Fire Alpaca is my favourite program to use~ The best part about it is that is has an autosave function and it's usually already on by default, so if it ever happens to crash or your laptop dies or anything, you have a very good chance of being able to go back to where you left off without too much stress. I'm sure there's a chance that it has its faults and maybe it doesn't always work or something, but I haven't had a single issue with that just yet.
The only problem for me is when the file size is too large,it stops autosaving. I tend to work on fairly large canvases (2000-4000 pixels) and with a few special layer modes, so it happens a lot for me
Renigee's Box I had no idea. My canvas size doesn't normally exceed maybe 2000 in height or width, so I didn't even consider the idea of the aurosave not working on larger canvases. I'll keep this mind, though, thanks for letting me know!
The only problem I ever had with Fire Alpaca was that on my first computer it would do jagged choppy lines when I try to draw a circle in a certain corner. But it doesn't do it on my newest computer, so that's good too.
TBH yes.. MS Paint is just as good as any other thing as long as you know all the simple tricks and know how to use MS Paint! You can make super good art on it.
I use krita, with a mouse, and it’s worked fantastically, helping me produce art that I’m really fond of. Maybe it’s the operating system that you use?
I've been using FireAlpaca for years and I didn't even know you could do that with the paint bucket! I hate those white lines when you fill so this really helped me out!! :3
Ruby Wolf I'm pretty sure a quick google search can find you some custom brushes people have made! I've never looked into it because I like the default brushes, but I think I've seen some of them around.
One thing I don't get was the triangle color picker (maybe it's just the settings or Mac setup?). I use the Windows version and have never encountered it; it's always the rectangular color window w/ value slider and options to change the RGB/HSV/opacity values or put in a hex code.
WHAAAAAT!?? i use gimp but never new the single window mode, and separate windows were the only thing that still bugged me about gimp, thankx for the info man!
Ik this is gonna sound tacky, but you should try the huion tablets! I got mine for $30 and it works so good! (The only con is it only works with PC's and androids)
I'm glad you liked FireAlpaca ! I was so confused by Jazza's review since he seemed to hate it while I consider it one of the best free drawing programs.
and like dont people usually change the settings and explore the program before drawing? nobody goes and downloads an art program they have never used and just makes professional art right away
Atsekeen / salty salad Well I think he had a problem with his tablet/computer/program. It's not normal if the circles look that bad. When I open FireAlpaca, without correction, first brush that comes, I can draw circles that look perfectly good. I don't get why everyone seems to insist (I say everyone cause I had that argument on his video) that you need to activate correction/smoothing ?? I think you might not have really understood the problem he encountered. It must have been like drawing on paint for him.
alexandra galici Oh, I have both FireAlpaca and MediBang and I think they're pretty much the same.. ? Except for the fact that I haven't updated FireAlpaca since 2015 so MediBang is slightly better rn. But that's not the program's fault, that's mine. I never tried Krita though.
I’ve been using FireAlpaca for years and I never knew about that paint bucket thing! This will make drawing so much more time efficient and less tedious!
A possible solution for your problem with Krita is changing the renderer. Try going to Settings -> Configure Krita -> Display and disable opengl, this did the trick for me when I decided to download it.
If I ever decide to redownload krita I'll have to try it, can't believe I stumbled on two people giving better solutions in the youtube comments than I found in 20 or so minutes of googling.
Screaming Gremlin yeah I never figured that out when I got the program. Had to ask the krita support to tell me that. But I don't use krita (even tho I have it installed) just because it's just so complicated with all the buttons and vast brush options which is just super intimidating
@@crafty496 I have a huion tablet and it works perfectly with krita :D Sometimes the pressure gets bug but i reset the service and the problem is fixed! (sorry for my bad english)
I personally use PaintTool SAI *(COUGHCOUGHPIRATEDVERSIONCOUGHCOUGH)* But I sometimes use Krita ONLY to edit photos. Even then, Krita is definitely inferior, so I usually use Pixlr to edit photos. FireAlpaca I find is okay, but I guess I'm not used to FA's simplistic design and brushes.
If you want to pirate photoshop a lot of people apparently found this helpful www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/65cnem/is_there_any_way_to_torrentpirate_adobe_photoshop/
ThatOneGingerFromSP i use sai to draw and sai2 to edit bc it has stuff like gradiants and blur tools and a lot of layer settings. i really like working with both versions of sai but i have a bit of a problem with sai2 where my pen pressure stops working completely in it so i prefer to normally draw on sai.
I mostly use Medibang paint pro for drawing and working on my drawings/paintings (pretty much a free sibling to Firealpaca, though I love Medibang Paint more - but it doesn't have animation mode like firealpaca), while I use Firealpaca for animating (got nothing on my channel though heh). For some reason though, I feel like I make sketches much more easily in Firealpaca, so that's what I do. I go into Firealpaca and make a sketch, save it as a .mdbp (perhaps it was called something else? It's the program's default sort of file), open it up in Medibang Paint and then do the rest there. :D
Maybe then you are able to tell me why it isn't responding to my pen sometimes? 😅 Are there some settings or anything? (Sorry for the question,I just couldn't find any help center from the program itself,so I figured I might could ask someone who uses it too...)
Krita does have lag issues, but if that is solved, krita is the best program I've ever used. Plus, krita had so many abilities, that it takes a strong computer for it to work.
Oh geez, this is an old video but i had to comment I think you said somewhere on firealpaca that a downside is that it doesnt show the size of the brush, like a little circle thing, but theres actually an option to enable that in the "View" section just called "Brush size".
As a beginner, I’ve had firealpaca for 2 months now. Does anyone recommend a good time to switch to Sai. I know I could really switch anytime, but because Sai is a program that must be paid for, I’m sticking to firealpaca right now because it is free, and it’s the most recommended program for beginners. When do you think I should switch?
for anyone who's going to get firealpaca after this video, the issue lavender had with no size preview can be solved by going into view and hitting brush size, 2 clicks and you have the lil' circle! happy painting!
I actually use Krita and it works really well for me but, I don’t know why it didn’t work for you, it may be that you have to many things on your pc, I use it on an laptop and it works fine. Thanks for reading this comment and have a wonderful day!
Me: Wow clip studio paint *realizes its a free trial* Me 10 minutes later: Ooo Krita *presses download button but doesnt download for some reason* Me Now: Ooo firealpaca
LemonTea *o* Your pc is not good enough, like at least ps runs on my crappy pc with only 8gigs of wham, but pen pressure in photoshop doesnt work for my tablet.
@@_____._..--_ I think the problem is with Krita itself and not the PC. I've had it working sometimes and other times it would not work at all. And I tried it on different PC's as well. Even on mine that can run Photoshop no problem Krita just fails
Damn it's a shame that Krita didn't work on your Mac, I've got a PC and maybe it just works better on windows? Drawing and editing programs can be real fucky about which one they wanna work on. It's actually a REALLY good program.
Noface 60 my windows laptop has Krita and I couldn’t use it. Maybe it depends on how much storage is left on it? I’ve seen comments about how much storage it uses, and my laptop doesn’t have a lot left.
Not sure if this would work for you but I found that Fire Alpaca also has a really cool/unique hot key option! On my mac when I hold down 'z' on it's own it turns which ever brush you are using into an eraser! I find this super helpful when doing lineless art because it means my eraser will use the same texture/stroke as the brush i'm using! This is great for those who like to use brushes that resemble crayons, charcoal, pencils, etc. you can turn your custom brushes into an eraser so that what you get rid of isn't jarring!
