Krita vs Sketchbook?

[wburton]

Krita is nice but how does it compare to something like Sketchbook Pro/ Express?

[xyzt]

The flavors of Sketchbook are night and day. The under $100 versions have Copic colors, which is nice. On android tablets, Sketchbook has direct uploading to deviant art accounts, something which is not always easy to do using other ways. The over $100 dollar version is made for interfacing with other Autodesk Design Suite software.

Assuming you mean the under $100 version, I'm going to say it's a matter of taste. Krita does a mountain of functionality that sketchbook does not do, but sometimes it comes down to user interface or speed or social art. Function wise, Krita wins. User interface wise, ArtRage wins. Speed is relative to your system, though on my system nothing opens faster than OpenCanvas 5.5. The Social art win is most definitely portalgraphics.net/pg , which is opencanvas(but it's in japanese, bummer).

The short answer to your question is, you have copic colors in Sketchbook though you can do more in Krita.

[wburton]

What about brushes? Autodesk says that Sketchbook brushes are made to simulate realistic brushes with your tablet. Does Krita have that realistic painting feel?

[Spock]

Originally posted by wburton72:

What about brushes? Autodesk says that Sketchbook brushes are made to simulate realistic brushes with your tablet. Does Krita have that realistic painting feel?

Sketchbook is pretty good. Krita is a better program with a lot more features. Sketchbook is easier to learn. As far as realistic painting feel they are very similar. If you want them both.. Krita is open source and is free... as of right now the only difference between the paid version and free is the paid version has touch support(could be wrong been a while since I looked into the differences). So if your not worried about touch you can buy sketchbook and download krita for free. But supporting the devs is always a cool thing to do as it allows them to make a great program even greater. And devs please chime in if I'm under selling the current version of Gemini vs the free version.

If you want realistic painting feel go with Artrage. Its an absolutely killer painting program that is designed from the ground up to be a realistic paint program. It simulates watercolor better than any painting software period.. Even Corel painter doesnt come close to it (you can google it). Although it does non realistic very well also (by non realistic I mean photoshop, krita, sketchbook style digital painting). Although the custom brush system in Artrage isn't quite as good as the others mentioned. But it is still good. Artrage will not disappoint and is by far the easiest to learn and work with. As the UI was designed from the ground up to be extremely easy to learn and it is.

If you go with Sketchbook.. go with Pro. Express is a very limited version of Pro. You dont get the Copic colors, you only get a few brushes and you dont have access to make your own brushes.. Sketchbook Pro is far far greater than Sketchbook Express...infact Express isnt even worth mentioning next to Krita, Artrage, or any other good paint program.

But they are all great programs it just depends on you and what you want to do.