Sometimes, you just really need to stay calm and let your creative juice flow out of you to become that fancy art piece as a gift to the universe.
Drawings have a way of communicating our innermost thoughts and feelings to the rest of the world. So, just let it flow!
Luckily, there are hundreds of apps to help bring your creativity to light and give it a voice it may never have had if buried inside of you.
A hundred apps are a whole lot to contend with, by the way so, to make things easier for you, I have done the background work of research already and have arrived with the best 10 drawing apps for your iPad/ iPad Pro/iPad Air (2020).
Check it out below!
Procreate
This is perhaps the best drawing app for iPad. Think of sketching, painting or even illustration, it is all packed into this procreate app. Although, it is specially made for the experts, notwithstanding you can still give it a shot. Suffice to say, it is compatible with your Apple Pencil.
Enjoy avenue to use unique tools like the two-fold texture brush and swiftly active smearing tools for a flawless piece. In the absence of a desired tool of choice, you can also build your own tools – cool right?
In addition, the high-resolution canvasses in procreate app enables you to print out your work (in PSD, JPEG, PDF or PNG format) in spite of its size.
Affinity designer
Get in here, vector graphic designers. The affinity designer will perhaps be your best pal in a while as it’s the most fascinating app you could ever work with.
Although it’s more like a desktop app but can as well be adopted for use on your iPad. It is compatible with Apple Pencil with benefits of angle sensitivity, pressure and tilt and best pen, pencil and corner for an astonishing precision.
Everything that has to do with vectors like geometry operation, curve editing and smart shape tools will be available for use.
Also, you will get to enjoy the swift performance for your website, icons, UI design, concept art or marketing materials.
Adobe photoshop sketch
If you are like me who dreads vector graphic but enjoys the old sketching, drawing and painting then the adobe photoshop sketch is your best bet.
There are 24 built-in brushes having flexible colour, sizes, opacity and blends settings which are easily accessible and in the absence of a suitable tool, you can choose to design your own photoshop brushes into the sketch.
Also, you have a chance of combining colours in your drawing layers with the aid of markings that helps create great curves and fundamental shapes.
Your designs can be automatically saved in your creative cloud account. And if you run out of cloud space, do well to go for one with a higher GB storage at an affordable fee of less than $5.
To enable large print outs, the sketches are available in resolutions up to about 8K.
Inspire pro
With about 150 brushes and other large range of high-profile custom tools to pick from, inspire pro is one of the swiftest and most practical engines you can download.
It is compatible with Apple Pencil and the size, opacity in addition to the pressure applied, adjustment and tilt angle gives an exceptionally creative control on your device.
Sketch club
It doesn’t matter if you are a rookie or a professional, the sketch club has sophisticated features and it comes at a cheaper price compared to all other drawing apps.
There are brush tools, smudging, selection, text, filling, blurring and vector tools available in the sketch club – that’s why it is called a club after all. It’s all-encompassing!
Plus, there is unlimited access to automatic ratio shape tools that gives a proper blend and finishing to your work. Canvasses have about 16K presets and amazing DPI prints.
If you’re looking forward to joining a club that will encourage and motivate you and help upscale your designs then, you are most welcomed to the sketch club where they organize competitions and put forth series of challenges to spur you and in turn help improve your drawing skills.
ipastels
Since the ipastel is digital, you do not get to experience that messy feeling that comes with using pastel or charcoal as this app simulates the effect online.
From the pastel pencil to the oil pastels, the soft pastels and realistic colour blending with the use of your fingers on your screen, the ipastel app reproduces this so well.
Although you have to pause on drawing when you need to harmonize the size and pressure of your tool, you have the capacity to easily make amends to any mistake spotted making it a great app to settle with.
It supports the use of Apple Pencil and the pro feature comes at a cost of $4.
linea sketch
This is a subtler app than that of procreate and both rookies and professionals can use this app. If you aren’t into the drawing (maybe just sketches) then this is your best bet.
With its clear and spontaneous interface, it is easier to make excellent shapes for a premium draw. It is compatible with Apple Pencil and grants its users access to using other great tools.
one commendable aspect is the part where it shows you the complementary colour of your already selected colour coupled with a layer split screen.
Your work will be available and printed as PSD, JPG or PNG files for quick access from external devices.
Adobe fresco
If you have a thing or two for drawing either as a hobby or for the bucks then you would love to use the adobe fresco. Initially, the adobe fresco was specifically made for the iPad and Apple Pencil only was it recently added to the graphic app of the adobe suite.
It has an adjustable UI and vital tools for illustrators as well as masking and selection tools. Also, you can combine photoshop brushes.
You can use this app for free but the premium features with creative cloud account come at a price.
Brushes redux
Although old, it is gold. The brushes redux is free and accessible. With the fundamental toolbar found at the bottom of your screen, feel free to form a colour wheel, work with layers and interchange several brushes.
One fascinating feature is the permission to record every brushstroke you make, hence giving you a chance to replay them at a later time through the brush’s viewer. Best if you are an art instructor, it comes in handy for you.
concept
where are the design pros? This app is exclusively for you if you are a pro in sketches and designs. Some of its features include (but are not limited to); a limitless canvas feature, organic brushes, intuitive precision tools fluid and an active vector drawing engine to give you a natural-feel drawing experience.
In spite of your design field, you can analyse, emphasize and share your designs from any location. It is compatible with the Apple Pencil.
You’ll never know how talented you could be until you give it a shot using any of the above-listed apps.
Stay creative!
