i found the best free art program
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- in this video i found the best free art programs for both windows, mac and linux
my top 3 free
KRITA: krita.org/en/
MEDIBANG: medibangpaint....
FIRE ALPACA: firealpaca.com
some other good ones
PROCREAT: procreate.com
CLIP STUDIO: www.clipstudio...
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Imma defend my boy KRITA
It's SO great. It has a ton of features and free brushes, it's super customisable and is sometimes even better than some paid programs.
Initially it's a little bit difficult to figure out how to use it, but after a few days you get the hang of it.
Another thing is the animation feature. It's AMAZING and SUPER SIMPLE; my only complaint is that the frames lag, but it's probably because I need a more powerful computer instead of a laptop.
FYI, I have switched to KRITA a year ago and i haven't opened Medibang since.
*customisable, if u wanted to change it
@@sora_animates_sometimes thank you hahahahaha
@@cariolaroelena6614 I'd like to use krita but the lag is just so much when I make the brush bigger the whole program just lags and goes really slow please let me know how to fix it
@@gardennormie2859 That happens to me to, but I thought that it was just because I'm using a laptop.
YES I totally agree
our krita must be protected
my favorite part was when i was there
Me scrolling youtube, find this while making digital art for 2023, using ipis paint lol
ok
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You little cuyyyaaannntt 🌚
XD
Just gonna say that Krita has the fastest workflow for me. I like the default brush and I don't need to tweak them that much, it's very easy to recreate traditional looks with them. I really like how you could change brush size on the fly by holding shift + dragging your pen. The transform tool is powerful, and Krita got so many photo effect that can be useful for many case.
Honestly Krita is like a ripoff Clipstudio paint, not in a bad way. But in a good way.
I started out with Medibang on my phone and old pen tablet back in high school and it has a lot of memories for me. I've grown a lot as an artist and have since moved on to programs like Procreate (my preferred program now) and Paint Tool SAI2. I unfortunately cannot recommend Medibang in good faith between all of the issues their services have caused me in the past few years and their recent NFT competition. FireAlpaca is the one I'd recommend much more over Medibang now.
NFT? Oh no... I didn't know about this
yoooooo PaintToolSAI user, very nice to find more of em ^^
I’m not new just poor
Same bro.
sad but a fact. :(
this helped me cope i felt judged so fast in this vid LOL
I am new... and poor
Im new and poor
I've been using Krita since 2018 and it's my personal favorite- default art program. I've liked it way more than any other program I've tried- I think the animation tools are okay but I love the drawing experience and how highly customizable it is
Finally! Justice for FireAlpaca! For me it was the easiest and most comfortable to get into when I was a beginner artist. For my beginner lads that draw with a mouse, FireAlpaca was the most comfortable and easiest to use because it's weight tool was amazing. Also I found it's layout to be on the nicer side when getting introduced into art programs and learning what buttons did what. From there Krita became my main tool after I got a drawing tablet, but FireAlpaca will remain in my heart forever :')
As a member of the krita master race, I cannot let any krita slander fly, even if you ended up giving it an overall positive review.
If the UI felt dated, you can change between one of the many themes that krita has.
If the dockers are in weird places, you can rearrange them literally anywhere you want or close them, or open up dockers that you are more familiar with. The layout of krita is completely customizable.
if you press TAB, you can hide the dockers and the menubar and get the whole screen to paint (pressing TAB again gets the dockers back).
If you right-click your mouse (or stylus if it has buttons), it pops up a pallete with a colour selector, brush selector, and brush settings right where your mouse is on screen, and the brush selector is even organised by tags, so you can tag all your favourite brushes and switch between them visually very quickly.
Krita's shortcuts are completely customizable
Krita's perspective tools are the best in the game. I'm not aware of any person that tried them and didn't wish their art program of choice had them.
Krita has a pretty good vector manipulation system in its vector layers. Of course it's not as feature rich as a whole vector art program, bit it has all the essential features.
I can go on and on about how krita is the best art program that money can buy, and you don't even need to buy it, ITS FREE. I have a lot of free apps that I use on the daily (even some I may or may not have cracked), but krita is the only app that even made me feel guilty for having it for free. It literally feels illegal that I didnt have to pay for this.
Honestly, the only thing I can think of that krita lacks is probably a 3d viewport like CSP, so you can just drop in 3D assets into your drawings in perspective. If krita had that it eould literally be unbeatable. All these other apps are already fighting for 2nd place, so if krita got 3D, theyd just have to leave the 2nd place vacent to respect the overwhelming superiority of the best art program humanity has to offer.
Yes I am biased because krita was my first art program and remains my only art program for everything I do. How could you tell?
