I use Procreate and Krita at the moment.
This was just a test drawing. My skill is diminished because I am trying to get used to drawing upright rather than flat as I am used to. This was don't on a Chuwi Ubook (Microsoft Surface knockoff). When I use my laptop, I have a huion drawing tablet that I plug in. It is much easier than this upright tablet. Any tips for comfortability when drawing on upright surfaces?
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I use my PC mirrored to my tablet. So I can run paint tool sai because it's the greatest art program that has ever existed.
It can do smoothing of lines and has a lot of functions like Photoshop basics.
My tablet is Samsung tab 6.
Has pressure sensitivity.
I run an app called "super display virtual monitor". It was a one time purchase of like $20 and has full support for the s-pen. No subscription. No ads. It just works.
It supports other pens / stylus on other tablets. You will have to check if yours is supported
Best $20 I ever spent. I can lay on my sofa and work on paint tool sai on the tablet.
Of course like with most good software , keyboard shortcuts are essential. So I just keep my wireless keyboard on my lap.
You can get paint tool sai for free if you want. Just search how to on YouTube. There is a pirated copy floating around for the last 10 years.
Otherwise you can buy it legitimately.
It requires windows.
I do believe it was developed and is owned by a company in Japan.
https://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/
Here is a speed painting to see how it goes. https://youtu.be/2Q5XR1cJKkY?is=pQUtiF5wR3Ev_u6e
Why is it the best?
The paint and the line drawing.
Firstly the painting works like real paint. I've never found any other program that comes close to how perfect this works in PT sai.
It's intuitive. It just always works like how you want. With plenty of settings to tweak. It makes everything have a creamy look. Like how oil paints work.
But you can also get a very realistic watercolor effect too.
And the line drawing tool is wonderful.
As someone who doesn't have a super steady drawing hand, I use this program to make my lines look smooth and even.
There probably are other programs that can do that but it works perfect in sai and add the paint ability and it's no comparison.
Paint tool sai cant be beat.