#seriously fuck that program just because something looks fancier does not mean its easier

[blackwaxidol]

PaintTool Sai has always struck me as a notoriously user-unfriendly art program and i deeply struggle to try using it but for years i was convinced that it was the only program that could help me do “professional” art. this is simply NOT TRUE.

i use Medibang Paint Pro instead! the interface is in a grey-black so it doesn’t hurt my eyes, and all of the tooltips are very easy to see and customise! when you open the program, you can have a mini menu that shows all the latest user-made tutorials (i really recommend them!) for medibang and you can save your art to the cloud if you have an account, the program even lets you know when there’s an update available!

you can download hundreds of new brushes with the add new brush menu and browse for a very long time! there’s a brush called Gingko and it has leaf-patterns which is very good for foliage! the layout is simple and very comprehensive, there is a lack of “mysterious buttons” and most are labelled with a hover prompt. you can easily access filters like gaussian blur via the tooltips above, and you can choose to hide certain parts of the screen that you don’t like. despite the name “pro”, you don’t need to pay anything for it! it’s genuinely one of the nicest user programs i’ve ever used and it’s very community based too!