IN this review presents the best computer drawing programs for experienced artists and ordinary users. The diverse functionality of the applications allows you to draw portraits, landscapes, comics or create design designs. A wide variety of tools, processing effects and modes will allow you to create a unique masterpiece.

Our selection of free drawing programs will help you get acquainted with the capabilities of each software and choose the best one.

Programs	Russian language	License	Plugins	Rating	Purpose
	Yes	Free	Yes	10	Amateur
	Yes	Free	No	10	Amateur
	Yes	Free	Yes	8	Amateur
	Yes	Free	Yes	8	Amateur
	Yes	Free	Yes	8	Amateur
	Yes	Free	Yes	10	Amateur
	Yes	Free	Yes	9	Pro
	Yes	Free	Yes	8	Amateur
	Yes	Free	No	6	Amateur
	Yes	Free	Yes	8	Pro

GIMP - free editor for creating screen and web graphics, high-quality processing and rendering with large set instruments and various effects. The application supports all popular formats, has batch processing and works with layers. The interface is multi-window and customizable for the user.

PicPick – free application to create screenshots by capturing the screen and further editing it. Using the “scrolling” function, you can create a screenshot of web pages and documents in the form of a single image. The software has a Russian-language interface and a wide selection of editing tools.

Paint.NET is a free application that functions as a graphics editor with the ability to work with layers, noise reduction, stylization and artistic processing. The main options of the program are focused on working with photo editing and vector graphics.

Inkscape is a free graphics utility for creating vector technical drawings with a set of tools for easy and fast editing. It runs on a custom engine, exports and imports into various graphics formats, opens and saves in gzip compressed format, and also has a multilingual menu.

PaintTool SAI is a free application for creating beautiful digital paintings and high-quality illustrations using a variety of tools and effects. The utility works with an unlimited number of layers, edits files of various formats and saves them in its own “.sai”. Implemented work with a graphics tablet.

Krita is a free program that allows you to create, process and adjust raster graphics using large set tools and filters. The cross-platform utility simulates canvas material, emulates real tools and supports photo import.

Adobe Photoshop is a popular, powerful utility for high-quality editing and working with photos and images using a wide range of tools. The graphics editor supports various modes and layers, adds effects and text entries, creates raster graphics, while having a clear interface.

Popular free drawing program designed for children. Therefore, if you have noticed your child’s artistic talent, we recommend downloading Tux Paint for free in Russian and introducing your child to an exciting and useful computer program. Let us note right away that it is intended for an audience from 3 to 12 years old.

This graphics editor was originally created for Linux, and later modified for Windows 7, Windows 8 and other OS versions, as well as for Apple Mac OS X and BeOS.

Since Tux Paint is for young children, its interface is as simple and clear as possible. In addition, it has been translated into many languages.

What will Tux Paint offer you?

Before installing Tux Paint, let's talk about what commands the editor executes:

1. Saves the drawn object.
2. Opens a saved drawing.
3. Creates slideshows from drawings, presentations and simple animations.
4. Transfers the material to the printer for printing.
5. Supports SVG (vector graphics).
6. Offers coloring pictures.
7. Allows you to draw between the foreground and background.

Set of tools

Tux Paint can be launched in full screen mode - landscape or portrait, at your discretion. The canvas size is standard. All processes are accompanied by funny sounds, and tips from the assistant help the child quickly and cheerfully master Tux Paint.

Drawing with such a tool will become a truly exciting experience, because there are so many possibilities:

• Various brushes, paints and your own palette.
• A variety of stamps, scaling functions, the ability to add text or sound.
• Full color raster graphics.
• Lines drawn by the mouse.
• Forms for drawing polygonal shapes with the ability to paint.
• Changeable fonts and labels for text use.
• Various filters to decorate your drawings.

While you are learning to draw in , don’t be too lazy to download Tux Paint with stamps onto your computer for your child too, because learning together is more fun!

A colorful collection of templates, wonderful sound, and many simple and useful functions will transform your child’s leisure time. Hurry up to update the latest version.

Greetings to all!

