My name is Jui and I need to learn how to write and express my thoughts again. This website is my attempt.
There's not a lot here yet, but hoping to add more.
First sketch of the year!
using Krita version 5.2.14
‼️ 2026/01/05: Will likely update this list from time to time. I'm not entirely sastisfied with it yet.
To be honest, a big reason I wanted to have a personal website was to have a place to put lists like this. There's just something so appealing to having a customized post on the internet that might benefit others.
Could I have just used Tumblr for this purpose? Sure. But have you tried making a long Tumblr post with many links?! It's a nightmare. And look at this pretty template I customized. :) Thank you NomnomNami!
List items with a 🍥 means they're a personal favorite!
🍥 — for pie menus, multiple key assignment, mouse trackers, and more.
I used to main CSP before fully returning to Krita, and one thing I really miss is being able to rapidly select and delete parts of the canvas using CSP's Selection Toolbar.
But I don't think Krita should just copy this feature absentmindedly. To me, Shortcut Composer shows what Krita could do in expanding its already existing Pop-up Palette
And for that, it is my favorite Krita plug-in.
🍥 — to organize your layers faster.
This plug-in implements features relating to Layer Management that are present in other art programs.
For folks who don't always use keyboard shortcuts, it can be pretty annoying having to click two buttons to make groups/folders and more to switch layer colors, as opposed to how you do it in CSP.
🍥 — adds split panes and the ability to toggle docking behavior.
This is a feature I miss from using CSP.
— for drag and drop brush management.
I haven't used this for long enough for me to say this is a favorite, especially because I'm no longer the type to use many brushes (be it for one art piece or more.)
I just know my old self would have loved this plug-in so much.
🍥 — made to modernize the UI of Krita based on community feedback.
Removes some of the (in my opinion) unnecessary space in the interface.
It also adds a beautiful floating Toolbox
⚠️ This plug-in causes the themes to bug out and will require you to restart your application before seeing the proper changes of the theme.
⚠️ The Flat Theme no longer works well, but I still believe it's worth using for the aforementioned benefits.
It cramps all the dockers' tabs together making the tab text hard to read.
In the system package version, the floating dockers' backgrounds appear transparent, and can make the text unreadable depending on your canvas background.
— adds sound effects mimicking pencil and other art tools when you use the brush tool. You can assing one sound effect for each of you brush presets.
Breaking news: Guy with baby blue site likes a baby blue theme. Unfortunately I don't use this anymore because the colors are so low-contrast it's genuinely hard to see which frames are empty or not in the Animation Timeline docker.
Even if Krita UI Redesign didn't require me to restart my application after every theme switch, I just don't like the idea of constantly switching between themes.
I wish the blue here is paler, but it's a beautiful set of themes regardless.
I learned a lot of tips and tricks thanks to this site.
Here's the first (finished) piece of art I've made since switching back to Krita after some years.
I recently started watching an art streamer on Twitch and joined their Discord server out of curiosity. I normally don't bother with these things, but the artist seemed really friendly and I wanted to get a feel for the community.
That's when I saw that they run a bi-weekly stream event where they go over submissions to art homework they've assigned two weeks prior announced on the server.
The task was to choose four emotions to draw a single character from. The idea, mainly, was to practice body language, but other things, such as framing and color, were suggested things to consider anyways.
By the time I started (up until I finished the assignment,) I completely forgot about framing, but I gave lots of thought on everything else, even color, though the result on that regard ended up being subtle.
People seemed to love it! I got excited receiving an early comment (because I was a new viewer and participant!) expressing love for my style.
Someone on-stream even commented that my work looks like a character expression sheet!!
A big thing I immediately learned was to pay more attention to how the legs are posed while expressing certain emotions. The last two poses work fine enough, but the first two's can quite obviously be improved upon, (at least for me!)
It was pleasant to see that a lot of the things I tried worked well. I think especially of the hands held together in self-soothing on the first pose being recognized.
It makes a lot of sense to me that I'm weaker at drawing legs "properly" because I draw them a lesser amount compared to the upper half of the body. That just means I need to get a lot more (smart) practices in.
Hoping to improve well in the future! Hoping to make more art this 2026 and onwards!