@emma @souldessin Drawing with a mouse is very difficult, you're only really going to get quality output drawing pixel art or vector graphics in inkscape.

With a drawing pad, drawing is as hard as it is in either GIMP or Krita in my experience.

GIMP excels at image manipulation, but it does support paintbrushes, Krita is designed for drawing.

All software takes getting used to, but GIMP and Krita's interfaces are good (the only issue I've found with GIMP is that some functionalities I regularly use doesn't have a keyboard shortcut).