I agree with EVERYTHING!!! It's literally so good. I made some good animations despite not being an animator, saved many different custom layouts, I've installed several plug-ins and brushes, made my own media library with the photobash docker for my comic, customized the right-click wheel to have 25 slots, and I figured out how to work on multiple drawings (files) side by side at the same time +MORE.
A lot of people really judge it despite not knowing crap about the program -_-
Like, if you have a problem with the eraser tool, there's a plug-in for that! It's an open-source program, and I think that's what confuses people. Open source is SUCH a good sign in a program, and plug-ins are literally what almost any open-source program can use.
I've been using it for 3-2 years, and I'd say my only complaints are 2 features we don't have yet that Clip studio has. 1st, the ability to use a vector brush (not for shapes, but for actual strokes. that would be GREAT), and 2nd, the feature you want with the 3d libraries and all.
But yeah, I love krita😭 It's SOOO GOOD😳
@Carly_D0vE it's called the assistant tool (krita displays the tool names as you hover over them, so it should be easy to find).
It has 2 point perspective, concentric ellipse tool, normal ellipse tool, fish eye perspective, normal ruler tool, parallel ruler tool, perspective grid, ellipse in perspective, a curved ruler that follows a besier curve, and a vanishing point. You can choose them from the tool options docker
You can set these assistants in your canvas, then when using your brush, go to tool options and check the 'snap to assistants' option.
You can even restrict the area that the assistants work on (very useful for the perspective assistants) and toggle their visibility, change their colour/opacity.
Just play around with them and you'll know why I'm raving on about them.
very much agreed!!
Fellow Krita user here. I’ve tried all 3 on the list but only Krita worked for me
@@amynewton774 cheers bro. Me too. I tried like 5 different free drawing apps till i settled on krita. The worst definitely had to be Autodesk sketchbook. Can’t believe that s*** was paid software at one point.
I've been using Krita for 3 years now and I get why people don't really like the program. Like you said, Krita is almost perfect for animators but its main target are actually painters with the large variety of brushes and the wide range of perspective tools. It's also great for a more cartoon-ish or very simple artstyle.
The only problem I had with Krita is that it would unexpectedly crash or update during a drawing, which doesn't let me save the work during that time.
As an artist I personally love Krita because it's not only free but it also gets constant updates and has a good community where you can ask stuff in their community website and be answered in more or less an hour and is very involved with their community feedback as well!
It's also extremely customizable and you can add, move and remove "dockers" like layers, pallets and etc. then save it as a profile so you can reset it from that point. You can also customize inputs in most aspects that actually matter for artists.
It also has a pretty advanced brush system and is constantly improving!
However, I am not gonna lie, there are a few features that I would have loved on there but those are just my preferences most of which are already being worked on by the devs.
Overall I'd say it's actually better than photoshop when it comes to making art and it's disposition towards artists.
So yeah... Krita good!
I've been using krita for my animations, firealpaca for my animatics and medibang for still drawings for a while now, and it's been great!
Blender's a bit harder though.
Good video. I think its important with free software to realize that sometimes they have a specific application while paid software can do more. That doesnt mean you cannot make good stuff with free software you may just nee to use specific software for specific usages.
Exactly
I'm a krita user, I didn't like it at first but I got used to it. I always draw in a modified animation layout and it works for me, I've also set my shortcuts to match both Photoshop and toonboom so yeah. I had to create a custom basic outline brush thou...
I actually really like "dated" program layouts for some reason, maybe because the layout is really intuitive compared to the weird, floaty new stuff (coughcoughInDesigncoughcough), so I main FireAlpaca.
Finally! Some Firealpaca appreciation😤👍🏼 Most artists I know didn't like it very much🙄 But it has and always will be my fav art program 💖
For Medibang if it feels slippery, there's a tool at the top of the program called "Correction" which is pretty much the same as smoothing as far as I'm aware (coming from a Medibang user). I have my correction on 10 at all time.
I use ibisPaints X as my main drawing app on mobile. The only problem for me is the pay wall but good news is that you can watch ads to use the full experience of the brushes and everything.
FYI I don't draw on computers anymore cuz I couldn't use my full drawing potential. I mainly draw with my finger on my ipad
I sampled around with multiple apps when I started digital art. I used Krita for a very short amount of time, but I used it on a tablet and it was very uncomfortable. It is a great program though, with good brushes, it just takes some getting used to. Medibang was too simple for me, and the brushes are awful - It’s just not that great in my opinion. While I haven’t used Firealpaca personally, I follow a few artists (one is an animator) that use it as their primary program and make amazing work.
Other apps like Ibis Paint or Sketchbook are… debatable. I used Ibis once and hated that when you zoomed in it was just blurry, there were no pixels. But I can’t really judge Ibis, because like I said, I only used it once. And sketchbook isn’t necessarily ‘bad’, it’s just that practically everything is behind a paywall, there isn’t much you can do without paying money.