Ohmygodthankyou for sharing that! I've been using Firealpaca and Medibang Paint (like a free sibling to Firealpaca) for almost 2 years and I've _always_ thought that "Oh... I wish there was some hotkey to turn on using the transparent color with your brush...". Alwayyysss For almost 2 years Gaaah, thank you for sharing this ;w;!!!
haha you're super welcome! It's a hot key i think a lot of people don't know of? I found it by accident when I started using fire alpaca a couple years ago and I cant live without it XD
I accidentally press weird buttons all the time but I've never noticed that! (even though I'm pretty sure I must've pressed Z too at some point, since in some other programs there are special hotkeys for Z and when I swap programs mid-way through my drawing I usually press the hotkeys for the other program!) Thank youu!
My pen has buttons so I just set one to toggle betwen eraser and brush. It’s a color picker by default, but it’s accessible by holding down ALT so it’s not that big of a deal
Problems in krita are from CPU usage. That program eats SO MUTCH memory. Progam itself is so nice but u can't rly paint in high resolutions and in option set your memory use to max. That means that u can't use any other programs in same time bcs they just kills it. Or you need a monster computer that will handle them all.
I mean that krita use much more memory then other programs to draw. It's optymalization is awful. That's why it "lag" so mutch. If you have rly good computer you won't have any problems. But programs that recorde ur pulpit use much memory too, thats why Lawender probably had problems with setting it up.
if she wants to test Krita to it's full use, she might want to not record it and delete other useless programs on there like Gimp if she hasn't already.
Krita is great, it's very complete(although not so intuitive to learn). But once you learn it's amazing. It's a open source program, so it had some issues, especially in the past, but the team that works on it is always improving and fixing these issues. The team also regularly post content explaining tools or presenting new features. It even have a recording and animation tool. I had some bugs with it in the past, but all of them are fixed now, at least in my experience. I don't know how it works on Mac tho
If you are the type of person who really uses effects and things in your drawings... Gimp is the best for that and since I animate... Firealpaca is the best for animation.
Krita may be lagging because you are recording. This happens to me when I try to record lineart. Otherwise it works fine during the colouring process and when not recording. Such a shame you couldn't do an art piece. I was looking forward to that!
Thank you so much for this, I went through a few different recommendation lists on free art apps as I'm trying to get back into drawing, and while Krita came highly recommended and worked on my machine, I had no clue where or what anything was. Your list was the first I found that actually went about showing actually using the apps and how easy or problematic they were. So I'm now a fan of FireAlpaca haha ^_^
there are more than just that for differences. medibang has a darker and easy on the eyes color scheme like most drawing programs, you can transfer drawings to your mobile devices and vice versa with the cloud, and medibang has much more compatibility with making comics.
Your Wacom drivers are probably out of date. When I first used krita, I got the same results but when I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers from the Wacom website, it worked.
so I've used Krita on Mac and on Windows, and while I used it on mac when I was using a mouse it did seem to run poorly on the Mac from what I observed, and though my windows computer runs slower generally, it ran krita better than my mac did.
I actually use fire alpaca and you can see and change how much you use the eraser easily and also if you can't tell what the settings are on the side hit tools at the top
Something interesting- you and Draw with Jazza had opposite experiences with Gimp and Krita with your free drawing program videos! His experience went really well with Krita while yours... Was something. I just find that pretty interesting after seeing both videos!
I used krita since I started with digital art and just a few months ago i switched to SAI because krita was getting slower. I don't think it was the program's fault because my laptop is getting old. Currently Krita is also completely unusable for me especially in bigger formats while SAI is still smooooth even in a very high resolution ^^ Sometimes I use fire alpaca too, but only for my animating experiments because it's very good for that purpose! Btw nice video, it's a shame you couldn't try krita, i used to love it!
that also happened to me, It took me a month to figure out how to fix it. what I did was go to settings>configure krita>display>renderer then changed what it used to render hope this helps
Krita is definitely a large program now that it has an animation function and whatnot, so that was probably the main problem. It truly depends on your laptop's RAM to see how much it can work up to. Especially if you run music and whatnot in the background. This cruddy desktop only has 6GB of RAM, so when I have Krita, Chrome, and Discord all working, it gets just a bit laggy and slow and sometimes my computer even gives me warnings to close it since it's using quite a bit of RAM
Yeah some people say that it works better/more smoothly than firealpaca, but it really depends on what you’re trying to do. Medibang is more suited for comics/manga while FireAlpaca is better for simple animations. But using both for illustration is really a matter of opinion.
I really enjoy using Medibang Paint! It's very close to Photoshop look and performance wise. There is the ad in the beginning but that is really minor. It has a cloud save so if you don't have enough room on your computer or work on different devices, you can put it in the cloud and take it everywhere. I honestly can't recommend this program enough for beginning artists! I've used it for a year now to make illustrations and comic pages! If you can, please give it a try! Plus it's free!
FangirlAwesome I agree with you. I’ve been using it for a year since I got my drawing tablet and it’s honestly really good. While FireAlpaca is from the same company, I’ve found that Medibang is better for the soul reason that it’s not as slow. I sometimes get small lag spike but that because my laptop isn’t built for multimedia stuff. You can make really good art after adding both custom and cloud brushes.
I didn't know you could change the brush pressure? I recently bought a wacom tablet with pen pressure and it does it for me, but before then I never knew how how and it was always a bit frustrating
MedibangPaint Pro and Autodesk Sketchbook are really good once you get the hang of it! Though, I prefer MedibangPaint for PC, and Sketchbook for mobile
I used to use it often because I had nothing else at the time and even rental school computers came with it. I'd use the shape making tool to make planets and the curving line took to make space ships. It's not art I'd post now, but it was art I'd make my desktop backdrop often.
Nobody judge me but the programs i use are roblox free draw and my sketch book omfg god people chill down there is nothing wrong with using roblox and i much prefer roblox over other drawings programs im looking at you synflwr Okay edit 2 I guess I don't use roblox anymore I have quit roblox I don't use it anymore OKAY SO CHILL THE FUCK DOWN
I'm judging you very hard. ROBLOX? You're drawing in a friggin' game when you can download fireplace quickly and easily? Also, it's not a bad thing to use a sketchbook, not everyone has to do digital art, you can choose what you prefer.
I have been using Krita for at least a year, and it's working just fine. I don't understand why you couldn't use it. I'm thinking about downloading Fire Alpaca because of how nice the ink pen looks, but it looks really complicated. I'm sticking to Krita for now. UPDATE: I downloaded FireAlpaca and it's not complicated at all! The lines are very smooth and I like it a lot. I still use Krita for some fancy effects, since FA doesn't have as many. Thank you all for your replies! :)
Kates Fantasies im a loyal fireaplaca user but i downloaded krita because of the positive review and it did the same laggy thing as it did in this video i wanted to actually use it sucks;_; if anyone knows a way to fix it plis help
I got a drawing tablet today and this helped so much! I’m just starting to do proper drawings on laptops and am not able to pay for a proper software and I was already thinking of using FireAlpaca, but this helped me properly decide! ^^
HIGHLY recommend firealpaca. It’s very simple and easy to get into. There are also some great tutorials, check out LeslieLu Marie’s firealpaca tutorials on UA-cam.
I'd recommend Krita, even though for whatever reason it didn't work in this video, it works great for me. I used to use firealpaca and i'd say that's definitely also a great program, but I prefer Krita.
I've been using Fire Alpaca for maybe a year now I've always had a problem with those lines until now because I NEVER noticed that thing at the top. Glad I checked this video out when the problem started to really annoy me.
3:29, when I get white lines, on the layer where I got the white lines, let's say I drew a skirt, I select the outside of the skirt and make a new layer, draw over the selection in a new layer and put the new layer underneath the skirt so it looks like there are no white lines and merge.
About not being able to see the brush size in Firealpaca, if you go into the top bar that says view, you can select "brush size" so you can see the circle while you're drawing.
Krita by far is the best, I prefer it over PS. Ive used both of the other programs in the past and they are really limiting. I have no idea how yours got so messed up.
