References are great for looking up how and why a specific feature works. In a time in which there's a preponderance of tutorial-based resources that show how someone else works with a tool, I really appreciate a book that tells you about the tool and how it works, but leaves the actual use of that tool to, well, the user. Contentsįirst, let me point out that the 230 pages in Digital Painting with Krita 2.9 are structured as a reference book, my favorite kind of book. I received a digital copy of the book for review, so continue reading to find out how well it stacks up. Furthermore, because this book's author has a personal emphasis on Krita's user interface, imagining a better-credentialed person to put this book together is difficult. This is the first book in English to specifically cover the use of Krita in digital painting, and as Krita's popularity grows, resources like this become more vital.
Near the end of last year, one of Krita's developers, Scott Petrovic, stepped up to provide a solution to this growing problem by publishing Digital Painting with Krita 2.9. Materials end up getting spread across the Internet, go out of date quickly, or are conveyed in a variety of different voices and media. Of course, when development moves this fast, keeping up the documentation is often difficult. With everything from big-time performance jumps when using large brushes, to the addition of support for animating, Krita's growth has spiked and the project continues to get attention and high praise among digital artists. They had a successful crowdfunding campaign over the summer, which helped fund the development of an onslaught of features targeted for versions of 2.9 and beyond. Welcome to the communityĢ015 was a big year for the Krita project.
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