Get Started Drawing With These IPad Pro Apps
Aspiring artists can appreciate the usefulness of drawing on a tablet compared to traditional paper and pencil settings. First, no mess. But if you have an iPad Pro, you have the opportunity to improve your artistic ability when combined with the right hardware and apps, designed with your drawing skills and style in mind. Even if you are not an artist, the benefits of learning to paint are more than just a piece of art.
First, grab an Apple Pencil
While you can get a cheaper stylus designed to work with the iPad Pro, nothing beats the precision and pressure sensitivity that the Apple Pencil has. Designed for artists, it can detect when you tilt your tip to apply wider strokes, and can be charged by connecting it to iPad Pro. It’s not ideal, especially considering the inconvenience of the pencil sticking out of your iPad while charging, and its tendency to roll back due to its perfectly cylindrical shape, but it’s the best option for artists.
Draw everything on paper
If you just want to mess around with drawing, sketching, and just getting ideas out of your head, try Paper . You won’t find any complicated brush tools, layer editors, or serious technical tools, but you will find an easy way to practice your drawing skills, organize your sketches, create color swatches, and mix colors together. You can divide your drawings into notebooks and decorate notebook covers with custom drawings, your own work from Paper, or your own images and photos.
The Paper Pro premium subscription will cost you $ 5.99 every six months and will give you more tools to get the job done if you find the free Paper offering is not enough. The best diagramming tools, cut and paste support, unlimited color swatches, and various cover designs can be worth it, depending on how much time you spend drawing and brainstorming.
If you have an old iPad lying around at home, you can pair it with FiftyThree’s own stylus, the FiftyThree pencil designed to work with the Paper app. It’s large and chunky, making it perfect for kids or those who haven’t bought an iPad Pro / Apple Pencil combo yet.
Price : Free, $ 5.99 Paper Pro subscription for six months.
Great for creating sketches, diagrams, notes, doodles.
Not Suitable For : Technical Painting, More Advanced Painting.
Use Autodesk Sketchbook for more technical drawings
If industrial design or architecture piques your interest, you may prefer Autodesk Sketchbook . The draw and paint app has more tools to help you create more precise and measured works of art compared to the simpler canvas you have in something like Paper. Sketchbook adds advanced tools like layer editing, ten brushes to choose from, and a user-friendly interface that lets you quickly change brushes without fiddling with menus. Outside of the canvas, Sketchbook is more function-oriented rather than form-oriented, making it harder to navigate your work compared to Paper’s simple magazine-based art storage system.
Want to get a little more creative with your art? You can purchase additional Pro Tools for $ 4.99. Pro Tools adds over 130 brush styles, a set of modification tools to cut, add, or move your selection, and many other useful features for people looking to make their drawings a little more whimsical.
Price : Free, $ 4.99 one-time purchase of Pro Tools, $ 29.99 per year of Pro subscription.
Great for : technical painting, detailed artwork, texture and brush style lovers.
Not Suitable For : Fast Drawing
Adobe Photoshop sketch
Adobe Photoshop Sketch should be one of the apps you use to unleash your artistic flair. You can choose from 14 different brushes, or create your own brushes (and import ones you can use directly in Photoshop). There is layer management, perspective grids to keep the proportions of your designs constant, and the ability to import images for tracking and editing. It’s free to use, and when paired with a paid Adobe Creative Cloud membership, you can edit your work in applications like Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC. If you’re particularly proud of your latest painting, you can upload it to Adobe’s design community, Behance, and share your work with others.
Price : Free, optional paid Adobe Creative Cloud membership.
Great for : drawing, painting, art sharing.
Not Suitable For : More Professional Tools And Features.