You can find both apps in the Android Market. The free version (known as SketchBook Express) and the paid version (SketchBook Mobile) both need Android 2.1 or higher to do their magic, with Autodesk recommending a beefy 1GHz processor and 512MB RAM for the most fun. That said, all of our testers loved the app so much they broke open their piggy banks and splashed out for the paid version. The fun stops dead for freeloaders when it comes to saving their masterpiece though, as only the paid version allows you to save your work. Several of our staff downloaded the app and within minutes were knocking out their own art (of highly variable quality, it has to be said). The drawing tools were both responsive and fun to use, and being able to sketch over own photos made it easy to get going. It’s not just your usual bog-standard drawing app though, as there’s support for dynamic resizing, drawing symmetry (for those Spirograph inspired moments), layers and a colour wheel – and even the ability to import a photo and use that as a basis for a drawing.
For finishing touches, use the Fur Smudge Brush and Strand Brush to add extra wisps of fur.Highly rated design app gurus Autodesk have unleashed not one but two versions of their popular SketchBook Mobile app for Android handsets.Ĭoming in free and paid versions (the premium app will set you back 65p/$0.99), the digital sketchpad lets users get all arty on their Android handsets via a suite of tools like pens, pencils, markers, and airbrushes. UPDATE - Sketchbook has been discontinued by Autodesk and now costs £19.99 on the windows store as ownership has transferred to Sketchbook IncHeres the bas. If you don’t like a particular section that you’ve painted, use the Rough Grainy Eraser so you don’t have harsh eraser lines on your image.
Depending on the type of animal fur you are painting, you can use any of the longer fur brushes (such as Wavy Fur and Straight Fur) to fill out the textures. For longer fur, drag the Thick Fur Wisps brush in horizontal sweeps along the sides of the wolf, just as the blue arrows indicate. Locate the texture, select it, and tap Open. In Brush Properties, tap the Advanced tab, scroll down to Nib and open it, scroll down to Texture, and add a check to activate it.
Remember that fur grows in a natural direction, so lay down the brush strokes facing in the same direction, just as the red arrows indicate on the image below. Importing textures in SketchBook for Desktop. The fur brushes will layer on top of this, which will add the realistic texture we’re looking for.Īfter mapping out the colors of the image, use the Short Fur or Short Sparse Furbrush to add texture to the wolf’s muzzle and overall face area. This process was quick and messy – you only need a general idea of the fur’s color palette. Start with the basic shape and colors of the wolf. Do you want to import an image The image will be loaded onto its own layer. They are used a lot for complex drawing and projects. They help you organize the content that make your image.
Though we chose to paint a wolf, you can use these brushes to paint all kinds of furry creatures. Jump to Mobile or Windows 10 Layers are a big part of SketchBook Pro. What started out as an experiment in mobile apps ended up changing the way digital artists think, conceptualize, and iterate making it possible to capture inspiration anywhere it strikes.
We painted a quick photo study of a gray wolf (using a reference photo from National Geographic) to show how to use the fur brushes to create that realistic effect. Five years ago, we released Autodesk's first mobile app SketchBook Mobile for iOS, which received more than 1 million downloads in the first 50 days. With digital brushes it’s certainly faster and easier than traditional methods to paint realistic fur. Instead of having to painstakingly paint each stroke of hair, you can quickly add semi-realistic or realistic fur textures to your animal drawings with these thirteen brushes. We’ve published many in-depth tutorials on animal anatomy, so we thought it only made sense to create a Fur Brush Setfor our users. Note: This blog post and brush set was originally created by Michelle Li