I currently use Procreate, which I highly recommend if you can get your hands on it - It is really comfortable and easy to use, has so many great features, and amazing brushes. You can even import your photoshop brushes into Procreate. Not to mention it’s only ten dollars, and it’s a one-time purchase. Overall, Procreate is just a great app if you already have an ipad that can download it.
But all in all, it really comes down to personal preference. If you are new to digital art, try out different digital apps, see which one you prefer -You are the one drawing, after all, you should find an app that suits your preferences and is comfortable for you to use.
Also lol did you just read that whole thing
as someone who tested out a lot of free art programs in my life, i can tell you - in comparison to medibang, firealpaca is much more simplified in its toolkit. I used firealpaca for a while as a beginner digital artist, and I liked it, until I got to try out a cracked version of photoshop. It changed my need for tools forever :)
I also used android phone and tablet apps for art for a long time - and I LOVE the mobile version of medibang. For a free mobile drawing app, it's one of the best out there tbh. Though, the desktop one always felt weird to me hehe
I am currently a sworn user of Krita, though I also know my way around Photoshop (but I refuse to use it because Adobe ew lol). It's so flexible and usable, and the fact that it's community made and open source is so refreshing to me :)
I use krita on a daily basis, you should have played around with the dockers and layout a little bit before starting drawing, everything is customizable that's why it felt weird to you
Also probably why it felt 'slippery' is that you didn't use the right brushes to match your style
Absolutely agreed how its animation tools are amazing, and all in all, everyones opinions on art programs vary, great video, hope this helped
Criminally underrated channel, this video feels professional
Skill issue
@@camandoh what?
i am totally have a sweet spot for krita because i use it all the time, but u can actually select from different layouts if you dont like the one u are opening with. in the right up corner have a box which u click and can select from the preset layouts and u can even modify them for certain expect. i use the "animation" one and the "big paint 2" one for drawing and it has 8 as preset to choose from. Its not on the nose but it might help improve the experience
It might blow someones mind, but photoshop ain't a drawing program it's an EDITING program. It's why you don't find so many things you can find in a normal drawing program.
Agreed, I love photoshop for it's intended purpous of photoediting.
Right. That's what Illustrator is for. Also vector graphics. PS can only do raster
yeah i personally dont like krita either. I couldn't do lineart in it when i used it for animation because everytime i put down the pen it lagged and would start a few pixels to the side of where i wanted it
Krita user here, it can be a bit hard to use at first but you will get used to it really fast, the cool thing of it is that it's an amazingly easy to use open source program, I often don't use the open source part of most programs because I get confused, but with Krita it's really easy to customise basically everything+it's all customisable, it was also easier for me to figure out stuff by myself (including the plugins part)
+the part about it being hard to replicate your style might be because you were using a brush you weren't that confortable with, playing around with the brushes and making my own helped me a lot with it, you can change basically everything in the brushes settings to make it suit your style and just overall just feel better to draw with
0:07 I don’t know why I’m here\
i've been using krita since around 2020 and holy is it great. it's super simple to use + it has vector layers, cmyk color profiles(which firealpaca and medibang never worked on my computer), a lot of effects and tools that really come in handy and a simple and easy brush maker/editor. i've used both firealpaca and medibang for years, but krita has been the best one for me. also krita does have a very customizeable interface which i appreciate a ton
Even tho I’m not new to digital art, I’m definitely learning new things in this video! I had no idea that blender was free. I’m happy I got this in my recommendations! Very good video :D
Medibang and Firealpaca are actually made by the same people! I started out on firealpaca and then went to medibang later on. Also I find it really funny that you said firealpaca was the older brother of the 2, because I always thought of it the other way around
ALSO: Firealpaca can export gifs. Idk what you were on about.
If you don't feel like downloading a art program, or are unable to get a program. Or even possibly stuck with a mouse (btw ibis paint not very good with Chromebooks, very glitchy) but if you have any of these problems and such, then I recommend using Kleki. It's a free website with multiple brushes. Yeah there might not be as many features as some apps do, or that it has a eight layer limit to conserve data. But it general, it's pretty good, and recommend it to beginners!
Hey quick thing about fire alpacas animation, you can export it as a gif! Its in the middle of the file tab. And you can have the playback going while you are animating too! Although, you do need a second screen or to make the window for fire alpaca smaller to see it, as it is a different window entirely.
Its Krita. No Contest.
