my favorite part was when i was there

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.

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.

I’m not new just 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

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 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.

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 :')

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.

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.

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...

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

Its Krita. No Contest.

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 💖

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!

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

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.

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

"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*

Rest in peace free autodesk sketchbook T-T

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.

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

UR SPRITE IS SO CUTE I INSTANTLY SUBBED 😭

Great video my favourite part of the video was when you were drawing mr wolf doing a jojo pose

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

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!

Ok how are you sooooo small! Your such a better are KZfaq's than much bigger ones. Plus your Mic is not a microwave. Subscribed

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.

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

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!

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

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:

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

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.

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

as a light mode user i feel personally attacked

i genuinely love krita so much

I love his outlook on things he's so underated💗

I have one rule; if the pencil tool is lit then it’s the drawing program for me.

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)

Only done trad art from paper so this helped alot

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!

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

that santa in ms paint is actually so realistic i love it

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 :)

Thanks for the help. downloaded Krita on a whim after watching this and instantly fell in love. great seeing a program just work after years of wrestling with gimp.

not new to digital art just here to watch a informative video :)

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-

I've literally made commissions with both fire alpaca and Medibang paint pro, bruh they are so good

I watching this like i’m gonna switch like i haven’t been using the same app for years

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 :

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 🤝

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

I just wanna a line tool, coloring and shading, which of these 3 is the best for doing this basic things?

Very awesome!

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 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 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

Can you do one on how to color your art

first of all, thanks for the video, it helped me to choice a software to start digital art, but what really caught my attention was in 6:50 how you did this in premiere? how did you make the drawing overlap the background?

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.

Thanks I really needed this. Hopefully my experience with these art programs will be a lot better than Ibispaint. legit everytime I erase or undo, a section of my drawing just disappears in ibispaint, it's super frustrating.

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 😅

Such a underrated youtuber

I love the video thank u

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

I was wondering what is the best program for drawing

personally i used krita for a WHILE. and theres ANIMATION????? no way i need to try this now

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

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.

thank you im new with grafic tabelts and youre video help me :)

There’s also Kleki which was the art program I used in school ^^ very easy to use

Ooh! New sub ^w^ I think Kleki is very great, no download, has layers, can import and out port, and is very easy for beginers, and good tools! It also can be saves in the browser and can be came back to at any time! It has no download if u can't download anything btw. :) but thank u, it took me months to figure out a good program and I wish I had seen this sooner! also, everyone has different preferences on what types of programs they use to draw and animate, and im just sharing my opinion. Have a good day!

Think you can make a video about staring digital art? Important things you should get and learn to start off?

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.

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}

sweet! now that you have a good program are you gonna finish drawing your rantsona?

I have used medibang for a while now, and I love it

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 trided also Krita for the first time, because my cousins's step-sister recommended to me- because she uses it herself. I don't like it really either because the layout problably because I get really confused when there are too many tools :) But I think if I could learn it more It would be great~

Krita is wonderful and the set up can be changed my only issue is that my old pen and tablet has to do a few things before opening the program in order to have pressure -an artist that has used Krita for 5 years

This is underrated ngl-

I personally use Krita, I've really come to love the different brushes and effects it has in the short time I've been using it. Have you tired the charcoal tool? It blends so buttery smooth with the right opacity, I could smooch it! After watching this video, I think I might want to try out Fire alpaca. I've seen a pretty cool homestuck art style tutorial using the program I wanna try... I'm also a sucker for old-fashioned looking programs. ;)

"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

i use csp a my base program right now but i've also dabbled with the ones shown in the video, i can say medibang for me personally works better on the ipad than pc, for some reason my cursor always webs even with windows ink off and after restarting my pc. firealpaca i used years ago for my base program and i have to say i do miss using it, it was easy to understand and work with. krita on the otherhand i never got the grasp of, but i love seeing those who know it well putting it to its full potential!!

Bro, I love you❤

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.

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.

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 believe in firealpaca supremacy