So far i think this is by far the best alternative to paying for photoshop or illustrator, the UI is extremely user friendly so your able to learn how to use all the tools quite quickly. I do not own a art tablet so I have been using my mouse and changing my dpi settings to make it more managable, using this program with a mouse only has been quite a pleasant experiance. There are a vast range of options for each brush to be customised so if you fiddle around a bit with some trial and error you can get the brush to the perfect setting fairly easily. Overall I would give Art rage 4 a solid 9/10, I strongly reccomend this for people who want the same quality of digital painting as photoshop but want the cheaper one time purchase alternative.

my hours logged with steam aren't accurate since I launch this program on it's own.

I'll keep this short.

Like all creative software no two are alike, the interface might take some getting used to but stick with it. For a program to replicate real medium like oils, watercolours, ink etc. at this price is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ amazing. the more accustomed I become to it, the more I steer away from Photoshop and Painter. My only rub is the reference function kinda useless for it's size, much rather open reference images in a picture viewer on a second monitor. but it's not a deal breaker.

Fully recommend this small piece of software. The download is small but the image and art making is priceless. Works fine using just mouse and pc (windows 7). Saves and exports with ease.
If your an artist want to be & or a upcoming or well known artist, or your a kid at heart, you will find alot of fun here.
Was amazed at the life likeness of the oil paints, how well they blended using the palette knife, and lots more.
Art Rage 4 , Rocks, paper and paints.

NOTE ; to make steam count time just enable beta, via properties folder (right click)

excellent painting app for oils - with very good UI that does not clutter the screen and you can focus, also works good in Mac.


as someone who painted a lot with Oils i can say it feels very close, mixing color and thinners, it's very fun and gives you abilities that photoshop or clipart pro does not, similar to coral but coral is bad imo. i used their painter essentials and it was half as good as ArtRage.


GG devs, waiting to upgrad to 5.

It is a good little drawing program.
It takes a bit of time starting up, but even amatures like me can paint with realistic effects and patterns.

I got it once it was on sale for 30 bucks and I have not regretted it.

Play time weirdly does not represent how long I have used it, I think it confused hours with minutes, or it cuts off a few seconds after starting it up. But that all is steam's fault.

This program is a watered down corel painter, interface is bright and fun to work in, however some of that bling can be distracting in doing your project. but is quite nice if your using a direct draw ddisplay like cintique or XP pen. Textured pallets are a default and you have to know to switch to a cell paper to have no simulated paper grain, like drawing over a low res texture bumpy road and makes everything look terrible.

The impasto effects of real life paint is not well laid out well in digital enviorments and is repititious in characteristics seen in individual brush stroke, also it leaving a derpy goopy look to your paintings. water color isnt horrible, but its flooding brush stokes hard to control flow.

digital inking is probably the programs stronger feature, slings out real ink effects quite nicley! however the low resolution requires you to throw a gassian blur over it to hide the stair stepping.


good luck using the stencils that basically work like masks but are actual plastic stencils like from a ruler set IRL. but try to mask an area and use a brush larger than the stencilit will paint outside the stencil's border like in real life, and no setting to block surrounding areas off.

The icons for the brushes dont do the actual effects of the brushstrokes. The resolution of the brush engine is still old, while you can increse the size of the image, and the overall dpi all you want to but the brushes themselves will still draw in like a 800x600 grid resolution revealing stairstepped edges in most all brush strokes, and developers added a filter to disguise it, becuase its outdated software reperpoused to utilize a 64 bit enviorment. and dont buy the android version becuase they butchered it down from this version that worked awesome on android then they took features away to keep it dumbed down from the normal program.

Great drawing application!

Thank God for a painting app that works well on the Macintosh platform. 6 stars out of 5!

Wow! What a programme. Art Rage was recommended to me by a professional artist who works with both digital and conventional mediums I don't regret this purchase one bit. Worked out of the box with my Huion tablet.

It is the closest to real painting I've found in any art package. My pictures might still be rubbish, but my art-materials bill is zero. Definitely best with graphics tablets rather than a mouse. Supports photoshop images, multiple layers, tracing (with or without auto colour), a full and detailed manual, and its so easy to use. Plus a huge community on the official site and plenty of free resources (brushes etc).If that isn't enough, you can import Photoshop brushes although I have not yet tried this yet.

I'm no artist, and not familiar with art programmes, so I tried everything i could get my hands on. Happily the other two contenders are free anyway, Krita and Howler-8 particularly for Howler's particle brushes (downside = no layers), and Krita's nice brush stabiliser (Krita is a Gimp based programme and 10 years into development) but for pure painting Art Rage is the one to buy. There is a FREE DEMO available.

*note that a lot of people appear to have low hours in Art Rage but this is because the app stopped clocking steam hours for most users some time ago

Very intuitive and easy to work with, especially when used with a graphics tablet.