I combine drawing and photography for my composite art. XP-Pen makes a affordable and well-built graphics tablets. IF you decide that Photoshop is perfect for your drawing needs, then you must get a pressure sensitive drawing tablet.

What kind of drawing are you trying to create? What's the final intent for the drawing? Do you want a super sharp clean edge drawing, or something more organic? You have to answer those questions before you can get the correct answer. When you draw in Illustrator you don't have to worry about any of that in the beginning. If you want to eventually print your drawing at 16' x 20', then you need to start with a document that big, at a resolution of at least 150 ppi (depending on how it will be printed).

If you draw in Photoshop it is important to plan ahead for final output size. Photoshop drawings can be more similar to drawing with traditional media like pencils, or chalk, or paint, if that's what you want. The lines are very clean and sharp, which is great for logo design and illustration. Illustrator drawings can be scaled and printed at any size without loss of image quality. That means Photoshop works with pixels and Illustrator does not.

Illustrator is a vector based application and Photoshop is an image editor. I didn't see a thread about difference between this two software, and it seemed like no one has given their impressions on this oftware so I wanted to put together something quick to kickstart a discussion or something.

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