I used to use Krita a lot and I loved it but one thing that made me stop using it altogether is that for some reason it would crash A LOT for me. I would just be drawing minding my own bussiness then boom, crash. And no Auto-save or Auto-recover. It must have been a problem with my computer or something, but Krita was the only art program that would crash like that. One day I lost 2 hours of work and it was terrible, that was the day I decided "No. No more Krita, never again"
Even if Krita decides to never crash ever again, I'm never using it again D:
krita does have an auto save option. it's on by default lol. i'll get distracted and be watching youtube and a little pop-up will show "saving [file name here].kra ..." "finished saving [file name here].kra" like every 30 minutes
As a krita user it lags if the page is too big and on occasion it crashes, but at least it will auto save your progress for you and will ask you if you want to continue on the project. Although it could actually be my laptop not the program itself. Its really easy to use actually it's simple enough for anyone to use even has a animation tool, there's so many brushes I haven't used
Skill issue
I've used FireAlpaca for 3 years, super intuitive, free, has good blending modes and editing tools, even wonderful color correction and perspective options. I also don't think I count as a beginner artist, even if I'm not in the professional level.
I used ibispaint for years but after using a mixture of paid programs and other free programs i discovered its a really stiff program sometimes, lightweight is really important to me and all programs feel different for lineweight. I wish i could figure out how to make lineweight more sensitive on krita because i like it to vary alot more
as a firealpaca fan (who unfortunately cant use it too often due to glitch issues), the animation tool does have a gif export! it didnt in older versions of the program :)
i understand medibang feeling weird when drawing, i had to edit my pressure inside of the program to fix it but those changes dont seem to save, nor do any layout changes. maybe i need to save the changes manually? i just deal with it...
(one thing i hate about both programs though is for the life of them they cant make a normal symmetry tool, all we have is the symmetry pen that resets every time you change your brush... T_T... please, its been years...)
ive also used krita and i see it as an extremely good program especially for being free, but its hard to get used to for me personally, even though ive used it as a main program before! it still has that overwhelming feeling to it. unfortunately though, again, lag issues make it hard for me to rely on, it feels heftier than both medibang and firealpaca, and thats a big con when i use a bad laptop, haha
i love the video, though! its nice seeing someone review good free programs especially ones ive used before!
"and if you aren't... Why are you here" *sweats in just trying to find the best art program to step up my digital art*
I used sketchbook on pc while it was still available because I needed something better than paint, not too overwhelming to learn like Krita and able to run on my glorified waffle machine of a laptop. I translated and cleaned/typeset/redrew comics, does anyone have suggestions to what use now? I have a better pc and willingness to pirate
Tbh I give ibis paint a pass cause they often let you watch an ad to unlock *everything* for nearly a full day. I think that even behind a paywall, the tools they supply you with is already amazing enough for beginners. Also honestly ? Its got the cheapest paywall ever let's be honest here, so it's worth the purchase if you ever feel like you want to go through the extra mile to. Not to mention the layout is VERY beginner friendly and that's a cool in my book :)
i find it kinda funny but also not
i was to be a PNG youtuber but the fact that drawing on computer IS REALLY HARD. you can either deal with it
or spend like $200-$600 dollars on just an i-pad and apple pen
thanks for these suggestions!! This is by far the best video on this genre! I got Krita because i was looking for animations. I've tried blender but it didn't feel right so i was looking for something else! Thanks again and keep it up!
11:11 i still remember i studdy in computer lesson, the teacher teach me draw in computer with that app when i learn in primary school
ngl, i have been using krita for five years now so i am biased for it. im still learning about it, i didn't even know it had perspective tool!!! i also stand for it as a free program with all the amazing tools and the fact you can make full animations its amazing for what it is. Yes there is a bit of a learning curve
Rest in peace free autodesk sketchbook T-T
Heyo, just a quick note, Medibang and Firealpaca are made by the same company due to similar interface but different features. Plus, Krita was the only program I adore until I switched to pirated CSP EX since it was left in the dust.
Ok how are you sooooo small! Your such a better are RUclips's than much bigger ones. Plus your Mic is not a microwave. Subscribed
im almost going to sleep but i just wanna say, despite being not new to digital art, i clicked on your video because it looked entertaining. and it was :D
I've been using Firealpaca for years and, to be honest, I get too lazy to learn more about other programs so I just stick with that I have now haha
I'm still able to use Firealpaca for normal art and animations too so it's personally great. I just hope that they work more on the animation side and maybe find a way to let us add the actual audio in somehow to make syncing easier? I'm not sure how but hope that it could happen in the future. It's mostly the reason as to why I don't make full on animations since my laptop or Firealpaca would usually crash due to so many frames ;-;
(my mom bought me the lifetime plan on Filmora for school purposes but also allowed me to use it for personal reasons too, so I was able to sync my music/audio that way with the animations frame by frame)
The only thing i liked about krita that not in outher apps is that u can thin and thick and move the line art and it's somthing i wish in outher apps
idk about the other programs but with Krita you can add "mods" to it. Really cool that Community of people have come together and make add-ons for the program.
