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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 09/09/2026

Krita's engines can't really do this. You can sort of fake it with a stroke on the layer, or by setting the Masked Brush brush tip to Blending Mode Subtract to kind of get this outline look, but the center will be transparent, not colored.

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 09/09/2026

Those brushes are free! Much later, I made a $3 pack that lets you paint foreground and background at the same time, has more brushes, and works a little faster, which is at sobs.moe/flipdx and linked from the Gumroad page.

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FlipNot Brushkit Deluxe! for Krita by sabs

Pixel paint brushes, patterns and sprays for Krita

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 08/09/2026

Nice! I can't wait to see what you make! DM or email me and I'll send you a key for the deluxe ones.

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 21/07/2026

That thing comes from a Line Boiling plugin I've been working on for Krita. #krita #lineboiling #animation

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 20/07/2026

The feeling of being boiled macaroni and eggs slapped onto a walnut table #krita #lineboiling #animation

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 03/07/2026

Quick evil eggs in an alien tube... draw mixed-opacity black over a white fill layer, then make a gradient map layer in dither mode. The gradient mapper turns anything grayscale into pixel-paint. #krita #pixelart #tutorial

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 01/07/2026

For future versions of Flipnot I want easier ways to paint dithers... the best I've got so far is a halftone filter with one of Krita's built-in Bayer patterns, but it only works for one color at a time. :\ #krita #pixelart #tutorial

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 24/06/2026

Prototyping a Jackbox-style implementation of Restricted Rock-Paper-Scissors from Kaiji. I've always wanted a party version! #indiedev #partygame #kaiji

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 23/06/2026

MS Paint draws every time the cursor moves a pixel, but Krita can't, so it ends up skipping the intermediate position that would normally fill in the diagonals. #krita #pixelart #mspaint

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 22/06/2026

One small problem... Krita can't replicate the famous 45-degree calligraphy brush quite right. #krita #pixelart #mspaint

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 20/06/2026

The spray can even builds up into a solid slab of pixels! Krita's brush engine can't make a pixel-perfect circle though. :( #krita #pixelart #mspaint

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 19/06/2026

My MS Paint kit for Krita has the classic brushes, the build-up spray can, the color palette...! #krita #pixelart #mspaint

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 18/06/2026

Working on a new brush kit for emulating MS Paint in Krita #krita #pixelart #mspaint

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 17/06/2026

You can cheat a pixel-perfect outline too. Cut out partially-transparent pixels with a Levels filter layer in Alpha mode. #krita #pixelart #tutorial

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 16/06/2026

More about shadows: as long as there's a white fill layer underneath the shadow, the Gradient Map filter can dither to transparent. #krita #pixelart #tutorial

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 15/06/2026

Krita can be tricked into rendering drop shadows as dithered pixels :O #krita #pixelart #tutorial #kirby

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 10/06/2026

Currently replicating some classic MSPaint brushes in Krita... #krita #brushes #pixelart #mspaint

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 03/06/2026

Almost a year later, I finally fixed the pesky screen-positioning bug that would cause the game to appear off-center when played on the browser. Yuck! sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #godot #gamedev #pixelart

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 19/06/2025

I made this ultra-scuffed .gif editing script to help me make my videos for Being with Beau. When I record my screen as a gif, I explode it, pick just the frames I want, and then reassemble it. gifsicle beats magick -coalesce. sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #ruby #linux

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 18/06/2025

Staying up with Beau too late may make you lose track of time... concept art later implemented in the final release. sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #gamedev #pixelart

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 17/06/2025

In the final release for Being with Beau, I gave his food can a brand-new label, which came out great! FEAST 4 BEAST is cute and tasty. sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #godot #gamedev #pixelart

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 16/06/2025

Everyone wanted the clock on the back wall to work. Now it does! sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #gamedev #pixelart

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 14/06/2025

My favorite change for Being with Beau's final release is how I redrew the room! There's a bathroom door, a cute calendar, and a shoe rack. I'm really happy with how it turned out. sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #gamedev #pixelart

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 13/06/2025

I fixed a little bug exclusive the web version (shown here without sound) where the can-snapping audio clip would play twice. Godot's "end offset" for the audio samples didn't seem to work. sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #animation #pixelart #gamedev

