My text-layout testing sheet filled with all sorts of random test samples.
The past few months I’ve been rewriting the text layout engine used by Krita’s text tool. This is not the same as the text tool itself, which is still a super small rich text editor, but it is a prerequisite to getting any kind of new features into the text shape. We haven’t done any real improvements to text since the work for the last fundraiser we had for it, and that is because this needed to be done, it is a lot of work, an we had vowed to take care of resource management first, which, uh, took us so long and was so intensive that it covered the whole development cycle from 4.0 to 5.0, or a span of 5~ years. I’m not the only developer who can finally tackle a sore point, there’s work being done on audio, lots of file format updates, work on assistants, technology upgrades and more… But this blog is about text.
First, I posted my 101 sketches I made with Krita since I started working on it. I made a google+ album out of it, because I didn’t think this server could hanle 101 sketches easily. (Update: google+ died, so now they’re here.)
Secondly, I formally open sourced my little SVG comic reader with GPL 3.0 (which I think is sensible for a web-application.) You can find it on github here: https://github.com/therahedwig/SVG-comic-reader
I actually made it 2.5 years ago, but I never formally open sourced it, more forgot about it, actually. When at the Krita sprint, Boudewijn remarked he really disliked the way how webcomics present themselves, I remembered it again and show it to him and Timothée Giet. Timothée, as a comics creator was interested in using it, and I finally took the step to open source it.
It has quite a few features, so check out the readme at github.
First test with two point perspective
second test
Test of drawing several characters of mine, was looking in particular for
finally trying out all sorts of perspectives
Having fun with the mirror tool
Having fun with a cloud brush
More clouds
Space clouds
Failed kiki
Test image for the newly coded concentric assistant
Mermaid idea
Another fish eye test
This one was shaded by painting normals and then shading with the phongbumpmap filter.
More fun with fisheye
attempt at bg for animation, never got nywhere.
I think this one’s a test of color theory, using add and divide to get brighter colors rather than just mixing.
Trying to figure out a fire fairy character
Sketches of people lying down
Wanted to try one of those weapon sketches, didn’t wor out.
Typical sci-fi tube thing
Further development of the fire fairy character
Playing with the greater mode.
Attempt at making a city scape, got too tired before it got out of the ugly phase.
Muscle sketches, don’t draw men enough.
Lightning test
Wide gamut image that I used to test softproofing.
Feet sketches.
Handsketches
101 sketches made with Krita in the period of 2014-2016
