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Drawing Pad Arrives on Galaxy Note

Drawing Pad Arrives on Galaxy Note, originally uploaded by purple0wl.

Do a search for ‘Painting’ apps in the Android Market and very few apps come up. Are all the developers waiting for Ice Cream Sandwich? Aha, but search for ‘Drawing’ apps and – abracadabra! Suddenly page after page of drawing and painting apps for Android tablets and phones appear.

Now you have a different problem.

How do you know which drawing apps are best with such a bewildering multitude to choose from, most of them free or costing ludicrously little? How do you sort out the reasonably serious painting apps from the silly hat and fairground mirror brigade?

I would not have picked out Drawing Pad, which proclaims it’s just for kids, if I did not already have it on my iPad.

Drawing Pad does not look promising.

Drawing Pad has no layers, no pinch zoom while you paint, no adjustment of width or transparency for pens, pencils or brushes.

Unlike its iPad brother, Drawing Pad for Android offers no smudge facility to blend your colours. You can’t use your own photo as a background. You can’t import your own artwork as a rubber stamp.

Altogether that adds up to a dead loss, wouldn’t you say?

Yet Drawing Pad is gorgeous. It’s one of my favourite drawing and painting apps. I rate it among the best.

Drawing Pad is fast. The S pen stylus for my Samsung Galaxy Note just glides along, laying down luscious colours from tempting rainbows of brushes, crayons and pens. Colours are wedded to the tools they belong to, as in real life, but there’s a big range to choose from.

You can of course paint with your finger or a soft tipped stylus like the Pogo or Boxwave, the two I happen to have. Any are instantly responsive in Drawing Pad, at least on my Galaxy Note.

I believe Drawing Pad is only available for a limited number of tablets and phones. I was going to try it on the Android HTC Flyer, but could not find a version for the Flyer, even though it has a larger screen than my Galaxy Note.

 

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8 Responses to “Drawing Pad Arrives on Galaxy Note”

  1. Steve Bennett says:
    February 8, 2012 at 8:06 am

    Err, which “Drawing Pad”? There are at least 3 high rated apps in the Android app market with that name.

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  2. Android fanatic says:
    December 3, 2011 at 6:04 pm

    Hello, I’m an android user, do you have more articles about Android for cell phones or tablets?. Anyway will search your site. thanks you.

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  3. June says:
    November 25, 2011 at 7:45 pm

    Thanks for this information. I have a Toshiba Touch 10″ and will be searching for Drawing Pad. I have been really frustrated by the slow or unresponsiveness of the stylii on the screen — have even thought of trading in for an iPad. But your comments make me think it’s the programs, not the equipment, that are at fault. Which means that better programs might be the answer, not going to That Other Brand.

    I appreciate your reviews (I’m using Sketchpad Pro, btw) and shall continue to read them. It was an iPad user who pointed me to your blog.

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    • Owl says:
      November 29, 2011 at 5:34 pm

      Thanks for commenting June. Drawing Pad doesn’t seem to be available for all Android tablets, at least just yet. I do hope you find it’s compatible with your Toshiba Touch.

      I have found that – at least on the iPad, Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Note – tablet touch screens are more responsive to a finger than to any kind of stylus. Same goes for smartphone touch screens.

      A couple of tips to speed things up might be:
      1. avoid using a screen protector,
      2 . close and reopen drawing and painting apps from time to time, to clear the memory.

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