
Lots of eraser use in the initial stages and probably too much use of smudging. I used some random reference photos from a Google search. With a good job of erasing and some confidence in your strokes your drawings can look clean, bold, and professional. When you make the line, redo it as many times as you need to get it right, but don't worry about overshooting the line. I’ve just finished a 2 hour session (with a break for lunch) drawing it and will do some colouring and shading/highlighting in krita later. This smooths lineart out and makes the drawing look much more professional.

Gradients can now be painting as spirals. I’ve had a small project in mind for some time and this is the first step, a graphite pencil sketch of a rose. There’s a brand new magnetic selection tool. There’s a new snapshot docker that stores states of your image, and you can switch between those.

We’ve made it possible to put the canvas area in a window of its own, so on a multi monitor setup, you can have all the controls on one monitor, and your images on the other. You can now create animated brush tips that select brush along multiple dimensions.

It’s now possible to adjust the opacity and lightness on colored brush tips separately. There’s a color mode in the gradient map filter and a brand new palletize filter and a high pass filter. There’s a whole new set of brush presets that evoke watercolor painting. Three months after the release of Krita 4.2.9, we’ve got a major new feature release for you: Krita 4.3.0! We’ve spent the past year not just fixing bugs, even though we fixed over a thousand issues, but have also been busy adding cool new stuff to play with.
