Feedback Looking for free art programs. What do you all use?

[slaphappygamer]

Hello all. I’m looking for good free art programs. Something where you can have different brushes. For 2D art. Can I get any recommendations?

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

Some people will hate on me for this, but you can try out GIMP if you want. It has a learning curve but is an overall great image editor with art tools included.

 

[slaphappygamer]

Hmm. I’ll have to revisit that. I used it about 15 years ago and didn’t think it was still around. Lol.

 

[linuxares]

Krita maybe?

FireAlpaca is also an alternative

 

[slaphappygamer]

Awesome! More to check out.

 

[JuanMena]

Autodesk Sketchbook.
It's the fastest drawing program I've used.
Can do 4000x6000px drawings with minimum lag in a 4GB RAM Notebook.

It's clean, lightweight, fast, has a lot of interesting custom brush options.

If you can't find the installers, let me know as I have the x32 and x64 installers saved in my Google Drive.

 

[Arithmatics]

i use photopea.com its a free photoshop alternative that works in your browser and more recently implemented its own AI magic fill (its not as good as photoshop but better than nothing)

 

[CMDreamer]

The GIMP, Krita, InkScape.

Edit:

Forgot about Paint.NET the best Paint alternative there is.

 

[cluesagi]

Seconding GIMP and Krita!

 

[SylverReZ]

Paint.NET or GIMP.

 

[Deleted member 571007]

I personally use a mix of FireAlpaca and Kitra.

When I want SVGs though I use InkScape.

 

[slaphappygamer]

WOW! Thanks for all the input. Lots to review. We will be checking these out.

 

[AkikoKumagara]

I tend to use a combo of Paint.NET and Inkscape depending on what I'm doing. They can't do everything, but with plugins PDN is really versatile; Inkscape is probably the best vector graphics editor, though.