If earlier, to draw a picture, you needed a brush, an easel, paints, etc., but now you can create without leaving the computer! Moreover, I would like to note that paintings created in some editor on a computer also cause great delight (as if it were a painting on canvas)!

I will add that many people mistakenly believe that drawing a picture on a computer is easier than on canvas. Moving your cursor (or even drawing with a graphics tablet) is no easier or faster!

Actually, this article is dedicated to tools - to draw a picture, you need special programs for drawing (note: graphic editors). These will be discussed below (by the way, I’ll add that I chose free programs that support all popular Windows: 7, 8, 10 (32|64 bits)) . So...

By the way!I have another article on drawing on my blog. There is a special sites that allow you to create paintings online, meet other artists, and find common ideas. For more information, see this article:

List of the best programs. Let's start drawing?

Before moving on to the programs, I would like to dwell on one important issue - the type computer graphics. In general, there are two main types - vector and raster graphics.

Raster drawing is a canvas on which there are many multi-colored dots (pixels). Together, all these points look to the human eye like some kind of picture (or photo).

Vector drawing consists of entities: line, segment, square, ellipse, etc., which are all interconnected. All these entities also form a wide variety of pictures.

The main advantage of a vector drawing over a raster one is the ability to transform it in any way (for example, enlarge it) without losing quality. The computer, in fact, only needs to recalculate your picture according to the mat. formulas.

Raster graphics are convenient for creating high-quality photos and digital drawings. The most popular raster image formats are JPEG and PNG. It is raster graphics that are most popular in our time (and that is why in my article the main focus is on programs for working with it).

Vector editors in the article: Gravit, DrawPlus, Inkscape.

Raster editors in the article: Paint, Gimp, ArtWeaver and others...

Paint

Raster editor

Basic program in Windows

How to start: find it in the START menu, or press the Win+R buttons, enter the mspaint command in the open line and press Enter.

A very simple graphic editor, designed not even for drawing, but for easily editing pictures (add an inscription, an arrow, erase something, cut out one piece of the picture and paste it into another, save the screenshot taken, etc.).

Professionally, of course, you can hardly draw anything in Paint, but if we are talking about some very simple drawings, then the program can be used. By at least, if you are just at the very beginning of your journey, then why not try? ☺

Gimp

Raster editor (partly vector)

The GNU Image Manipulation Program (or GIMP for short) is a very powerful, free and multi-purpose graphics editor. This editor is very multifunctional: it can be used for drawing, or as a program for retouching digital photos, as a program for processing a package of pictures and publishing them (+ converting one format to another).

In addition, there are very interesting opportunities for creating step-by-step commands (scripts) that will automate routine tasks (and the scripts can be truly complex)!

Main advantages:

• drawing pictures and posters;
• support for graphics tablets (Wacom, Genius, etc.);
• draw web designs for sites, edit ready-made layouts from Photoshop;
• you can refresh your old photos, make them more juicy and vibrant;
• or poster;
• remove unnecessary elements from photos (a bad photo can become a good one!);
• a huge collection of plugins for GIMP will allow you to solve a wide variety of problems;
• The program supports Windows, Mac, Linux operating systems.

ArtWeaver

Raster editor (some analogue of Photoshop)

This program replicates many of the tools of such a popular editor as Adobe Photoshop. For editing ready-made pictures and drawing new ones, there are a bunch of ready-made brushes of all types and sizes, different modes, imitation pencil, ink pen, oil brush, etc.

Main advantages:

• support for all popular graphic formats: GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG (including PSD and AWD);
• a huge number of tools for editing pictures: gradients, selections, filling, etc.;
• plugin support;
• availability of convenient drawing tools: brushes, pencils, etc.;
• graphics tablet support (BIG plus for those who like to draw);
• many different filters: spot, blur, mosaic, mask, etc.;
• working with text layers;
• the ability to sequentially cancel your actions.
• support for all popular versions of Windows.

MyPaint

Raster editor

MyPaint - painted portrait of a girl

A popular raster graphics editor designed more for digital artists (those who like to draw). It is an unlimited canvas (sheet) and a relatively simple interface on GTK+, without distracting the artist from the creative process - drawing.

