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YourBuddyBill:
So I used to do a lot of doodles back when I was younger, but nowadays analogue just isn't going to cut it, for plenty of reasons only one of which is my inability to color things properly with paper.
This digital thing is where I run into a lot of problems.
First off, I have no tablet or fancy touch-monitor. I'll be able to buy a cheap tablet in a few months, maybe, if I'm lucky, but it's sort of out of the question right now.
I have a god-awful problem with shaky hands. The only way I mitigate that in my paper drawings is the paper's resistance and redrawing half my lines like five times over. Since tablets don't tend to have that level of resistance (as far as I've heard) this may screw me over considerably. I can't draw a straight line or a smooth curve to save my life.
I can't afford any fancy image editing programs. Right now, I'm stuck with GIMP 2.6.
I don't have access to a functioning scanner, and buying one is also out of the question for the forseeable future.
What do I do?
I don't want to just take the hack's way out and vector everything, though vectoring stuff like text is probably a necessity.
Suggestions would be appreciated.

Pilchard123:
I found Krita a while back. I have no idea if it's any good or not.

YourBuddyBill:
Downloaded, installed, it appears that my computer is too slow to actually do anything with Krita at large image sizes; it takes more than a second for it to process any change on the image (including using the basic brush tool).

YourBuddyBill:
I figured a quick printscreen would help people figure out how to help me solve this shaky hand issue (if there's a way to do that within a particular program, that is).

See that wobble? It's present no matter what detail level or line size I work at. Shaky hand problem. I hate it I hate it I hate it. Make this wobble fall down pls.
Edit: I can minimize the wobble a bit more if I increase to ungodly levels of zoom, but at that point I tend to lose track of the bigger picture (and i can't pan while the tool is held down, which makes continuous lines harder)

tragic_pizza:
Autodesk Sketchbook comes with a "smooth line" tool that helps me. The Pro version is under $25 USD per year, but there is a free version as well.

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