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	<title>Painting in Krita</title>
    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:00:00 CET</pubDate>
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	<description>I've been spending a little time lately getting used to the open-source painting program <a href="https://krita.org/en/">Krita.</a> 
    Once you get over some of the little UI hangups it's a surprisingly robust drawing and painting experience. First thing that jumps out at you is that your Wacom tablet just works.[...]
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        <p>I've been spending a little time lately getting used to the open-source painting program <a href="https://krita.org/en/">Krita.</a> 
        Once you get over some of the little UI hangups it's a surprisingly robust drawing and painting experience. First thing that jumps out at you is that your Wacom tablet just works. 
        After fiddling with PSUserConfig files and WinTab and I don't know what for years using Photoshop, it was a relief to find my Wacom pressure sensitivity just worked in Krita.</p>
        <p>And it works beautifully. The brushes are a delight to use. I don't know what they've done, but the default pressure curves feel really nicely tuned.
        There's already a lot of good built-in brushes for sketching and inking. And if you like you can go to the Krita community and find many, many more excellent brush bundles.
        The one I decided to try this time were the <a href="https://krita-artists.org/t/memileo-impasto-brushes/92952">Memileo Impasto Brushes</a>, giving you some real nice thick paint strokes with some nice baked-in lighting effects.</p>
        <div class="images"><img class="half" src="img/painting_01.jpg" /><img class="half" src="img/painting_02.jpg" /></div>
        <p>I ended up painting a flooded Danish S-train station that I might use as a background for a short, little animation project. 
            So I sketched some characters for the short animation. Sailing under the station will be these two
            scavengers/sailors on a boat rigged with a big claw for picking things up in the flooded Danish suburb in the future. 
            I'm hoping the animation will be like a sweet, little vignette of what is otherwise a pretty bleak future.</p>
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