Unlike Gimp, MyPaint has much less graph functionality. editor, but for your attention a huge dimensionless canvas; a large number of brushes, for a variety of tasks and for different functions (there are a lot of brushes, see the screenshot above).

MyPaint is a tool for painting with brushes on your PC screen almost as if you were doing it on a real canvas. In addition to brushes, there are: crayons, charcoal, pencils, etc. It's hard to resist if you have a craving for drawing...

Main features:

• the program is specifically designed for drawing, so it has fewer options for editing existing pictures (i.e., there are no functions such as selection, scaling, etc.);
• a huge set of brushes that you can customize for yourself: create and change groups, blur, mix colors, etc.;
• the program supports Graphics tablet;
• the boundless canvas is very convenient in the drawing process - nothing is holding you back while creating;
• support for layers: copying, pasting, adjusting transparency, etc.;
• Windows, Mac OS, Linux supported.

SmoothDraw

Raster

A free program for painting and those who like to draw by hand on a computer. The program's interface is very simple, designed so that any artist who has just started can immediately start creating without wasting time studying.

I would like to immediately note that the program has a lot of brushes (pen, brush, airbrush, pencil, etc.), there are tools for retouching, working with layers, you can change the brightness, contrast, colors of pictures, add some effects .

Program features:

• many types of brushes for drawing: pencil, chalk, pen, airbrush, brush, spray, etc.;
• works with tablet PCs, supports graphics tablets;
• works with the following image formats: PNG, BMP, JPEG, JPG, TGA, JIF, GIF and TIFF;
• there are tools for photo retouching;
• working with layers;
• possibility of color correction;
• Compatible with Windows 7, 8, 10.

Note! For SmoothDraw to work, you must have NET Framework no lower than version v2.0.

Paint.NET

Raster

Paint.NET is a free picture and photo editor for Windows. The main difference from other programs is that it uses an intuitive and innovative interface with support for layers, a dimensionless canvas, special effects, useful and powerful editing tools (analogues of which are only available in paid products).

Active and growing online support will help in solving non-standard problems. In addition, quite a lot of instructions have been written for the program, additional ones. plugins to expand capabilities.

Peculiarities:

• free to distribute and use;
• user-friendly interface (somewhat similar to Photoshop);
• you can work with many documents at the same time;
• support for working with layers;
• a large number of instructions;
• the program is optimized to work with 2 and 4 core modern processors;
• Supported by all popular Windows: XP, 7, 8, 10.

Livebrush

Raster

Livebrush(translated from English as “live brush”) is a powerful graphic editor that allows you to paint with brushes. Moreover, I would like to immediately note that the “drawing tool” is not a simple one, with its help you can create quite interesting pictures, decorate the art with beautiful strokes and lines, etc.

As you work, you can select and adjust the brush so that as you move it, the line under the brush will change its thickness, color, transparency, tip rotation, depending on your mouse movement speed, pressing speed, etc.

By the way, those who have a graphics tablet will be able to fully experience the benefits of Livebrush, because it also understands the force of pressure and its inclination.

The program's set includes many brushes of different shapes: from simple lines to patterned Gothic ornaments. By the way, you can correct any pattern yourself by switching to editing with a pencil.

In addition, you can draw the pattern yourself and save it as a template. You can import ready-made sets of brushes, projects, and decorations into the program. By the way, they can be found in huge quantities on the official forum of the program.

In general, my verdict is that the program is very convenient, interesting, and deserves the attention of all drawing lovers!

Inkscape

Vector editor (one of the few)

Free analogues: Gravit, DrawPlus

Paid analogues: Corel DRAW and Adobe Illustrator

Inkscape - free vector editor, one of the few who can partially replace such monsters as Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator. The application has a fairly standard interface: color palette, menu, tools. The program supports all major graphic formats: SVG, PDF, AI, PS, EPS, CorelDRAW.

By the way, Inkscape also has tools from the raster editor - for example, it supports various types of blending. In addition to drawing some geometric shapes, the program supports extensive work with text: you can write text along curved lines. It looks very cool and unusual.

The application has a fairly large number of filters, extensions, etc. All this is available at the office. program website.

