#free programs

here’s a masterlist for what i use

School Assignments / Work - OneDrive

I don’t need any of the fancy formatting, so I use Word online, and I can also just export it as a PDF. I don’t use any part of Office 365, and OneDrive has 5GB free without paying.

It also still has Excel and OneNote for free, which I barely use. But, there’s a program for everything.

Fanfiction / Writing - Google Docs

Headers my beloved. It’s so much easier to use than Word, and I like to type my personal writings into there. Drive also has more storage, 15GB.

Storage - Google Drive / Internal Storage

That 15GB will help. I keep most files on my laptop, but if I need a backup, it’s there in Drive. I also use Drive for file sharing.

Notes, Ideas, and Lore - Notion

I fucking love Notion. You can have an infinite number of pages within pages. (Also, it’s free! HELL YEAH!) You can give each page an icon and a cover image. You can also have multiple people on a single Notion. AND!! You can make MORE workspaces/notions with that single account. Highly recommend it!!

Plotting - Draw.io

Draw.io connects to Google Drive. You get a nice PNG of the flowchart for your plot. Whether you’re a writer, DM, or even a game developer, you can have your story on hand.

Idea Generation - Go outside.

Take a walk in the park. Go to a cafe or a restaurant. Hell, go out into your backyard and sit in the sun! Get that Vitamin D. Let your mind wander. Don’t think about one specific thing, let it jump around. Don’t go on your phone for a while. The notifications can wait.

Link to drive containing anything i've made a post about:

Sharing this because reasons.

My friend, @darksillykitty, showed me this chart since I haven’t had an art program in years, and I really wanted to share this with all of you! Krita is amazing. I hope this helps someone!

Feel free to share.

MediBang Paint

FireAlpaca

Krita

Gimp (You might need to input the tablet in the “Input Devices” in the Edit options. Remember to save.)

GraphicsGale

Inkscape (You might need to input the tablet in the “Input Devices” in the Edit options. Remember to save.)

Blender 

Opentoonz

Storyboarder

Curious what that yellow shipping container is doing on our plaza? That's the roving home base of our friends @caribbeing, and this August they’ll be stationed out front for their 3rd annual, month-long residency. You also might have noticed that the container has some budding new additions this week thanks to artist Miriam Castillo and the city-wide 100 Gates Project.  

Stop by during Museum hours all month, and click here to see all the great free Thursday and Saturday activations happening around the space in celebration of our Caribbean community. 

Absolutely outstanding software list! Check it out and reblog please :)

I have to draw something from a poem. I still have like 4 more images to go. I might try and do them this week but I am not sure.

The song is surrealist AF. It's called "La Marcha de Osias" or "Osias el Osito". It's in spanish and it's one of the songs I used to listen all the time when I was yong. The song is about all the super weird but cool stuff theis bear wants to buy if only he could and I though that it is kinda possible to want everything he says that does since we have digital media or all kinds and types. I... I am now thinking what if anyone has done this before but I bet if they did, they didn't draw. Maybe they used like photographs and stuff.

--------------- Art Blog Deviantart --------- Acoustically driven instrumental by Hyde - Free Instrumentals https://soundcloud.com/davidhydemusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music provided by Music for Creators https://youtu.be/2iWw0kJ6V4U

@medibangpaint is free and will stay that way and it’s awesome. It was designed for manga but you can draw anything you want. They even let you make your own brushes in the easiest way possible so go check them for tutorials and such.