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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wanted to say to just buy Procreate for the iPad for $10

Then I remembered ipads are starting at $500 and that's without the pen. You'd have to pay another $100 for it

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can buy a good screenless tablet from Huion for less than a hundred, and it'll work with basically any laptop or desktop computer. Krita is free and has many of the same features as Procreate. =)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have both and trust me, it's a lot harder to draw on a graphic tablet than to draw on a tablet

But of cause that's an option. I'm simply not an artist though. I suck at drawing