I’ve dreamed of making the iPad into a smart second screen experience for my Mac for years, but it’s Astropad Studio — not Apple — that seems poised to make that a reality.
It’s rare that a $9 iOS app is good enough that you might prefer it to the professional desktop-class counterpart. But Autodesk Graphic is just that great. It’s so good, it’s arguably worth buying an iPad Pro for—as long as you pick up the Apple Pencil, too.
Pigment is a new app for iPhone and iPad that offers a fresh take on adult coloring books with support for 3D Touch, Apple Pencil, varying brush tools and more.
During my iPhone 6s testing, I came across a wonderful fact for those who like sketching with something other than their finger: Any iPhone or iPad stylus can take full advantage of 3D Touch—which means, yes, you can use Notes's pressure sensitivity (and any other drawing app's) with your favorite pen. So I did a test!
I loved testing Astropad, an iPad app that provided second-screen drawing for your Mac, and I was thrilled to hear that the creators planned to offer a similar program for the iPhone. That app is out today: I've spent the last few days playing with Astropad Mini and I'm happy to report that it brings all the control and finesse of its full-sized cousin to the iPhone—and if you have an...
SketchParty TV, the fun family drawing game for iPhone and iPad, now has a free version, making it even easier to start playing.
Are your friends showing you up with their fancy Apple Watch sketching ability? We've got a few tips to improve your finger-painting game. Rene and I are not-so-secret hobbyist cartoonists, and we've been trading sketches on the Apple Watch all weekend. Here are some of the tips I've been using to beat his ridiculously awesome-looking Batmans, Hulks, and random robots — hopefully they...
Forget Skitch: My favorite screenshot annotation app is Aged and Distilled's Napkin. Not only does Napkin let you annotate single screenshots, but you can also arrange multiple Retina-quality screenshots on a single canvas and export them accordingly. That might sound like niche software, but it's essential for those of us who need to annotate screenshots for articles, books,...
Tinkerplay, a new free app from Autodesk, hopes to make 3D printing and designing a little more fun. 3D printing is becoming more and more popular, and Russell Holly from Android Central has been having quite a good time with it, but designing and printing isn't for everyone. The folks at Autodesk have just released a new app for Android, iOS and even Windows Phone that they hope will...
Most sketching apps on the market focus on single projects and their underlying layers, rather than a canvas of ideas and suggestions. Forge is different. I've long thought the iPad was perfect for rough storyboarding: It's not an artist's preferred medium for detail work, but it's portable, and easy to sketch on, and has plenty of storage space. Forge, built by the folks behind the...