I found David Revoy's Pepper & Carrot comic on imgur last year and followed the internet crumbs back to his home page. He has a very interesting philosophy on creating comics, using open-source software, and closing the gap between creator and audience. He even encourages people to use his characters to make a profit so long as they give him credit. So far I haven't found anyone else taking this approach and I really like it.
I also love that his web comics are translated into English and Japanese. Reading the same comic in both languages is really great practice for me.
Back to the meat and potatoes of today's post. David's site has a ton of great tutorials here and on his YouTube page, https://www.youtube.com/user/DeevadRevoy. I don't have a lot to show for the hours I've thrown at Krita but after watching a few of his tutorials I now know how to customize the tool bar to make the smoothing tool easier to find, how to easily turn my sketch into a blue tone that's easier to ink over, and how to adjust saturation to remove left over marks from the sketch work.
I hope my comic can be even half as well produced as Pepper & Carrot. I may even have to break out the Japanese books again so I can tackle the bilingual approach.
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