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