This is not always desirable, since painting brushes often use specific settings to achieve a style and texture, while we may want a more simplified brush for erasing (usually a circular brush with a falloff). This will happen while maintaining the same brush radius, textures, etc.

Two ways to eraseįor example, while we are using a brush to paint, we can press “E” to toggle “erase mode” in the brush settings and the brush will start erasing instead of painting. These actions can be accessed through the brush palette or via pie menus. While Krita is a powerful digital painting application, its reliance on “ Brush engines” defines a different way to perform “paint”, “erase” or “smudge”.

For example, pressing the W key will switch to the brush tool, the E key will toggle the eraser tool, R will toggle the smudge tool. This is possible in softwares like GIMP or other commercial software by invoking specific shortcuts. A core part of Vivien’s workflow consists of using the “paint”, “erase” and “smudge” tools in rapid sequence.

Painting in krita