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I have access to Adobe stuff from university

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Photoshop & After Effects

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Photoshop for graphic design.

I highly recommend Manga Studio/ Clip Studio if you are looking to get into digital drawing and painting.

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Digital Art Software.

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What kind of art?

I'd think Illustrator is a good tool to learn

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That depends on what you mean by digital art.

If you want to create logos, icons, posters, illustrations, or anything really that looks perfectly crisp and clean, use Adobe Illustrator.

If you want to create pixel art (like the stuff from Binding of Isaac, Shovel Knight, or classic NES and SNES games), buy Aseprite on Steam. It's only $15 and you'll own it forever.

If you want to do traditional drawing, grab a copy of Clip Studio.

If you want to paint, Artrage and Corel are both solid options.

If you want to create 3D art, download Blender (it's free software) and do the Blender Guru's famous doughnut tutorial. Blender isn't the industry standard for any particular part of the 3D content creation process, but it can do basically everything for the low price of free. There are fantastic tutorials out for the latest version, and there is no reason not to start with it to see if you even like doing 3D.

Adobe Photoshop can technically do pixel art, painting, drawing, and contribute to graphic design, but I'd recommend you learn software that is specifically for whatever kind of art you want to do. Photoshop is primarily intended for editing photos. It happens to have various brushes built in and has the word Adobe in the title, so a lot of people try and use it for sketching and painting. No doubt professional artists make nice pieces with it, but seriously, just pick the right tool for the job.

sounds like clip studio for me

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