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My Digital Art & Design Must Haves
15 items
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Tanya C Smith
My favorite hardware and software that I use in my digital art and graphic design creations, as well as tutorials and other recommendations.
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I absolutely love this! Great for creating designs, social media posts and mockups.
Canva: Visual Suite for Everyone
A professional vector graphics editor. I use the iPad version of this software and wouldn't be without it.
Graphic Design & Illustration Software | Affinity Designer
Most of my designs are created on my iPad Pro.
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iPad Pro
The best pencil stylus for your iPad.
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Apple - Pencil (2nd Generation) - White
A great and affordable digital art program for your iPad.
Procreate® – The most powerful and intuitive digital illustration app available for iPad.
A premium painting app.
ArtRage for iPad
Perfect for digital art and graphic design.
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Pen Tablet / Digitizer Tablet - Wacom
A great little tutorial for drawing flowers in Procreate.
How to Draw Flowers in Procreate
You can spend hours with this software, creating layers of color and texture. I use the iPad version which I love.
Pastello | JixiPix Software
An invaluable guide if you are new to Affinity Designer.
Designer Desktop Quickstart Guide | Learn Affinity
A great all rounder for photos and graphic design.
Transform photos and make gorgeous graphics | Adobe Photoshop
If you are serious about digital painting then this is the program for you. Expensive but worth it.
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Corel Painter 2023
I've downloaded many free brushes for Procreate from this site. I would highly recommend it.
1800+ Brushes for Procreate - Free and Paid - Download fast and easy
You can easily create a color palette by simply uploading a photo.
Color palette generator | Canva Colors
A great site for color inspirations.
Pantone Color Palettes