Many years ago, back in the days when we had to feed coal into our computers and crank them by hand to start them, I used a mouse on a 12MHz 80286 with a meg of RAM, a 20MB HDD, and a 640kb VGA card capable of belting out 16 colours at an eye watering 640x480 resolution. I used a program called ZSoft Paintbrush (came free with the mouse) and saved files on 1.44MB 3.5" floppies.
As primitive as that setup was, though, I got some pretty impressive shit done, including this tribute to Judas Priest's 1982 album Screaming For Vengeance (the CB monogram was added later). Since I only had 16 colours to choose from I drew this pixel by pixel, mixing and matching colours to get the desired shades. It took me two weeks.

More recently, I used to use Krita on a Microsoft Surface Pro 8 with the Core i5, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of SSD storage. The actual drawing instrument was a Microsoft Pen. It wasn't enough though, as Krita kept on crashing.
Now I've got a Dell Inspiron 7630 2-in-1 laptop. It has a 13th gen Core i7, 16GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris graphics plus NVidia graphics (I don't game, though, so I don't think the NVidia ever fires up), and, most importantly, a stunning OLED screen boasting 3840x2400 resolution. 283 pixels per inch, baby! That's better than the Macbook Pro, and that high resolution real estate kicks ass! I use a Dell rechargeable stylus on it
Still using Krita though. I keep telling myself I'll learn CSP, and I'm even paying for the bloody thing, but every time I try I wind up hiding under my bed and sucking my thumb.
