Let me update things. Firstly the Fat's Domino CD cover got finished, I did all the graphics (text) in Krita and here's how that turned out.
The thing that was nice was the ability to stroke my vector paths with the brush, so I could get the vari-line pen look on the "Fat's Domino" text.
More Muddling in Krita
I found that there was a filter plug-n for Krita, and then I found that it now comes as part of Krita and you simply have to activate it. So eager to give it a go I brought in an old (possibly my first in Krita) piece and applied some "G'MIC-QT" filters.
Here's the original.
And now with some filters applied.
Rock and Roll took over for a bit
I went through a month or so of listening to cheesy crunchy Glam Stomp rock pop and began compiling CD play lists, on the tenth CD I simply took all the best tracks from those to create the ultimate play-list. So now I needed a cover for the CD so I began working in Krita again.
At some point during this I stopped sketching on paper and importing the scans, and just sketching the ideas out directly in Krita, so that's a thing now (although I'll still use paper because it's portable).
Then I went to work on the whole cover concept and here is that.
Now during this period something quite wonderful happened, someone created Krita-artists.org, a proper forum dedicated to this wonderful open source paint program.
Obviously I signed up and began posting some things, and this piece actually got onto the top row. Which was odd actually because I don't get much feedback about my stuff on there.
Animation. The next step
I'll finalize this activity dump with my latest experiments in Krita, I've been delaying it, animation. Well over two days I got down to studying Krita's animation work-space. After a little effort I found it actually quite straight ahead, there wasn't much head scratching.
Here's my first two animations.
Krita is now the app I'll go to for frame by frame animation. It has everything for what I need.