Drawing software doesn't have to empty your wallet. These free drawing web and desktop apps are as capable as Photoshop or Illustrator. Here are our favorites.

You might wonder why you’d want to study a three-decade-old program written for a CPU by a nine-year-old almost five decades ago. Well, honestly, we aren’t sure either. But it did get us thinking.

Pencil is a very realistic sketching program and good 2D animation tool for the cost (free).

This program can give you endless hours of enjoyment, even if you’re not an artist. And if you develop mastery of using Inkscape, someone wants to pay you money to create graphics for them.