please! best digital art program?

Question

um i really want to know how people do their art over the computer like digital art. i want to know if there's any that i can download prefrably free one's and if there really good or not

Answer 1

There's no "best" program for digital illustration; many professionals choose their programs based on personal preference, or they switch between programs when working on image to take advatange of their varied strengths.

Photoshop CS2 is a must for any digital repetoire; it's a bit difficult to learn, but if you can pick up a photoshop CS2 guide from your local library, you can learn most of its features in 2-4 weeks. Its image editing capabilities are unparalleled, and since it's an industry standard in every digital field, it pays to learn it.

Painter IX is a great program that easier to handle than PCS2, but it lacks the editing abilities of photoshop. For painting it's fantastic, as its brushes emulate the effects of real-world materials; but if you ever need to fiddle with things like saturation or selections or any of the like, it's best to transfer your image to Photoshop and fix it there.

Alias Sketchbook Pro is the cheapest of these programs at about 100 bucks. It's a fantastic piece of software used primarily for, as the name suggests, sketching. It has a very simple interface you can learn in about half an hour, and should you choose to bring an image to completion in it, it has brush sets and customizing abilities that will let you do so.

There are lots of really great tutorials on the net about color, blending, blocking, and other aspects of digital illustration. See what programs your favorite artist uses and see if you can find trial versions of that software on the internet so that you can test it yourself.

P.S. It really, really, REALLY helps if you have a wacom tablet for digital illustration. To accomplish high-quality digital art with a mouse would be as tedious and time-consuming as counting the grains of sand in an hourglass. The Intuous2 Generation tablet, which was recently replaced by the "newer" Intous3, can be found on Ebay or on some software sites for as low as 60 dollars for the 6x9 size, which is perfectly useable for most screen sizes. Tablets are also durable as hell; I've had mine for four years, and it's survived countless falls, bumps, whacks and rides in plains with nary a break and hardly any scratches.

Good luck!

Answer 2

GIMP is a good choice. It's free and fairly easy to use. I believe its a great program to be introduced to when beginning to learn digital art because it is a slightly modified version of many other art programs. If you do get stuck however there are tutorials on youtube and the website deviantart. That is where I got my first start. I've moved on from it to other powerful programs after a few years though.

Answer 3

It really depends on the type of art you intend on doing. If you intend on editing digital pictures you can go with a trial version of Adobe Photoshop CS 2. If you are looking to do more drawing and illustration you can download Adobe Illustrator CS 2. They're both expensive to buy, but very worth it. Another favorite is Painshop Pro or Gimp.

Answer 4

While some may say there is no BEST program, there wrong, in some ways.
Because if you are seeking to work as a professional digital artist, you should become familiar with the industry standards.

Answer 5

I use Vue 5 Infinite, it't not really hard to use as long as you take the first tutorial

Answer 6

photoshop. thats what you want. and as a supplement adobe illustrator. these are super expensive, but you can pirate a copy.