Digital Artists! What is your preferred program?

[Foreverfox]

I'm looking to get into digital art. It's something that will be a challenge, as layering is not really how I think, artisically speaking. But I've written a book for my son that I want to illustrate (or if I'm really terrible, I'll just commission it I guess) and I have ZERO clue about which programs are good, better, best overall.

Thanks for the input!

 

[Sharksheep]

It depends on what you want to do really. If you plan on editing existing images or do digital art.

There's this thread in the museum about some of the art programs out there

Art Programs!

Hello Artists! As stated in the title, I am going to recommend art programs that I have tried out or what others have tried out (comment in the thread!). I will add others' experiences/art programs here! Firealpaca Very much like Paint Tool Sai, it does not come with vector...

www.belltreeforums.com

 

[Foreverfox]

It depends on what you want to do really. If you plan on editing existing images or do digital art.

There's this thread in the museum about some of the art programs out there

Art Programs!

Hello Artists! As stated in the title, I am going to recommend art programs that I have tried out or what others have tried out (comment in the thread!). I will add others' experiences/art programs here! Firealpaca Very much like Paint Tool Sai, it does not come with vector...

www.belltreeforums.com

Thanks so much! I'll check it out!

 

[*The Oakboro Mayor*]

I'm not much of a digital artist, but my twin sister totally is! She recommends Procreate, and I have drawn with it/made are with it before on a couple of occasions. I'm more of a traditional girl myself, but I find Procreate helpful on so many levels. I can draw something in real life, take a picture of it, insert the photo of my drawing on my paper, and then outline it and color it in Procreate to make it look 10 times more professional. She owns a Redbubble store and makes her stickers on Procreate, and says that it is pretty easy to navigate and has very good precision. I would totally recommend it, it is a little weird to get started for the first time but I find it really easy and fun to use (fair warning I believe it does cost money to download, but it's 100% worth it). Hope you find a really good site for you to use and happy art-ing!

 

[Ananas Dragon]

Not a digital artist but I know @Meraki uses ibis paint x and she has nice art

 

[DinosaurDumpster]

I use Clip Studio Paint whenever I feel like drawing digitally. But it is a bit pricey (50$ USD), so if you're looking for a free program, Krita and FireAlpaca are great programs you can get for free.

 

[Korichi]

I’m not much of an artist, but I’d say Procreate! If you’re used to drawing traditionally, it’s super easy to just take a picture of your drawing and insert it like another user said here. Plus it’s easy to use and it’s amazing what you can do from it!

 

[Mezzanine]

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[Radio]

If you're looking for something that is good and free, Medibang is basically free Procreate/Photoshop/SAI/CSP. It doesn't have many features, but it has the main features most art programs have and does the basics + a little bit more. If you aren't doing super complicated things and want to test the waters with digital art, I'd start with this because it costs nothing. I do not recommend GIMP because it is insanely bulky and slow and with Medibang, it does much less as a drawing software.

I personally use SAI because I do all of my line-art with vectors and it is the only art program that does them well. Free-handing line-art takes me anywhere from 3-5 times longer than using the vectors on SAI. I tried to move over to Clip Studio Paint, but had to go back to SAI because the vector drawings on that program are horrendous.

 

[MyLifeIsCake]

Krita! Can't recommend it enough, its my favorite program for drawing, even more than Photoshop. It's pretty easy to use once you figure it out, and it also offers animation and vector graphics. Also free to download.

 

[Foreverfox]

Thank you soo much everyone for all the suggestions!! Apologies for the late reactions to the Friday ones - for some reason, I didn't get notifications for this thread! I'm definitely going to check these out. I ordered a surface pro for this, (well, not just for this) incase that impacts which program might be best.

 

[Sharksheep]

Thank you soo much everyone for all the suggestions!! Apologies for the late reactions to the Friday ones - for some reason, I didn't get notifications for this thread! I'm definitely going to check these out. I ordered a surface pro for this, (well, not just for this) incase that impacts which program might be best.

It depends on the specs on the surface pro you just bought that some programs might be better than others. Like some features on programs might be slow if your surface book doesn't have even power. Or you might just be over the minimum requirements. It's a lot easier to create large images and scale them down than the other way around.

 

[CasualWheezer]

I don't usually do digital art but if I do, I use Chrome Canvas. It's really the only program I have for that but it's quite versatile for me and even has a layers feature so you could animate with that. It's a bit on the basic side but has way more features than say Microsoft Paint, which was what I used in the past for digital art.

 

[Jessi]

I like paint tool sai, but for free ones I like Krita

 

[amemome]

Not really a digital artist, but I like to use a combination of Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop (not free) and FireAlpaca (free). I almost exclusively design in Illustrator because I like scalable vector art. I almost exclusively draw in FireAlpaca because I like the brushes that come with the software!

 

[neoqueenserenity]

I'm not a digital artist, but I used gimp often as a teen for photo edits and I use canva now for work edits.
I've seen amazing artwork I didn't know was possible on canva.

 

[kusariyaro]

I'm looking to get into digital art. It's something that will be a challenge, as layering is not really how I think, artisically speaking. But I've written a book for my son that I want to illustrate (or if I'm really terrible, I'll just commission it I guess) and I have ZERO clue about which programs are good, better, best overall.

Thanks for the input!

clip studio paint! it goes on sale often and is very much worth its price it has an amazing selection of tools and a lot of user made materials

 

[tomatospooks666]

speaking personally, if i'm just doing a quick doodle then i'll go for ms paint but for drawings where i want more in depth tools and layers and such i'll use gimp.

i also have colors!3d on my 2DS, which i've been using more for drawing since my laptop tends to turn into a laggy potato with anything.

 

[EmmaFrost]

I'm not a (good) digital artist, just a wannabe one. But I would recommend Procreate for sure. The amount of stuff you can do with it for $10 is pretty impressive.

 

[Croconaw]

I like ibisPaint X. It’s free.