I’ve been using Paint Tool Sai 1.1.0 for as long as I’ve been drawing digitally and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. It has a really good pen stabilizer feature, awesome blending modes (I luv u Lumi & Shade) and it just feels so…natural to draw with. Plus, it’s super lightweight. I still can’t believe it was made by just one guy!

I still use an old 6x8 wireless Wacom tablet. It’s my 3rd Wacom tablet… it takes a bit of tweaking all the settings, but their software is great.

I didn’t discover that there are about 10 different nibs stored inside the pen cup for years.

I love Affinity Designer for vector work. The rope stabilizer and line editing tools are great.

pbrush.exe, the ancestor of mspaint. Because I loved the simplicity of it, and that I got pretty good at it.

Sure, I used mspaint too a lot later, but never to the same extent. I just liked the interface of paintbrush a lot more. And as I mostly used to for sketches and wiring diagrams, the limited color depth didn’t really matter.

Inkscape for 2D, as it is vector based and therefore mostly resolution-independent. I can blow up a design to banner size (as in several meters) without it looking horrible in print.

My favorite is my tablet computer with its digital pen and the default drawing software, whatever that is.

You see, I got the tablet for other reasons, and it came with a pen. What it all boils down to is that my favorite is whatever I already have. When I don’t have a computer nearby, my favorite is a pencil and paper.

I had to adopt this sort of policy because of my personality. I’m not a perfectionist, but like many people, I have hints of perfectionism. And this means that I think to myself things like, “I want to draw, and of course I would, if I only had this specific tool.”

But the truth is that I already had all of the tools I needed to draw. Always have. The important thing about drawing is drawing. I figure that if I ever spend a lot of time drawing and get good at it, then at that point, I’ll already know what other tools I want.

I love Firealpaca! It’s free, lightweight and its layout is simple. Plus it has most of the features that more “complex” softwares have like animation, custom brushes, etc.

Procreate on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil. Still learning how to draw digitally, but when I get it correct it looks good.

I have a tablet with pen support and Clip Studio works well with touchscreen + pen with some really nice features I haven’t found elsewhere

I have the XPPen 24, used similar Wacom before but couldn’t justify the cost, really pleased with it overall, the macro keys and wheels are very useful. Software wise just Photoshop, and occasionally Corel when I want to mess around with digital painting.

I have a Samsung galaxy S8+ tablet with the pen.

I really enjoy the Concepts app on it. It’s vector, but renders natural media. Highly recommended.

I also have a bunch of others such as krita, infinite painter, sketchbook, etc.

Draw.io counts? I’ve started using it basically as a whiteboard for all sorts of stuff