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 12/06/2025

There's not much more to say other than "Being with Beau is out for real! Go play it!" It's been six months since I started. Go meet Beau at sobs.moe/bwb! It's free, over in five minutes, and will definitely make you smile. #gamedev #cats #pixelart #godot

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Being with Beau by sabs

A tiny visual novel about a cat. Available for Windows, Linux

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 11/06/2025

Beau's inhaler was causing a bug that made his paws flash on the text box after he got his medicine... must have been a bad shipment, eh? Now it's all fixed. sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #pixelart #gamedev #godot

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 10/06/2025

Being with Beau feedback highlight: my VN wasn't up to standards. In the full release, text advances when you hit or hold the space bar, and when you click anywhere---not just on the text box. sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #godot #visualnovel

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 09/06/2025

Godot is grabbing Beau's paws! Being with Beau first draft highlight: Beau's nondeterministic paws. Sometimes he's on the chatbox. Sometimes he's behind it. Sometimes his paws flicker like a strobe light. Why? sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #gamedev #godot #pixelart

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 14/05/2025

Being with Beau feedback highlight: the Windows desktop icon works. Wow! This actually wasn't easy to do in my Linux flatpak environment, but I got it working with no post-export steps. sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #godot #linux #windows

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 12/05/2025

Being with Beau feedback highlight: EVERYONE wants the clock to be accurate. The clock WILL tick... and maybe drive you crazy. sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #godot #pixelart

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 10/05/2025

How horny is Bluesky? I'm building sobs.moe/btag to sate my curiosity. sobs.moe/btag / #buildinpublic #bluesky #rails

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 09/05/2025

Really happy to announce that the preview release of my little VN about a cat, "Being with Beau" is out now on Itch, for Windows and Linux! Go try it out at sobs.moe/bwb! It's free and will make you smile. #gamedev #godot #pixelart #visualnovel #cats

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Being with Beau by sabs

A tiny visual novel about a cat. Available for Windows, Linux

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 05/05/2025

Three dozen clone layers are tougher to manage than I thought, argh! sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #krita #cats #pixelart

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 02/05/2025

I can't imagine doing dialogue trees for a game that's longer than five minutes, sheesh! #godot #gamedev

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 30/04/2025

Godot's animation editor doesn't show my "RESET" frame in the Animation track since it's microscopic in length. Now I can't grab it. Argh! sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #gamedev

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 28/04/2025

Look at him appear! And zoom! I'm gonna make him fat... sobs.moe/bwb / #animation #gamedev #cats #godot #pixelart

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 26/04/2025

It's a right-click on all my files thanks to Gnome's scripts feature. Executables in ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts are available on all files.

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 26/04/2025

Very proud of my trim-and-process-social-videos script. #ruby #linux #gamedev

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 23/04/2025

Reflex Royale, my offline multiplayer game for quick reaction-time battles, is out now on Android AND iOS! Hooray! Check out the game on sobs.moe/rr and the how-to video on sobs.moe/rrh! #gamedev #ios

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What is Reflex Royale?

Reflex Royale is an offline reaction time game for any number of players! Each game takes about 15 seconds and you can play over and over again. I made this ...

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 21/04/2025

More on the power of clone layers. I use Krita's Batch Exporter plugin to export a bunch of almost-identical sprites easily. There's a bug with invisible clone layers... but it's better than re-exporting manually. sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #krita #pixelart #animation

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 18/04/2025

I'm a lazy typist, so I made my own abbreviations for Godot Dialogue Manager sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #godot

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 17/04/2025

A muted, complimentary palette combined with color tinting (i.e. not simply adding more black) in the shadows are what identifies these colors as "appealing" to me. And I like your mix of curves and angles too!

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 16/04/2025

I get a lot of mileage out of clone layers in Krita while doing similar sprites for gamedev: with transform and transparency masks I can update lots of sprites easily sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #krita #pixelart #animation

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 14/04/2025

The Animation Editor (in Godot 4.4) was showing dots instead of previews for my AnimatedSprite frames. Turns out it's because I added another frame animation into the sprite! Simple answer but really hard to discover, as it's not documented. sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #animation #godotengine

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sabs, like "sobs" @sabs.like.sobs.moe · 11/04/2025

Krita crashed while I was working on this... I was certain it had time-of-crash autosave files, but it doesn't. Really cut me down that morning. #krita

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