vanillanThis is Jehan Pages, the top developer behind GIMP, a free open source photo editor. Adobe executives hate Jehan. Because of his hard work, Adobe lost millions of dollars
There’s also Krita if you’re more of an artist
enthusiasm_headquartersMaybe you mean a more “brush and canvas” interface without complexity and distraction. I’m an artist that uses gimp. They are both great, Krita is just made with ease of use and emulation of irl tools in mind. GIMP can do emulation stuff too, but it can also do tons of other things, even video fx and animation.
These features come from maintained modules or scripts that can be added if desired. There is a tiny bit of animation support in plain GIMP, mostly for working with animated gifs.