So I am an artist who needed an upgrade from Paint. My dad and I found GIMP but in trying to figure it out, I still have zero clue as how to color the brushes. Do you have any tutorials I could use for this, and maybe other helpfuls for my cluelessness?
Hi! Below comes my tips on painting in GIMP, and then at the bottom there are some useful links.
First, there are a bunch of coloring tools in GIMP. There’s a pen, a brush, ink, airbrush, eraser and bucket tool. And here on GIMP’s website is a walkthrough on all the tools.
To choose the colors to draw with you click on this thing:
The top color (in this case black) is the color you draw with. The white arrow switches the colors. When clicking on the black square you change the color you draw with. This comes up:
You can pick a color in the big square, and change which hue in the multi-colored slide. The small icons on top change which view you use for picking colors. I prefer the triangle in a circle view. Don’t forget to press “Ok”, so that the color picked actually becomes the color you paint with.
I would also suggest working on different layers. When I draw I use one for the background, one for lineart and one for painting.
There is also the issue of canvas size. Basically, don’t go too small. I also have an issue with when I go too big, my computer slows down. So I usually stick between 1000 and 2000.
Here is a super-useful tutorial and here is a list of useful GIMP tutorials.