The only thing I stopped using Medibang and other Art Apps with lots of options because it makes me *Overwhelmed*
Unlike Ibispaint(still using) I feel comfortable and *CLEAN* but I wish there are other art apps like ibispaint but doesn't kill the canvas space for free no ads.
I can buy unfortunately it has limit or it doesn't last long benefits. I can but other art apps as long not that expensive.
UR SPRITE IS SO CUTE I INSTANTLY SUBBED 😭
As someone who draws both in Medibang AND firealpaca
I agree with all those stuff. There is stuff I love in both of those programs
The thing I really REALLY miss in medibang is that it does not have symetry tool like firealpaca does, and it has a lot less brushes then firealpaca
But that LESS brushed made me go creative with backgrounds! And I saw that you can actually use SPARKLE brush to make leaves on the trees behind
And to detail and those backgrounds with freaking sparkle brush I made in Medibang looks amazing! I love those and how I made them.
As for Firealpaca - It helped me create my unique "indie games" styled artstyle and it also looks amazing
As for Krita - YES I AGREE. I used it and for animation? Heck yeah, but I found it confusing while drawing, with old Krita it was better but know I am just a confused bean
I just use flipaclip to draw, and also i use it to animate things, but there is a premium, but it is a one time payment so i bought premium, and its actually easy and fun to use. But this is just my opinion.
I do very rarely use ibis paint for transparent backgrounds and stuff. But thats all i use it for.
When I evaluate different programs I often turn off all the brush features and use the simplest, non-pressure, non-AA brush. The default brushes tend to create a wrong impression because essentially no digital art app feels like real media(even the ones trying to emulate that) - it's just like, no, it's on the computer, and you're pushing a plastic stylus, not stroking a brush or dip pen. It can produce something with the right kind of texture and pigment behavior, but the screen itself makes it disconnected, so it's easier to for me to judge when it's just a pixel brush.
When I tried this recently, I eventually went back to Krita, my previous pick. Medibang has one very nice feature, which is drawing on 1-bit or 8-bit layers(much faster and lets you use extremely high resolutions without destroying your computer) but the stabilizer function is not as versatile as Krita and tends to make somewhat flattened marks. This doesn't actually matter if you're also using the curve function to ink(which is a real marvel - Krita can do something similar with a mix of its bezier and assistant splines, but maybe not quite as effectively) but that's also a slower workflow. CSP's vector layers are still some of the best for making squeaky-clean lines with weight variation, but they have a "look".
In the end I still find that while I'll use these programs, traditional drawing is what really does it for me as a drawing experience and I should probably just lightbox ink my digital work.
I have one rule; if the pencil tool is lit then it’s the drawing program for me.
i genuinely love krita so much
you know you can change the layout in krita right, theres even a tab called "layouts" and you can save your own. to add new widgets or whatever you go into "dockers" and add whatever you want and you can resize widgets and move them and even have them floating /nm
as a light mode user
i feel personally attacked
Krita is my program of choice, but the learning curve is huge. There are so many great features in dockers that I didn't know about for months of using it which made my experience so much better. And pretty much every brush pack is free, which is really nice.
I just wanna a line tool, coloring and shading, which of these 3 is the best for doing this basic things?
User of CSP, Im here because if CSP stops letting me buy a perpretual liscence Imma need a damn good free art program to work on
started with fire alpaca cause good friend told me it was good
switched to medibang at some point cause someone told me its the newer version of fire alpaca
tried krita but its super hard to understand most the things there ad i dont know what brushes are good
so im back to medibang, maybe ill use krita if ill ever animate, if anyone got any suggestions then plz give
medibang cost money????
There is mediband paint pro that cost money
Im here cause I haven’t use art programs on a pc in years and just wanted to see how things progress from my teens lol
I used to use MediBang for many years, but decided to switch to firealpaca (paid version) because it had more features and the layout was basically the same, so it didn’t take too long to get used to
I will use firealpaca forever!
I don't understand the critique of Krita's UI when it's the most customisable out of all of them. in fact the worst one it's medibang, shortcut mappings suck and you can't customize UI as well. This is just my experience drawing on both programs though, for a beginner this is not as important.
if your on mobild flips clip is an option its an animation software but you can just as easily make just normal art with it
I honestly just feel like quitting. Im trying but it seems way to pressuring, I want to get the best program id like, but why make me buy something to draw on, buy something to use to draw on, just to have to buy or pay monthly to do art?
And it feels like my art is just really terrible and I feel like im never going to get better. Ill never be able to draw different poses, or the style I want, or shade or make good colored drawings. I legit dont care when others say "Your style looks cute" because I dont want MY style, I wanna make a style I find cute, not my "Own unique style" that I honestly hate.
