I have to blame Twitter for this one. One of my Twitter art pals alerted me to this program. I seriously want it.

http://manga.smithmicro.com/index_ex.html

The Professional Solution for Creating Comics and Manga

Manga Studio EX gives you the power and flexibility to easily create professional-quality comics, manga, and illustrations. Draw naturally using a tablet and recreate the incredible sensation of drawing on paper.

I wouldn’t be drawing manga or comics though. There is a feature where you can draw one side of the image and it automatically draws the opposite side for complete symmetry. What a wonderful tool for doing Art Nouveau borders. They are the slowest part of that type of drawing for me, with tracing and flipping and adjusting so things look ‘right.’ I can spend hours resketching the other side of my design.

Like I said I seriously want to try this program. I wish the free download didn’t require a credit card!