Category Archives: Illustrations

Back from the “Future Tools” LGM 2013

I’m just back home from the Libre Graphics Meeting 2013, which was once again awesome! It happened in Madrid this time, at the Medialab-Prado. There were a lot of interesting talks and workshops, mixing coder and artistic topics. All kinds of graphics-related activities were represented, including image manipulation, typography, illustration, animation, design, and more. The […]

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First Krita Lessons and other cool things this week

This week for the first time I’ve been teaching Krita lessons, from Monday to Wednesday, at Activ Design. This is a french school training students to graphics work using only free software. This time it was only a short training about drawing basics and how they apply using Krita features. There’s more planned for next […]

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Krita 2.6 released

Hi, This week the Calligra suite released version 2.6, including latest stable Krita. Lots of cool stuff (though more cool features are already in master branch, waiting for 2.7… ). The official announcement is here on Krita.org, including a nice presentation booklet. This release introduce the new icon I’ve made, based on the Krita Sketch […]

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Krita Sketch Release

Today has been officially announced the release of Krita Sketch, the touch-optimised and QML-based version of Krita. It has all the useful tools from Krita that one needs to sketch or speedpaint on the go. Here is a quick presentation of the interface: (note: all the drawings in these screenshots are really made inside krita […]

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Lots of Krita news!

Some exciting news about Krita: -We now have a Krita foundation, “to support and further the development and use of Krita in any way imaginable”. It is now possible to subscribe to Krita development funding, check the link to know more about it. -We just launched a contest to draw a new portrait of Konqui, […]

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