Make Cel Shaded 2d Characters with Krita

End of life: After careful consideration, I decided to make this Krita learning series available for free to everyone.

Please note that I will not provide support or updates. The learning material is provided as-is, with the hope that they might be useful to you. It was made with Krita 3 so the user interface and some shortcuts may be a bit different with the latest version of the program.

Learn how to create character sprites for games with a cartoon or cel shaded art style!

In this short course, I will show you some special tricks I found to create cartoon characters fast. We will look at the specifics of making cell shaded sprites for games, but everything you will learn applies to illustration.

The series is based on the open source webcomic Pepper&Carrot by David Revoy, available under the CC-By 4.0 Licence.

What will I learn?

• How to achieve the cartoon or anime style shading
• How to design a character based on an existing art direction
• Lighting and shading for game sprites

You'll get 14 tutorials and a full commented art timelapse.

All that using Krita, the free and open source digital painting program. The course focuses on static sprites, it doesn't cover character animation.

Requirements

• The pace might be a bit fast for absolute beginners. If you are new to game art, please check the Make Professional Painterly Game Art with Krita workshop first
• If you have never used Krita before, check out my free 6 hours long Krita tutorial series

Krita is a free and open source program, and it works on all desktop platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux). Click here to download it