mdiapp+ SE

It's the best rival to Adobe photoshop, Indesign, AND Illustrator. 64bit or 32bit. Best with 64bit. Create many layer types, and set an amount of lines per inch/format of your own, - uses massive resolutions with such speed, and efficiency. Handles LARGE 600dpi page layouts, handles drawing, painting, easily, intuitively, and more with less than 200MB usage of RAM, depending on how much you have got open inside it. etc. It's the best, most stable software for being creative with a Wacom/ Graphics tablet. You CAN use this without steam running - and I've used it far beyond the length it says here. I love opacity painting, changing the min/max on the brushes, and going wild. it's really fun, smart, intuitive, and you can easily transform your objects, or layers on-the-fly; Most useful Ctrl + [-] Zoom Out- Ctrl + [;] to zoom in; Not plus - like photoshop - This is endless productivity, creativity, imagination, power, letting go, taking in new ideas, .The canvas is your master p...

A handy little program that has great tools for drawing in perspective, motion lines, curves, etc. Great for aspiring comic book artists. On the downside, there's very little information about this program in english, so unless you're fluent in Japanese some of the features may require a bit of trial and error.

This is the drawing program I use to ink my pencil sketches. Very responsive to draw ink freehand, or with fade in / fade out sharpened line ends.

A good mix of brush and vector features, perfect for comic books and storyboards. Highest tier illustration software of the non-adobe variety once you get to know it. There are still a few bugs I run into and not everything is translated. Lack of manual can cause frustration while learning.

Really stable to draw background with more than 20 layers , but not so good to draw animation . It is really good though.

I've lost so much art work due to RANDOM crashes. I will NEVER be using this again, and wasting my time. Artist, this is not what you need. Look some place else.

Great support from the developer! (Through their webpage) Super lightweight app so it's great for lower spec PCs

This is one of my favorite art programs, it just works and it's a great alternative to Paint Tool SAI and Clip Studio Paint, now this program is mainly for manga but you can do anything in it even stuff that ain't manga.