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Introduction
This is the final result we'll create today, a cheerful girl riding a bicycle on the road, with flowing hair and a flower basket in front. Everything is drawn in Krita, free of charge. Let's start. Hello! In this tutorial, we will draw a girl riding a bicycle using Krita. We will arrange the layers one by one: background, bicycle, and then the character. Press Ctrl N, change the width to 3200, and the height to 1800 pixels.
Step 1: New document 3200 x 1800 pixels (16:9)
Click Create, then press the menu so the canvas appears complete.
Step 2: Layer "Sky" - Blue gradient & sun
Rename the layer to Sky. Set the foreground color to blue and the background color to very light blue, then drag the gradient tool from top to bottom. Add the sun with two yellow circles.
Step 3: Layer "Clouds" - Ellipse Tool white stacked
Create a layer for clouds. With the ellipse tool, fill the foreground color and without outline. Stack several white ellipses to form a cloud cluster.
Step 4: Layer "Hill" - Polygon Tool green layered
Create a layer for the hill. With the polygon tool, draw two light green hills stacked on top of each other, then a darker grassy area in front.
Step 5: Tree - brown trunk & round leaves
Add two trees. Draw the trunk in brown with the polygon tool, and the leaves as two green ellipses, dark ones in the back and light ones in front.
Step 6: Layer "Road" - gray asphalt & white lines
Create a layer for the road. Draw a long gray asphalt area at the bottom, a darker edge of the road, and white dashed lines with the rectangle tool.
Step 7: Layer "Wheel" - Ellipse Tool with Outline Brush (no fill)
Now the bicycle. Create a layer for the wheels. With the ellipse tool, change the fill to knot fillet and the outline to brush. With a large brush size, draw two circles as the tires, then a thin gray circle as the rim. Select a basic brush of one small size.
Step 8: Wheel radius with Basic-1 brush
Draw a straight line through the center of the wheel as a radius, then close it with a small circle as the wheel axle.
Step 9: Layer "Back Legs" - far legs, darker color
Create the back leg layer. Draw the leg farther from us first, with a slightly darker skin color, so it will be covered by the bicycle frame later.
Step 10: Layer "Frame" - bike pipe with thick brush
Create the frame layer. With a thick pink brush, draw the seat tube, bottom tube, top tube, and the front fork. Then, with a dark gray color, create the handlebar and seat post.
Step 11: Saddle, chain, handlebar & pedals
Add the seat, a hollow ellipse for the chain, front gear, crank, and pedals. Create the body layer.
Step 12: Layer "Body" - yellow shirt & pink skirt
With the polygon tool, draw a yellow shirt leaning forward, then a pink skirt with darker folds.
Step 13: Layer "Front Legs" - knee up, legs on pedals
Create the front leg layer. The knee is raised forward, and the sole of the foot is resting on the pedal. Add red shoes with a white shine. Create the arm layer.
Step 14: Layer "Arms" - hands holding handlebar
Draw the arm from the shoulder to the handlebar with a thick brush, then add the shirt sleeve and the hand gripping the handlebar.
Create the head layer. Draw a flowing hair key, the head and face with an ellipse, the bangs, then a red ribbon.
Step 16: Eyes, flushed cheeks (Airbrush) & smile
Draw the eyes with a dark ellipse and a white dot. Draw rosy cheeks with a brushtool, then a smile and eyebrows with a basic brush. Add a woven basket in front of the handlebar, containing red and yellow flowers.
Step 18: Shadow on road & motion lines (Airbrush)
Create the effects layer. Draw a transparent shadow under the bicycle, then with a brushtool, draw motion lines behind to make the bicycle appear to be moving.
Step 19: Final touches - shine on hair, frame & wheel
Final touches. White shine lines on the hair and a thin shiny circle on the wheel.
Done! Girl riding
Done. Our female cyclist is now complete, neatly arranged on each layer. Have a great try. Want to be able to draw cartoon characters like this? Cerdas Inovasi Digital offers Krita and digital illustration courses, illustration services for children's books and mascots, as well as selling this bicycle child project file, complete with the screen. Contact us via WhatsApp, or visit cerdasinovasidigital.com
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