This article is intended as a brief introduction to Procreate and Clip Studio Paint, providing comparisons of their features in respect to Adobe Photoshop, which has long been the industry standard in creative fields. The cultural value of digital drawings and comics is evidenced by their popularity on social media (which can be interpreted as larger public interest), necessitating their preservation. A growing, major genre of digital art is drawings, paintings, and comics-often which are produced by younger, independent, and freelance artists who have amassed large followings on social media but have yet to garner the attention of museums. Scholars tend to focus upon “complex digital artworks” like net art, time-based media, and electronic art, but these are only part of the larger ecosystem of born-digital artwork. Most scholarship surrounding digital art has focused upon established artists whose work is already being preserved their value canonized either by inclusion in museum collections or digital repositories like Rhizome.

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