Well, i know the purpose of them now! i never did when I was younger.

Well, i know the purpose of them now! i never did when I was younger.

Well hope I find out too. Haha.

Eh, its pretty easy. I was young, arrogant, and nobody told me what to do. This was back when tutorials on the web were not heard of... and you had to buy books or be in the industry to gain the knowledge.

Well I tried out krita. Guess it did not suit me. Also i could find more reference or tutorial for gimp and quite a lot of people recommend Gimp when a person asks for no price charged art software. Although, your art does look nice.

I wasn't very impressed with it either until I saw this friggen guy paint this:

After I was done crapping myself, I committed to learn how to use it.

Well, that guy already knew how to paint, so effectively (given enough time) they could paint in any program. It doesn't mean Krita is going to make you paint awesome, or even better than in GIMP, or Photoshop, or Painter, etc... Though, I'll say Krita is a much better program for painting than GIMP is out of the box. Since, y'know, it's not an image editor, it focuses more on the "painting" aspect.

I'll also say I prefer MyPaint to Krita on the free-open-source-painting-apps front, but I have a preference for the lightweight.

It doesn't mean Krita is going to make you paint awesome, or even better than in GIMP, or Photoshop, or Painter, etc...

I wasn't implying that at all. I've tried a few including MyPaint but never seriously considered producing anything with them till I saw that vid.

As I wrote this post I realized MyPaint is still installed on this box and tested it beside Krita and it does use 1/3 the memory.

I will revisit it.

I've had some time to check out MyPaint vs Krita so I'm now more qualified to give an answer.

I like the feature set and shortcut keys more on Krita and I have found they are designed to mimic Photoshop(PS) better than MyPaint(MP). This is especially helpful when watching drawing or painting tutorials where the dude is using PS. Most of the shortcuts can be remapped in MP to match Krita/PS but some can't. An example that really bothers me is using the shift key and the mouse/pen to change the brush size- I have yet to find the way to do that in MP.

The lightweightness of MP is nice but in my case where I'm on on 8-core processer with plenty of RAM, a little drawing program is of NULL effect.

One thing where MP shines:

Being faced with an empty canvas is daunting especially when you are already considering your composition. With MP this is not a problem because your drawing space is 'unlimited.' If you start your drawing in another drawing program and it is crowding the frame you have to do a bunch of nonsense to resize and position your image. In MP you draw freely and frame your composition by cropping. This is far easier.

Where it's lacking:

I like the interface and look of Krita more. The layout in MP is complete configurable and you can mostly match the layout of Krita, but even then it still looks like it is- lightweight(see image). You can't apply filters to layers. You can't change layers to exotic types. You can't look at the screen and tell what opacity you are set to or even the size of your brush. That is very distracting.

For doodling and planning layout, I'll use MyPaint and for the rest, I'll use Krita. Actually doodling with Alchemy is fun too!