Android art apps (and styli) in five tweets.
Categories: artwork, general-stuff
Tags: ArtRage, Fresh Paint, Didlr, Hudl, Sketchbook Pro, Photoshop Touch, LetsHudl, Android Art Apps, Buyers Guide, Twitter, best android art apps, clover app, Drawing Pad, Infinite Painter, Art flow
Date: 19 February 2014 07:44:28
I really should find time to update my 'so you've bought/been given a tablet' page as new styli and apps come out all of the time and my preferences have changed a little. However was mentioned yesterday in a tweet that I could suggest some of the best art apps on Android and here are my replies (because 140 chars is just not enough sometimes :)
Sketchbook Pro, Photoshop, Didlr, Art Flow, Infinite Painter, Watercolor pencil are my faves (in order).
Clover is interesting too in a hmm way. S Note is pretty good too if you have a Samsung.
Harmony + Webchemy work well if you have a web connection, PhotoViva is good odd. Drawing Pad good for all ages :)
Depending on what you have, it's also all about stylus. Jot Script has worked on 90% of Android screens I've played with.
After that I tend to go for Dagi, Pogo Sketch Pro, Nomad Mini 2 or Compose + Stylus Sock for Android.
To be honest I might be being a bit harsh on Clover there. It's a very cool, quirky and odd art app and I thoroughly enjoyed drawing with it yesterday. The only problem is that the interface is VERY unique and tends to take up a third of the screen, which is quite a lot on a 7 inch tablet. Also - I'm almost embarrassed to admit - I took a while to work out how to save/share a picture, even when I found the save button. It's THAT obtuse an interface...
That said, in the absence of some of the heavy hitters on the Android store (ArtRage, Procreate, Art Studio et al) it's growing as one of my favourite real world media apps on a non iOS machine. (That said: Fresh Paint is by far my favourite real world material app when I'm not on ArtRage...)
So there you have it. I can be brief, it seems, but only if I use Twitter to compose my blogs and then I'm not brief where Twitter in concerned.
I should get back to writing books. It's obviously an itch that needs scratching.