Reddit reviews Digital Painting with KRITA 2.9: Learn All of the Tools to Create Your Next Masterpiece

The blank canvas problem. Happens with every painting (software) :). It takes awhile before imagination kicks in. I use Krita almost every day for three years now. I can recommend Scott L Petrovic's Krita book:https://www.amazon.de/Digital-Painting-KRITA-2-9-Masterpiece/dp/0996851704/ref=sr_1_1?s=books-intl-de&ie=UTF8&qid=1464824720&sr=1-1 and the Krita brushes by David Revoy. Great books about drawing and painting in general by: e.g. Andrew Loomis, Jack Hamm and James Gurney. What would you like to paint? Humans, monsters, characters, animals, landscapes, portraits, comics, characters, abstract paintings, film posters...? Start with what ever is important for you and I'm pretty sure that you will get better at it over time. Here is also a great inspiring blog post by Dani Jones: 101 Projects for Artists and Illustrators http://danidraws.com/blog/2007/02/21/101-projects-for-artists-and-illustrators/. I usually avoid video tutorials, but these are inspiring: https://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL.

Learning Krita is easier than learning Blender for sure. A lot of effort went on the documentation: https://docs.krita.org/Main_Page . I also propose a serie of tutorial for beginner here, and more advanced there. If you prefer books ; I advice this one written by a dev of Krita. If you want to be instant fan of Krita for texture/tiles design, just open a new small canvas (eg. 256x256px ), scribble something, and activate the 'Wrap Around mode' with W key. It's magic ;)