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Where to start coding up a drawing app?

I'm trying to figure out where to start with coding up a drawing app because I can't find one that does what I want. I can kind of brute force it in Autodesk's SketchBook. I'd like a thing that does what I want more conveniently and better. It appears to not exist. I've spent some time looking. I've found one video for creating a drawing app in JavaScript. I've repeatedly had Python recommended to me over the years as the first programming language I should learn. I'm happy to pursue JavaScript instead or another language if that would serve this goal better. I've discovered MIT App Inventor and they do have drawing app tutorials. I completed the first Doodle app tutorial and synced it to my phone and tried the working demo on my phone. If my app idea does what I want and does it well, I think I could sell it. In theory, MIT app inventor allows for that. In practice, it seems unlikely to me that this is really viable. If you know how to t