Ignore the names "Photoshop" and "Illustrator"; they are historical artifacts. Illustrator is pretty much the last thing you want to use for doing painterly wor

Ignore the names "Photoshop" and "Illustrator"; they are historical artifacts. Illustrator is pretty much the last thing you want to use for doing painterly work. If you see digital paintings, there is a very high probability they're done with PS. Pretty much every piece of concept art you see for a video game was done in PS. (That said, I'll be spending the next few years doing a painterly comic book in Illustrator, but that is honestly more a function of me having used it as my main medium for fourteen years than it is of it being the best tool for the job.)