Modern iPad models are used not only for entertainment, but also for education and work. One of the possible areas of its application is drawing, especially if we talk about the devices of the Pro and "simply iPad" line, issued in 2018 and 2019 - they support the branded Apple Pencil, recognizing the angle and strength of clicking, and some third-party stylus, and the screen diagonal is enough Great to create your own masterpieces. All this can be done only with the help of special applications, and we will tell about them today.
ProCreate.
This is the most popular application for drawing on the iPad, it is actively used by professional designers and artists, but also perfectly suitable for novice users. With it, you can create drawings of any complexity - from simple sketches to pictures of professional quality and animation. The layers support is implemented, and the unique Valkyrie engine is based on. The Procreate Arsenal has a set of more than hundreds of brushes, a variety of artistic tools, effects and filters are available.
The application supports ultrashire permission, up to 16k to 4K (on iPad Pro). There is a useful feature of Quickshape, which simplifies the creation of ideal forms, there are rustum products. This is a really powerful drawing software solution, which is compatible not only with the proprietary Apple Pencil, but also with external keyboards, thanks to which you can use key combinations for faster and convenient operation. Separately, it is worth using continuous auto storage, cancellation and repetition of up to 250 steps. Procreate is paid and has no introductory version.
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Adobe Illustrator Draw.
An application for drawing on the iPad from a well-known developer, which has a variety of customizable brushes, there is the possibility of designing and creating their own styles. A pleasant "chip", especially for newbies, is a library of stencils, template objects and figures (squares, circles, polygons, patterns, blocks for replicas in comics and contours of characters). Illustrator Draw supports layers, which is especially important when working with complex projects. The latter, by the way, can be imported into Photoshop. Additionally available video creation available in which the entire drawing process will be captured. You can also mix photos with vector image layers.
Created in this program canvas for the project may have permission up to 8k with 64-fold scaling, which, although slightly less than that in ProCreate, but still clearly just the majority of both beginners and professional users. The arsenal has five thin customizable brushes with unique cones, and parameters such as opacity, color and size can be adjusted infinitely. Separately, it is worth highlighting close integration with other Adobe products, including Stock and Creative Cloud. The application can be used for free, but to get access to all functions will be required to issue a subscription.
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Adobe Fresco.
Another drawing program on the "apple" tablet with Pencil support, first and foremost on painting and creating graphics. She will be interested both professional artists and lovers - both first, and the second will be able to create their masterpiece with its help. All photoshop brushes are available in Fresco (both vector and alive), there is also a set of more than 1,000 unique brushes created by the famous Master Kille T. Webster. Parameters such as opacity, color, size and rigidity can be fine tuning. You can draw in watercolor and oil paints here, which work in the same way as their real analogues. It is possible to change intensity, mixing, lubrication and rubbing. Scaling is available for vector brushes, which allows you to create flawlessly clear lines that will remain as such even when printing in high resolution.
The arsenal of the application under consideration has tools for illustrators, including the means of selection and disguise. Layers are supported, and the adaptive interface makes it possible to work much faster and more convenient, without being distracted. As in Illustrator Draw, synchronization with other products of the Adobe family has been implemented here, as well as with branded cloud storage, which allows you to have permanent access to all your projects on any device. Fresco is free, but, like the entire software development company, requires subscription to unlock all functionality.
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Adobe Photoshop Sketch.
The application for beginners and experienced artists in which, as in the considered above, there is a set of brushes from classical photoshop. In addition to them, there are pens and pencils, as well as selected tools from the already mentioned Kyle T. Websters. Sketch allows you to send the pictures created on the iPad and iPhone to other developer applications, which use the Creative Cloud storage. It is expected that Apple Pencil support is also implemented here, and to simplify the creation of images, newcomers have an extensive library of template figures and stencils. Mesh with a perspective made in the form of a graph will help even more detail.
As in other similar products, Adobe, this is supported by large canvases (up to 8k), which makes it possible to achieve the highest possible quality not only when working with a digital project, but also on printing. The canvas itself is scalable, thanks to which you can more accurately work out the details. For all embedded brushes, size, color, transparency and overlay are adjustable. There is a free version, but, as in the cases discussed above, without making a subscription to access all functions will not work.
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Autodesk Sketchbook.
Advanced program for drawing on the iPad, the key functions of which most actively used by users were transferred here from the desktop version. With the help of Autodesk SketchBook, you can create high-quality and unique sketches, sketches and illustrations, using built-in tools that guide perspectives with points and shock switches, their locking. There are means for setting up grids, both endless and limitations, as a result of which the process of studying parts in the image is significantly simplified. There is a useful tool "RUB Curve", which allows you to create curves that cannot be drawn with the help of "ellipse".
Apple Pencil is supported by the first and second generation, on topical (at the time of writing an article), the iPad models implemented a sketch scan function. The main advantage, especially if compared with the solutions discussed above, is completely free distribution, and it is functionally not inferior to its analogues.
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Paper.
The original application for iPad, which combines a simple "drawing" and organizer. With it, you can not only create sketches, illustrations and drawings, but also notes, graphs, lists. Paper is a set of three-dimensional notebooks, between which, as between the individual pages, can be moved by convenient gestures. On the toolbar there are brush, pen, marker, pencil, pen, eraser, line, fill. A selection of color, size and density of smear, trimming and insertion is available, that is, you can not only create your own images, but also change, complement the finished.
