However, we don’t get a round value that way. We can change the size of the brush by clicking on the corresponding slider. We have to put the horizontal and vertical fade to 1, then reduce the size of our brush down to 1 pixel. Let’s first tweak the brush tip, which corresponds to the base shape of our brush. Then, we are going to modify the brush in the central window. Let us first ensure that the pixel brush engine is selected in the left column. To access the tool’s parameters, we have to click on the brush shaped icon on the top navigation bar. We are going to select a pixel type brush, like the ink_gpen_10 which can be found in your favorite wheel by default. Thankfully though, it is very easy to create them. In version 2.9.6, Krita doesn’t come with predefined pixel art brushes. For instance, you can follow a drawing method based on downscaling and cleaning up a painting, or you can use the HD Index Painting method from Dan Fessler, which we will talk about in the next video. And Krita gives you a lot of freedom with your workflow.

Because it’s a digital painting software, it offers a lot of specific tools and filters to tweak your pictures, which you often don’t have access to in specialized software.

Thus it’s an interesting choice to draw pixel art.

Krita is pretty easy to use, it’s open source… but it’s also flexible. In this video, we are going to see how we can use Krita’s tools to do pixel art.

Pixel art in krita