Krita 4.0 has been released. It’s the free ‘open source’ painting software. I tried 3.0 and it’s pretty good… if you can’t afford Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro or ArtRage, in that descending order. Have tried many, I’d say that starting in Sketchbook Pro and then finishing off the picture in Photoshop (with the Lazy Nezumi stroke smoother plugin) is the ideal way to do it. Both are highly optimised, so that you can use large brushes on large canvases without lag. Depending on your hardware, the same can’t be said of many of the lesser painting apps.
Anyway, Krita 4.0 is free and it may be worth a look if you’re trying out 2D digital painting software. Here are the new features…