To study the details of the drawing, you can choose one of the grids or framework options, resort to scaling. As part there are also template bases for creating comics, mobile layouts, prospects, a variety of schedulers. This program is presented in two versions - free and pro. The first, unfortunately, is very limited in the functional plan: part of the tools is not available, there is no possibility to change the size of the brushes, and most of the templates are closed. If you are tuned solely on drawing, closer to professional, and not amateur, it is better to pay attention to other solutions in this review.
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Create.
Powerful and simultaneously easy to use application for drawing and graphic design, allowing you to create projects of any complexity and share them with other users. In Create, you can work with photos, apply various fonts, add shapes and lines, create graphics, interfaces, posts for social networks, collages, and even make geofilters for Snapchat. Import and export elements of vector graphics are available, so that the drawing can be both sent to the final processing in another program and, on the contrary, is completed already in this.
You can add text, graphic objects created in Create images, selection elements, comments. There is a large library of ready-made layouts, it is possible to add your own and install third-party fonts. Apple Pencil is supported, work with layers and cloth scaling is conveniently implemented. There is a built-in help, the necessary information in which is presented not only in the form of text, but also in more visual videos. The disadvantage is only the fact that the full version of the program, which opens all its functions and tools, is available exclusively by subscription (99 rubles per month).
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Drawing Desk.
This application is positioned by developers as an ideal creative platform for children and adults, endowed with unique features and four working modes. The latter are "Tables" (Desk), and the name of each of them speaks for itself - Kids, Doodle, Sketch, photo. Children's regime implemented in Drawing Desk will turn the drawing into a unique process by providing the possibility of using built-in stamps, templates, brushes and paints, the size and power of pressing which can be easily adjusted. The very creation of a picture of the child proceeds to the music and is accompanied by the appearance of step-by-step prompts, many errors and minor shortcomings can be corrected automatically.
The program allows you to create copyright dulls - for these purposes there is an extensive set of three-dimensional brushes, an extended color palette, a smooth erasing tool, a collection of stamps and stickers, as well as a multiple cancellation function and repetition of actions. There is an opportunity to create a sketch, there are necessary brushes, pencils, pencils, line and template forms for these purposes. The composition has a simple editor to process already ready images. Unfortunately, Drawing Desk is available only by subscription, and with weekly payment, but to familiarize themselves with all the functions, you can use a 7-day trial version.
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Picsart Color Paint.
Another application for creating digital illustrations endowed with the necessary set of tools. Despite the statement of developers that their product is suitable for both newcomers and pros, the latter will certainly find it flawless and not functional. Nevertheless, pretty high-quality and detailed drawings to create with PICSART Color Paint will work. To do this, there is a large set of customizable brushes, there is a palette of colors with the possibility of their convenient mixing.
You can draw in this program not only by color, but also texture, the creation of unique patterns is available, painting pictures. Among the additional features is to highlight the import photo, which allows you to work with ready-made images (for example, your own selfie). Support for multi-layered and overlays is implemented, and a wheel and mixer is provided for the selection of suitable colors. It is possible to add text. The main advantages is the function of automatic recovery of projects and free distribution, annoying advertising here is also not.
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Tayasui Sketches
Software for drawing on iPad and iPhone, endowed with a large set of realistic tools. It is primarily focused on creating sketches and illustrations that can be saved both on the device and in the built-in cloud storage, their publication is possible in the integrated community. Tayasui Sketches are supported by layers, though no more than four for the project. But each of them, if necessary, can be exported by a separate file in PNG format, retaining transparency.
The parameters of the brushes available in the application can be fine-tuning - for this a separate editor is provided here. Special attention deserves a unique brush for watercolor "on wet". For the selection of the appropriate color, there is both an extensive palette and pipette. Apple, Wacom and Adonit stylus are supported, so that with the already sensitive to nazhimus, brushes can work more comfortably and accurately. Like Paper, this "drawing" is presented in a free and paid version. In the first there is no synchronization with a cloud and a number of functions, without which it is simply not to create a complete picture.
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Tayasui Memopad.
In complete, consider the simplest drawing application on Apple mobile devices. Functionally, at least, if we talk about the basic (free) version, it is not much different from a well-all friend paint in Windows, the only difference is that the support of the layers is implemented, and a number of parameters can be adjusted for each of them: opacity, Lighting and blackout, duplication, rotation, conversion. A set of tools in Memopad small, but necessary brush, pencil, pen, pen, marker, fill and eraser here.
It is possible to significantly expand the functionality of the program under consideration, if you purchase its pro-version, the purchase of various additions is also available, allowing you to configure the pre-installed tools in detail - edit their "behavior" (thickness, rigidity, etc.), color gamut, use a pipette. Supplements are provided, sharpened for a specific drawing style: Watercolor on wet, acrylic paints, ballpoint pen. In addition, to the product from Tayasui, you can add support for the PSD format used in Adobe Photoshop. All this can be tested for free within an hour. In addition to paid propagation, the disadvantage is also the absence of a rusification of the interface, which is in each of the solutions considered by us.
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We looked at the best apps for drawing on the iPad. Most of them are paid or accessible to subscription use, but almost everything allows you to familiarize yourself with the part or with all the functionality, and even create complete drawings in our basic versions. If you want to work at a professional level, also using Apple Pencil, it is clearly worth thinking about the purchase.