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What drawing programs do you use?

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  1. JustYourAverageRetro

    JustYourAverageRetro New Member

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    I tend to just use Gimp and Paint, but I know there are much better ones out there.
     
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    first of all I'd like to say I don't personally draw, I do however do some light editing from time to time

    I mostly use paint.net(not actually a site but a program, the site of it is getpaint.net) and photoshop cs6 for things I can't find in paint.net.
    friends seem to really enjoy paintoolsai for drawing, and some old or recent version of flash.
     
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  3. Brandon Burghard

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    Photoshop is the way to go.
     
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    BluetoothBoy Well-Known Member

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    I've tried digital drawing, but I'm not a fan. I would expect to be a lot more into it if I had a tablet that had a screen (I have a screenless Bamboo at the moment). But I do know Sketchbook is pretty good. A good free one is Firealpaca.
     
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  5. Brandon Burghard

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    I have a cintiq companion and yeah it makes a huge difference. but if you can't shell out that kind of money you can always just scan sketches and clean them up using the tablet
     
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  6. Bullet Hell

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    I'm using Paint Tool SAI and rarely adding some Photoshop magic to it. Maybe I would use Photoshop more, but it's lagging like hell on my laptop when I'm trying to draw in it and my lines are looking choppy as hell. I can't even tell if I'm that bad with lines without stabilizer or it's a fault of the program because it needs so many resources.
    [​IMG]
     
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    i just use mspaint for everything
    here, have a duck that smokes
    Smoking Duck.png
     
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    Enzyme-Sigma Warlord Member

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    Autodesk Sketchbook, It's nothing fancy but it's still pretty good.
     
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  9. Azai

    Azai Moderator

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    I don't have that much $$$ to cash out so I use a free program called Krita. I am really pleased with it.
    This is the first or second drawing I made in it:
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    And here is something I'm working on with it now (the original is 3000x3000, I scaled it down):
    [​IMG]
     
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  10. Madnesskov

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    I know this is late for the thread but if you are still interested i use;
    Sai paint tool: for lineart
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    Photoshop: for rendering
    P.S
    I'm not very good at it ;)
    :P
     
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  11. Buka

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    Gimp has pretty much everything you need for 2d. it includes, but not limited to: paint dynamics (with a lot of parameters, you can bind almost any parameter to pressure, tilt, etc of your tablet), bezier curves, a lot of procedural functions (different noises, perlin, voronoi, fractal explorers, etc). Though, it can be hard to draw in raster mode, some people may prefer vector based inkscape. I didnt had much experience with it, but it's suitable for drawing, rendering your image at any resolution. You cant use bitmap brushes though, since it's vector, not raster.
     
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  12. Avarus_Lux

    Avarus_Lux Active Member

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    personally i use photoshop CS6,
    but before i went photoflops i used gimp and although gimp is a fine free program, it is tough to use, not very intuitive but it has most thing you would need...

    Krita is a very advised program as of late, https://krita.org/, give it a try i'd say, you're not losing any money by trying, and seeing it is gaining popularity its bound to be good...

    another good one is inkscape... https://inkscape.org/en/

    and if these dont do the job try paint tool sai, http://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/
    or flash from adobe which is pretty great to.... but will cost you money.

    best on the market imho is still photoflop... but opinions differ :)
     
    Avarus_Lux, Aug 16, 2015
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