I use krita alot. More so than any of my paid programs. It's got tons of ways to make custom brushes. You can do water color, and thick impasto oil. I understand this was just a quick impression of the program, but I felt sad how you didn't like it, because it is so superior to every free program and many paid ones. You can do brush stabilization. I don't know if you tried looking into brush settings or downloading a brush pack.
Aggie/Magma is also a good solution if you didn't bother to install any software for your phone or PC lmao
personally i used krita for a WHILE. and theres ANIMATION????? no way i need to try this now
The pressure sensitivity on medibang is in file then you go to brush environment settings, and you can turn it on or off I do believe they did that for easy accessibility when you're drawing on a drawing tablet but if you don't go in settings only the pencil and airbrush are pressure sensitive at least for me they were. But I had a long while of using it to figure out where everything was before I got my drawing table so when you're working with medibang it could take at least an hour if your new to completely figure everything out. But if you're using medibang on mobile it's so simplified it kind of hurts when switching devices... and on mobile there is a paywall very visible when they add new brushes it tells you so you know there is a paywall and on computer it doesn't shove their new buy brushes in your face but it is there. { I hope this kind of helps anyone who actually read this but its what I've learned in the first month of using it on mobile and computer}
i used medibang before but i prefer krita, even if it took me longer to learn it it has a lot of stuff and has a lot of settings that i enjoy and the brushes are much better
Great video my favourite part of the video was when you were drawing mr wolf doing a jojo pose
Honestly I think a lot of art programs have their pros and cons
In my experience:
Medibang has a nice interface with a decent amount of tools at your disposal to work with- in terms of art programs I’d say it’s pretty standard
I used to use medibang a lot but when I moved onto better programs I started to notice how janky and odd it felt in comparison
Firealpaca was my BABYGIRL when I first got my drawing tablet, it’s extremely basic but that’s why it was so perfect. It was easy to understand, and was how I learned to animate. I would never use it now, but it was perfect for me as a beginner
Krita. Oh boy Krita… I TRIED my best to get used to the program but I HATE it. The brushes feel awful, the interface is confusing and annoying, it is NOT the kind of program I would ever use…*for still image art.* While I hate Krita in terms of making full pieces, it’s animation feature was extremely useful to me when Firealpaca started feeling obsolete. It’s a BIG learning curve getting used to how animating is set up on krita, but once I got the hang of it animating became MUCH easier. Krita was truly my next step in mastering animating, and without it I probably wouldn’t be nearly as good as I am now.
Onto some payed programs-
Paint Tool Sai 2! I LOVE Sai, theres a certain feel to the brushes that’s so unique and smooth, I haven’t been able to find anything that feels even remotely close to them. Not to mention the interface is EXTREMELY readable and easy to understand, and the stabilizer goes far higher than most programs I’ve seen allow you to set it
Custom brushes though… oooffhh… not good. I’m not too experienced with making brushes so I can’t speak on how easy it is, but FINDING custom brushes for sai is DIFFICULT. They don’t have an online store like other art programs, so you have to scour the internet to find them. And then theres no importing, you have to manually set up the brush yourself, and half the time the settings won’t even be right. Finding custom sai brushes is HARD, and in my experience blending in particular is even harder. I love Sai with all my heart but custom brushes for it are a pain
Clip Studio Paint. Is by FAR. The best program I’ve ever used so far, the store is filled with HUNDREDS of free brushes, theres SO. MANY things to use and mess around with, the interface looks nice, the brushes feel incredible- it’s just. Everything about it works. And even better they have TUTORIAL VIDEOS! There’s a pretty big learning curve to animating in CSP, even with prior animation experience, but the tutorials made it quick and easy to learn! Plus they have tutorial videos for just about anything!! If I had to label a con however… their brush shop. Specifically the search engine. It’s.. AWFUL- at least in my experience. The way it works is that it uses tags instead of key words to find brushes, so if you were to look up watercolor, it wouldn’t come up with brushes with “watercolor” in the name or description, it would look up brushes TAGGED with watercolor. This doesn’t seem all too bad until your trying to find something specific, or certain brushes don’t get tagged properly. Love clip studio, but they NEED to change their search interface because it is a PAIN to deal with
And lastly- some programs that don’t exactly fall into “art program” per sey, but can still be used as one
MSPaint is the most BASIC of basic. For anything detailed- unless you’ve got patience and determination- it’s NOT what you want to use. But coming back to it a more knowledged artist than I used to be, it’s honestly one of my favorite programs. There’s something so simple- so basic about it that makes drawing really fun. Being limited to 1 layer and pretty small brushes gives me a challenge when I make my work, it makes it fun and rewarding when I finish a piece I really like!
