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Intro
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I have always enjoyed drawing and sketching so consequentially I have purchased and played with a number of drawing apps for the iPad.
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In this episode I thought I'd share my thoughts on a couple of my favorites
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Procreate
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By Savage interactive. USD $4.99
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My favorite one for sketching and doodling
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Clean, simple basic controls
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Subtle sliders on the left to control brush size and opacity
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Undo and redo
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Brush, smudge/blend, eraser
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each has sophisticated brushes with grain, shape, dynamics, and plot
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all the elements can be controlled
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Can create your own brushes importing grain and shape patterns from the photo library
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Layer support
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Click and hold to sample colors
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Palette picker with 21 saved color slots
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Save to Photos or send to iTunes
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Share via email.
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Not super fancy, but works great
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Sketchbook Pro
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By Autodesk. USD $4.99
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A lot of control over tools and brushes
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Presets for pencils, brushes, technical pens, markers, air brush, and more
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Custom brushes and textures with patterns
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You can control just about every aspect of a brush
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Pop-up loop to quickly control brush size and opacity
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Activated by tapping a little "ring" at the bottom of the canvas
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slide vertically to control opacity and horizontally for brush size
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Side palettes that you can pin allow for 12 preset tools (left) and 30 preset colors (right)
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Press and hold to get a "loupe" to sample colors
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Pinch to zoom up to 2500%. Great for detail work and does nice anti-aliasing
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Layer and transparency support
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Built-in store, accessed from the "i" (info) screen
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Has a number of free brush sets
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Really cool set of fine art pencils (B, HB, 2H, F, etc.)
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Sharing
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Photos, iTunes, Flickr, Facebook, Dropbox, Email, Print
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I like Sketchbook, but sometime feel like my skills are a bit under it's capabilities.
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Feels like it's more for the professional artist
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Has a steeper learning curve maybe, but lots of power in there too.
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ArtRage
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By ArtRage USD $4.99
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This is one of my favorite drawing apps on the Mac
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it has an amazing set of brushes and tools
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Pens, pencils, palette knife, paint tube, roller
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Where it excels to me is in the texture and behavior of the materials
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Watercolors that react and behave like the real thing
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Work with wet and dry paints
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Blending
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Drop blobs of paint and push then around with the palette knife
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Call kinds of canvas textures
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Canvas, Watercolor Paper, Rough paper, smooth paper
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Many of the tools have preset parameters to give different effects
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Watercolor brush has, Just water, Wet on Wet, Unclean brush, etc
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Can also customize of course using settings sliders.
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Like the desktop version palettes and tools disappear out of the way as your brush gets near them
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Collapse tool and color palette into the corners
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Has the ability to add an image as a background, but can also "pin" reference images to your canvas
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Support for layers, color swatch presets, can zoom up to 800%
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Sharing
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Photos, Email, iTunes, and Print
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Drawing Pad
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By Darren Murtha Design. USD $1.99
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This one is more kid oriented, but just fun
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Not a whole lot of fine control over your tools
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Does offer 2 different size paintbrushes
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No zooming
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Has a large library of preset materials and tools
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Paint brushes, colored pencils, crayons, pens, stamps, papers, stickers
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They are presented in a neat "drawer" that mimics a physical drawer.
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Stickers can be rotated scaled and locked or stamped in place
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Store where you can buy coloring books for $0.99 each. Can be locked out in settings.
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Share
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Photos, Twitter, Facebook, Email, Print
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Remote Palette
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By Dare Digital. USD $0.99
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Universal app, and that's important.
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You can use it stand alone, but really designed to be paired with an iPhone or iPod Touch
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4 brushes and 23 preset colors, no customization
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Pair over bluetooth to wi-fi and the iPhone or iPod acts as the Palette with your colors and controls and then the iPad is purely a canvas
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Also has a "Finger Paint" mode with coloring book pages to start from.
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Only saves to Photos
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