I thought you might be interested to see the drawing-painting-photographic apps I’ve used to date on my iPhone, and a few on my iPad. (These fingerpainting apps are also of course usable on iPod Touch.)
BEST IPHONE/IPAD PAINTING APPS in order of my personal preference of the moment
- Brushes
- Sketchbook Mobile
- Layers
- Art Studio
- inspire
- Colors
DRAWING with a fine black line
- Live Sketch
- Vellum
FANCY BRUSHWORK can be spectacular if unpredictable
- Jackson Pollock
- Meritum
- Zeus Draw
APPS TO ADD EFFECTS mostly stolen from the photographic camp
- Photo FX
- Photo Studio
- Photogene
- Best Camera
ADD EFFECTS WITH MASKS
- Vihgo
APPS TO COMBINE IMAGES
- Double Exposure (DXP)
- Juxtaposer
MAKE YOUR OWN BRUSH
- Magic Brush
OLD APPS – NOT MUCH USED NOW
- Igraffiti (but it does make beautiful tapered strokes)
- Net Sketch
- Squiggles
- Scribble Lite
ADD TEXT
- Idoodle2
- Sketches
DRAW CARTOONS
- Strip Design
- Toon Paint
CLONE – make paintings from photos
- Artist’s Touch
- Gesture
SORRY, I DIDN’T HAVE MUCH SUCCESS WITH THESE
- No. 2
- Non Photo Realistic Painter (NPTR)
- Photo Brush
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PAINTER 12 BRUSHES
just liked it!
I would also recommend CPencils for a great app that mimics colored pencils, Zen brush for chinese painting-like effects, and Stencils. I have also been able to get some interesting effects with Artists Touch when I have transformed simple landscape drawings that I did in Inspire in this app.
Thanks for your suggestions. CPencils, Zen Brush and Stencils sound good. I did include Artist’s Touch in a co-presentation on iPxx art apps I gave a few weeks back at the IAMDA conference. That app gives some really nice effects from photos, and it’s nice to paint freehand with too – though if you’re not taking colours from an underlying photo, there’s no colour wheel. You have to scroll down through a long list of pre-mixed hues, which is a bit of a trial.
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