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Post by HertsJoaTMoN on Feb 11, 2014 15:29:48 GMT
 Top level overview of the available apps for art on Android and IOS and their capabilities. Sorted by platform (both, android only, IOS only) and by number of features (WIP, need your input to make this a complete and fair comparison). Please contribute below on the apps and gaps that I'm missing as I only use a few of them regularly and I'd like this to be a fair comparison with no bias based on opinion. I spent a fair bit of money on various apps only to realise it didnt do a specific thing I was hoping for. My aim is for this chart to allow people to make an informed decision on which App the choose to go with. Thanks, |
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 14, 2014 7:21:34 GMT
My favorite on your list is Infinite Painter. The developer, Sean Brakefield, works very hard to improve this app and with every update it gets better and better. There is another app called Serious Paint that is pretty good. I haven't worked with it extensively yet, but I will. ArtRage has promised they are making an android app, but there is no release date yet. I think Adobe is not supporting Adobe Ideas for android anymore. Colors is an awesome app that lets you watch the playback of how a picture is painted. Doodledroid is nice, but doesn't have layers. Still I have made some nice paintings with it. Magic Doodle Premium is a pretty good program. Pencil Madness is a simple sketching program. Zen Brush is really fun and has some neat backgrounds to sketch on. Line Brush is a neat program that mimics natural media, but it doesn't have layers. Silk Paints is a neat program. The developer of Paperless has come out with a new app called Ink- Sketch, Paint, and Draw. It has more drawing tools than Paperless. There are some more simple apps, but those are the more complex ones that have recently come out for Android. Personally, I can't wait for ArtRage. I have it on my PC and I just love it! It will be great on my Galaxy Note 8 and 10.1 tablets!
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Post by HertsJoaTMoN on Feb 14, 2014 9:12:52 GMT
My favorite on your list is Infinite Painter. The developer, Sean Brakefield, works very hard to improve this app and with every update it gets better and better. There is another app called Serious Paint that is pretty good. I haven't worked with it extensively yet, but I will. ArtRage has promised they are making an android app, but there is no release date yet. I think Adobe is not supporting Adobe Ideas for android anymore. Colors is an awesome app that lets you watch the playback of how a picture is painted. Doodledroid is nice, but doesn't have layers. Still I have made some nice paintings with it. Magic Doodle Premium is a pretty good program. Pencil Madness is a simple sketching program. Zen Brush is really fun and has some neat backgrounds to sketch on. Line Brush is a neat program that mimics natural media, but it doesn't have layers. Silk Paints is a neat program. The developer of Paperless has come out with a new app called Ink- Sketch, Paint, and Draw. It has more drawing tools than Paperless. There are some more simple apps, but those are the more complex ones that have recently come out for Android. Personally, I can't wait for ArRage. I have it on my PC and I just love it! It will be great on my Galaxy Note 8 and 10.1 tablets! Wow, seems like you have tried quite a number of Apps, I'll add them to the list. If yourself or Sean would like to give me a list of the features in Infinite painter, ill happily add them to the list. I want it to be a fair representation of what each app can do, but I dont have time to try them all out myself. |
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Feb 14, 2014 19:11:52 GMT
Yes, I have tried nearly every painting app that I can find. There are tons of very basic apps, but android is getting more and more sophisticated painting apps as it grows. Hopefully, we can get one the equal of Procreate, an ipad app, that is very good. Infinite Painter is getting very close. Here are some of the features listed for it at the Google Play Store: a 100 plus brushes, blending and mixing mode, pressure sensitivity and support for the s pen, liquify, unlimited layers, project playback, 2048 by 2048 pixels, drawing guides, 5 drawing modes, a reference image window, and import and export functions. In my opinion, the s pen is the best drawing stylus for tablets and that's why I use android tablets. (They are also more affordable and you don't have to deal with the proprietary nature of itunes.)
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Post by awe215 on Apr 12, 2014 6:42:48 GMT
Might want to add a section for creating your own brushes. Layer paint HD will let you do that. And layer paint has a tablet version as well.
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Post by HertsJoaTMoN on Apr 13, 2014 6:47:03 GMT
Might want to add a section for creating your own brushes. Layer paint HD will let you do that. And layer paint has a tablet version as well. not tried layer paint HD yet, still exploring all the options on Clover paint. What additional functions do you get over regular layer paint? 1'U update the dot during the week. Sent from my GT-N5110 using proboards |
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Post by ellietaylorartist on Apr 13, 2014 22:26:33 GMT
LayerPaint HD has a customizable UI, more brushes, and the ability to make and save new brushes. It is set up much better than the regular version and more user friendly.
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Post by HertsJoaTMoN on Apr 15, 2014 13:28:29 GMT
Added layerpaint HD to the list but dont know much about it so many of the blend modes and other functions etc are left blank...
At the moment I'm only concentrating on CloverPaint as it seems the most feature rich app for Android from what I can tell and I want to get the best out of it rather than dipping in and out of various apps which is what I had been doing in the past.
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Post by artistebot on Aug 3, 2014 16:19:37 GMT
Can TVpaint be added to the list? It is rather expensive, but very powerful for animation and drawing/painting. THe software is available for Win. OSX, Linux, and Android. and seems to have the same capability for all platforms. www.tvpaint.com |
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Post by jasonk on Jan 19, 2015 18:55:28 GMT
The Serious Paint dev said there's no limit on canvas size, but if you make it too big for your device's capacity, you'll have limited layers/undo. You need to have version 1.9 though.
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Post by artistebot on Nov 2, 2015 16:51:02 GMT
I think there is a limit on brush size in relation to the pen pressure technology. I think that 1024 levels mean that any brush over 1024/2048 pixels in size may not function properly. If true the N-Trig limit of 256 would be miserable.
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