There are lots of art programs to use that are great depending on your application. For drawing and viewing things on a screen, Photoshop has worked great for me. The brush tool settings are great for drawing and digitally painting things that may have sharp or soft edges, for blending and layering colors together. I also sometimes use ProCreate, which can be a little bit better for sharper, more defined drawings. However, I'm experimenting with printing my artwork on solid objects now and I'm realizing the limitations of using pixel-based Photoshop and migrating toward Illustrator for vector graphic files. Printing photoshop images on mugs and paper, for example, can reveal the square pixels in the drawing depending on how large the image is that I submit to be printed. I can see the small little squares that give it a pointalistic effect that show an image that isn't fully filled in. With vector images, the lines scale without stretching out pixels so that images are much cleaner and solid when applied to objects off the original screen.
It's Halloween Season and I love it because it's when all the people who are secretly creative shine. I had a good friend recently introduce me to their friend during an apple picking gathering. Part of their introduction of me was that I am very artistic and had invited friends over to take turns drawing each other as they struck poses for the group. It's true, I love making my friends draw with me and get into their creative side, especially the ones who say they don't draw much or they're not creative. But it is October, the month when seasonal coffees come out to drink, the month of apple picking and pumpkin carving, and most especially Halloween. All the people who are secretly creative reveal themselves during Halloween season as people decorate their homes and make costumes for the spooky season. The people who get super into costume makeup and can replicate special effects-level face transformation, the people who construct haunted house structures in the pathways leading up to their houses, and the people who create paper mache and cardboard costumes with optical illusions reveal themselves. Let's not forget the people who make Halloween cookies and treats shaped like disembodied limbs and the people who can design and sew their own costumes. Halloween is my favorite holiday, and it's when I discover a whole other set of creatives that are hiding or saying "Oh, I don't do any art" the rest of the year.