Hey dude, for krita the weird problem you’re having is because you probably have “opengl” on! If you uncheck the box in the settings it should get rid of the lag problem! Krita is a great program, so please give it another chance!
On gimp you have a few ways around the line. The easiest one I have found is selecting the area you want with the wand tool and then use the grow function for 1-2 pixels. Make a new layer under the line art and use the bucket fill there. Fill in any gaps with the pen.
if you've been working with firealpaca for a long time, you won't really like krita. I can tell you that. When I began digital art, I used krita. I used it for about 6 months until switching to firealpaca, and when I did I IMMEDIATELY fell in love with it. I recently came back to krita to see if maybe i could try it out again, and it still sucked. Plus, no matter how much I tried in those 6 months, I didn't improve a single bit besides for less shaky lines.
Why are you trying to start an argument with me? It seems like you're really trying to and I never intended to start anything in the first place. I personally think FireAlpaca is better for cartoons and simple but powerful tools, which I never found in krita. That's the most basic way I can explain it. Yes, I know my opinion is probably biased because I'm purely a cartoonist. Again, I used it for a long time and I knew a lot of the features that COULD actually be useful to a lot of you. But, in my opinion, if you're looking to draw cartoons you should look somewhere else. Also, the biggest turn off in the whole thing is that they haven't gotten around to fixing those white dots around the lines when using paint bucket to color is probably the biggest downside. Even then, if there IS a way, it should be way more obvious instead of being something that'd you never find on your own.
"like if i were to not play around in krita, then i would agree, but if you start opening up windows, and try seeing what different menus do, you probably have all your problems solved. but if i were to use fire alpaca, i would not know what any of the menus do, or any thing at all infact." You literally just said that you're pretty much too lazy to figure out FireAlpaca. Your argument that you don't need to play around with the program is pretty damn invalid, as the most you've said is "i'll play around with krita but, firealpaca? ewww nah". You DO need to play with it to actually make something good, and same goes for krita. In general, your argument is... really all over the place. The only parts that I can *exactly* understand what you mean is the first paragraph and the last two paragraphs (not including the clone tool comment). Again, your whole "i would explore and play with krita to fix my problems" argument is again invalid. All you really put off is "i like krita and if explore you win but firealpaca? nuh uh girlfren (lol im secretly 2 laz...y. xd)". You NEED to play around with FireAlpaca to understand why people like it and just prefer it in general. And a side note, krita is much harder to figure out and understand than FireAlpaca. Everyone I know who uses it agrees with that, and if someone who uses photoshop (a complex as hell program, much more to offer than krita and firealpaca combined) for art can't figure it out at all then... I dunno.
6:42 if you go into view (it is at the top of your screen and is beside color and tool) in firealpaca, there is a tab above comic guide lines (that is inside the view tab) that says brush size, if u click on it, the brush size will appear :)
I am glad that you asked if something was wrong with krita when you were using it but does take a long time to figure out and it can be super fun with the variety of brushes! One problem when you were using Krita the brush was very thick and I think that if you made the brush thinner it would have made your art work out the way you wanted it to. You were also using the default brush if you had switched brushes your art would be very nice in Krita! This is coming from someone who has used Krita a lot! It would be very nice if you made a video about trying Krita again! I hope you have a great day! I hope that you can make a separate review on Krita! And I hope it doesn't lag. Sorry for about no periods. and repeating things.
The issue I have with Krita is that the larger your brush size, the blurrier the lines. And cuz I have never been able to get the fill tool to work, it always annoyed me that I would have to do a tiny outline of the part I want to colour that was like, 2 pixels large, before I could fill it in with a larger brush.
Im so glad FireAlpaca has gotten such a positive review! Its a lovely program, if not a bit odd. Sorry for the semi-unrelated questions, but have you ever used Clip Studio Paint? If so, how would you rank it? Also, what video editor do you use? I've been trying to find one thats free due to my lack of money. I wanna be able to edit some speedpaints of mine! Thank you for your time!
Well I have used the free trial of Clip Studio Paint and I'm gonna be honest. I'm happy with Medibang and/or Firealpaca right now. Hear me out before you get your pitchforks. Clip Studio Paint looks promising. Lots of features, an animation feature. Even a line tool like how you use in SAI. However...The wand tool is not that good. The line tools are wonky and good luck trying to shade. The blur tool does not work like the blurs in Firealpaca or Medibang. It would just end up looking very messy. The layout is not as professional as I hoped it would be and while it does offer patterns like lace and comic features, your drawing will not be as you hoped unless you have the serial number. My advice is you can just use what I mentioned or get programs like Gimp, Paint Tool Sai (around like 25 bucks and 2.0 offers text. Finally. But I don't recommend getting the program because it's popular. Use it for your preferences), MyPaint, Corel Paint or even Photoshop. I would rank the free trial of Clip Studio paint 2 out of 5 but if you can tell me how good the real deal is I'll give it a go
Princess Spirit Quartz I have the full version of Clip studio paint. I really like the program. It has a lot of different brushes and tools that can give really cool effects in your art.
Vaudsnitchy A screen recording program that doubles as an editing software is iSpring Free Cam 8. A good editing program that includes so many effects is Hitfilm Express.
Sorry for the late response. And how would you rank it because clearly I'm doing something wrong. And Firealpaca is great. Strong program and all. Mild complaint is the wand tool
3:20 There's an option called "threshold" with the paint bucket tool. You likely had it on 1 or a low number. This is so that it can fill in blurred lines without leaving behind said white lines. The trick for coloring with this program is to fuzzy-select the area to color, grow the selection so it passes the lines, then fill with the color of choice.
I don't remember exactly since it's been a long time since I've used Gimp, but if I'm correct, next to filters (on top of the drawing window) there is a window panel you can open, this option should be here
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the picture for krita is a mood
It's the mood you get when its 4am while watching sponge bob memes
Mama Pana 4 am releases a side of you that may not me extremely healthy for you
Mama Pana especially your appearance
Mama Pana but like magic, it changes to normal at 5 pm when you wake up
alexandra yes.
Why can't anyone else appreciate the bell pepper brush in Gimp?
IDK
it really is a true form of art
Ikr! I used to use gimp, but I didn't know there was a bell pepper brush 😭
@@watercooler.romance9133 really? That's the incredible brush. Oh yeah, and also there's another brush that is the logo of gimp
*New ibispaint X ad brushes has joined the chat*
Devs for Gimp: any brush ideas?
The new employee: how about peppers
Devs: Get this man a promotion
Fire alpaca literally has a brush with the fire alpaca logo
dude this is a free open software, there is no employees. the community work on it.
João Gomes it’s a joke
Gimp peper is my spirit animal
Bun bun Production that comment was a joke
I just got FireAlpaca because of this video and well, they have a fire alpaca brush... I love it
The layers disappeared for me so you know how to fix it?
@@pringles3333 press tab
Krita on mac is very bad, WIndows is actually really good.
One of my favorite parts of Firealpaca is creating custom brushes, it's so fun.
@@garlicsalt9924 THEY ARE SO CUTE-
LavenderTowne: * praises fire alpaca *
Me: * feels pride for using fire alpaca as if it was my child *
When one of the only downsides was that there was no eraser outline, but you can turn that on.
Orez where? ive only seen it in medibang, which is practically the same program and from the same people
@@kazmaniandeviil9970 Under the view tab, brush size.
CANNOLIS TASTE GOOD lol same
Same lmao :0
Fire Alpaca is my favourite program to use~ The best part about it is that is has an autosave function and it's usually already on by default, so if it ever happens to crash or your laptop dies or anything, you have a very good chance of being able to go back to where you left off without too much stress. I'm sure there's a chance that it has its faults and maybe it doesn't always work or something, but I haven't had a single issue with that just yet.
