My top recommendation is ArtRage by Ambient Design. There are numerous versions to buy, but I recommend buying ARTRAGE STUDIO PRO because it has the most features. Download the free trial of ArtRage Studio Pro Demo for 30 days at the OFFICIAL ArtRage website.
* ArtRage is easy to use. You do not have to learn complex digital tools!
* ArtRage Studio Pro has the feature REAL COLOR BLENDING on the canvas, that you can turn on or off. (Example: Lay down blue paint on the digital canvas. Lay down yellow paint on top of the blue paint, and it will blend together creating green paint).
* Includes a variety of drawing and painting mediums
* The painting mediums look like REAL PAINT. You can also apply the paint thin or thick.
* Can turn each color into a METALLIC color, resembling gold, silver, and all the other colors
* In order to learn how to use the program, you will need to read the MANUAL. Go to the drive where the program was installed (usually its the C:/ drive and the main folder is called AMBIENT DESIGN). Open the Ambient Design folder and click on the folder called RESOURCES (or it could be in the folder called MANUALS). Open the file called ARTRAGE 3 MANUAL. Be sure not to delete any of the files located in the Ambient Design/ArtRage folder because these are the files that were downloaded on your computer to activate the program!
Here is a list of other digital art software programs that are used for drawing and painting on the computer. Some of these programs are 100% Free while others offer a Free Trial to see if you like it before buying it. Some of these programs are easy to learn while others are more complex.
1. Adobe Photoshop by Adobe Systems Inc.
2. ArtRage by Ambient Design Ltd
3. Artweaver by Boris Eyrich Software
4. Autodesk Sketchbook Pro by Autodesk Inc
5. ChibiPaint
6. Color It! by Digimage Arts
7. Corel Painter 12 by Corel Corporation
8. Corel Painter Essentials by Corel Corporation
9. DrawPlus by Serif.
10. Gimp by The Gimp Team
11. Flame Painter by Escape Motions (Peter Blaskovic)
12. Krita by Krita
13. Microsoft Paint by Microsoft Corporation
14. MyPaint by InTiLinux
15. NeoPaint by NeoSoft Corp.
16. OpenCanvas by PGN Corp. (PortalGraphics.Net)
17. Paint.net by dotPDN LLC
18. Paint Tool Sai by Systemax Inc.
19. Paintbrush Sourceforge by Soggy Waffles
20. Pixia by Isao Maruoka
21. PostworkShop by Xycod
22. Project Dogwaffle by Daz 3D
23. Queeky by Queeky
24. SmoothDraw
25. Sumo Paint by Sumo Ltd.
26. Tux Paint by Bill Kendrick
27. TwistedBrush by Pixarra Inc.
28. Ultimate Paint by J-T-L Development
29. Wizardbrush by Eusoftware Co. Ltd.