I have decided… *drumroll*

Paint Tool SAI

The interface is more familiar in SAI, and while I like what they’re doing with the shortcuts in Krita, the buttons don’t all fit/work snugly on my Wacom buttons. Krita has had its share of memory explosions (one close to 3GB of RAM) and has all of the promised featured of SAI 2, which is a free upgrade to SAI users and has perspective features, text, and shape tools.

While Krita has more options for brushes, as a vector artist I find myself using the circle pen tool almost exclusively. Plus, the magic wand tool and fill tools aren’t quite… good yet in Krita. SAI has been working fine with those and takes barely any RAM to run in the background.

Until SAI 2 comes out, I’ll be saving my files as PSD and importing them to PS to get my text and other features. When Krita is released on Steam, I’m sure it’ll be the best mobile art app… just not for desktops quite yet.