The only problem for me is when the file size is too large,it stops autosaving. I tend to work on fairly large canvases (2000-4000 pixels) and with a few special layer modes, so it happens a lot for me
Renigee's Box I had no idea. My canvas size doesn't normally exceed maybe 2000 in height or width, so I didn't even consider the idea of the aurosave not working on larger canvases. I'll keep this mind, though, thanks for letting me know!
The only problem I ever had with Fire Alpaca was that on my first computer it would do jagged choppy lines when I try to draw a circle in a certain corner. But it doesn't do it on my newest computer, so that's good too.
Omg yesssss same!
I used to have one of the older updates and my PC crashed a lot so it never saved but with the newer updates that autosave is a freaking life saver
*GUYS*
AFTER SO MUCH TIME
I FIGURED IT OUT
THE LITTLE PUFF THINGIES IN HER ARMS
3:57
ARE SKULLS
GUYS!
*guys*
Mauro Fantin lol
Wow such great character design what a hidden gem
Briana Líllü it's not really hidden if you see her character turnaround/model
Oh.
Ohhhh.
I feel stupid now.
Mauro Fantin OH
Gimp: the Manga
FireAlpaca: the Anime
Krita: The movie adaption
Nice comparison
Krita is amazing on windows, the Mac version is hot garbage tho
@@aspenpawarts9333 he's talking about the drawings
@@sofia8757 ?
Usually the manga is better than the anime
People. We all know the real best. *Microsoft Paint*.
Edit: why am I getting so many replies suddenly from this comment 3 years ago
Shookethey it’s a joke
10/10 would hang in a museum
Yes we shall follow the Microsoft paint cult
Paint
Paint
Paint
Paint
TBH yes.. MS Paint is just as good as any other thing as long as you know all the simple tricks and know how to use MS Paint!
You can make super good art on it.
Lovely lauren
I was just thinking about her and then suddenly I checked and she uploaded
so was i !!
Same here!
annie Same
annie YOU'RE A PSYCHIC
annie same 😂
the mac version of krita is awful, the windows version is perfect
It's a Linux app. Both macOS and Windows versions are ports
VERY TRUE
flyingtoasters I totally agree. Krita works great for me
Krita works great for me on Both Mac and windows
flyingtoasters thanks man I’m looking at free at programs and I have windows so GOOD TO KNOW
I use krita, with a mouse, and it’s worked fantastically, helping me produce art that I’m really fond of.
Maybe it’s the operating system that you use?
i tried kirita with mouse and it sucked, so i switched to fire alpaca cause it has better pen pressure
I use arch BTW
Kritas brush like lags for me and im using a mac aswell as lavendertowne
It took me a month to master Krita with a mouse, and while it doesn’t look as good as it would with a tablet it works better than most free programs.
i dont really like krita 😭 one of the reasons would be since I'm not good on drawing with a mouse and there's no good line tools to help me draw.
I've been using FireAlpaca for years and I didn't even know you could do that with the paint bucket! I hate those white lines when you fill so this really helped me out!! :3
Oddi-Bun
I use fire alpaca too but they have not enough "useful" brushes....
Ruby Wolf I'm pretty sure a quick google search can find you some custom brushes people have made! I've never looked into it because I like the default brushes, but I think I've seen some of them around.
Yeah, there are custom brushes out there. I've been using FireAlpaca for around 2 1/2 years.
I hate those white lines to!
Same here I wish so badly that adobe photoshop can have that tool if so I wouldn't be canceling my payment fees
I only use professional programs like Microsoft Paint.
I'm poor.
KemptKevin
Welp im stuck in a third world country... so yeah...
All I get is free stuff and cracked versions of money needed stuff.
Oh joy of joys
That is gorgeous. I use it too. My favourite picture is my classic. Go no.
Paint for lifeee
qvindicator
r/wooosh
I personally love firealpaca.
I like krita, It's more powerful than firealpaca for sure, but it runs slow on lower end computers/laptops
watafak it shouldnt do that
Did you get it from softsonic or something?
yee
Declirious same I love it too it's the best I drew a realistic crocodile
Gimp isn’t just split windows like that, you can change it in the settings so it’s all one connected window.
One thing I don't get was the triangle color picker (maybe it's just the settings or Mac setup?). I use the Windows version and have never encountered it; it's always the rectangular color window w/ value slider and options to change the RGB/HSV/opacity values or put in a hex code.
@@emileeweir7773 Settings. Asks you what type of colour picker you want.
Same with GIMP, except in gimp you first need to get the plugin.
That was actually a pretty new feature, I'm not actually sure if it was introduced by the time she did this video.
It comes with one window now
There is an option in GIMP to glue all the windows together like in photoshop! You just have to go in the top bar and Windows > Single-Window Mode
is this on Linux GIMP?
also, yes
it's on all of them
WHAAAAAT!?? i use gimp but never new the single window mode, and separate windows were the only thing that still bugged me about gimp, thankx for the info man!
And pen tools have to be manually turned on because its supposed to support all pens
Heh.
*Gets out the IBIS Paint X*
and peggy
Dat meh
@@sansan9862 The Schuyler Sisters
@@expertclown8020 We're looking for a mind at *WORK* WORK*
@@juliaschulz2286 hey! Hey! Hey!
the krita planchette is my spirit animal
same
hehe... yeah
Same but mine has edgy colors like black and red. Who am I?
It's a physical representation of my brain
no it's my spirit animal! >:3
Artists:uses tables, computers,pens, other fancy things
Me:starter pack, ibispaints x, finger and Mobile phone
@@isotofl ok
@@isotofl Lmao
Ik this is gonna sound tacky, but you should try the huion tablets! I got mine for $30 and it works so good! (The only con is it only works with PC's and androids)
@@spleen4953 oh it's not tacky, I am getting an ipad soon so I will be fine
I just moved to decent pack for a Gaimon tablet computer pen etc and btw I did pretty good art with ibispaint and tbh I mig still use it so your good
The krita one is hot
Kelly GreekFox 👌
Yeah, it's beautiful...
I can totally see your profile pic saying that
It’s thicc 👌👌
Kelly GreekFox 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
I'm glad you liked FireAlpaca ! I was so confused by Jazza's review since he seemed to hate it while I consider it one of the best free drawing programs.
hes the art gordon ramsay.
no but like he judget it by drawing fucking circles
and like dont people usually change the settings and explore the program before drawing? nobody goes and downloads an art program they have never used and just makes professional art right away
Atsekeen / salty salad Well I think he had a problem with his tablet/computer/program. It's not normal if the circles look that bad. When I open FireAlpaca, without correction, first brush that comes, I can draw circles that look perfectly good. I don't get why everyone seems to insist (I say everyone cause I had that argument on his video) that you need to activate correction/smoothing ?? I think you might not have really understood the problem he encountered. It must have been like drawing on paint for him.
alexandra galici Oh, I have both FireAlpaca and MediBang and I think they're pretty much the same.. ? Except for the fact that I haven't updated FireAlpaca since 2015 so MediBang is slightly better rn. But that's not the program's fault, that's mine. I never tried Krita though.
i had the same problem jazza had, so i'm not really a fan of fire alpaca. i switched to krita and i actually liked it much better.
The gimp pepper was originally meant to show you you can use images as brushes, but now it's just a meme. Green Is My Pepper
* sees my painting software, FireAlpaca, make it to top rank *
Me: *happiness noise*
yes
me when krita: :,)
Same
I’ve been using FireAlpaca for years and I never knew about that paint bucket thing! This will make drawing so much more time efficient and less tedious!
Your dum
Your patience knows no bounds
Hey can you do an "Drawing on a phone" video, using programs such as MediaBangpaint and IBSPaint.
