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A little painted doodle for the holidays, made on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil in Procreate
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The pencil is extremely accurate, but I don't feel like it has nearly the pressure levels of the current big cintiqs. That's said its super nice to draw and doodle on with Procreate. That app uses tilt and pressure very well, and is responsive as any app I've ever used on desktop, if not more so. Just wish it gripped the screen a little more and had more pressure range. A matte screen protector may just help fill the gap until Apple releases a grippy nib.
Yeah it's pretty easy to snap a pic of a sketch and toss it in procreate. As far as I know most android stylus are not very comparable to what I've experienced on this thing, the closest being a surface or a cintiq. The surface suffers from lag and is generally inaccurate at slower speeds, but can run any Windows apps. The apple pencil is really very good and probably bested only by wacom's full sized cintiqs.
Incidentally, to answer Luulylbsbear the android equivalent would be the Galaxy note pro 12.2 inch tablet, The stylus tech it uses is a wacom digitizer with 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity. I believe that makes it the equivalent of a consumer wacom bamboo tablet since the intuos and up have 2048 levels. I've been using this one since it came out, and the pressure difference with the intuos is subtle but still noticeable. I'll need to drop by an apple store to compare with the Ipad but I've found it to be responsive and fun to sketch with. However unlike the Ipencil, it doesn't do tilt. And the stylus design is built small and thin to fit in it's slot. Either way I can confirm that it's also a good sketchpad if you don't want to go the apple route.
Art flow is by far the best Sketching app I've tried on android. It's responsive. All the important stuff is there. The layers have all the same blend modes as you'd find in Photoshop. The brush engine is super versatile. It lets you customize everything on every type of brush. And it can export PSD's with layers which is nice. I enjoyed it a lot more than Autodesk's sketchbook. Oh, and it lets you calibrate the stylus, which is a feature I haven't found anywhere else on android yet.
Since it's Samsung, OS updates are few and far between. However they did add a really neat trick where you can click the stylus button and draw a rectangle on the screen that becomes a Picture in picture multi task window. I've found this to be pretty useful for keeping refs onscreen while drawing.
Also, if you like the idea of a phone sized sketchpad, the galaxy note 5 has all the same features with a few extra tweaks. One that I found to be much more useful than I originally expected is that just taking out the stylus lets you draw directly on the black screen in solid white, and putting the pen back in it's slot saves it to the sketch app. It's easily as convenient as having a paper pad and a pen in your pocket for doodling. And if you haven't tried the gear VR with these phones.... it's fricking awesome. I really hope this catches on. Apple needs to make one of these too. And add a stylus to it's bigger Iphone.
Art flow is by far the best Sketching app I've tried on android. It's responsive. All the important stuff is there. The layers have all the same blend modes as you'd find in Photoshop. The brush engine is super versatile. It lets you customize everything on every type of brush. And it can export PSD's with layers which is nice. I enjoyed it a lot more than Autodesk's sketchbook. Oh, and it lets you calibrate the stylus, which is a feature I haven't found anywhere else on android yet.
Since it's Samsung, OS updates are few and far between. However they did add a really neat trick where you can click the stylus button and draw a rectangle on the screen that becomes a Picture in picture multi task window. I've found this to be pretty useful for keeping refs onscreen while drawing.
Also, if you like the idea of a phone sized sketchpad, the galaxy note 5 has all the same features with a few extra tweaks. One that I found to be much more useful than I originally expected is that just taking out the stylus lets you draw directly on the black screen in solid white, and putting the pen back in it's slot saves it to the sketch app. It's easily as convenient as having a paper pad and a pen in your pocket for doodling. And if you haven't tried the gear VR with these phones.... it's fricking awesome. I really hope this catches on. Apple needs to make one of these too. And add a stylus to it's bigger Iphone.
Art flow hasn't been all that impressive to me. The interface is kinda weird and there doesn't seem to be any selection tools combined with transformations, just very basic layer transforms. I would also not consider it particularly responsive while painting.
Aren't there better tools for android than that one? Nothing I've seen coming out of that app have had me particularly impressed.
Aren't there better tools for android than that one? Nothing I've seen coming out of that app have had me particularly impressed.
Actually you've got a point about selection, and now that you mention it, it's been quite a while since I looked at the available paint programs available on android. So I just spent the afternoon checking out the new drawing apps that popped up on the store and revisiting old ones. It turns out there's been a few developments. (*TLDR, skip to the end, OMG Layerpaint HD has grown up)
"Sketchbook pro" Got some nice improvements, It's much more responsive now and they simplified the interface. They improved the brush engine and fixed most of the problems I had with it. The layers still have just the 4 basic blend modes, Normal, Add, multiply, and screen. It would be nice to be able to create your own brushes and there's not much use for the clipart brushes. As far as I can tell there's no selection and transforms are all layer based.
