My personal experience was to start with fireAlpaca (as it is simple and bare) great for learning the basics, and fits more for the flat/comic style.
My personal experience was to start with fireAlpaca (as it is simple and bare) great for learning the basics, and fits more for the flat/comic style. Nowadays I use Krita as it is so powerful and has a great brush engine that allows to create really complicated brushes and blending~