)
_"Lobby 1", contains element of fan-art under fair-use (click to get full resolution)_
During the shorter Saturday Lobby session: we had Giraffe with headband, Knuckles with a bouquet of Churros, fountains, sea monkey, bathing stories with cats, (an overflowing toilet?) a cat making noise at the windows and a vampire. :rofl:
[](data/images/blog/2021/2021-04-25_01h06_lobby2_doodle_at-penguicon.jpg)
_"Lobby 2", contains element of fan-art under fair-use (click to get full resolution)_
I really hope I'll paint something like that one day during a real IRL discussion at Penguicon (with a laptop connected to a screen projector?) to illustrate the talk during a panel, etc... I enjoyed a lot doing this!
# Ending note: a good time
It's already Sunday −the last day of PenguiCon 2021− and the ending ceremony is approaching. So, I want to thanks here all participants, panelists and organizers for all the good time, material for thoughts, laughs and nice words during the sessions!
**Links:**
* [Penguicon2021](https://2021.penguicon.org/)
* [Penguicon on Twitter](https://twitter.com/Penguicon)
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[youtube]M-NNUdnPgbM[/youtube]
* Ytb: https://youtu.be/M-NNUdnPgbM
* Ptb: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/videos/watch/d2f80555-dc0e-4ba1-aab1-4e26c12df770
Hey, here is a new video "Krita Colorize-Mask: Advanced Tips" where I share what I found to get better results and work faster while coloring my previous episode of Pepper&Carrot. Sorry if I sound a little messy and inarticulate; I recorded it last week and today while I was doing the long task of transcripting the subtitles, I saw my sentences were particulary segmented and hesitants. I hope the subtitles will help.
I hope this video will help all the one who decide to go on a big project with colorize-mask. It's always different to use a tool on a single artwork; than ising a tool on 60 panels/10 pages. The little tips here might appears as just be small improvements; something to just win 10 minutes maximum and get a bit more of comfort; But for comic artist; 10 minutes less on each panels means often many hours saved on a full story. (60 panels x 10 minutes = 600 minutes; 10 hours!... ). So any small tips are precious! Any bottleneck in the workflow are also severe... I hope this set will help the one facing the same challenges to get easier time.
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A workflow test on first panel of future episode 35; it's based on a approach using the Grisaille to Color workflow (b&w recolorized) and I'm doing more test to better understand how to use blending modes; the various Color HSV/HSL/HSY option of Krita and make my values more accurate for the scene I want to depict. I'll share all this research on future videos; but sooner than that; I have to keep working on sharing what I learned about previous episode inking and usage of colorize-mask. So, it might take time until I do a video about my observations on Grisaille-to-Color workflow in Krita. I have now a full episode to render this way. First step: all page will be in black&white (or slightly colored) for the beta. I'll keep sharing artworks and cropped part of pages along producing the episode.
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**I'm one of the Guest of Honor at Penguicon 2021!** 🎉
I'll participate to talks and give a Krita workshop about character design (a penguin wizard; a small creature possible to start on a 1h session). If you don't know what is Penguicon and are curious to attend their virtual event this week-end, you can find all information here:
**https://2021.penguicon.org/**
Here is my full schedule:
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[youtube]qkveeXHUy04[/youtube]
* Ytb: https://youtu.be/qkveeXHUy04
* Ptb: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/videos/watch/551829f1-e0ca-4b30-9215-9ae29cb85b8e
An uncommented timelapse while inking this page 6 of episode 34 of my webcomic Pepper&Carrot ( https://www.peppercarrot.com/ ). During the process, I thought about activating the recorder and I even put a webcam so you can see what I'm doing on the tablet too. I'm not doing it for everypages; because you can imagine the weight on disk about saving around 10h of videos like this; and also how it is not multi-tasking: when I record, you don't see me open the door to get the mail of the postman, you don't see me cleaning temporary accident of a cat bringing back a mouse at home, you don't see me typing to solve a merge request issue to merge a translation of Pepper&Carrot.
It was recorded with OBS on Kubuntu 20.04 and edited with Kdenlive 20.12. The tablet I use here are both the Cintiq13HD and Intuos4XL; it depends my mood (I'm not sponsored), but I prefer the Intuos4XL if I had to choose. For inking and sketching, the tiny Cintiq is nice.
