Brushes vs Sketch Club Usage & Stats

Brushes 4 is the latest iteration of the app that started the iPhone and iPad painting revolution. Redesigned with a clean and modern user interface, Brushes supports iPhone and iPad with optimisation for the iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone Pro and iPad with Apple Pencil. • Highlights: - Clean and modern user interface with light and dark modes. - Files based painting gallery. - New canvas interface. - Apple Pencil support with pressure curve. – Unlimited undo and redo. - Continuous auto-save. - Cloud Drive import and export. • Parameterized Brushes: - Selection of ready to use brushes with customisable settings. - Create your own custom brushes from millions of permutations. - Generate random brushes for inspiration. - Dynamic adjustment of brush size and opacity. • Layers: - Layer your artwork for greater control. – Lock and hide layers. – Use alpha lock to only paint where pixels already exist. – Adjust individual layer opacity. – Duplicate, rearrange and merge layers. – Apply layer blending modes: normal, multiply, screen, exclude. - Color fill any layer. – Invert layer color and desaturate. – Flip and arbitrarily transform layers. – Adjust the color balance per layer. – Adjust layer hue, saturation and brightness. • Colors: - Colour picker with hue ring and saturation square. - Store and recall your favourite colors in swatches. - Sample painting colors with the eyedropper tool. • Apple Pencil: - Intuitive and powerful pressure curve to match your style. - Configurable realtime pressure based adjustment of brush size and opacity. • Creation: - Preset canvas sizes for paper, photographs, iPhone and iPad screens, film and television displays. - Custom canvas size. • Import, export and sharing: - Import images directly from your camera roll. - Import PNG and JPEG images from cloud services. - Export your paintings for sharing or importing into other apps as PNG and JPEG to all cloud storage services or as photos directly to your camera roll. - Compatible with paintings created by Brushes 3 and Brushes Redux. • Light and dark appearances: - Choose between light and dark monochrome appearances, or current system setting. - Minimal use of user interface color so that tints in the user interface do not distract from or influence your artwork color choices. Acknowledgements. Thank you to Angela Ali, Jason M., Jeff Parker, Sandra Perez and Yoshiyuki Uchida for contributing artwork to the App Store screenshots. Please visit our website to see more of their artwork and for links to their portfolios. History. Brushes was originally created by Steve Sprang for iPhone in 2009 and for iPad in 2010. His last version, Brushes 3 was released in 2012, but was removed from the App Store in 2015. I took over development to modernise and support an app that has continued to be enjoyed by so many artists.

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Sketch Club

SketchClub not only gives you fantastic tools to sketch, draw, doodle, paint, and edit photos but also helps motivate you to keep creating! Check out the community where there’s a new drawing challenge every day, along with regular competitions and even co-ops where you can pick up where another artist left off. Don’t sketch alone, join us today! CORE FEATURES • Brush, Blur, Eraser, Fill, Pen, Pixels, Procedural, Select, Smudge, Text, and Vector tools • Hundreds of Layers with configurable blending, naming, and color tagging • Create your own comics and manga with the Pen and Text tools • Layer filters for color adjust, blurs, edges, noise, vignette and more • Layer transform with skew, shear, perspective, and tiling • Super fast brush and compositing engine • Up to 16K canvas size with presets including standard 300 DPI print sizes • Line, circle, square, and triangle shapes with automatic aspect ratio snapping • Horizontal, vertical, and dual mirroring modes • Canvas recording and export in full 1080 HD • Background autosave and persistent undo history • Universal binary supports both iPhones and iPads • 10 years running of continuous updates and improvements! TOOLS • Brushes with high resolution shapes, pattern textures, and input curves • Loads of built in tool presets plus thousands more from the community • Export sketches and presets to iCloud, Dropbox, Email and more • Create and share custom brush presets in community library • Pen tool presets include calligraphy, fountain pen, gel pen, and more • Pen and Vector tools include simplify for smooth lines even with shaky hands • Create smooth filled shapes and gradient with Vector • Procedural Sketchy and Smooth for amazing fast results • Procedural Bristles for realistic oil paint simulation • Animated GIF export CUSTOMIZE • Configurable color themes to make Sketch Club uniquely yours • Customizable shortcut bar for single tap access to your favorite functionality • Popup quick color swatch and size and opacity controls • Floating reference image with color sampling COMMUNITY • New challenge every day and new competition every week! • Massive library of shared brushes, templates, and textures • Live stream and chat for feedback and fun while you draw • Learn through tutorials, speed painting videos, and live classes • Follow other artists and gain fans as you share your creations • Community whiteboard with realtime collaborative drawing and fun events • Annual awards honoring the best creations every year FOR THE PROS • Excellent iPad Pro and Apple Pencil support • PSD file format export • RGB and hexadecimal color inputs • Bluetooth stylus support for Adonit, Hex3, Pogo, SonarPen, and Wacom • Screen mirroring modes for presentations and demos • Draw in Multiply, Normal, Overlay, and Screen brush blend modes • Input curves with angle, distance, fade, pressure, random, speed tilt, and time What are you waiting for, create with us in SketchClub today!