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Krita Meets Bob Ross, parts 12-15 - Krita Art - Viking Visual

viking-venturesPosted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago3 min read

Last time I showed you how I made the foothills for my painting.

This time, we start with Part 12...

Painting trees - first method

He starts off teaching us some new shortcuts to use with Krita. Then he helps us make a new brush - again.
Again, the brush he used no longer exists, so I had to look at some other options.

Starting with the foothills brush I made in the previous tutorial, I was able to find the "3_rake" brush tip in the brush engine.

However, as I tried this brush, I found I didn't really like it. So, I hunted for another option. The "3_dotted-flat2" was a decent brush to use, but the one I eventually used this time was the "A-4 grass floor" brush. It made my tree look like a larch or something similar.

Here are my trees.

mistymountains2_just_trees_reduced.jpg

Okay, we reused the cloud brush to add more of the island underneath. (I think the leaf texture brush would be another great option here.)

Part 13 - highlights and fun

This part was about adding highlights to our trees reusing the same brush.
We also learn about moving around the dockers and creating layer groups. Very important parts even though the change to our painting was minimal here.

Part 14 - creating the reflection - without a brush!

We used the transform tools to manipulate our layers in many ways. Using this, I copied my tree layer and inverted it. I then applied a couple of filters to create my reflections.

Finally, we added more detail to the island plus created the edge of the island and water details with the palette knife tool we made a few parts ago.

Here is that section of the painting again...

mistymountains2_tree_island_reduced.jpg

I'm rather happy with this island, maybe the best part of my whole picture so far!

Part 15 - more trees - second method

These are the trees I most remember Bob Ross for. He used a wonderful fan brush that I always wanted to play with.

This tutorial started out teaching us how to alter bristle brushes. Unfortunately, the one he used no longer exists (as usual), so I had to look for another bristle brush - I only had one available, so I worked with that one for awhile.

In the end, I found a different brush that I liked okay and used that. (I will look for a better option at some point.) I wasn't quite as impressed with these trees, but I think with practice and playing with brushes, I'll find something I really like.

My result for the moment is this: (with my new foothills)

mistymountains2_evergreens_new_foothills_reduced.jpg

These trees almost look like hemlock, I think. However, it's something I will definitely be practicing. I want to get this technique down.

Regardless, I'm really pleased with how my picture is coming along. I will finish in the next part.


Created using Krita (freeware) and a Huion H610Pro.
Crossposted on Steem, Whaleshares, Weku, Hyperspace


Previous Krita Tutorials

Bob Ross Tutorials
Krita Meets Bob Ross parts 1-3, parts 4-5, parts 6-9, parts 10-11
Painting in the Style of Bob Ross



Lori Svensen
author/designer at A'mara Books
photographer/graphic artist for Viking Visual
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