Whiteboard Fox
Although it’s a website not even MADE for art, it’s one of my favorite places to make doodles/sketches. It’s arguably even more basic than mspaint, lines are one whole thing so erasing something erasing that stroke you made, you can’t change eraser or brush size, your limited to one brush, 6 colors, no select tool, and your whiteboard can only last 14 days unless you pay. If I were to rank it along with the other programs I’ve talked about, it would be the VERY bottom. But that’s WHY I love it so much. As I mentioned with MSPaint- I like having a challenge when I draw sometimes, I like having to work around those issues and think out of the box to make something! Whiteboard Fox is simple, and that’s what makes it so fun! I’ve honestly made some of my most favorite pieces of art on there before- and bonus! Other people can draw with you! I LOVE drawing with other people but often the websites or programs I find aren’t really the best. They feel janky or limiting, but Whiteboard has a sort of… special ability to it that makes it bearable. The brush, surprisingly, actually feels relatively smooth. Having to work with 0 stabilization actually taught me how to make cleaner and steadier lines, ultimately pulling me out of my SKETCHY sketch art era! Unfortunately though, it does have it’s MAJOR downsides. Whiteboard doesn’t work on a server setup when it comes to multiple people on one board, it’s simply whoever has the link can draw on it. Theres no ability to ban anyone from a board and no ability to “lock” the board so that others can’t come in. This means, unless the people you share the link with are people you trust, it’s a pretty big gamble on whether the board will get griefed or not. It’s also fairly bad at running well when theres too many drawings or people, the more people the more it’s likely to disconnect- forcing you to refresh the page, and the more drawings their are the more it starts to lag, and the longer it takes to load after refreshing the page. It’s also VERY pay wally, and while your not required to pay money to make any amount of decent art, you’re required to pay for things that should reasonably be already given- such as more colors, and longer lasting/never dying board, and the ability to turn the board black instead of white. It’s board snapshot feature also SUCKS. It often makes the image too small or compressed to even see what was drawn on the board in the first place, so unless you screenshot each of your drawings and save then somewhere, that are is gone. Forever. Theres NO way to get it back. At the very least, they should make it so expired boards are boards you can still SEE, just not edit- instead of making it a simple “error” page.
Of course, don’t take my word as gospel. Although I’ve been using some of these programs for years and have been drawing for even longer- I’m still only a middle-level artist. I don’t know the ins and outs of all of these programs, and theres probably a few key features or changes I haven’t discovered yet that could completely change my view on them- but as someone who’s mid-level, often switches through these programs a lot, and basically had an art pipeline through ALL of these programs- I can say I feel pretty confident in my viewing of each.
If your a beginner, and want a sort of… pipeline guideline I’d suggest:
- Firealpaca and/or Medibang to begin with (firealpaca ESPESCIALLY if you want to start animation)
- Krita if you want to take the next step in animation and if you want a better brush set
- Sai2
- Clip Studio Paint (the other programs should help you get adjusted to it’s setup by the time you get there, but it’s still a decently sized learning curve, tutorials are recommended)
General/Use Throughout Your Art Growth
- MSPaint (teaches you to work with limited layers/tools, weens off stabilization dependency, useful for learning lineless art)
- Whiteboard Fox
(weens off stabilization dependency, helps create more confident and smooth lines, helps create less sketchy sketches, teaches to work with limited colors and resources)
@@POBBLEBONK0.0 Thank you for sharing, It was very insightful! I'm definitely a beginner, so being able to peak into what other's experience with each software was informational.
In krita you have to manually go into the dockers to get all the layout stuff the other programs had available on default. It took me so long to realise that :
My two main drawing programs are both Sketchbook and Medibang, but both for mobile. I've been using both for years, and when I first started, yes, they were very weird. I didn't use Medibang for a while after I got Sketchbook, but I mainly use Medibang for pixels cause everything else about it is funky-
kritia is free no money at all and its a open thingy meaning you can see the programming so you can see if it safe also u can make ur own version^^
My paint tool sai trial expired and cracking it it's really annoying, so thats why i'm in the search of good free software, that i really thing should be the standard.
DUDE this video is crazy!! when I looked at your sub count I was shocked
you're so clear spoken and fun to listen to! Also you're hella honest
I've tried all of these programs and I have to agree with just about everything you said
Amazing work!
id use krita more if it didn’t desync the audio every time I didn’t start the replay of the animation from frame one (and even then sometimes it fucked up my audio)
I want to change the only things about fire alpaca 1, you have to pay for dark mode ($39.99), and 2, transforming. UGH, besides resizing and flipping (left to right and vice versa), you can't do anything else with it. And 3 (not really a problem I have with the program itself but a problem I have, period) no updated or proper tutorials (I've moved past this point, but there were some learning curves at the start that I just had to learn on my own).
