What's a good program I should use to draw?

Pencil and paper. The GIMP and Krita are decent digital choices when you've gotten a handle on the basics of drawing.

Anything and everything.

It really depends on what stage you're at in your skill, as well as what equipment you have access to.

If you're just starting out, you want something simple with a low learning curve that's easy to pick up and get into. Even MS Paint is at least serviceable these days, but other more complex free options exist like Paint.Net and Krita and GIMP.

And if you're on PC but don't have a graphics tablet, there's plenty of perfectly serviceable budget options out there.

If you're on mobile, a passive stylus is perfectly fine. The app I personally use is Medibang, though it takes some getting used to. Others swear by Procreate, but I could never adjust to it myself.

bubs57 said:
What's a good program I should use to draw?

If your using mobile, I'd go for IBIS paint. Its relatively simple to use and learn with most features being free of charge (at least on android, dont know about ios).

clawstripe said:
Pencil and paper. The GIMP and Krita are decent digital choices when you've gotten a handle on the basics of drawing.

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bubs57 said:
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Only use GIMP if you're some kind of extreme masochist when it comes to interface, I've never met a more user-hostile program in my life. If you really want a Photoshop-alike, Photopea exists and doesn't hate you for trying to use it in normal, expected ways.

Paint.net is another free option, though not one I see come up as often as Krita. If you're serious enough about it and are willing to drop money, keep an eye on Clip Studio Paint, it goes on a pretty solid sale fairly regularly (every few months, iirc), so it's worth waiting if you can be patient.

sloppyheadwind said:
Only use GIMP if you're some kind of extreme masochist when it comes to interface, I've never met a more user-hostile program in my life. If you really want a Photoshop-alike, Photopea exists and doesn't hate you for trying to use it in normal, expected ways.

Paint.net is another free option, though not one I see come up as often as Krita. If you're serious enough about it and are willing to drop money, keep an eye on Clip Studio Paint, it goes on a pretty solid sale fairly regularly (every few months, iirc), so it's worth waiting if you can be patient.

I'd like to introduce you to Adobe Acrobat for bad interfaces. ;)

Actually, yeah, GIMP is designed to work well if you read a 1500-page manual but by then you forgot what you were trying to draw. (LOL) Oddly enough, I've read the old 1500-page manuals for Microsoft Office products, and I thought they were actually kind of redundant given the early UI's on them. All that stuff is documented in the menu structure and tooltips/pointer-change hinting.

Lots of people use Adobe software but only because they already were. See also: Microsoft Windows
If you use the others, you're supporting less awful practices, and probably paying a lot less in the long run. But that only works if you end up being able to use them. Anyone tried SAI?