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You know what's funny…I think I prefer Medibang Paint Pro to Photoshop. It doesn't have as handy of an interface as PS and doesn't have all those high-tech tools but my stuff looks better. Especially since the tapering looks better and there is a stabiliser.
So if you're thinking about programs consider Medibang or Firealpaca which is similar but I think it has more of a focus to animation than Medibang.

I just use Medibang, bc Medibang pro isn't on the app store for my phone

@Elder-God-Whisper work

Look at other people’s art and use them as references for a little bit. Then, wgen you’ve gotten used to hiw to draw certain lines and how to color, etc., use what you’ve learned to make your own art. I like going back to my old art and redo them, using what I’ve learned.

@The-N-U-T-Cracker

You know what's funny…I think I prefer Medibang Paint Pro to Photoshop. It doesn't have as handy of an interface as PS and doesn't have all those high-tech tools but my stuff looks better. Especially since the tapering looks better and there is a stabilizer.
So if you're thinking about programs consider Medibang or Firealpaca which is similar but I think it has more of a focus to animation than Medibang.

My best friend uses FireAlpaca and I've tried it before, let me just say it's not for everyone. I have tried so many times to like it, I have done challenges with it many times and I've compared it to nearly every other software I've used, but every time I try to use it I feel this extreme… Hatred? I don't know what's so bad about it. It has a color wheel, pressure sensitivity, customizable brushes, and it even senses the eraser on the back of my pen. But every time I try using it, I compare it to my artwork in Krita or Artrage Lite or even Verve Painter and in order to make it look like a worthwhile program I kept having to say things like "But FireAlpaca can be used for animation and Artrage Lite can't so therefore even though the results look like crap it's a better program" (I have not used Artrage in over a year and Krita can do everything FireAlpaca does so I've stopped trying to defend it like this) I think it might have something to do with my art style, FireAlpaca is geared towards cartoon and anime styles and therefore doesn't have the blending and textures and features needed for more realistic or semi-realistic art. Also while this isn't a big deal, why are there three brushes dedicated to the freaking mascot??? If you're going to demonstrate how the brush types work then use a good, useful example. Krita's mascot isn't even visible except in the splash screen, and even then they sometimes replace it with Pepper and Carrot, the main characters from a webcomic. And not to mention Krita has SO MUCH CUSTOMIZABILITY. You open the brush editor and you can control the color rate by X tilt on a freaking curve. In FireAlpaca/MediBang, you open the brush editor and it can't even tell the difference between opacity and flow. Are all the features Krita has… Necessary? Not at all. But are they useful? OH HECK YEAH. Sometimes we need more ways of blending colors together than "Take a brush on low opacity and lightly color in the area where the colors overlap, then eyedrop the color and do it again over and over again, and if that's not blendy enough just take the blur tool to it". Also, Krita is open source and you can request features you'd like added, and while it usually takes a while to add them, the developers listen. Meanwhile, on FireAlpaca, they've been given 40,000 requests to add more strength to the blur tool and what did they give us? the edge pen. What is that good for? Well, you can't use it for line art because it colors in the center on the same layer, maybe if you were doing a one layer challenge you might be able to find SOMETHING it would be good for but I kinda doubt it. Also, there are no textures so that's a bummer. But on the upside, it's WAY easier to learn plus all the important features are there, and many people prefer that simplicity. So if you're an anime artist, and you don't use a lot of different brushes, you'll probably love Medibang/FireAlpaca. If you're someone like me who has an unhealthy obsession with blender brushes and textures, Krita would probably be best. Autodesk Sketchbook is kinda the middle ground, simple, but good for ALL art styles and has lots of customizability, however, it's made particularly for use with Wacom brand tablets so it doesn't work too well with other tablets. So you might as well just try all of them and see what you prefer. They're all free and have no viruses, so there's no risk. (Sorry for the wall of text, I hope it's helpful and makes a tiny bit of sense.)

@Starfast group

Yeah how do I improve

I find that my art is always way better when I use a photo reference. I can’t remember if I’ve brought up SenshiStock in this thread (and if I haven’t it’s my go to for pose references) but stuff like that is always super helpful and it’s great for anatomy practice.

@Reblod flag

@NutEllaDraws
That's interesting. So Krita is good for painting then? I haven't tried to paint in Medibang yet but I do have a lined cartoony style so I don't need to.
Also, have you ever tried the watercolour brush in Medibang? It has a blending setting.

For example…this drawing has been done using the wet watercolour brush.

Here are the settings I use.

And here is demonstration. It requires a few takes and a bit of eyedropper work to get it perfectly smooth but it depends on how smooth you want it (I didn't use the eyedropper here though).

For anyone wanting to mix colours and thinking about using Medibang too

@The-N-U-T-Cracker

@NutEllaDraws
That's interesting. So Krita is good for painting then? I haven't tried to paint in Medibang yet but I do have a lined cartoony style so I don't need to.
Also, have you ever tried the watercolour brush in Medibang? It has a blending setting.

For example…this drawing has been done using the wet watercolour brush.

Here are the settings I use.

And here is demonstration. It requires a few takes and a bit of eyedropper work to get it perfectly smooth but it depends on how smooth you want it (I didn't use the eyedropper here though).

For anyone wanting to mix colours and thinking about using Medibang too

I have tried it, and it doesn't really work for me because I keep my shading on a separate layer from the base color. However, that's a really nice drawing.

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yeah i like medibang ok its pretty good. I don't really use krita tho, I downloaded it on my old comupter before it broke, but i didn't get a chance to use it.

@ember-chan-will-never-forget-you

Hands.
Are.
So.
Evil.

Hands and male lips are the bane of my entire existence. I can draw lips on female characters just fine, but whenever I try to draw them on my male characters it comes out looking really weird and feminine.

i relate to all of these things