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From quick sketches to fully finished artwork, Sketchbook goes where your creativity takes you.
Sketchbook is an award-winning sketching, painting, and drawing app for anyone who loves to draw. Artists and illustrators love Sketchbook for its professional-grade feature set and highly customizable tools. Everyone loves Sketchbook for its elegant interface and natural drawing experience, free of distractions so you can focus on capturing and expressing your ideas.
• A full complement of brush types: pencils markers, airbrushes, smear and more that look and feel just like their physical counterparts
• Brushes are highly customizable so you can create just the look you want
• Guides, rulers and stroke tools support precision when you need it
• Layers with a full complement of blend modes deliver the flexibility to build up and explore drawings and color
• Purpose-built for sketching, the interface is clean and unobtrusive so you can focus on drawing
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• Import and export brushes
• Create your own custom brushes
• Resize your canvas or image
• Set canvas resolution in px/inch or px/cm
• Clipping masks
• Additional layer adjustments including blur, sharpen, brightness/contrast, greyscale, and invert
• Additional color harmonies
• Additional custom gradients
• Select color from reference images
• Extract color palettes from images
• Import and export color palettes
• Layer grouping
• Layer masking Blend Modes
• Draw Outline tool
• Lasso Fill tool
• Export to PDF
• plus more to come!
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What is Sketchbook®?
Sketchbook® is a digital product or tool described as: Sketchbook, Inc
Where did Sketchbook® originate?
Data for Sketchbook® was aggregated directly from the Apple App Store community ecosystem, representing raw developer and early-adopter sentiment.
When was Sketchbook® publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for Sketchbook® within our tracked developer communities was recorded on October 9, 2014.
How popular is Sketchbook®?
Sketchbook® has achieved measurable traction, logging over 220,532 reviews and facilitating 5 recorded discussions or engagements.
Which technical categories define Sketchbook®?
Based on metadata extraction, Sketchbook® is categorized under topics such as: Graphics & Design, Productivity.
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How does the creator describe Sketchbook®?
The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "From quick sketches to fully finished artwork, Sketchbook goes where your creativity takes you.
Sketchbook is an award-winning sketching, painting, and drawing app for anyone who loves to draw. A..."
Community Voice & Feedback
I enjoy much this app so much, but every time when I come back, it keeps trying to open up. Can you update this app so It doesn’t do the same thing over and over and over again
I LOVE this as a drawing app, I've tried procreate and ibisPaint but they are so much harder to use and feel much more limiting. I've been using the app for years now and it really has everything you need in an accessible way. No ads and just a 3 dollar premium is amazing too. The ONLY thing I wish it had was an animation feature, I'm starting to get into animation and having to use a different app that I'm not used to has been rlly annoying.
I honestly enjoy the tools and and everything it offers. Even without premium, you can still make good art! I would definitely recommend this app to other artists.
I have a few small issues. When i use the “fill” tool, sometimes it will fill up parts of my art that i do not want filled, which can be irritating, since the other day i was drawing and i used the fill tool and it did that, and i accidentally closed the app, and i couldn’t undo this mistake. other than that, i don’t really have any issues with this app, as a beginner artist, it’s great for drawing! sometimes i do have other issues, like something when i use the color dropper thing (idk what its called) it picks the wrong color, which can be annoying. and sometimes when i try using the “select “ tool it doesn’t work, which also can be frustrating. but, overall, love the app! currently drawing a new pfp for my pinterest (it’s ribbit jax kaufmo and ragatha if i have any other tadc fans in the house)
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T DOESN'T HAVE ADS IT'S FUN AND YOU CAN DRAW WHATEVER YOU WANT
T DOESN'T HAVE ADS IT'S FUN AND YOU CAN DRAW WHATEVER YOU WANT
I love this app so much I’ve used it for a long time! I like that it has no ads and you don’t HAVE to buy the subscription! It also works really well! I don’t like that when you go to gallery for a second it doesnt save you drawing anymore (i learned the hard way(,: ) like it used to but it’s not that bad! The blending is kind of hard to use, but i might just not be good at using it. Great with fill bucket but some brushes like the pencil are more thin so they can’t fill in and it might fill the whole page, so you just need to remember that. Nothing that bad, and it’s GREAT for beginner and for advanced artists.
It was good for a year, but now it doesn’t let me draw and I can’t delete the app to restart it. I’ve tried restarting my iPad. Nothing worked. If anyone can please help me out. Please help me out.
I'm sure he got this app simply for drawing or painting on it's fine it is clean as far as luck graphics and layout is a step up then previous app I use of this nature the only problem is is I do a lot of layering work and I just I cannot get over the fact that to decrease a layer size will let you go down so far and you have to do a work around to let it go down further than the app says you can I just don't understand that that is a completely huge limitation at least for someone that does the kind of projects that I partake if you sketch if you draw if you paint I would recommend this probably I don't do that a lot with apps but I would definitely recommend recommended it seems clean but if you try any type of actual layering to where you have to take it down just a bit I would just trash the app and go with another direction.
If you're looking for a good app for drawing and writing i would recommend this app, it doesn't need you to watch an ad or anything like that to draw and if you want you can create an album and there are so many other stuffs that are so good! I can't recommend this app enough!
I spent over an hour for it to turn out that i cant fill in paint when i use the fill bucket on something and i made the stuff divided and guess what? STILL NO FILLING, IT FILLS THE ENTIRE THING INSTEAD.
can u actually make it stop deleting half of my work ? fix it. pls n thank u
The app is a pretty good app but there arnt all the tools that I need for the my art
I have been using Sketchbook since about 2016-ish, and it has never failed me! As a lifelong illustrator, I could not recommend a better app for artists of all skill levels. It is clean, organized, user-friendly, and comes with a diverse toolkit that will surely satisfy any creative soul lucky enough to come across it. All in all, a very reliable, affordable app with the artist’s experience in mind.
The only warning that I would give is that, speaking from experience, it *will* crash if you add too many layers. The layer count tends to top out at around 50 before your art starts to not respond to you anymore, so be wary and make sure you are being economical with your layers. They don’t grow on trees.
That said, whoever is looking to get their hands on this app, all I can say is that I hope you have a great time with Sketchbook!
The only warning that I would give is that, speaking from experience, it *will* crash if you add too many layers. The layer count tends to top out at around 50 before your art starts to not respond to you anymore, so be wary and make sure you are being economical with your layers. They don’t grow on trees.
That said, whoever is looking to get their hands on this app, all I can say is that I hope you have a great time with Sketchbook!
It’s cool because I can make my things and my baby sister can also play on it and it’s awesome it has a lot of tools for u to use and I love it a lot and u guys will to!
Sketchbook is literally amazing. First time. I tried it. It blew my mind of how many brushes there are for free. I mean, you don’t even have to pay for a certain amount of time and it’s just you can do whatever you want. There’s a lot of things that you can do, and you can make, however many, like untitled things you want. So amazing. You should totally buy it. Thank you for not making this to get with money. You don’t really hit the paper for anything. There’s a lot of brushes. It’s very high-quality. Great to use with stencils. You can change the brightness and everything else. So I think that it’s just amazing by now.
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