Sketchbook®

Sketchbook truly is singularly the most intuitive, fluid fully featured graphics app I’ve ever used and that includes the high end commercial apps and desktop publishing apps. It may not have the refinement and stability of those very expensive commercial packages but they come at a price of a very steep learning curve before you can produce anything marketable. This program not only has everything you need for commercial success but it conveys the mechanics of design and realisation in such a humanly intuitive fashion as to make it entirely frustrating to use anything else that requires finding the right icon from hundreds or wading through layers of menus to simply blend layers or change luminosity, opacity and brush size of which the latter 3 can all be achieved from the same pen position. The BUT....is in the latest release has caused such a bug that annihilates the entire usefulness of this gem stone. Running iOS 11 the latest version of sketchbook will eventually freeze its ability to zoom, a feature which next to actually drawing is probably the most frequently used in all graphics packages on all platforms in any area of the world. Fix it. And fix it fast. Other contenders are on your heels.

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I’ve used this for about 6 years, first used it with my MacBook and a cheap tablet (never had an issue with the Mac tablet combo), and thought it was really cool they made it free to use. HOWEVER, using this on my iPad has been terrible, it freezes constantly, can’t handle a big brush without extreme lagging. I was working on a drawing, I had masked it (took me 3 hours to mask this due to very fine lineart) and it deleted that entire layer out of nowhere for no reason. Hours of work just gone, this isn’t the first time it’s happened either, a lot of people have this issue and when asking why just being told it should be backed up. I think this is stupid as you shouldn’t have to back up something in case the app decides it wants to delete hours of work for no reason and with no way to get it back or fix it. The time lapse feature is broken and works every now and again and is very unreliable. Overall I suggest using a different drawing app f you value your work and time. Disappointed as I’ve used this for so long and used to love it. Such a let down.

This app is really great! I strongly recommend installing it . It’s just a better version of procreate, except for free . It don’t contain ads or game crashes. However, depending on your device, it can be a bit slow. I play on iPad, so I don’t experience any problems. All work has an option to be saved, and can be sorted into folders. The brushes work great , like real, as well as the option to a variety of others. The size of the brush can be adjusted easily. Colours are available. I think it’s great for artists who aren’t the best at drawing on paper . I highly suggest getting the app. Paying 10pounds for procreate is a lot, when there is an app like this , for free! Everything is mainly free, expecially brushes. Some games you have to pay for the brushes , but this one you don’t.

It has really smooth brushes, and a variety of different options to choose from. At the start I actually had no idea what was going on. But after installing it again- it’s amazing! But, there’s no clipping tool.. I was actually shocked when there wasn’t a clipping tool, since many people use them for details without their brushes colliding into another item..But there’s another way to do it! Simply turn off that eye button on the bottom right and then save the lineart. Go to any drawing apps with the clipping tool and the export image button (I recommend Ibis Paint) and then continue! But that’s the only main problem, this app is really skilled and deserves a 5 star (in my opinion) I hope I’ll continue using this app for most sketches!

I would highly recommend this app for a lot of artists, it’s very good the layers, brushes, colour wheel strokes and shading tools work very good! You can do a lot of things on this app. You can also add Images and fade the opacity to trace, and you can trick everyone and say “I’m such a good artist” or you can just normally draw. You don’t even need to be good to draw to use this app, you can just draw from your imagination and whatever you imagine is going to come to life with drawing and also adding doodling onto the review I have done a lot of doodling on this app and trying out all these brushes. Also, to make it a bit more realistic for a sketch I would use the pencil brush, and for a realistic painting I would use the smudging brush and paint brush. Thanks for making this app!