Bringing out your artistic side involves dedicating a little time to it whenever you can.Today you don't need a brush and a canvas for it. Thanks to technology, all this has gone into the background and it is enough to have a phone or a tablet to draw a professional drawing.
On Android you have available applications to draw on mobile, there are some improvements than others, but each one has important functions. Each of them will let us save projects, and each of them can be printed in one size to hang on the wall as if it were a painting.
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Paperdraw
A perfect application to create any type of drawing is PaperDraw, also known as PaperColor and which is in full Spanish. Once you open it, it shows a very friendly interface, it has a large color palette and pencils to be able to draw any type of object.
Apart from imitating the brush we can paint graffiti, there are several styles of brushes available, it also has an almost infinite color library. Besides, you can use a ruler and an eraser to be able to draw lines straight lines or eliminate something specific in which we have failed.
It has a base map that will help you learn to draw if your notions are not too high, we can put an image and trace it to remove the mold. It allows you to create the handwriting signature once the work is finished to know that it is yours and that when you share it, that mark remains.
The good thing is to be able to share your works on social networks or in any application, since you have the option of doing it from the tool itself. The app exceeds 10 million downloads and it is one of those that you should consider for the ease of use that it has above the rest.
Art Flow
If you want an application that offers a complete drawing edition that is ArtFlow, well known since it has been available for many years. The free edition has some limitations, but if you decide to make a small outlay, you will have all the extras for an amount that is around 5,50 euros.
You can draw anything with the more than 20 brushes Available once you start it up and has support for pressure sensitive pens. It supports a total of three layers, each one of them will give you the important space so that you can make any cartoon, landscape or whatever comes to mind.
Among its features ArtFlow has a high-performance paint engine, pressure simulation for touches, selection of masks and 10 layer filters. Support for importing and exporting is quite extensive, as it accepts JPG, PNG and PSD (PhotoShop document).
It adds NVIDIA DirectStylus support, is inspired by Material Design, is quite fast, fluid, intuitive, and has a fairly clear and accessible interface. It weighs just under 12 megabytes and reaches a million downloads approximately, being one of the apps that many people recommend.
Infinite painter
It can be considered the Paint with the largest panel of characteristics being almost infinite when it comes to drawing anything that happens to you at that moment. Infinite Painter includes a total of 80 customizable brushes and quite powerful when using each of them.
The application is free with integrated purchases, we can use the Pro version for a week in case we want to buy it beforehand for a price almost identical to that of Artflow (5,99 euros). The free version will give us many functionalities and we will have many of its utilities, but not all the brushes.
Among its features are a total of more than 160 brushes, they can be configured to suit the user, four symmetries, layers and combination, create clean lines and much more. You can also draw 3D cityscapes with five different guides and other objects.
Add the option to paint, clone and edit with colors, liquefy, pattern, cut or even add a filter, the toolbar is configurable by users. Among other options we can flip or rotate the canvas. Reach 10 million downloads and weighs less than 50 megabytes on Android.
Ibis PaintX
The Ibis Paint X application is one of the most popular, so much so that it is the most downloaded on the Play Store with about 50 million downloaded since it was uploaded to the Play Store. You can choose the size of the canvas, more than 142 different brushes, filters, layers, frames and other tools.
It has 2.500 different materials, more than 800 different fonts, 27 blending modes, and drawing process recording, all user-selectable. The drawing experience is quite smoothThere are also some figure sketches to follow the process and do things that look pretty professional.
In addition to the functionality to create drawings, Ibis Paint X gives the option to share the drawings on social networks the usual ones you use, also in instant messaging clients, Telegram, WhatsApp and others such as Facebook Messenger directly by having a direct access for each of the applications.
Among the available filters are the tone curve, recording map filters, cloud filters, prime fonts and prime materials. The application weighs about 27 megabytes, is free and offers in-application purchases for different prices of up to a maximum of 8,99 euros.
Adobe Photoshop Sketch
The Adobe Photoshop Sketch app is free for any Android device, includes a total of five customizable brushes and layers with transform tools. Let several images merge by different layers, it also has different canvases in which to draw anything that happens to you at that moment.
We have access to 11 tools to be able to adjust the color, size, opacity and merge drawings if we want with a few simple mouse clicks. The tools are rearranged depending on your needs, it is best to put what you use the most on one side and what you use less on the other.
Adobe Photoshop Sketch has the ability to send the sketches to other applications of the firm such as Photoshop or Illustrator. Currently it has been downloaded by more than 5 million people and occupies around 40-50 megabytes, although it will depend to a great extent on the system in which it is installed.
Adobe Illustrator Draw
Another free Adobe tool like Adobe Photoshop Sketch. Adobe Illustrator Draw adds a total of five brushes by default that you can customize once you open the application, adjustable when drawing and also when drawing by layers.
The drawings created with Adobe Illustrator Draw are saved in PSD, all this to be able to export it to any of the Adobe applications. Like Sketch they are exportable with other tools like the Photoshop application or the well-known Illustrator, both are paid.
It is a vector type drawing application, it has x64 zoom to apply everything in great detail and is capable of sketching with five pencil tips. The templates are conformable, each one of them is essential to create a drawing in an artistic way. It has been downloaded by more than 10 million people since it was officially released.
PicsArt Color
PicsArt Color is a complete suite if you want to bring out your best artistic sideSince creating a drawing involves using their brushes, which are professional. It works for people with both basic and advanced levels, depending on which one you have, you will be able to get more out of this application.
It has a color mixer, multi-layer work, customizable brushes and a brush to bring out the texture to any object in the images. Among your options are the auto-recovery mode in case you lose a drawing that you have deleted by mistake. Downloaded by more than 10 million people.
Repaper studio
Repaper Studio has been created to take it anywhere and draw what you see at the moment, it is fast to run and always gives us access to multiple functions. It has a great variety of different brushes, image import and management of three layers per drawing.
Export is one of its strengths, supported formats are JPEG, PNG, PSD, SVG and MP4In addition, the possibility of sharing it on the networks is another positive point of the app. With more than 50.000 downloads it is in an advance phase to be able to try it before anyone else.
drawing desk
The Drawing Desk tool comes with 4 different drawing modes: Kids Desk, Doodle Desk, Sketch Desk and Photo Desk. The first one is aimed at children, to get the best out of each one of them and it is important that they use this to contribute to an art that develops over time.
You can create any type of drawing, from a standard one to a professional one, just by knowing a little about the brushes, layers and other options of this application. Drawing Desk is one of the most complete today. More than 5 million downloads today and weighs less than 70 megabytes.
