- Charcoal is incredibly easy to use: Just create or open a sketch and start drawing. There are no layers, properties panels or confusing settings. Instead, Charcoal features rich tools and beautiful color palettes.



FotoSketcher is described as 'Turn your photos into beautiful paintings, sketches or drawings in seconds. FotoSketcher is a 100% free program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a pai' and is a Image Editor in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to FotoSketcher for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Linux apps. The best FotoSketcher alternative is Krita, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like FotoSketcher are MyPaint, Corel Painter, AzPainter and Tayasui Sketches.



Because beautiful tools make beautiful drawings, we endlessly refined Sketches brushes to create the most realistic drawing tools.



Qaquarelle is a very young opensource Qt4-based painting application that is supposed to provide a native way of painting with emulated traditional instruments, including watercolor simulation, full support for tablets and OpenGL-based processing in GPU.


We believe artists deserve the best possible tools and we are determined to give it to them. The goal with Leonardo is to make the best painting application ever.




JugiPaint is a painting software with diverse sets of tools for various types of illustration work. It provides many standard digital painting features like layers, brushes, selections, transformations, etc., as well as some less often like guide layers and panels.


Transforms photos into pencil sketches or watercolor art with color and black-and-white output, batch processing, style and texture customization, high-resolution support, plugin compatibility, multiple formats, and easy previewing on both Windows and Mac.
ChibiPaint is an open source oekaki applet, a software that allows people to draw and paint online and share the result with other art enthusiasts.



Photopainter is both a natural-media painting software and an image processing system at the same time.



Zen Brush is an app that allows you to easily enjoy the feeling of using an ink brush to write or to paint. It allows anyone to easily perform fluent strokes while not compromising on the fascinating texture of a real ink brush.




Wizardbrush is a natural media painting software which has a lot of brushes and paper with realism style. You can create realistic picture with it. You can not only use it to paint pictures, but also handle your digital photos, even use it to teach digital painting and image...




Graphiter is an easy to use, straight forward, and powerful Sketching App. Its aim is to reproduce a real life sketching workflow using simple tools, such as, a Graphite Pencil, a Blend tool and an Eraser.




ImEditor is a simple image editor, supporting PNG, JPEG, WEBP, BMP, and ICO file types. It offers several tools to easily modify an image.