Gravit

Vector editor (online version)

Gravit- quite an interesting vector editor. Of course, it cannot replace Adobe Illustrator, but it can compete with the previous program (Inkscape).

The tools include all the most basic things: pens, lines, intersection and cutting of shapes from each other, alignment, layers, fonts, etc. Works can be exported to SVG format, in several raster. You can also open works made in Adobe Illustrator in the program.

What's somewhat surprising is that Gravit looks like a real program while running in a browser window, without using Flash. Among the main shortcomings I would highlight the lack of Russian language.

By the way, in Gravit the choice of canvas is implemented quite interestingly: you can choose standard formats of sheets, business cards, postcards, and create covers of popular social networks, phone screens and other gadgets.

Overall, an interesting editor that deserves attention.

DrawPlus

Vector

A very flexible and powerful graphic editor that allows its users to create high-quality illustrations. This program will allow you to fully explore your drawing capabilities.

DrawPlus has many tools that will allow you to easily and quickly create a variety of shapes, strokes, and lines. Each of the elements can be combined with others and gradually the whole complex will become a rather complex, but beautiful illustration.

By the way, DrawPlus has a 3D module - it will allow you to turn your creativity into real 3D design elements. You can apply a wide variety of effects when creating logos, isometric projections, and flowcharts.

You can import a huge number of formats into the program: PDF, AI, SVG, SVGZ, EPS, PS, SMF, etc. The proprietary format for projects is DPP.

Graffiti Studio

Website: http://www.vandalsquad.com

Raster graphics

One of the best programs for drawing graffiti, it looks as realistic as possible!

To start drawing: you need to choose a piece of canvas (carriage, walls, bus), and, in fact, start creating (there are just heaps of ready-made options to choose from!). The artist has a large palette of colors (more than 100 pieces), several types of caps (skinny, regular and fat), and a marker. The distance to the surface is changed manually, it is possible to make drips. In general, for fans of such graphics there is a huge scope!

Those who don’t believe that you can create real masterpieces in the program, I recommend checking out the official website and having a look. best works- the look will change a lot!

PixBuilder Studio

Raster editor

A powerful program for processing and editing graphic images and photographs. In addition to editing, it is quite possible to draw and create (although there are fewer tools for this than in previous similar programs).

PixBuilder Studio has quite interesting tools that allow you to finely work with color, brightness, contrast, and layers. In addition, there are built-in effects (for example, dithering (when processing digital signals represents the mixing of pseudo-random noise with a specially selected spectrum into the primary signal) ), blur, sharpening, etc.

Peculiarities:

• support for popular raster formats: BMP, PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF, etc.;
• there is the opportunity and tools for drawing (though very limited);
• Great opportunities for editing finished photos and pictures;
• ability to work with layers;
• professional work with color: adjusting balance, brightness, contrast, etc.;
• setting up hot keys;
• the presence of ready-made effects (you just need to apply them);
• preview (to evaluate the result);
• support for popular Windows OS: 7, 8, 10.

Krita

Raster editor

An excellent and convenient raster graphics editor for artists (by the way, at the time of writing this review, the program is free even for commercial use). Krita runs on both Windows and Linux.

As for the most important thing: there is a good brush motion stabilizer, layers, masks, dynamic brushes, animation, a large number of blending modes, paper and pastel imitation, “infinite” canvas, etc.

By the way, there is even portable version a program that can be launched from a regular flash drive on any PC. The program has also been translated into Russian.

PS: the article will be updated...

Thank you in advance for tips and advice in the comments!

In our selection, we decided to compare applications for drawing landscapes, digital paintings, portraits, comics and various artistic designs on the PC with tools for beginners and professionals. Many effects, brushes, colors on the palette and the finest settings of virtual canvases will help you create real masterpieces.

Consider the best drawing programs on your computer to choose the most worthy and multifunctional one, with which you can unleash your creative potential, edit photos with high quality, or complete a design project.

