Free iPad Vector Drawing App Inkpad Might Turn You Into A Designer Yet
Pssst... someone's managed to design the Adobe Illustrator of iOS vector drawing apps, then forgotten to put a price tag on it. It's called Inkpad.
Create Scalable Graphics With Open-Source, Cross-Platform Tool Inkscape
Why does professional graphics editing software have to cost an arm and a leg? How about a free alternative to handle scalable vector graphics. See how Inkscape gives Adobe Illustrator a run for its money!
Procreate: One Of The Most Beautiful and Powerful iPad Art Apps Available Today
Let's set the expectations at the outset here: this is not a post about how I used iPad app Procreate to create amazing artwork, because who cares.
Create Great Diagrams Using Cacoo & Google Drive
What do you use when you need to draw a diagram? Do you do the whole thing from scratch? Do you create each and every box with a series of four lines, or do you use a program that creates the box for you? Would you go a step further and use a template? Would you appreciate ready-made images of desk furniture to design your office layout? If you're anything like me, you're always ready to make the job as easy as possible. That's where Cacoo comes in.
Create Fun Doodles and Paint Over Photos With Free Line Brush for Android
Painting is fun. Even if you don't have artistic talent, there's something about smearing paint over canvas that just works. The success of games like Draw Something extends to entire galleries dedicated to smartphone doodles, and bears this out: Painting on your phone is definitely a thing. If you agree, you should try Line Brush. This entirely free (and ad free!) app features a simple interface with a wealth of realistic brushes, and even lets you use photos as raw material.
Let Droid Teach You To Draw
If you are like me, then your best drawing doesn't get any more complex than the simplest of stick figures. Crooked lines and a lop-sided circle usually plague my drawn characters, and I’m not afraid to admit that. I absolutely envy those who are artistically talented, because it really seems like something that you are either born with or not.
DrawCast: The Most Useful & Fun Drawing App For The iPhone
We've all been bored on the bus, at the doctor's office, or in the cafeteria, and sometimes, just playing on our iPhones won't do. Reddit? Psh. Fruit Ninja? No way. Ruzzle? Not right now. Occasionally, we all like to create, and with DrawCast, you can bring that kind of creative desire to your mobile device. The app is just shy of being like an actual paintbrush and canvas, and its features – though they may be few - are powerful.
Anyone Can Doodle, Sketch, and Paint With Doodle Buddy -- Even Your Grandma! [iOS]
Doodle Buddy is meant to be fun first. A serious drawing application for sketching works of art, second. There’s no binding for the former; the latter needs the little thing called talent. Doodle Buddy is among the flotilla of creative apps that you find for the iOS platform. Doodle Buddy is simple and free. So, can it squeeze a place on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch?
Callout With Words: How to Use Microsoft PowerPoint for Drawing Speech Bubbles On Any Photo
Remember the comics of our childhood? What would they be without speech bubbles? In comics, words were calls to action and speech bubbles framed them so well. You never thought they obstructed the illustrations in any way. Speech bubbles turned into callouts when it came to business presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. They give context to what’s on the slide or a screenshot and help to turn a mundane graphic into something more interesting.
Why The Drawing & Sketching App Paper Won Apple's iPad App For 2012
The sketch and drawing app, Paper, recently won Apple's 2012 iPad App of the Year Award, and it is very easy to see why. Even if you're not an artist but are a true fan of the iPad, you will want to check out the unique, custom user interface of Paper. There are dozens of drawing apps in the iTunes Store, but Paper is about as near as it gets to an app that resembles an analog paper notebook.
Learn How To Sketchnote With The Penultimate App For The iPad
I recently wrote an article about sketchnoting, an approach to notetaking using both words and drawings. Though many of the examples of sketchnotes you see online are produced by skilled designers and artists, it's important to know that sketchnoting can be done by anyone. It's an approach to notetaking that should be taught in schools.
Top 6 YouTube Channels For Learning How To Draw Comics
YouTube is full of such tutorials for anything from a smiley face to complex characters, but many of them are hard to follow or just plain bad. How can you know which channels to focus on if you want to learn to draw, or hone your drawing skills? That’s what MakeUseOf here for! Below you’ll find a list of the top YouTube channels, arranged by drawing level from simple to more advanced, that will help you learn how to draw.
Use Pixel'd To Create Beautiful Pixel Art [iOS]
Sometimes it is fun to sit back and create something new. If you have artistic ability, your options for creating are vast. For those of us who do not have any ability, our options are extremely limited. I have stumbled across this fantastic iPhone app called Pixel’d which allows users to create some beautiful pictures even if their artistic abilities are lacking. We can’t all be the next Michelangelo, but with the help of technology, we can certainly try.
Griffin, TouchTec, AmazonBasics Styluses Review and Giveaway
Today, I will be reviewing 3 kinds of styluses from three different companies. I will be checking how each stylus performs in different touch-screen tasks, how comfortable each stylus is to hold and use, and at the end will give you my own conclusion as to which of these three is the best, and which one would be the best buy for which task. In addition, we'll be giving away 5 sets of all three styluses to five lucky readers (each winner will receive all 3 styluses)! Let's see how they fared on my 1st generation iPad.
10 Cool Websites Featuring Draw Something Art
Draw Something is a mobile app that started life at OMGPOP but ended up at Zynga after the latter bought the former for $180 million in March 2012. Zynga might have paid over the odds for the company in order to get its hands on the game, which at the time was growing in popularity at an Angry Birds-style rate. Draw Something isn't as popular as it once was, with a notable drop in the number of active users of late.
Let Your Artistic Drive Run Wild With Infinite Painter Free, A Powerful Drawing App [Android 2.1+]
You don't need to be a bona-fide artist to enjoy doodling and painting. While there are Web apps such as Canvastic and Windows apps such as the wonderful Artweaver, there is something different about painting with a touchscreen. It requires less eye-hand coordination than painting with a mouse or a pen tablet, because you can see exactly what you're doing.
Wacom Intuos5 touch Small Pen Tablet Review and Giveaway
Pen tablets are an awesome invention. I don’t mean those tiny pads you use to sign electronic documents at the bank (although those are nice too). I mean the serious, professional models that artists use to create mind-blowing paintings and conjure Photoshop magic. We will be giving away a brand-new Wacom Intuos5 touch Small tablet to a lucky winner, so if you’d like to have a chance at winning it, just join the giveaway after the review.
They Draw & Cook: A Fantastic Way to Browse Recipes & View Great Digital Artwork
Recipe sites and services abound on the net, but it’s always interesting to find ones that, er, bring something new to the table, like combine recipes with art. Recipes and artwork? How can those two even be related? Related or not, there is a website that has linked just these two things in a beautiful way. The resulting effect is probably going to make you feel incredibly inspired to either cook, start practicing sketching/design work or both!
5 Fun Draw Something Videos for the Addicted
Draw Something is the current darling of the mobile games industry, having achieved huge popularity around the world in a short space of time. In fact, it's been crowned the fastest-growing mobile game of all time thanks to 50 million downloads in its first 50 days of being available. Zynga saw so much potential there it bought the company behind the game just to get its hands on this one title.
Introducing Paper, A Simply Beautiful Sketchbook App [iPad]
Paper by Studio Fifty Three (iTunes link), which is admittedly a rather un-Googleable name for an app, is the ultimate in distraction-free simplified idea sketching. Your options are ridiculously limited - but that's part of the beauty. The brushes, available via in-app purchases with only the basic fountain pen free, feel wonderful.