There are so many drawing and painting apps for Android on the Play Store today.
In recent years, the digital drawing market has produced some good Android tablets and phones for artists. Whether it be a small doodle or an elaborate painting, for personal or professional purposes, the Google PlayStore has ample good drawing apps to choose from to suit each artists’ individual preference and drawing style.
Looking for a good Android drawing app? We’ve listed 5 of them below.
- Autodesk Sketchbook
Sketchbook by Autodesk is one of the best free drawing apps for Android out there. Despite being free, it provides artists with a variety of professional drawing tools and drawing options to choose from. You can choose from 13 brushes, smudge brushes, markers, and various sized pencils. It supports multi-layered detailing and also lets you zoom up to 2500% to work closely with the details.
- Adobe Illustrator Draw
Adobe Illustrator Draw is a popular name in the digital drawing circles and a special favorite with vector artists. It provides you 5 different pen tips with customizable opacity, size, and colors. There are shape stencils to give your drawing a better flow. You can magnify your art up to 64x to work on fine details. With an Adobe account, you can avail of cloud facilities too to access your art from anywhere.
- Ibis Paint X
If variety in terms of drawing tools is what you look for in an Android drawing app, then Ibis Paint X is for you. With over 320 different brushes, 63 filters, 27 different blending modes, 46 screen tones, and a variety of ruler customizations such as Radial lines or Symmetry Rulers, Ibis Paint X never lets you fall short of drawing tools. With 60 fps, the Ibis Paint X delivers ultra-smooth drawing experience. It even provides an in-built auto-save feature to make sure you never lose your progress.
- Infinite Painter
Infinite Painter is one Android drawing app that lets you replicate the paper-texture interactions of traditional drawings digitally. In addition to the 160 brushes they provide, you can also create your own new brushes with brush settings to suit your preference. Additional features such as the Photoshop blend mode and 5 different types of perspective let you seamlessly work with advanced drawings such as a 3D cityscape.
- ArtFlow: Paint Draw Sketchbook
Artflow by Artflow Studio adopts a more simplistic approach to digital art while preserving the variety of tools. It lets you draw on canvases up to 6144x6144 in up to 500 layers with over 80 paintbrushes, a variety of colors, pencils, pens and erasers, a paint bucket, an adjustable smudge tool and much more. It provides easy export and import options for a variety of formats such as PNG, JPEG, and PSD. If you’re a beginner looking to try your hand on an easy drawing app, then Artflow is for you.
With so many amazing Android drawing and painting apps to choose from, you can unleash your creativity on the digital canvass and harness the power of advanced digital tools to create your best artwork. Which of these drawing apps do you prefer? Let us know in the comments below.