"Art flow Studio" Hasn't really changed much but I've always found it functional. Of all the apps, it's the one with the most blend modes on the layers. And it's the only one that lets you calibrate your pen. Could still use some UI work. Lots of brush customisation. And transforms are layer based.
"Artrage" is a new arrival: The simulated real media brushes are super fun to play with. It's got a nice, simple interface. But it is laggy as hell. Might be worth trying again when a new generation of tablets with 128 core processors become available.
"Corel paint mobile" is another new arrival. It has a nice clean interface, drawing is super responsive, and it has some watercolor brushes that are pretty sweet to work with. The brushes are "in app purchases" but you can get them all for what you'd expect the app to cost. There's not as much control over your brushes as with sketchbook and artflow, but they pretty much nailed the ones that are there. The layers work the way you'd expect them to. There's more blend modes than Sketchbook but not as many as Artflow. There's no selection here either as far as I can tell and transforms are layer based.
(*TLDR layerpaint HD)
And finally, a very pleasant surprise. The new version of layerpaint "Layerpaint HD" has evolved like a Mofo. It used to be a teeny embryonic app that had interesting potential for having the right tools and low latency, but now, it's almost like something you'd expect to find on PC. It's got enough options that I'll need to play around with it to get a feel for how it really performs but it will probably replace Artflow as my app of choice. For starters it's the only one of the bunch that had real selection and transformations. It's also the only one that I saw that lets you flip the canvas. It has all the blend modes and brush customization options. And it's the only one that lets you create brushes by importing from your pictures, so to confirm, but I expect you could upload up all your favorite photoshop brushes to your gallery and implement them in layerpaint HD. You can even adjust the pressure sensitivity curve of your stylus. One more feature, you can use one layer as a mask for other layers just like in photoshop which is something I use constantly. In the settings I also saw an option to enable layer folders. And finally, there's layer effects which I haven't seen anywhere else either, like hue saturation, gaussian blur, etc .... I think you'd probably like this one. The ONE complaint I had was that you need to name your brushes to find them because there's no actual icon for them. this is probably due to the fact you can create your own brushes.
That being said, I wouldn't mind seeing procreate on android as I've heard a lot of good things about it.
"Sketchbook pro" Got some nice improvements, It's much more responsive now and they simplified the interface. They improved the brush engine and fixed most of the problems I had with it. The layers still have just the 4 basic blend modes, Normal, Add, multiply, and screen. It would be nice to be able to create your own brushes and there's not much use for the clipart brushes. As far as I can tell there's no selection and transforms are all layer based.
"Art flow Studio" Hasn't really changed much but I've always found it functional. Of all the apps, it's the one with the most blend modes on the layers. And it's the only one that lets you calibrate your pen. Could still use some UI work. Lots of brush customisation. And transforms are layer based.
"Artrage" is a new arrival: The simulated real media brushes are super fun to play with. It's got a nice, simple interface. But it is laggy as hell. Might be worth trying again when a new generation of tablets with 128 core processors become available.
"Corel paint mobile" is another new arrival. It has a nice clean interface, drawing is super responsive, and it has some watercolor brushes that are pretty sweet to work with. The brushes are "in app purchases" but you can get them all for what you'd expect the app to cost. There's not as much control over your brushes as with sketchbook and artflow, but they pretty much nailed the ones that are there. The layers work the way you'd expect them to. There's more blend modes than Sketchbook but not as many as Artflow. There's no selection here either as far as I can tell and transforms are layer based.
(*TLDR layerpaint HD)
And finally, a very pleasant surprise. The new version of layerpaint "Layerpaint HD" has evolved like a Mofo. It used to be a teeny embryonic app that had interesting potential for having the right tools and low latency, but now, it's almost like something you'd expect to find on PC. It's got enough options that I'll need to play around with it to get a feel for how it really performs but it will probably replace Artflow as my app of choice. For starters it's the only one of the bunch that had real selection and transformations. It's also the only one that I saw that lets you flip the canvas. It has all the blend modes and brush customization options. And it's the only one that lets you create brushes by importing from your pictures, so to confirm, but I expect you could upload up all your favorite photoshop brushes to your gallery and implement them in layerpaint HD. You can even adjust the pressure sensitivity curve of your stylus. One more feature, you can use one layer as a mask for other layers just like in photoshop which is something I use constantly. In the settings I also saw an option to enable layer folders. And finally, there's layer effects which I haven't seen anywhere else either, like hue saturation, gaussian blur, etc .... I think you'd probably like this one. The ONE complaint I had was that you need to name your brushes to find them because there's no actual icon for them. this is probably due to the fact you can create your own brushes.
That being said, I wouldn't mind seeing procreate on android as I've heard a lot of good things about it.
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