Tayasui Sketches - Art Drawing vs Zen Brush 3 Usage & Stats

Sketches - Art Drawing is the ultimate drawing tool, with realistic brushes and easy-to-use interface. We’ve created tools that feel like real ones, ensuring your drawings always look amazing. Tools and Features * Drawing Tools and Enhancements: With over 20 tools that mimic real-life drawing implements, Sketches - Art Drawing includes an array of options such as pens, Rotring, felt pens, pen brushes, oil pastels, watercolor (both dry and wet), acrylic brushes, and airbrushes. * Tracing Projector: allows users to project their sketches onto any surface, facilitating tracing. This tool significantly enhances the creative workflow by enabling broader applications of the artwork. * Precision Tools: The application offers various rulers and magnetic shapes, including straight, arc, circle, and spline rulers, alongside symmetry and cutout shapes. * Photo and Brush Customization: Users can easily import photos to work from, and a comprehensive brush editor allows for extensive customization. Additionally, the super realistic wet brush enhances watercolor effects. * Color Management: The app includes a color eyedropper, mixer, and support for color palettes (.ase). * Layer Management: Sketches - Art Drawing simplifies complex tasks through the use of layers, which can be exported as transparent PNG files or imported and exported as PSD files with layers intact. * Patterns and Customization Users have the ability to import, draw, and customize their own patterns, adding a unique touch to their creations. * Cloud Sync and Organization The application ensures that your work is safe and accessible through cloud backup and synchronization across all devices. Users can manage sync options on a per-folder basis, providing flexibility and control. Additionally, drawings can be organized into personalized folders or books, ensuring efficient management of artwork. * Stylus and User Interface Full support for Apple Pencil enhances the realism of brushes, adapting to pressure, angle, and width, much like traditional drawing tools. The user interface is designed to be clean and unobtrusive, disappearing as you draw to provide a clear and focused canvas. * Drawing Implements: Pen, Rotring, felt pen, pen brush, oil pastel, watercolor (dry and wet brushes), acrylic brush, airbrush. * Utility Tools: Area and filling tool, patterns, text, shapes (iPad only), eraser, cutter, smudge tool. * Precision Tools: Various rulers including straight, arc, circle, and spline, as well as symmetry and cutout shapes. With its extensive feature set and innovative tools like the image projector, Sketches - Art Drawing stands out as a versatile and powerful tool for artists, illustrators, and creative professionals.

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Zen Brush 3

Zen Brush 3 is a drawing app focused on the strong yet beautiful feel of the East Asian ink brush which can be used to perform calligraphy, ink painting and more. The drawing system that brings to life a feeling of silky fluent and delicate painting now allows an even wider range of expression thanks to the addition of "water" and "color". Providing a new simple and intuitive user interface, this app is designed to be optimal for performing Zen art. Simply start the app and you are immediately ready to draw. Anyone, anywhere, can create superb Zen art with this app’s uniquely rich expressiveness. You can also easily share and edit your calligraphy and images with other apps using the Export functionality. Skillfully use the rich background style templates to create and share atmospheric artwork. - The drawing system simulates a 3D model of an East Asian ink brush to enable varied and natural styles of brush handling. - The adjustable amount of water makes it possible to create expressions ranging from powerful edge effects to "nijimi" (bleeding) and "bokashi" (blurring) where colors mix. - You can also enjoy creating colored-ink paintings as well as watercolor paintings by making use of 30 selected traditional Japanese colors. - The layer functionality allows more flexible editing. - Import photos to add text to them or use them as background images for tracing. - Create fascinating artwork with a rich assortment of background style templates. - Traditional Japanese paper templates provide an authentic feel. Features: - 5 main tools (ink brush, color brush, water brush, eraser, blotting paper). - 10 levels of thickness. - 5 levels of water (not applicable to blotting paper). - 10 levels of ink tone (not applicable to water brush and blotting paper). - Color palette with 30 colors. - 89 background style templates. - Drying functionality (fast dry, instant dry, adjustable natural dry). - Layers functionality (import image / color adjustment / move / rotate / scale / reverse left and right / white transparency / gradation effect). - Guide display (character guides / partition guides / grid guides). - Movable toolbar (top / bottom / left / right). - Canvas zoom (zoom in and out with pinch gestures). - Undo / redo (5 levels). - Export functionality (formats: JPEG, PNG, transparent PNG (no background)). - Support for Apple Pencil (1st and 2nd generation). - Support for 3D Touch (where available: iPhone 6S - XS). - Drawing tool selection (finger and stylus / stylus only). - Adjustable brush pressure sensitivity (5 levels, with supported stylus only). - Adjustable tilt sensitivity (5 levels, with supported stylus only). - Gesture functionality (pinch zoom and drag, zoom toggle with 2-finger tap). - 3D brush display (enable / disable). - Pointer display (enable / disable). - 5 levels of canvas resolution with a maximum of 3072 x 4096 pixels (the higher resolutions do not work on devices with lower specs).