I thought this was an interesting read - the report from the latest development sprint of the open-source Krita art program. They have 2.5 million downloads a year for Krita now and several full-time developers working on it, funded by fundraising and Steam sales etc. It's also interesting to see so many artists being involved in the program like this.

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-2019-sprint/

That was a very interesting read. Thanks Griatch.

I think of Krita as software that replaces a sketchpad but maybe I'm wrong?
Doing a traditional sketch/watercolor and then photographing it with a digital camera essentially digitizes it producing a result similar to Krita.

A 'sketchpad' is not really covering it - Krita is a full art creation and editing suite these days.

Krita actually can do pretty much everything that GIMP can, at least for my usage. It has a smaller selection of custom filters than the latter and don't have the long history and big community of scripters etc. But things like GMic are available as a menu item. The only thing I really lack is the ability to clone between layers (but I think that was being looked at).

Overall though, Krita's main focus is on _creating_ artwork - digital painting, drawing and the like. It also has quite powerful animation features. Unless that changed recently, as far as I know, Gimp devs have stated quite clearly that their primary focus is on photo manipulation; that is, _editing_ existing artwork rather than creating it.


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Griatch

Thanks for the very good description of what Krita is Griatch.

I like the artwork you created. A lovely nymph walking around in the forest (sigh).
It's just like here but in another hemisphere of course