No no no not paypal.

I’m talking artistic process apps.

These include Fresco from Adobe.

This app has been good to me. For more on it, see my instagram account. I use Fresco there MOST of the time. For more examples, the posts I’ll be putting up every Thursday are built there. But! You like visuals. What is with Fresco, Keegan?

Fiiiine.

So Fresco is where I started Lightreaper and where I drew the first few panels.

What I love about it –

• Layers

• Intuitive Drawing

• Touchpad like subtraction and zooming

What I hate about it –

• there are limited features for shapemaking, like for example, tracing a circle versus filling one in (which you can do) which make exact art MUCH harder (maybe I’m missing something)
• my touchscreen with it is finger-based versus pen based/stylus based so I can’t see it as precisely

That said, I’ve made a ton of art on it.

My next App I’ve used is Figma. I love Figma. Sometimes I don’t know why. But I do love it for gutters, narrative and speech bubbles, and layout planning, and for yeeting my text responsibilities over to James, my writer.

I need to get MUCH more used to Figma before I begin breaking it down, but I will say, it can get cramped by large file sizes/ text.

My third app I’m loving is Krita. It’s pretty great if you keep in mind the pixel counts mentioned by such greats as Jamie McKelvie. There are also a ton of useful posts on using it. I’ve found it cheaper than Adobe and as useful on my Cintiq.

So yeah! Those are my apps of choice. There is a HUGE difference between Fresco and Krita, which I will need to correct for as I move forward. I will say, Krita is not great on mobile, and Fresco is therefore more mobile, as it were, even if Krita is far more accurate and adjustable.