After working with only Sai and Photoshop for so long, I took a big plunge and bought Painter 12. What can I say, I can't resist a good sale. I've worked with it before with good results, but that was a trial. After the trial ran out, I kind of forgot about it. I've used various other versions of Painter before, too. Here's some stuff I made with one version or another of Painter (either wholly or partly):



Basically what I always did with it was just find the most basic tools that did what I needed, and neglected the rest. But now, since I've bought it, I feel obligated to go through and spend some good time getting acquainted with all the tools. For those who have never used Painter before, it's FUCKING LOADED WITH TOOLS. It's meant to imitate traditional media, so it's got just about every traditional drawing and painting tool you can think of. And I guess it's what professionals use, so it should be good for me, right? (PFFFFFT HAHAHAHA) But I'm going through and testing them all out, and then writing down the ones I think I might want to use later. Seems awfully complicated.

Does anybody else use Painter? Do you find you use a lot of the different brushes/tools, or just a handful of favorites?

I hope to get a lot of use out of it, although I still love my faithful Sai~