Review of the screen-less, medium sized and budget friendly XpPen Deco 01v3. I'm testing the pressure sensitivity, the resistance of the overlay, and the feature of the device. I'm using Krita on GNU/Linux Debian, but this video is about the hardware, so it should be informative even if you plan for using the device on something else.

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Improvements, modifications and tweaks at home with my tablets: I put an overlay sheet of Photodon on my XP-Pen 24 Artist Pro, I adapt a keyboard tray made for Cintiq for the XP-Pen 24 Artist Pro and Cintweak helps me, I then test their Universal UNI-X keyboard tray. I have a real bug issues, trapped under the glass of the XP-Pen and I tear down the tablet, and then I got a gift from Wacom and discover the too grainy overlay surface of the Intuos Pro Large tablet.

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Managing the amount of details was always a difficult topic for me; especially when it comes to manage them in my backgrounds. I naturally tends to spend too much time on them, polishing corner after corner of my artworks. But over the time I found a way out of necessity and guessing; a couple of rules that allows me to details only 30% while painting almost flat the other part. This video tries to put words on this technique and show how I use it. I had the idea of this video after browsing old artworks, that's why I wanted to make also a "15 years ago" moment in the video and show you how it changed. I hope you learned something and you'll like this very short format, not about Krita for once, but about a painting tip.

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I'm describing brush by brush, the new pack of Krita brush I shared on my blog. This is a video format half-way between the vlog and the "livestream" with cut, and not a tutorial. To jump to the explication of a specific brush, just browse the video and look at what brush is selected to go to this chapter.

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A video timelapse of a digital painting of a Spooky Cute House made using Krita. I made this artwork for myself, a single day personal project to train with my new XP-Pen Pro Artist 24 pen display. The tablet was sponsored; this video is not. XP-Pen sent me Promo codes and I mention it in the beginning of the video so my audience can benefit of the reduction. That's all. So, after a week, what do I feel about the tablet? This tablet reminds me a lot the Cintiq 21UX: the smooth surface, the parallax the compact frame; but it is way better than the 21UX thanks to the QuadHD monitor, the colors, the stylus. The Digimend driver hack works fine for me. I'll still prefer my large Intuos4XL because I prefer non-display tablets for the ergonomy; but I'll keep the XP-Pro 24 next to me as my second monitor; so when I need to sketch, I don't plug the Cintiq13HD anymore but I just swing the 24Pro on a Ergotron arm I connected to it. Good setup, the "detailing step" was a pleasure to do on this device.

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Here is my deep review of the XP-Pen Artist 24 Pro on GNU/Linux! The large, 24" QuadHD pen tablet. I'm testing all the part as I could on this video. XP-Pen sent me this tablet for free in exchange of a video review and I want to be transparent about this deal. It was a good opportunity and I had full freedom in our agreement (that's why I accepted). I hope you liked it, I took a lot of passion and fun to make this review. I hope I'll be able to continue to make more in the future!

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Learn to shade a comic in Krita the way I shaded Episode 34 of my webcomic Pepper&Carrot ( https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article467/episode-34-the-knighting-of-shichimi ). The video is detailed and goes step-by-step to explain in details what I'm selecting; and more importantly maybe, why. It might sounds like this setup is long to do, but if I'm not explaining it; adding the hardlight, the mid-grey and the selection by color label can be done within a minute. It then allows to shade quickly the panels. This video follows a series of two videos: a timelapse about inking a page of this episode, and a detailed video about the flatting of the page with the colorize-mask feature of Krita.

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Hey, here is a new video "Krita Colorize-Mask: Advanced Tips" where I share what I found to get better results and work faster while coloring my previous episode of Pepper&Carrot. Sorry if I sound a little messy and inarticulate; I recorded it last week and today while I was doing the long task of transcripting the subtitles, I saw my sentences were particulary segmented and hesitants. I hope the subtitles will help.

I hope this video will help all the one who decide to go on a big project with colorize-mask. It's always different to use a tool on a single artwork; than ising a tool on 60 panels/10 pages. The little tips here might appears as just be small improvements; something to just win 10 minutes maximum and get a bit more of comfort; But for comic artist; 10 minutes less on each panels means often many hours saved on a full story. (60 panels x 10 minutes = 600 minutes; 10 hours!... ). So any small tips are precious! Any bottleneck in the workflow are also severe... I hope this set will help the one facing the same challenges to get easier time.

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An uncommented timelapse while inking this page 6 of episode 34 of my webcomic Pepper&Carrot ( https://www.peppercarrot.com/ ). During the process, I thought about activating the recorder and I even put a webcam so you can see what I'm doing on the tablet too. I'm not doing it for everypages; because you can imagine the weight on disk about saving around 10h of videos like this; and also how it is not multi-tasking: when I record, you don't see me open the door to get the mail of the postman, you don't see me cleaning temporary accident of a cat bringing back a mouse at home, you don't see me typing to solve a merge request issue to merge a translation of Pepper&Carrot.

It was recorded with OBS on Kubuntu 20.04 and edited with Kdenlive 20.12. The tablet I use here are both the Cintiq13HD and Intuos4XL; it depends my mood (I'm not sponsored), but I prefer the Intuos4XL if I had to choose. For inking and sketching, the tiny Cintiq is nice.

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Here is a timelapse of a speedpainting using Krita that starts with a thumbnails in black and white; then most of the recoloring and painting of the main blocks is done at a distant zoom level. It helps at managing the overall aspect of the picture. To finish only a small part of the artwork was detailed: the characters. This way, the depth of field is not managed by a blur added (for eg. reducing the detailes of a colored line-art) , but by the lack of details all around. It's a technique that works fine with staged characters, little silhouette and background with organic shapes. It totally falls appart as soon as I apply that to a reaction shot for a comic, or on a complex perspective that require precise guideline. But I'll keep practising because I really like the feeling of 'freedom' this technique offers.

It's an old speedpainting I made in September 2020. I transformed the video records I had on my disk today into a 3 min video timelapse because this week I have no time to record and edit a full tutorial. I'm working hard to finish episode 34 before the end of the month! I hope you'll like this little 'filler' 😉

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