I WOULD LOVE THIS
Ibispaint is pretty darn good
ThatKawaii Loser I had medibang and gave up
Also can she not use a stuylust, since i and many artist who use phones dont have a stuylust
ThatKawaii Loser aw yeah i would love a video like this
A possible solution for your problem with Krita is changing the renderer. Try going to Settings -> Configure Krita -> Display and disable opengl, this did the trick for me when I decided to download it.
that's what I did
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Yeah, this was recommended to me when I first tried Krita and had this problem. Instant fix. Been using it 2 years and its never been a problem again.
If I ever decide to redownload krita I'll have to try it, can't believe I stumbled on two people giving better solutions in the youtube comments than I found in 20 or so minutes of googling.
Screaming Gremlin yeah I never figured that out when I got the program. Had to ask the krita support to tell me that. But I don't use krita (even tho I have it installed) just because it's just so complicated with all the buttons and vast brush options which is just super intimidating
People: "Krita is really good"
Me: **Cries in much lag**
tbh Krita is really new so it's still super buggy with some platforms. for example pen pressure *still* doesn't work with huion tablets
@@crafty496 wait uhm i use huion but krita works fine for me
Joriece Iris hm, my huion works fine with krita too, but the pressure sensitivity just doesn’t work on mine
@@crafty496 I have a huion tablet and it works perfectly with krita :D
Sometimes the pressure gets bug but i reset the service and the problem is fixed!
(sorry for my bad english)
For me, Krita has no real issues, it doesn’t seem like a really new program to me-
I personally use PaintTool SAI *(COUGHCOUGHPIRATEDVERSIONCOUGHCOUGH)* But I sometimes use Krita ONLY to edit photos. Even then, Krita is definitely inferior, so I usually use Pixlr to edit photos. FireAlpaca I find is okay, but I guess I'm not used to FA's simplistic design and brushes.
hah, i'm too scared to pirate sai, does it work well?
Look up "VileBile Paint Tool SAI." It should be the first result. And yes, it works amazingly. It even has some custom brushes.
If you want to pirate photoshop a lot of people apparently found this helpful www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/65cnem/is_there_any_way_to_torrentpirate_adobe_photoshop/
ThatOneGingerFromSP i use sai to draw and sai2 to edit bc it has stuff like gradiants and blur tools and a lot of layer settings. i really like working with both versions of sai but i have a bit of a problem with sai2 where my pen pressure stops working completely in it so i prefer to normally draw on sai.
oh i use it too(COUGHCOUGHPIRATEDVERSIONTOOCOUGHCOUGH) Its really easy to use after a little while
I use Firealpaca and I love it. It works very well for me
+legends End your sentence
I mostly use Medibang paint pro for drawing and working on my drawings/paintings (pretty much a free sibling to Firealpaca, though I love Medibang Paint more - but it doesn't have animation mode like firealpaca), while I use Firealpaca for animating (got nothing on my channel though heh).
For some reason though, I feel like I make sketches much more easily in Firealpaca, so that's what I do. I go into Firealpaca and make a sketch, save it as a .mdbp (perhaps it was called something else? It's the program's default sort of file), open it up in Medibang Paint and then do the rest there.
:D
legends, no
Maybe then you are able to tell me why it isn't responding to my pen sometimes? 😅 Are there some settings or anything? (Sorry for the question,I just couldn't find any help center from the program itself,so I figured I might could ask someone who uses it too...)
Same! I used fire alpaca to draw my pfp and all my other drawings!
LavenderTowne's voice soothes like ASMR without the irritating scratching noises.
lol
your right
Krita does have lag issues, but if that is solved, krita is the best program I've ever used. Plus, krita had so many abilities, that it takes a strong computer for it to work.
there are a lot of issues with krita on macos, one of which is it not booting unless you run it from the disk image
Oh geez, this is an old video but i had to comment
I think you said somewhere on firealpaca that a downside is that it doesnt show the size of the brush, like a little circle thing, but theres actually an option to enable that in the "View" section just called "Brush size".
Well since it's the older version now it automatically just shows you the brush and eraser sizes.
Is fire alpaca only on iMac or is it on windows too?
Its for both imac and windows
Ok thanks guys 👌
As a beginner, I’ve had firealpaca for 2 months now. Does anyone recommend a good time to switch to Sai. I know I could really switch anytime, but because Sai is a program that must be paid for, I’m sticking to firealpaca right now because it is free, and it’s the most recommended program for beginners. When do you think I should switch?
for anyone who's going to get firealpaca after this video, the issue lavender had with no size preview can be solved by going into view and hitting brush size, 2 clicks and you have the lil' circle! happy painting!
I actually use Krita and it works really well for me but, I don’t know why it didn’t work for you, it may be that you have to many things on your pc, I use it on an laptop and it works fine. Thanks for reading this comment and have a wonderful day!
mac
nvm
I use it too for animation and drawing, not sure why it didn’t work well for her
MemeCreamIsBestCream yeah I did switch to fire alpaca after this video and it’s good but Crita is still good too
I have the same problems with Krita on my windows so it isn’t a Mac thing.
Me: Wow clip studio paint *realizes its a free trial*
Me 10 minutes later: Ooo Krita *presses download button but doesnt download for some reason*
Me Now: Ooo firealpaca
same
for me it was like ooooo firealpaca- waita minute this wont work
oooo krita hell yeah
I remember when I downloaded Krita , I would to open a canvas, but it would just immediately crash every time. FireAlpaca is my go-to. It's wonderful.
LemonTea *o* Your pc is not good enough, like at least ps runs on my crappy pc with only 8gigs of wham, but pen pressure in photoshop doesnt work for my tablet.
@@_____._..--_ I think the problem is with Krita itself and not the PC. I've had it working sometimes and other times it would not work at all. And I tried it on different PC's as well. Even on mine that can run Photoshop no problem Krita just fails
I am thinking about buying a second hand wacom bamboo450, do you by chance now of firealpaca would work with that?
Punkin Juice okay, Thank you very much! :)
I have a crappy Asus computer and Firealpaca still runs perfectly
I use MS Paint.........
yeaaaaa its..... great
me too mee tooo
Yimmy !!! me too!
paint.net is better...
Yimmy !!! IT IS GREAT JUST PRACTICE!!
The older versions are great for pixel arts imo
Damn it's a shame that Krita didn't work on your Mac, I've got a PC and maybe it just works better on windows? Drawing and editing programs can be real fucky about which one they wanna work on. It's actually a REALLY good program.
Noface 60 my windows laptop has Krita and I couldn’t use it. Maybe it depends on how much storage is left on it? I’ve seen comments about how much storage it uses, and my laptop doesn’t have a lot left.
What're the specs of your laptop?
Krita is on beta for Mac so I'm sure that's part of it.
Noface 60 I sometimes use Krita, but mostly Medibang... and that's just because I don't really know how to work with Krita yet x3
I have a Mac and have no problems at all...
Me who got photoshop for free: I see no god up here
Other than me.
yes everyone who gets ps for free is a god
Everyone with winrar for free is a god.....wait.
how did you get it free?
How
Doesn’t Windows 10 come with Photoshop for free
tbh i don't mind the fire alpaca ad at the start! its usually something art related anyway, and if it keeps the program free i see no problem at all
Sharpay Evans and it also mentions when there is a new update
Just turn off the WiFi. No ad
i bought a new tablet from the firealpaca ad- and im loving it
Same! Like they advertise new illustration/animation programs or updates if the program you currently use is out of date.
