Then: View -> Show painting assistants -> Off (grids not visible)Īnd: View -> Show assistants previews -> On/Off (good to have it in a shortcut)

Perspective assistant, with small impact on a canvas: create vanishing points (1, 2 or 3, as you need in the artwork) using painting assistant tool. Note that this way you can have a big, main reference that is separate from the artwork (you can scale, mirror, move it separately) and small “mood references” on your canvas using reference tool, just to look at from time to time. You can then adjust them if you want reference to take less screen than artwork. If you pick Settings -> configure Krita-General -> Window -> Multiple document mode -> Subwindows You can open artwork and reference images as separate documents (ctrl+o), click window -> tile (ctrl+k) to have them on right and left half of canvas (if you want them to switch sides, click on the one you want to be on left, and click ctrl+k again). In krita you can manage references both as embedded to the canvas, and embedded to the monitor.

Krita tutorials for beginners