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Well, I wrote to a similar topic just now, haha. Things change a little when it's for "digital illustration" or "graphic design" related work. When for graphic design related works such as logos, invitations, business cards, etc. I go for Adobe Illustrator. The reason after that is because; 1. It's a vector-based program and most of these fields work better with vector because of rescaling opportunities. 2. That's what I've learnt in college 😄 You can find countless tutorials and guides for Illustrator, which is greatly helpful. Of course, like any other Adobe program, there's this big con: it's expensive for most people. Lately I've been seeing Affinity Designer being used as a placeholder, though ı have not tried it myself. There are some progress videos on YouTube already. If you can't afford Illustrator, go check it out. There is also Corel's vector based app, Corel Draw, but I have no information on it. As for digital illustrations, again, I use an Adobe product; the famous Photoshop. I have several reasons for this, some being personal. I've been using it since 2005-ish (not quite sure but I remember I was in middle school) so it's what I'm most familiar with. Again, it's expensive, but I manage. + It's familiar + Tons of resources and tutorials online + Sometimes people want the PSD file and it's the main program for it. + Lots of variety for output, like illustrations or small animations maybe even videos. + Lots of add-ons to help - Expensive - Heavy on the computer, especially if you use lots of layers. I've tried variety of other pixel-based illustration programs over the time, and sometimes I jump to them for a change of view. Some of my opinions might be outdated or pretty personal so take them with a grain of salt. Paint Tool Sai: + Lighter on computer + The watercolor and smudge tools work better than Photoshop + PSD output again, so you can jump between programs on the same project + Pen sensitivity (especially for linearts) have a better feel (for me at least) - Limited ? Not sure how's the price now or if it's continued or not. Krita: + Free! + Light on computer + Pretty much like Photoshop, you won't feel out of place while using this one. + Quite a lot of resources to go around on the internet, like tutorials and paint-alongs and such. + Can quickly make frame by frame animations. - Still a little limited, though for a free program I must's say it's pretty good. - Maybe this is a personal experience but when I tried animating with it, I couldn't get a gif output. So it's limited on the files as well. Maybe they fixed this later on, I don't know. Clip Studio Paint: I couldn't get used to this one yet, so I'm pretty limited on this one. But I'm hearing great things about it, seeing great things about it, and I think it's one of the best choices after Photoshop once you get used to it. + Definitely cheaper than Photoshop + Has a pretty active community + A lot of resources and tutorials. + Variety of outputs - A little confusing when switched between PS and this one. That's why I got stuck and went back to good old Photoshop. I don't own an iPad, but I used to own a cheap end android tablet, and I used Medibang on it; + Free on both computer and tablet + Has basics covered - Limited output So... That's all I know and all I can think of. I hope it's useful information for you 🙂

1. Photoshop 2. Illustrator Though I choose the program for the project and not the other way around according to the needs, usually the first thing I open up ends up being Photoshop. Often what I do is digital illustration and I've been using PS since I was a mere junior middle schooler. I use Illustrator if it's a work that requires Vector illustrations, logos or more graphic-design related stuff that needs to be re-scaled. But with Photoshop, I feel more at home.