OH, but i do what to add:
Custom brushes besides not really being able to make your own in the program, its hard to implement your own (at least for me), being that any other custom brushes people make public are for programs like adobe and photoshop and clip studio
edit: FORGET 2 IN THE 2.9.1 UPDATE THEY ADDED MESH TRANSFORM and I am now flabbergasted
I use Medibang (Mobile version because I'm broke and I have no clue how to set up art on monitors and stuff, that is beyond comprehensible to me). It's a good art program, it's just most of the brushes you can use are locked behind a subscription paywall, and so is the ability to import fonts and other brushes.
That slippery feeling in krita can be changed in the settings of krita and is usually due to it's acceleration. Plus all the docs and windows can be changed to better set up how you want your's to feel. it could take abit but it can do it if you set it up right.
Actually you can use paid for brushes on IbisPaint for 24 hours if you watch an advertisement. I’ve been using it since I started digital art years ago.
Krita is really good but I think they should have a comprehensible tutorial when you download it.
Bc I love krita and it’s good to use it’s just hard to figure out what everything does. Like you said you don’t like the layout, and there’s also no way for you to know how to change it or even that you could.
Hop to it, ! While it shames me to admit it, merchant that I am, I'm quite out of my wood stores just now...
I use Krita, and it takes FOREVER to learn for some people. It is great, but it is far too complicated for my simple mind. Though, the animation is AMAZING!
I've literally made commissions with both fire alpaca and Medibang paint pro, bruh they are so good
that santa in ms paint is actually so realistic i love it
The shaping of that ball looking mad sus at 6:24
20 dollars a month just for one adobe app is crazy
piracy
Only done trad art from paper so this helped alot
tbh, i completely agree with everything you said, especially about krita. that being said, i've found using both programs together helps a lot with the issues they both present, and can help cancel out their negatives.
i dislike how krita works with sketches and linework, i could never figure out the word to describe it until this video. it IS slippery, and i'm not a fan -- i just don't like how it feels. however, i love how many brushes are available in the program and absolutely love how the program handles shading things. the ability to incorporate textured brushes into art pieces for shading or flat colors, or just straight-up texture layers is also an amazing tool that helps A TON with adding depth or aiding in backgrounds.
with firealpaca, i love how smooth the actual process of drawing is and how nice the brushes are for sketching, inking and flat coloring. however, i don't like how the program shades. the tool/brush for it just... doesn't look right on things that are organic/living/whatever you wanna call it. it's feels like i put all this detail into shading, and when i go to blend it by hand it's like i just slapped a gaussian blur on it and called it a day. at that point, it would've just been better to go with cell shading as opposed to softer blending. its not great for adding depth to a piece, and it can make it look sloppy or off-putting as a result. however, i will say the watercolor brush for firealpaca is great, and if you want to shade i would just bypass the blending tool altogether and go straight to the watercolor brush. though it does take a while to figure out, it's still a great brush. though if you wanna shade without the piece looking watercolor-y and/or blocky, firealpaca isn't the program to use.
so i use firealpaca for sketching, inking and flat colors, save it as a pdf so i can open it in krita and keep all the layers. because they function differently, any clipping layers appear wonky in krita when it's first opened. i add a folder layer and re-clip then layers again in krita for them to look correct, as krita clipping only works if the layers are in a folder. you can save a few steps by making the folders ahead of time when working in firealpaca, but you'll have to re-clip the layers regardless. i also change the file from a pdf to a krz so the file information will stay correct and so i won't need to go through the whole file and have to re-tweek all the layers. after that, i do all the shading and textures in that krita.
that sounds like a lot but honestly it really isn't hard, just kinda tedious. the first few times take a little getting used to but after that i just do it without really thinking much haha. i'm also not a professional artist or in any art-related field, i'm just some guy who draws sometimes in my free time so take anything i say with a grain of salt 😅
i believe in firealpaca supremacy
I'm an ibisPaint X user. Been using it for almost a year. 😊
And I'm not sure if it's because I started out my digital art journey with Autodesk Sketchbook and ibisPaint X, but all other art programs I tried felt slippery.
Medibang is really good. The watercolor brush is my favorite on the app. Krita on the other hand has crashed on me a couple times during an artwork.
I don't know what I'm doing here either but just to watch ya
I actually switch between firealpaca and krita, they're both great programs and you can easily customize them to whatever layout you're comfortable with. Took me about a week to learn the basics comfortablly with little to no knowledge 🤝
"then why are you here?"
cause i want something i can easily make custom brushes the the current software im using doesn't do much
Such a underrated youtuber