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Thoughts on FireAlpaca?
I use it and think it's pretty good, especially for /begs./ They've recently added stuff like perspective tools and simple Onion Skin mode for animation.
But will using such a simple program affect my digital art gains? Should I try to get used to a more complex freeware, like Krita or Gimp, that offer an increased amount of tools and ways to edit your work? (Not really interested in pirating.)

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Simple programs won't impede your gains, but the whole point of digital is going fast, and upgrading to a more powerful program in five years and completely trashing your muscle memory and workflow is the opposite of fast.

Just wait until CSP is on sale for $25, it's got legs and does most things for cheap.

>> No.4689889

>>4689803
This is stupid. Go be a crab somewhere else. The whole point of digital is to make digital art. Speed is just a bonus. And wait for CSP to go on sale? What?? So he shouldn't touch any program until he buys CSP then? That's stupid. OP, if you want to do digital art, then do digital now. It's not like a switch to a different program is hard like what this other guy is implying. There's a lot of overlaps and you'll be just fine. FireAlpaca is free so go ahead and give it a try.

>> No.4689906

From what I see of the interface, seems like a non-issue to me. I've heard good things about Krita as well (apparently some computers can't handle it well?) so there's no issue with trying both and see what you prefer, as they're both free.
Especially for a /beg/, you're not going to need any of the fancier tools either. I use Photoshop and 95% of the time I use the shit that's included, or should be included, in any other program (basic layer modes, clipping mask, basic brushes).

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>>4689782
I prefer Medibang more. They're prettymuch the same program with some differences between each other like the way the interface looks and that medibang has downloaded cloud brushes.

>> No.4690014

>>4689984
Seconding medibang. It's pretty solid. I prefer the screentone library from medibang to the ones I got with CSP pro or for free in the CSP online library. There are so many good ones in there.

>> No.4690026

>>4690014
Hold up, medibang has tones? Do they scale when the image is resized?

>> No.4690054

>>4690026
Yes it does have tones, if you go to the materials window you can look through them as well as the huge online library.

Tones don't scale well on resizing just in general. You resize your page before you do the tones so that you don't get moire patterning.

>> No.4690106

Isn't Medibang better in every conceivable way?

>> No.4690193

>>4689782
Personally prefer krita and its brush system, but whatever works so long as you have a good workflow. No harm in at least experimenting with what's available if you're going the free route.

For drawing/painting, krita > gimp 100%

>> No.4690229

>>4689984
I agree Medibang, especially for the quasi ecosystem, in that you can upload your art to their cloud servers and switch between different devices

And its one of the best free softwares on ios

>> No.4690232

>>4690229
The cloud service is baller. I do comics and it's nice for a team of people. When the draft or pencils are done we can all look at it in the program the second it's been saved to cloud and it's so much faster than having to upload and download shit and notify everyone to go check the Google drive all the time.