Smartphones and tablets with Android, thanks to their technical characteristics and rich functionality, are largely able to replace the computer. And considering the size of the displays of these devices, you can use them including for drawing. Of course, it will take advantageously to find a suitable application, and today we will tell you immediately about several of those.
Adobe Illustrator Draw.
An application for creating vector graphics created by the world-famous software developer. The illustrator supports working with layers and provides the ability to export projects not only in a similar PC program, but also in a full photoshop. Creating thumbnails can be performed using five different pen tips for each of which a change in transparency, size and color is available. Drawing small details of the image will be performed without errors thanks to the scaling function, which can be increased to 64 times.
Adobe Illustrator Draw allows you to simultaneously work with multiple images and / or layers, moreover, each of them can be duplicated, renamed, combined with adjacent, is configured individually. There is the possibility of inserting stencils with basic and vector forms. Implemented service support from Creative Cloud package, thanks to which you can find unique templates, licensed images and synchronize projects between devices.
Download Adobe Illustrator Draw from Google Play Market
Adobe Photoshop Sketch.
Another product from Adobe, which, unlike an unfair older brother, is focused solely on drawing, and for this there is everything you need here. An extensive set of tools available in this application includes pencils, markers, pens, various brushes and paint (acrylic, oil, watercolor, ink, pastel, etc.). As in the case of the solution discussed above, with which they are made in a single interface style, ready-made projects can be exported to a table photoshop, and in an illustrator.
Each of the tools presented in Sketch gives back to the detailed setting. So, you can change the color, transparency, overlay, thickness, and rigidity of the brush, as well as much more. It is quite expected that it also has the ability to work with layers - among the available options, their streamlining, transformation, association and rename. The Creative Cloud branded service is also implemented, which opens access to additional content and mandatory both for advanced users and for beginners, synchronization functions.
Download Adobe Photoshop Sketch from Google Play Market
Autodesk Sketchbook.
Let's start with the fact that this application, unlike those discussed above, is absolutely free, and Adobe clearly should take an example from their not less famous colleagues in the workshop. With the help of a sketchbook, you can create simple sketches and conceptual sketches, refine the images created in other graphic editors (including desktop). As it should be assigned to professional solutions, there are support for layers, there are means for working with symmetry.
Sketchbook from Autodesk contains a large set of brushes, markers, pencils, and "behavior" of each of these tools can be adjusted to their needs. A pleasant bonus is that this application supports working with ICloud and Dropbox cloud storage facilities, and therefore, you can not worry about the safety and availability of access to projects, wherever you are and what device did not plan to look or change it.
Download Autodesk Sketchbook from Google Play Market
Painter Mobile.
Another mobile product, the developer of which does not need a presentation - Painter is created by Corel. The application is presented in two versions - limited free and full-featured, but paid. As the solution discussed above, it allows you to draw sketches of any complexity, supports the work with the stylus and allows you to export projects to the desktop version of the corporate editor - Corel Painter. Additionally, the ability to save images to "Photoshop" PSD is available.
The very expected support for the layers in this program is also present - they can be up to 20 here. To draw small parts, it is proposed to use not only the scaling function, but also tools from the Symmetry section, thanks to which you can accurately repeat the strokes. It should be noted that the necessary and sufficient for beginner at least the means of creating and studying unique drawings is presented in the basic version of Paintera, but for gaining access to professional tools, it will still be necessary to pay.
Download Painter Mobile from Google Play Market
MediBang Paint
A free app for lovers of Japanese anime and manga, at least it is for the drawings in these directions it is most suitable. Although the classic comics to create with it will not be difficult. In the built-in library, more than 1000 tools are available, including various brushes, feathers, pencils, markers, fonts, textures, background images and diverse patterns. MediBang Paint is available not only on mobile platforms, but also on the PC, and therefore it is quite logical that there is a synchronization function. This means that you can start creating your project on one device, and then continue to work on it already on the other.
If you register on the application site, you can access the free cloud storage, which, in addition to the obvious storage of projects, provides the ability to manage them and create backup copies. Separate attention deserves tools for drawing the comics mentioned at the very beginning of comics and manga - the creation of panels and their coloring are implemented very convenient, and thanks to the guide and automatic correction of the pen, you can work in detail and portray even the smallest item.
Download MediBang Paint from Google Play Market
Infinite Painter.
According to developers, this product has no analogues in the segment of drawing applications. We do not think so, but to pay attention to him clearly costs a lot of advantages. So, just a look at the main screen and the control panel is enough to understand - with the help of this application you can easily embody the idea of any complexity and create a truly unique, high-quality and detailed pattern. Of course, work is supported with layers, and tools for ease of choice and navigation are divided into groups of category.
In the extensive set of Infinite Painter, there are over 100 artistic brushes, and for most of them there are presets. If you wish, you can create your own billets or simply change the preinstalled for your needs.
Download Infinite Painter from Google Play Market
ArtFlow.
A simple and convenient application for drawing, in all the intricacies of which even a child will understand. The basic version is available for free, but for getting access to the full library of tools will have to pay. There are a lot of customizable tools (one only in the brushes is over 80), a detailed setting of color, its saturation, brightness and shade is available, there are means of selection, masks and guide.
As all those considered by us above the "Drawing", ArtFlow supports work with layers (up to 32), and among most analogs is allocated by the proprietary pattern of a symmetric pattern with the possibility of its customization. The program works well with high resolution images and allows you to export them not only to the common JPG and PNG, but also in the PSD used as the main one in Adobe Photoshop. For built-in tools, you can configure the power of pressing, rigidity, transparency, strength and size of strokes, thickness, and saturation of the line, as well as many other parameters.
Download ARTFLOW from Google Play Market
Most of the applications considered by us are paid, but those that are not focused exclusively on professionals (as Adobe products), even in their free versions provide fairly ample opportunities for drawing on smartphones and tablets with Android.