Gimp: nice
Firealpaca: interesting and well done
Krita: put this pic at my funeral
Gimp is garbage compere to Krita, sis. -3- (when it works)
•Neko Time• I’ve heard that it works better on Windows
@@hbx.vxq124 idk -3-
As a person who uses Krita. Its wonderful on windows, and I totally recommend if you have a Linux or Windows computer
@@hbx.vxq124 it does work better on windows
Not sure if this would work for you but I found that Fire Alpaca also has a really cool/unique hot key option! On my mac when I hold down 'z' on it's own it turns which ever brush you are using into an eraser! I find this super helpful when doing lineless art because it means my eraser will use the same texture/stroke as the brush i'm using! This is great for those who like to use brushes that resemble crayons, charcoal, pencils, etc. you can turn your custom brushes into an eraser so that what you get rid of isn't jarring!
Ohmygodthankyou for sharing that! I've been using Firealpaca and Medibang Paint (like a free sibling to Firealpaca) for almost 2 years and I've _always_ thought that "Oh... I wish there was some hotkey to turn on using the transparent color with your brush...".
Alwayyysss
For almost 2 years
Gaaah, thank you for sharing this ;w;!!!
haha you're super welcome! It's a hot key i think a lot of people don't know of? I found it by accident when I started using fire alpaca a couple years ago and I cant live without it XD
I accidentally press weird buttons all the time but I've never noticed that! (even though I'm pretty sure I must've pressed Z too at some point, since in some other programs there are special hotkeys for Z and when I swap programs mid-way through my drawing I usually press the hotkeys for the other program!)
Thank youu!
My pen has buttons so I just set one to toggle betwen eraser and brush. It’s a color picker by default, but it’s accessible by holding down ALT so it’s not that big of a deal
:0 i didn't know that! thanks for sharing, that'll help me so much!
Gimp and FireAlpaca's artwork: (beautiful finished art)
Kritas artwork: 👁️👄👁️
Its still better than my 1 hour drawing
Krita in windows is just perfection, Mac is just no
@@ssnekky i`he never tried it on mac
Ur pfp is amazing! Did u draw it or is it someone's fanart?
@@thesupersisters6415 yeah i did, my instagrams @preacherkid_ if you want the full picture :D
Krita works perfectly for me? Maybe try it again since it updated a lot
@@mitsve06
"it was written for Windows"
Huh? If anything it would be written for Linux. The first stable release for windows was 2.8
@Rikka The Second I use it on Mac and it works fine? No lag at all, so I don't understand what are y'all talking about
@Rikka The Second my Krita is also very good on Mac. It only lags to me when I try to record it :(
@Rikka The Second Ask apple for not being an asshole, :)
Do you use Windows? She uses mac so its bad for her.
There is an option on firealpaca that you can turn on a cirle size sample thing on your brush.
Also the color wheel can be changed to the triangle one
Randomguy Senpai really????? I use fire alpaca
David Beck Yeah, its in the colour tab, I think
Problems in krita are from CPU usage. That program eats SO MUTCH memory. Progam itself is so nice but u can't rly paint in high resolutions and in option set your memory use to max. That means that u can't use any other programs in same time bcs they just kills it. Or you need a monster computer that will handle them all.
I don't know if I get what you mean, I use krita and fire alpaca and have used both at the same time before without any problems..?
I mean that krita use much more memory then other programs to draw. It's optymalization is awful. That's why it "lag" so mutch. If you have rly good computer you won't have any problems. But programs that recorde ur pulpit use much memory too, thats why Lawender probably had problems with setting it up.
if she wants to test Krita to it's full use, she might want to not record it and delete other useless programs on there like Gimp if she hasn't already.
Mistri159 my computer is reallu shitty (4gb) but it works fine never had a problem with super lag tbh
its not about ram
me before getting FireAlpaca: *i WaNt PhOtO sHoP*
me afterwards: *ight screw u photoshop, i can draw for free on FireAlpaca which is* 🔥
Yeah, I had a Mac in the past and Krita didn't work there as well. It's fine on PC though. I use Krita and I love it.
on PC.
?
well at least Mac users can use FireAlpaca or MediBang (I'm not a Mac user btw)
medibang is for windows too o:
Mimyoi I know, same with FireAlpaca
I used to use Firealpaca, but recently switched to Medibang. They’re very similar, but I still use Firealpaca for animation.
TheBeastlyPanda 04 yeah I tried medibang, it I swear they were nearly _exactly_ the same. I don't know if you can use onion skin mode on it though
The Wonderful World Of Kenzie it doesn’t have onion skin mode.
TheBeastlyPanda 04 oh okay
They’re made by the same people
scribble potato thats what I thought, but I just think its odd how they're so similar
you should try medibang!
Beef and Cheese that is basically fire alpaca
GodHatesMelanie Yeah but better imo
Beef and Cheese 😑
Beef and Cheese lettuce
Actually firealpaca has more tools than medibang
Krita is great, it's very complete(although not so intuitive to learn). But once you learn it's amazing. It's a open source program, so it had some issues, especially in the past, but the team that works on it is always improving and fixing these issues. The team also regularly post content explaining tools or presenting new features. It even have a recording and animation tool. I had some bugs with it in the past, but all of them are fixed now, at least in my experience. I don't know how it works on Mac tho
Where are all my FireAlpaca frens at??
Yee
Ayy
WhooP whOop
Meep moop here I am
Ariah Mitchell s0rry m8 1 us3 sk3tchb00k
(Calm calm)
If you are the type of person who really uses effects and things in your drawings... Gimp is the best for that and since I animate... Firealpaca is the best for animation.
Does FireAlpaca cost money
Nope! Completely Free!
I use meddibang
Techniwolf Thanks
Techniwolf I'm both
Krita may be lagging because you are recording. This happens to me when I try to record lineart. Otherwise it works fine during the colouring process and when not recording. Such a shame you couldn't do an art piece. I was looking forward to that!
Yea! That happens to me too!
NomGirl that happens to me when I record on firealpaca
NomGirl Krita is also very hungry when it comes to work. But with good computer this program is The best one so far
....hungry?
it crashes for me and i've never recorded ever.
Thank you so much for this, I went through a few different recommendation lists on free art apps as I'm trying to get back into drawing, and while Krita came highly recommended and worked on my machine, I had no clue where or what anything was.
Your list was the first I found that actually went about showing actually using the apps and how easy or problematic they were. So I'm now a fan of FireAlpaca haha ^_^
In FireAlpaca, you can see the size of the brush/eraser by going to View>Brush size. It is weird that it isn't on by default.
Purple Fire 28 When I got it, I thought I deleted all the brushes. Lol
Purple Fire 28 bruh we have the same picture
Medibang is actually pretty good too! My friend uses it a lot and she makes some pretty great art with it! It's free and easy to use/download.
caramelomachiato medibang is firealpaca
caramelomachiato Fire alpaca is the same as medibang just you can make gifs with Fire alpaca
there are more than just that for differences. medibang has a darker and easy on the eyes color scheme like most drawing programs, you can transfer drawings to your mobile devices and vice versa with the cloud, and medibang has much more compatibility with making comics.
Your Wacom drivers are probably out of date. When I first used krita, I got the same results but when I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers from the Wacom website, it worked.
I used it and had the same problem, I have a huion because I’m super poor though.
so I've used Krita on Mac and on Windows, and while I used it on mac when I was using a mouse it did seem to run poorly on the Mac from what I observed, and though my windows computer runs slower generally, it ran krita better than my mac did.
I actually use fire alpaca and you can see and change how much you use the eraser easily and also if you can't tell what the settings are on the side hit tools at the top
Something interesting- you and Draw with Jazza had opposite experiences with Gimp and Krita with your free drawing program videos! His experience went really well with Krita while yours...
Was something.
I just find that pretty interesting after seeing both videos!
havent seen jazzas video so i dont know what hers working off of but im pretty sure krita has trouble working with apple products
Brianna Jenkins ua-cam.com/video/K5NLG4MtJ10/v-deo.html here ya go
@@velvetume8048 Jazza is against Apple.
