Haha, Soul-Blade, you're so damn biased. As far as you're concerned you need to have programs that already do work for you for it be good. It's like the idea of pixel art to you. You seem to think all pixel art is a waste of time, and don't respect the challenge of it. Painter IX is by all means a wonderful program, but is also very heavy. It's intended for users that, from what I understand, can't do much in natural medium. It emulates those natural mediums for you mess with like photoshop newbies do. The more variety of brushes/filters, the better obviously. Hah. Okay, Opencanvas is beautiful in its simplicity. It also has the basics for what you need to set your brush. Sensitivity, density, size. Why the **** do you need other people to do work for you? That really annoys me how arrogant you can be and not respect the potential of other programs. Here's something I did with a friend in OCNetwork (which is even more light weight than OC3) that I'm pretty ****ing positive you couldn't do in Painter IX. (You meaning you, Soul-Blade.)
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http://www.art****s.org/upload/files...k/yeeacorn.png
(i did the robot on the right)
edit: replace **** with the f word and you're set.