Digital painting has made great strides in recent years thanks also to the applications for tablets and smartphones that make it easy to draw using your finger or a nib on the touchscreen. It is therefore worth discovering the best applications for drawing on Android smartphones and tablets, for iPhone and iPad, looking for only the free ones that have all the features required by a painting software and that, above all, are simple to use even for less experienced. Here then the best apps to paint, draw and paint on Android and iPhone / iPad .
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1) Adobe Photoshop Sketch, free for Android and iPhone, is the best application for drawing on the screen of your smartphone or tablet. You can draw using pencils, pens, highlighters, erasers, acrylic colors, brushes, pastels, watercolor brushes to create illustrations and paintings, with an infinite variety. This is the ideal application for professional designers and also simple enthusiasts.
1) Infinite Painter (for Android and for iPhone / iPad) is a full-featured painting program, with a well-designed user interface to facilitate the work. The relevant buttons are all lined up in a narrow strip along the bottom of the screen. The choice of brush and color is easy and there is also a button to access more complex functions, such as transparency and distortion. The app also implements multi-touch gestures to turn and zoom the drawing. Although not all options are available in the free version, they are more than enough to work on a design without finding limitations.
2) Adobe Illustrator Draw (for iPhone / iPad and Android) is the app for professional vector graphics designers, free to use.
You can customize the brushes to use and quickly draw using circles, squares, polygons and comic bubbles.
3) Adobe illustrator Draw free on Android and for iPhone / iPad is the mobile version of Adobe Illustrator, free, full of tools to create images and draw on the screen.
4) Autodesk SketchBook Express (Android and iPhone / iPad) is a complete image editor that includes different drawing modes, support for layers and text and editing tools. The user interface of the app is a bit more complex, but still perfectly usable even if some buttons remain hidden under the "plus".
5) How to draw - Art Lessons for Android is a nice collection of tutorials to learn how to draw from your tablet or smartphone, with many free lessons.
Alternatively, How to Draw is also excellent, always free and always for Android.
6) Dotpict, for Android and for iPhone and iPad, is the app for drawing in Pixel Art, thus creating figures and scenarios with the squares typical of 8-bit games of some time ago.
Easy and fun to use, this is an app for everyone.
7) ArtFlow for Android only has all the tools to draw freely using the screen as if it were a piece of paper. There are seventy brushes, color adjustments and supports saving high resolution images.
8) Ibis PaintXAdobe Ideas, on Android and on iPhone and iPad is a painting app with many fun features, over 140 different brushes, including marker pens, real brushes and others, support for levels and functions for specific types of drawing, like manga.
9) Infinite Painter for Android is an excellent app for drawing on tablets and smartphones in a free way, to create real works of art of painting. You can paint with relative ease and there is full support for layers and filters.
10) Draw Something is that famous game where you have to guess what you are drawing, one of the most popular for iPhone and Android, free, which is also played online.
11) Medibang Paint, on Android and on iPhone and iPad is one of the best free apps for freehand drawing. Its best feature is that it can be drawn from the app for PC or Mac and continue on the iPhone or Android phone without losing anything. There are quite a number of brushes, tools for both free and comic drawing and other small fun tools and add-ons.
12) Bamboo Paper, for Android and iPhone / iPad, is a great free drawing application (by Inkscape developers) that allows not only to create sketches, but also to take notes and act as a highlighter.
13) Paper by FiftyThree (iPhone and iPad only) is an excellent free app for drawing on the screen, very simple, complete and that does not require you to unlock functions by paying.
14) PaperDraw, on Android is one of those drawing applications that tries to emulate the real disengo as much as possible. What makes it different is its tracking feature, the ability to import a photo and set it to translucent mode in order to trace it.
In another article I had already talked about some web applications for drawing on PC and Tablet, which do not need to be installed, available via browser.
In the stores you can find several other free apps, often low-level or even professional apps, at a price ranging between 2 and 5 Euros.