And Mazda hated fire alpaca while everyone else loves it
Oof that's what I was thinking
Guys the last one was obviously the best
Moon Pool If it was made on a windows pc, then yes I agree. Krita isnt as heavy and demanding like photoshop tho
Moon Pool I know right.
Ikr 😂😂😂
Yee 🦖🦖🦖
*is bothered by her calling it “kr-eh-ta.” when i call it “kreeta”.*
I pronounce it the same way as her. ;-;
I say kreeta too*
My parents say krit-ah
i also say kreeta
I pronounce it 'Critta'
I used krita since I started with digital art and just a few months ago i switched to SAI because krita was getting slower. I don't think it was the program's fault because my laptop is getting old. Currently Krita is also completely unusable for me especially in bigger formats while SAI is still smooooth even in a very high resolution ^^
Sometimes I use fire alpaca too, but only for my animating experiments because it's very good for that purpose! Btw nice video, it's a shame you couldn't try krita, i used to love it!
that also happened to me, It took me a month to figure out how to fix it.
what I did was go to settings>configure krita>display>renderer then changed what it used to render
hope this helps
Krita is definitely a large program now that it has an animation function and whatnot, so that was probably the main problem. It truly depends on your laptop's RAM to see how much it can work up to. Especially if you run music and whatnot in the background. This cruddy desktop only has 6GB of RAM, so when I have Krita, Chrome, and Discord all working, it gets just a bit laggy and slow and sometimes my computer even gives me warnings to close it since it's using quite a bit of RAM
Damn, your art is good
anyone notice how drawwithjazza's rating were the exact opposite
different ppl, different way of drawing.
different opinions, really.
Lacey Jacobson i agree :)
I think its mostly just different computers.
I just want to say, that in fire alpaca there is a choice to show the size of your brush
It's View> Brush Size right?
I love FireAlpaca. I've been using it for a while and wouldn't think of changing to a different program since this one is free and easy.
I use medibang, it works wonders
medibang is basically firealpaca (its made by the same people) the only differences is that medibang has a dark theme and has more manga options
medibang and firealpaca are litrally the same program but ones more for comics
Yeah some people say that it works better/more smoothly than firealpaca, but it really depends on what you’re trying to do. Medibang is more suited for comics/manga while FireAlpaca is better for simple animations. But using both for illustration is really a matter of opinion.
That on phone
I use Ibis Paint X
I really enjoy using Medibang Paint! It's very close to Photoshop look and performance wise. There is the ad in the beginning but that is really minor. It has a cloud save so if you don't have enough room on your computer or work on different devices, you can put it in the cloud and take it everywhere. I honestly can't recommend this program enough for beginning artists! I've used it for a year now to make illustrations and comic pages! If you can, please give it a try! Plus it's free!
FangirlAwesome I agree with you. I’ve been using it for a year since I got my drawing tablet and it’s honestly really good. While FireAlpaca is from the same company, I’ve found that Medibang is better for the soul reason that it’s not as slow. I sometimes get small lag spike but that because my laptop isn’t built for multimedia stuff. You can make really good art after adding both custom and cloud brushes.
FangirlAwesome I love that software BUT I can’t figure out how to adjust brush pressure??
I didn't know you could change the brush pressure? I recently bought a wacom tablet with pen pressure and it does it for me, but before then I never knew how how and it was always a bit frustrating
FangirlAwesome SAME, i use medibang paint too :D
I adore medibang paint!! I use it on my ipad pro as it's the closest thing to photoshop and it's really amazing!!
MedibangPaint Pro and Autodesk Sketchbook are really good once you get the hang of it! Though, I prefer MedibangPaint for PC, and Sketchbook for mobile
Stormie Snazz ibis paint x is good for mobile!!
Ibispaintx
Kyottoko Shiroko张琪琪 so? We all have a phone or iPad so it’s very accessible
To be honest, I really dislike IbisPaint X. It's good for new digital artists, but since it doesn't even have correction, it's not for me.
Oh. I use medibang on my pc and IbisPaint X on my dads ipad pro with an apple pencil.
HOLY SHET I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE PIXLE SETTING FOR FIREALPACA. THANK YOU SO MUCH IT WILL SAVE SO MUCH OF MY TIME. I NEED TO DRAW ASAP
Ms Paint for life
Agreed.
I used to use it often because I had nothing else at the time and even rental school computers came with it.
I'd use the shape making tool to make planets and the curving line took to make space ships.
It's not art I'd post now, but it was art I'd make my desktop backdrop often.
oof that sentence hurts me (n0o offenseee)
Yes
@@snuzly yes
I use
Krita
And
FireAlpaca :D
We Know that your name is We Know
We Know Me too!
We Know krita is the worst
no shit sherlock. I just use it because its free.
Also your art isn't much better
Nobody judge me but the programs i use are roblox free draw and my sketch book
omfg god people chill down there is nothing wrong with using roblox and i much prefer roblox over other drawings programs im looking at you synflwr
Okay edit 2 I guess I don't use roblox anymore I have quit roblox I don't use it anymore OKAY SO CHILL THE FUCK DOWN
I'm judging you very hard. ROBLOX? You're drawing in a friggin' game when you can download fireplace quickly and easily? Also, it's not a bad thing to use a sketchbook, not everyone has to do digital art, you can choose what you prefer.
Isn't it really hard to draw in ROBLOX?
HAHAHA HAHAHA that's so sad ;-;
Tbh people do some pretty good art on roblox XD
@@Just_Chara yeah
thank you for taking your time in testing all this .because i really needed this video
I have been using Krita for at least a year, and it's working just fine. I don't understand why you couldn't use it. I'm thinking about downloading Fire Alpaca because of how nice the ink pen looks, but it looks really complicated. I'm sticking to Krita for now.
UPDATE: I downloaded FireAlpaca and it's not complicated at all! The lines are very smooth and I like it a lot. I still use Krita for some fancy effects, since FA doesn't have as many. Thank you all for your replies! :)
same.. But i think i will try with Fire Alpaca today
Its not actually too complicated ^^ I use it myself and everythings pretty easy to find. The layout is super customizable too!
FireAlpaca is actually really simple, but I prefer Krita
firealpaca is actually pretty simple once you have a play around on it! but i'm used to sai so maybe it was different for me ;w;
Kates Fantasies im a loyal fireaplaca user but i downloaded krita because of the positive review and it did the same laggy thing as it did in this video i wanted to actually use it sucks;_; if anyone knows a way to fix it plis help
firealpaca is great because It has onionskin mode :> animating is really fun in firealpaca
Yeah!
I think that u can animate on krita too
@@aconiteflower1430 you can!
Wait you can animate on fireplace!!!?
@@Taesune yeah, I forgot hot to exactly, but you can turn on onionskin to animate
On fire alpaca, you can actually get a brush size thing .
(Yay to fire alpaca for getting an awesome review!)
I got a drawing tablet today and this helped so much! I’m just starting to do proper drawings on laptops and am not able to pay for a proper software and I was already thinking of using FireAlpaca, but this helped me properly decide! ^^
Ah, thank you! I’ve been looking for a free program, So This Is Really Helpful :D
Haha, No. I recommend FireAlpaca :D I use it and I use the app Medibang on my iPad
HIGHLY recommend firealpaca. It’s very simple and easy to get into. There are also some great tutorials, check out LeslieLu Marie’s firealpaca tutorials on UA-cam.
I'd recommend Krita, even though for whatever reason it didn't work in this video, it works great for me. I used to use firealpaca and i'd say that's definitely also a great program, but I prefer Krita.