**Soundtrack:**
Kevin MacLeod - Perspectives (CC-By)
www.incompetech.com
https://kevinmacleod.bandcamp.com/track/perspectives
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Here under studies for episode 35, a montage of roughly 30 Sketches, featuring Pepper at various ages, Arra dragon, Carrot and Torreya (a new character), Arra's pilot.
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Text on the picture above:
**Arra**, a female white dragon very athletic, maybe the fastest dragon alive on Hereva. Expert in flying in high athmosphere.
Immune to low temperatures. She can host a single pilot on her back but require a special one able to get the stomach to follow her moves.
Attacks: claws and bite (like a giant eagle), her magic power is limited to boost her speed, she can also shockwave by crossing speed of sound.
[](data/images/blog/2021/2020-12-06d_17h29_sketchpage_net.jpg)
About my progress: my big single file storyboard is done and I'll start today to cut it into pages; 10 Krita documents ( for artworks and panels) and also retype all speechbubbles in 10 Inkscape documents and translate it on the fly from French to English (Beta-Reader team will improve the dialog later). Once this part done; I'll try to make a first pass in black and white over all the episode.
It will take weeks until I reach the 'Beta-Ready for translation' and with a mountain of todo on my back: emails, maintainance, tax administration, translation system, renderfarm, accessibility, tutorials, documentation, conferences and many other technical issues: I'll have to make priorities. For now, I decided I'll center all my effort around the future episode, and a production of useful bonuses for my patrons (new video tutorials/conferences/brushes).
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As a tribute to Pop music, some episodes of Pepper&Carrot were rewritten this morning.
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Hi! I just posted a new Pepper&Carrot episode on peppercarrot website:
https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article467/episode-34-the-knighting-of-shichimi
Have a good read !
(I'll add more infos in the comments later)
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[youtube]Di32TOT0B4Y[/youtube]
- Peertube: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/videos/watch/0f55b389-d130-47e3-b098-f25fb772234a
- Youtube: https://youtu.be/Di32TOT0B4Y
Here is a timelapse of a speedpainting using Krita that starts with a thumbnails in black and white; then most of the recoloring and painting of the main blocks is done at a distant zoom level. It helps at managing the overall aspect of the picture. To finish only a small part of the artwork was detailed: the characters. This way, the depth of field is not managed by a blur added (for eg. reducing the detailes of a colored line-art) , but by the lack of details all around. It's a technique that works fine with staged characters, little silhouette and background with organic shapes. It totally falls appart as soon as I apply that to a reaction shot for a comic, or on a complex perspective that require precise guideline. But I'll keep practising because I really like the feeling of 'freedom' this technique offers.
It's an old speedpainting I made in September 2020. I transformed the video records I had on my disk today into a 3 min video timelapse because this week I have no time to record and edit a full tutorial. I'm working hard to finish episode 34 before the end of the month! I hope you'll like this little 'filler' ;-)
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Video and artworks by David Revoy
www.davidrevoy.com
Soundtrack:
"A GHRÀ"
by Damiano Baldoni
CC-By 4.0, from opengameart.org
Edited with Kdenlive 20.12 on Kubuntu Linux 20.04
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Sunday, I was happy to give a talk at the FSF LibrePlanet, wearing the [Tshirt I designed for them](https://www.davidrevoy.com/article791/the-fsf-s-35th-anniversary-event) (see photo). But later that day, Richard Stallman (RMS) announced his return to the FSF's Board of Directors.
RMS will always be a part of the free/libre community history for his achievement, and was great for that. I'm not denying that. I even [drew a portrait](https://www.davidrevoy.com/article323/gnu-linux-portrait) back in 2016 to depict him with Linus Torvald. I'm quoting myself: "They both are my personal heroes and big inspiration".
But nowadays, I deeply think he is a bad representative for the community. It looks like he is back only because of a personality cult, something I dislike. I feel his comeback and the way it was announced (or even not announced, [see blog post of day two](https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/libreplanet-day-two-empowering-users-in-real-and-virtual-space)) will be more harmful than beneficial for FLOSS in general.
All in all, this is the decision of the FSF and they can do what they want; but on my side, I don't want to be affiliated with this type of decision. In this situation, I'll no longer invest my energy for them... 😿
