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I helped the Krita project a lot more by painting 3 splash screens, doing heavy beta testing, suggesting new features/improvements and promoting the software among other artists. Yes, I’ve created and donated to community many textures, downloadable from my site or my deviantArt gallery, and a peculiar and big brush set for Mypaint, included in the “08“ pack.

Have you worked for any FOSS project or contributed in some way? Fortunately the Krita development is not afflicted by such problems, rather is very fast and well organized!

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Even though the situation has improved a lot in recent years, Linus Torvalds too complained about the bad distribution of the available human resources on the different free and open software projects. So seeing very complex programs missing fundamental features, a very unbalanced and chaotic development effort or too many “forks” is not uncommon. IMHO it’s admirable the spirit of sharing that moves the open source communities but… Frequently the lack of money, resources and organization pushes the people to develop/share exclusively what they wish to make and not what is absolutely necessary at the moment for a particular software, project or field.

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I know Linux and the open source world from the time of Red Hat 5, waiting to jump from Windows to a better operation system in terms of resources management and security. Moving onwards, How did you first find out about open source communities? What is your opinion about them? Same happened with the real, physics based color mixing. This reminds me that we used to have a watercolor simulation in Krita real, physics based, but it got lost around Krita 1.6. I don’t ask for a complete physic simulation, which might be heavy about a computational viewpoint and hard to code, but some specific tools as a “watercolor blending level” and “wet edges” would be a big help. Certainly with some tricks it’s possible to fake the watercolor appearance with Krita, Mypaint or Gimp as showed in my gallery on my site or deviantArt but the process isn’t fun at all, indeed, very tiring. Something similar to the system adopted by Artrage would be cool. Still as former watercolorist I’m a bit sad not seeing at the moment a valid alternative for watercolor painting in the free and open source software world. But I also prefer digital painting for the infinite editing capacity. Generally, I prefer digital for obvious economic reasons, art materials are very expensive. What is it that makes you choose digital over the traditional painting? Finally I became an Opencanvas/Artrage user before switching to Linux and free and open source software. Really, I don’t remember how MANY hours I spent experimenting on these software but my youth was gone in no time at all! 🙂 Then, the last step was a Windows/PC with Photoshop, Fractal Design Painter and a Graphire tablet, later an Intuos.

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These are sweet memories for me… ^^ I experimented for the first time digital painting when I was a kid on the legendary Commodore 64: with a big stylus with a rough sensor I could almost use my crt tv screen as a primitive Cintiq! I was dreaming of buying an “elegant” but TOO expensive for the time b&w mac supplied with a mouse! After some years I switched to an amazing Amiga 500 and its killer graphic applications “Deluxe Paint” and “Disney’s Animation Studio”. When and how did you end up trying digital painting for the first time?

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I started my career as cartoon animator assistant and I’ve a professional EU certification in “comic and 2d animation”. Hi Enrico! Can you tell us something about yourself?Ĭurrently I’m a freelance illustrator/concept designer. Together, we will bring you a lot of new merchandise designs on the webshop in coming months!įor now, enjoy reading the interview below! The image below is his krita artwork named “Metamorphosis” An interesting interview providing an insight into how he found his vocation: digital painting, his views on Free and Open Source Software Communities and more!Įnrico is also working with us on the Krita Webshop.

We also had a chance to have a conversation with Enrico Guarnieri from Italy, a wonderful Krita artist and contributor (remember those beautiful Krita splash screens – Ink Girl, Genesis, Butterfly shout- yes, he’s the guy!).