Me too! I was debating between FireAlpaca and Krita. (Obviously I'm going to get FireAlpaca after seeing this haha)
Haha, No. Krita is actually *really* good, unfortunately she couldn't use it for some reason
I've been using Fire Alpaca for maybe a year now
I've always had a problem with those lines until now because I NEVER noticed that thing at the top. Glad I checked this video out when the problem started to really annoy me.
Welp... I use only krita ಠಠ
AvA-Ria no worries mah dude even I use krita :3
I have been using Krita for a bit.. It can be nice for some sketching
OMG SENPAI I FOUND YOU 0W0
I am so sorry XD
Who the hell is your senpai ._.
Why must you even have a senpai .-.
3:29, when I get white lines, on the layer where I got the white lines, let's say I drew a skirt, I select the outside of the skirt and make a new layer, draw over the selection in a new layer and put the new layer underneath the skirt so it looks like there are no white lines and merge.
About not being able to see the brush size in Firealpaca, if you go into the top bar that says view, you can select "brush size" so you can see the circle while you're drawing.
Krita by far is the best, I prefer it over PS. Ive used both of the other programs in the past and they are really limiting. I have no idea how yours got so messed up.
Yes. Thank you.
Krita confuses me the frick out, It's so confusing. How do you do it😣
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@@thatgaycousin9129 Krita works for me on Mac
@@thatgaycousin9129 I have a mac and it works fine.
Hey dude, for krita the weird problem you’re having is because you probably have “opengl” on! If you uncheck the box in the settings it should get rid of the lag problem! Krita is a great program, so please give it another chance!
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On gimp you have a few ways around the line.
The easiest one I have found is selecting the area you want with the wand tool and then use the grow function for 1-2 pixels.
Make a new layer under the line art and use the bucket fill there.
Fill in any gaps with the pen.
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Hi pinkie pie
In firealpaca you can set the little circle thing to show what your gonna draw and erase,
if you've been working with firealpaca for a long time, you won't really like krita. I can tell you that.
When I began digital art, I used krita. I used it for about 6 months until switching to firealpaca, and when I did I IMMEDIATELY fell in love with it. I recently came back to krita to see if maybe i could try it out again, and it still sucked. Plus, no matter how much I tried in those 6 months, I didn't improve a single bit besides for less shaky lines.
Why are you trying to start an argument with me? It seems like you're really trying to and I never intended to start anything in the first place. I personally think FireAlpaca is better for cartoons and simple but powerful tools, which I never found in krita. That's the most basic way I can explain it.
Yes, I know my opinion is probably biased because I'm purely a cartoonist. Again, I used it for a long time and I knew a lot of the features that COULD actually be useful to a lot of you. But, in my opinion, if you're looking to draw cartoons you should look somewhere else.
Also, the biggest turn off in the whole thing is that they haven't gotten around to fixing those white dots around the lines when using paint bucket to color is probably the biggest downside. Even then, if there IS a way, it should be way more obvious instead of being something that'd you never find on your own.
"like if i were to not play around in krita, then i would agree, but if you start opening up windows, and try seeing what different menus do, you probably have all your problems solved. but if i were to use fire alpaca, i would not know what any of the menus do, or any thing at all infact." You literally just said that you're pretty much too lazy to figure out FireAlpaca. Your argument that you don't need to play around with the program is pretty damn invalid, as the most you've said is "i'll play around with krita but, firealpaca? ewww nah". You DO need to play with it to actually make something good, and same goes for krita. In general, your argument is... really all over the place. The only parts that I can *exactly* understand what you mean is the first paragraph and the last two paragraphs (not including the clone tool comment).
Again, your whole "i would explore and play with krita to fix my problems" argument is again invalid. All you really put off is "i like krita and if explore you win but firealpaca? nuh uh girlfren (lol im secretly 2 laz...y. xd)". You NEED to play around with FireAlpaca to understand why people like it and just prefer it in general.
And a side note, krita is much harder to figure out and understand than FireAlpaca. Everyone I know who uses it agrees with that, and if someone who uses photoshop (a complex as hell program, much more to offer than krita and firealpaca combined) for art can't figure it out at all then... I dunno.
jesus i was just saying something you could do in firealpaca how did i start this-
lol
6:42 if you go into view (it is at the top of your screen and is beside color and tool) in firealpaca, there is a tab above comic guide lines (that is inside the view tab) that says brush size, if u click on it, the brush size will appear :)
okay- the krita drawing... i was closing myy eyees because of how hard i was laughing and when i opened them i again i just- I COULDN'T BREATHE
I am glad that you asked if something was wrong with krita when you were using it but does take a long time to figure out and it can be super fun with the variety of brushes! One problem when you were using Krita the brush was very thick and I think that if you made the brush thinner it would have made your art work out the way you wanted it to. You were also using the default brush if you had switched brushes your art would be very nice in Krita! This is coming from someone who has used Krita a lot! It would be very nice if you made a video about trying Krita again! I hope you have a great day! I hope that you can make a separate review on Krita! And I hope it doesn't lag. Sorry for about no periods. and repeating things.
The issue I have with Krita is that the larger your brush size, the blurrier the lines. And cuz I have never been able to get the fill tool to work, it always annoyed me that I would have to do a tiny outline of the part I want to colour that was like, 2 pixels large, before I could fill it in with a larger brush.
3:07
I honestly used Gimp for a while and this brush was making me laugh so hard XD
Im so glad FireAlpaca has gotten such a positive review! Its a lovely program, if not a bit odd.
Sorry for the semi-unrelated questions, but have you ever used Clip Studio Paint? If so, how would you rank it?
Also, what video editor do you use? I've been trying to find one thats free due to my lack of money. I wanna be able to edit some speedpaints of mine!
Thank you for your time!
Well I have used the free trial of Clip Studio Paint and I'm gonna be honest. I'm happy with Medibang and/or Firealpaca right now. Hear me out before you get your pitchforks. Clip Studio Paint looks promising. Lots of features, an animation feature. Even a line tool like how you use in SAI. However...The wand tool is not that good. The line tools are wonky and good luck trying to shade. The blur tool does not work like the blurs in Firealpaca or Medibang. It would just end up looking very messy. The layout is not as professional as I hoped it would be and while it does offer patterns like lace and comic features, your drawing will not be as you hoped unless you have the serial number. My advice is you can just use what I mentioned or get programs like Gimp, Paint Tool Sai (around like 25 bucks and 2.0 offers text. Finally. But I don't recommend getting the program because it's popular. Use it for your preferences), MyPaint, Corel Paint or even Photoshop. I would rank the free trial of Clip Studio paint 2 out of 5 but if you can tell me how good the real deal is I'll give it a go
Princess Spirit Quartz I have the full version of Clip studio paint. I really like the program. It has a lot of different brushes and tools that can give really cool effects in your art.
Vaudsnitchy A screen recording program that doubles as an editing software is iSpring Free Cam 8. A good editing program that includes so many effects is Hitfilm Express.
A good screen recorder is OBS + if you wanted to you could stream with it!
Sorry for the late response. And how would you rank it because clearly I'm doing something wrong. And Firealpaca is great. Strong program and all. Mild complaint is the wand tool
I loved how she could tell her opinions without begin rude ✨✨👌
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There's an option called "threshold" with the paint bucket tool. You likely had it on 1 or a low number. This is so that it can fill in blurred lines without leaving behind said white lines.
The trick for coloring with this program is to fuzzy-select the area to color, grow the selection so it passes the lines, then fill with the color of choice.
There is a "one-window" mode for Gimp
where?
I don't remember exactly since it's been a long time since I've used Gimp, but if I'm correct, next to filters (on top of the drawing window) there is a window panel you can open, this option should be here
It's under "Windows -> Single-Window Mode" on Mac.
but I have a pc
it should be the same on PC
I love your videos! They make me so happy and I look forward to them every week! Keep making great content! :)
This video introduced me to firealpaca which is my favourite program for drawing now!