With art it's like, 'Want to be an artist? Well, good luck with that, go to an art school or study some Loomis, I dunno'. Musicians have all kind of stuff, from self-teaching software (Rocksmith, Yousician) to note/tablature visualisers (Synthesia, Guitar Pro), programmers have many simplified, designed-to-study programming languages with various interactive tests to boot (PascalABC, for example). To be honest, I'm kinda baffled by lack of good sotware for studying the artwork. Though while drawing space is indeed limited, at least this game/app gives a good understanding of basics in an entertaining form, yap Main limitation is that you're constrained to three layers, which should still be fine when you're just getting started.Ĭlick to expand.Well, you can stretch out the screen in emulator, but everything will still be blocky. Notably, if you have a tablet, there's a free version of Autodesk's Sketchbook app at LEAST in Apple's App Store (or there was back when I got my iPad years ago). (Insert massive hate for the software rental business model here.) Another option is to shop around and find a place that still has Photoshop CS6 (or earlier) in stock. They seriously run sales all the freaking time.) I personally am not a huge fan of the GIMP, but I'm sure there are some people who use it to create art. There's also Paint Tool Sai, which is pretty decent, and Clip Studio Paint, which can also be remarkably cheap if you catch a sale. Sketchbook Pro, which BlackDracon mentioned, is my favorite sketching software - most of my art uses Photoshop only to do the flat colors, and/or for color adjustments (Sketchbook Pro 6, which I run, can only have one file open at a time, so can be awkward if you need to eyedropper colors off a reference) and maybe some masking or other layer effect magic.

Sketchbook pro 6 layers wont open