It has many of the tools needed for real-world vector workflows, and with a realistic understanding of its capabilities and limitations, you could still pull off impressive work.

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Graphite, an open-source Rust-based 2D graphics editor aiming to be the "Blender of 2D," has released its second desktop release candidate as a Flatpak for Linux. While previously only available in browsers, the desktop version offers similar functionality with better system integration, though users may need to disable UI acceleration to avoid blank window issues. The vector editing tools are mature, but raster editing remains experimental and disabled by default. Performance lags behind established tools like GIMP and Inkscape, particularly with smaller brush strokes, and the application is not yet stable enough for critical production work. The desktop build must be manually downloaded from the Graphite Discord and installed via Flatpak, with potential sandboxing considerations for file access.

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aiming to be the “Blender of 2D,”
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This is such a painfully awkward sentence. How is it aiming to be the “Blender of 2D”?
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though users may need to disable UI acceleration to avoid blank window issues. The vector editing tools are mature, but raster editing remains experimental and disabled by default. Performance lags behind established tools like GIMP and Inkscape, particularly with smaller brush strokes, and the application is not yet stable enough for critical production work.
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Here’s the much better summary in the article:
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Graphite is an open-source, Rust-based, node-based 2D editor that is aiming to be “the Blender of 2D” editors, combining tools for vector graphics, animation, desktop publishing, raster graphics, and image compositing all in one.
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I added emphasis to ‘animation’ because that word does not appear in the AI-generated summary, and is, I think, the most important word if this is to be the “Blender of 2D”, not “just” an image editor.

<a href="https://app.daily.dev/everyone" data-mention-id="eY0dd0AP60be2vlFJWAb7" data-mention-username="everyone" translate="no">@everyone</a> just use adobe or gimp

I was actually looking at getting back into digital landscape painting like in the thumbnail and had my eye on Krita because it seems to provide good support for wacom drawing tablets out of the box. This article appears to be focusing on comparing more against Blender/GIMP instead. I would be curious how it’s digital art capabilities stack up against Krita.

It’s amazing! Thanks a lot for doing this.
So far - the best “in-browser drawing thing” I found for my iPad - just “load and draw”.