What drawing/art software and drawing tablet would you recommend?

[Jonquil Earthpony 168]

Yea basically i want to drawing using drawing tablets and software but don't know what kind/make i should get. What do you use or what would you suggest ?     Thanks 

[RainbowTashie 378]

Why has this topic got no replies? i'd like to find out too :3

[There is only Ditzy. 292]

Depends on how much you're willing to spend on it and how many features you need. I personally use a Wacom Intuos Pro Large. It comes with touch features, 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity, eight reprogrammable hotkeys and a dial menu for easy zooming, scrolling and rotation options, and it was rather expensive. For my wallet at least:  Five hundred dollars. Totally worth it, though.
Anything from the Intuos line is good for amateur and professional alike. You might want to look into Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch.

Edited January 22, 2015 by There is only Ditzy.

[Monotone 101]

personally I use a Turcom tablet by Huion. Huion make quite inexpensive tablets, so it's good if you're on a budget. I've had next to no problems with my own tablet. After having it for just over a year now, it seems to be absolutely fine aside from a bunch of scratches and hand grease marks. 

 

If you don't mind spending a bit more, I've heard about Wacom having a good reputation when it comes to their tablets. What with their reliability and quality. But it may be best to ask someone else about those.

 

As for software go for Paint Tool SAI. It's fairly cheap compared to most artistic software, it's easy to learn and use(at least for me) and you can produce some high quality pictures once you get the hang of it. 

Edited January 22, 2015 by Monotone

[ARagY 1,152]

Wacom Bamboo tablet (old or new is fine imo)

It's cheap and it does what you want.

[RainbowPastel 185]

I have a drawing tablet I forgot the name of since I haven't used it in so long.

The software I recommend, especially for vectoring, is Adobe Illustrator. It's expensive! About $200 for only a year

For a cheaper cost or for free, there's PaintTool SAI, Corel Draw X6,  and other software in this link

http://www.creativebloq.com/illustrator/alternative-to-illustrator-1131664

 

I also used MS Paint for pixel art

[Thuja 3,659]

It would depend on what you wanted, some art programs have free trials that you could try before buying.  I would highly suggest you get said art program from the original website and not one that you download for free(unless that company gives out their program for free) because you never know what might be attached to that program if you get it from one of those free sites.  As for art tablets, it would have to depend on what level you're at.  I'd start with something cheaper so you can get used to the feel of a digital tablet.  Try to research what you want from a tablet, how much will you be using it and whether you want to go professional or not.  Here's some videos about digital tablets that I found useful(I'm shopping around for a digital tablet myself).

 

[Blue Moon 6,341]

Wacom is a good company for drawing tablets, so I'd recommend something from one of their lines.

 

As for software, I think Paint Tool Sai is the best as it is cheap, easy to use, and has nice features.

[~Chaos~ 3,967]

Wacom is good and has less expensive models.

 

There is multiple software programs out there, FireAlpaca is decent. 

[Lisa 5,553]

There is multiple software programs out there, FireAlpaca is decent. 

 

FireAlpaca is really good. And this is coming from a FireAlpaca user.

 

As for tablets, I personally use a medium sized Wacom Intuos Pro tablet. It's a good size and is reasonably cheap compared to other tablets. Although, if you're going to only be drawing every now and then, and not doing large projects, I recommend the small Intuos tablets. They're cheap and are very well-made.