Post by ellietaylorartist on May 25, 2014 19:52:33 GMT
We've talked a lot about the big painting apps on this forum, but there are quite a few specialized painting apps out there that concentrate on special types of paint such as watercolor, oils, and colored pencils. For watercolor, the best app is Auryn Ink, it really looks like real watercolor paint and paper. The biggest weakness for this app is no import function. You can, however, export it into SketchBook Ink and add pen and ink details to your watercolor painting.
SketchBook Ink is an app that mimics different types of ink pens and is great for pen and ink drawings.
Some more good watercolor apps are Hello Watercolor and Hello Watercolor Pencil. These apps also give a very good watercolor effect. They have an import function as well. Hello Watercolor Pencil is a very feature rich program because it also has other brushes such as fountain pen, ballpoint pen, crayon, marker, and more. The developers of this app also have a chalk app, Hello Chalk, a crayon app, Hello Crayon, a colored pencil app, Hello Colored Pencil, and an oil paint app, Hello Oil Painter. The weakness of these apps is there is no layer functions and only the watercolor pencil app has a zoom function, but you can export your file into more sophisticated apps like SketchBook Pro to make up for that.
Crayon Doodle and Drawing Pad are designed more for kids, but they give some nice crayon and marker effects and you can export the files into other apps.
Some simple sketching apps are Sketcher Pro, Pencil Madness, Sketch Lover, Doodle Dawg, and Skez.li.
Zen Brush is a very neat app that mimics sumi ink painting. It has 3 levels of opacity and around 62 different backgrounds that you can draw on. The colors of the ink change depending in the background. For example, on the wood background, the ink is brown and on the blue background, the ink is black. It really is a lot of fun and produces a very good ink brush effect.
SketchBook Ink is an app that mimics different types of ink pens and is great for pen and ink drawings.
Some more good watercolor apps are Hello Watercolor and Hello Watercolor Pencil. These apps also give a very good watercolor effect. They have an import function as well. Hello Watercolor Pencil is a very feature rich program because it also has other brushes such as fountain pen, ballpoint pen, crayon, marker, and more. The developers of this app also have a chalk app, Hello Chalk, a crayon app, Hello Crayon, a colored pencil app, Hello Colored Pencil, and an oil paint app, Hello Oil Painter. The weakness of these apps is there is no layer functions and only the watercolor pencil app has a zoom function, but you can export your file into more sophisticated apps like SketchBook Pro to make up for that.
Crayon Doodle and Drawing Pad are designed more for kids, but they give some nice crayon and marker effects and you can export the files into other apps.
Some simple sketching apps are Sketcher Pro, Pencil Madness, Sketch Lover, Doodle Dawg, and Skez.li.
Zen Brush is a very neat app that mimics sumi ink painting. It has 3 levels of opacity and around 62 different backgrounds that you can draw on. The colors of the ink change depending in the background. For example, on the wood background, the ink is brown and on the blue background, the ink is black. It really is a lot of fun and produces a very good ink brush effect.