Programs	Russian language	License	Rating	Plugins	Possibilities
	Yes	Free	Average	10	Yes	Pro
	Yes	Free	Average	8	Yes	Pro
	Yes	Free	Average	7	Yes	Pro
	No	Free	Low	10	Yes	Amateur
	Yes	Free	Average	7	Yes	Pro
	Yes	Free	High	7	No	Pro
	Yes	Free	Low	10	Yes	Amateur
	Yes	Trial	High	8	Yes	Pro
	Yes	Free	High	10	No	Amateur
	Yes	Free	Average	9	Yes	Pro
	Yes	Free	Low	10	No	Amateur
	Yes	Trial	High	8	Yes	Pro
	Yes	Trial	Low	6	No	Amateur
	Yes	Free	Average	6	No	Amateur

A well-known graphic editor with useful functions for both beginners and professionals. Supports popular formats, processes GIF animation, works with layers, draws, retouches, corrects colors, removes defects, changes size and format, saves operations and opens several pictures at the same time. The user can also rotate, scale and apply filters to the image.

Microsoft graphic editor with a large set useful functions and a clear interface. The software corrects and processes photographs, imports files from scanners and cameras, performs layer-by-layer processing and applies effects. In this practical application, the user can remove red-eye, rotate the picture using a 3D effect, adjust textures, add plugins for additional functionality, change the photo size, create freehand pictures with fill settings, add text or use an eraser.

The software creates and edits vector technical illustrations, sets analytical curves, has a set of high-quality tools and a multilingual interface. In the application, the user can create a diagram, logo, poster, graph or presentation business card. Using PSTricks macros, you can create graphs, import/export various graphic formats, open and save documents in gzip. As a result, the user will receive graphics for high-quality printing. Inkscape has versions for 64-bit OS and is supported by Windows and Linux.

A virtual canvas painting utility that uses professional tools and sub-pixel technology to create a high-quality painting. Allows you to create paintings from scratch, while having useful options for working with finished material. The user can select different types of pencils, pens, pens, brushes, colors on the palette and effects, synchronize the material to a graphics tablet, process multiple layers, move canvases and save the project in a convenient format.

The application creates professional digital paintings, works with layers, and processes imported photographs and pictures. The editor has impressive functionality, fine settings color balances and curves, creates drawings and manages masks. The user has access to drawing, professional editing and processing. Various effects are available, managing gradients and balances, creating web graphics, working with layers and large-scale images.

Creates graphics and processes graphic elements, supports layers, has tools for rotation, filling, moving, interesting special effects and filters. Allows you to change the size of graphics, add text to them, delete an area, scale, apply a texture and work with noise. Artweaver is distributed free of charge, but in terms of functionality it is on par with paid editors. Supports various formats, has gradients, filters and fills. Menu in English.

The application creates digital paintings using high-quality and interesting tools with limitless possibilities of a virtual canvas. The functions are accessible and understandable for both beginners and professionals in this field. In the utility you can create a large picture, use a variety of custom brushes, manage layers, scale, erase, shift colors, blur, etc. Support for the ORA format is convenient for working with a project in other editors or for collaborating with artists.

This free program creates digital drawings on a PC, supports its sai and standard formats, and has a large selection of interesting tools and filters. On a digital canvas, the user can use many layers, adjust the softness of the pencil, the shape of the brush, the transparency of colors, the texture of the canvases and other tools (water, pen, marker, eraser, curves, lines, selections, etc.). To make the illustration more realistic, you can add sunlight, shadows, folds, parallel work in different documents and customization of “hot keys” are implemented.

A colorful graphic application for children with interesting effects, preparations, tips from Tux the penguin and music while working. This graphic editor for young artists has an accessible and understandable menu displaying all functions, settings and color palette. The child has access to stamps of cartoon characters, animals, plants, ready-made objects in the form of flowers, bricks and other objects, drawing figures and lines, as well as creating a slide show from their creations.

Multifunctional cross-platform utility for creating, processing and editing raster art pictures. It has a large selection of filters, brushes, masks, and the ability to work with layers and color perspectives. The program looks like an imitation of a canvas with tools, so an amateur, photographer or artist can easily edit a photo or raster image, create an artistic picture or process the material layer by layer. Krita has a version for 64-bit OS, supports working with photos RAW format and can be controlled by hot keys.

