
Among the many luscious brushes that ship with Krita, it may be one that many will have overlooked in testing. Here are the details of the “Shape Brush Engine” in Krita. And it’s still roaring ahead with its development. Which, as many will know, is now a very fine painting and inking software and a direct rival to Sketchbook Pro and (to an extent) Inkscape. However it’s good to see that there’s now a developed equivalent to Al.chemy that’s built right into the open source Krita 4.0 software. It’s still available for free for Windows, Mac and Linux, though (apart from a Linux fix in 2014) development ceased in 2010. When they find a silhouette that “reads” really well at its edges, then they paint in details. Alchemy was intended for concept and character doodlers in the game and sci-fi concepts space, who work with silhouettes first.

Back in the day, there was a nice free bit of experimental software called Al.chemy, aka Alchemy, which recalled the good ol’ days of Processing and Kai’s tools.