The application allows you to capture the PC screen for later editing of the screen. In the editor, the user can change the size of the screenshot, draw text or add a picture by hand, adjust saturation, brightness, blur, shades and other parameters. In addition, the software can capture scrollable material, so you can screen a web page and other large documents. The screenshot can be saved in any graphic format, uploaded to social networks or sent to a friend.

It’s a pity that your mother doesn’t approve if your creative impulses go beyond the boundaries of the album and pour out in a bright stream onto the wallpaper and cabinet doors. Good news for all young artists: drawing games are a great opportunity to create new masterpieces without restrictions! Bright drawing games will allow you to develop your creativity and open up new horizons of your talent. All your art can be saved on the computer or even printed - and your mother will not scold you for a table stained with paint or damaged paper.

I'm not an artist, I'm just learning!

It may seem like nothing is easier than drawing. Composing music or poetry is difficult, because first you need to imagine it in your head, come up with a line or motive, and only then think about how to translate your thought into a form that others can understand and can be written down. What about the artists? What I see is what I put on paper! I saw a tree - I drew it, I saw a cat - I drew it... What's so tricky here? As a last resort, if everything changes too quickly, you can take a photograph and then simply copy everything from the photograph. Nothing complicated!

This myth instantly dispels as soon as you pick up a pencil, a brush, or start a drawing game. And it turns out that there is nothing complicated, but still you can’t create a masterpiece! All that comes out is an incomprehensible daub.

This does not mean that you should give up such a thankless task. No, you just need to learn the art of creating paintings, like any other. Do not spare any time or effort for exercises with a brush and canvas, create and create without respite - then soon, if you have talent and determination, and even if you do not become the second Aivazovsky, then at least you will be able to draw a worthy picture as a gift for your mother. March 8.

Any genres and styles

Illustrations for drawing games for girls are usually made in a fairly realistic style. Of course, there are no flying horses or cats singing songs into a microphone, but we can be sure: if they existed, they would look exactly like this.

Meanwhile, in high art, not all genres are distinguished by a realistic reflection of reality! Contemporary art is especially “sinful” of this: often without preliminary preparation In general, it can be difficult to make out what is depicted on the canvas. Because of this, abstractionism and other inventions of creative people of the last century belong to elitist art: “the uninitiated cannot understand.”

There are artists who paint familiar objects in a very unusual way. Only by turning off visual perception and trying to perceive the picture with the help of the analytical part of the mind can you determine where in the cubist painting there is a person, where the goat is, and where the landscape is. And sometimes this is not necessary, because it is quite possible that the author, having drawn six yellow circles and one black square, was trying to depict not the sunrise over arable land or the complexity of existence, but precisely six yellow circles and one black square.

One of the most interesting in contemporary art is a genre of surrealism. Paintings, for example, by Salvador Dali are reminiscent of dreams: objects of the world around us are combined in such bizarre combinations and have such unusual properties that you can look at the small details of the canvas for a very long time. At the same time, there is a certain symbolism in the surrealism: for example, the wings of butterflies on the masts give the sailboat a flying and very airy appearance, and the wall clock flowing from the tree branches seems to hint at the frailty of human existence.

You need to start small

Of course, neither Vasnetsov nor Rembrandt began their creative journey immediately with large-scale canvases. And therefore for you too. if you want to learn how to draw, you need to go to your success gradually. Drawing games can be just fun for some, but if you want, you can get a lot of benefit from them and learn a lot.

Perhaps the simplest thing that computer fun with paints can teach is color selection. Drawing with pencils on paper, you can only note that the colors do not match and sadly turn the page. But drawing games for girls already allow you to correct mistakes and work on the picture until it reaches perfection. By the way, you can call your mother or an older friend whose taste you are ready to trust for help. Let them evaluate your art with the impartial eye of an expert and tell you what needs to be corrected for a better result!

Anyone who really wants to gain knowledge will not neglect any way to obtain it. And if you dream of becoming a real artist, then free games For girls, drawing games should become a tool for your daily self-improvement! On our website we have collected all the best simulators for a young artist to help you achieve success.