10 Design Apps That Help You Become An Artist
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There are so many design apps on the market - how do you know which one is right for you? We've rounded up the best design apps on Google Play for you to choose from.
Adult Coloring Book
With Adult Coloring Book, coloring page maker you can design your own adult coloring pages. You can color and recolor your adult coloring pages any time or share them with family and friends to print and color.
★ Lots of new beautiful adult coloring pages to color every month!
★ Use our content to create thousands of different and unique printable adult coloring pages.
★ Use our chrome extension to find and use any coloring page image on the internet to design your adult coloring pages.
★ Add frames, and stickers to your adult coloring pages. Huge selection of coloring content to choose from.
★ Add text to your adult coloring pages. There are lots of fonts to choose from.
★ Color your coloring pages in the app or print and color.
★ Print full sheet or greeting card sized pages.
PaperColor
PaperColor is an excellent painting application which is imitating the paintbrush to draw and doodle, graffiti. Easy to paint, learning to paint!
We have different styles of paintbrushes and color libraries. This design app can help you to create the perfect artwork. Whether you are on a journey, staying alone, in a party or just want to waste time in the airplane, it is the best application that you can draw on your phone or tablet.
Exquisite drawing tools!
★Handwriting signature with pen after you have finished the works
★There’s many tools which is imitating the paintbrush , ruler and eraser for you.
★Mark in your photo.
★Draw on picture.
Enjoy the painting time!
An painting application which is easy to help you to show yourself.
Base map help you to learn drawing in straight way.
Choose a photo as the base map and setting to translucent .
Dexterous scaling under your fingertip.
Enjoy the drawing experience, and use the tools to coloring it !
Finished the artwork and share it to internet, showing it !
Magic Poser
Ever tried googling for a special pose or ask your friend to pose for your artwork? Then you should download and try Magic Poser! Magic Poser is a ground-breaking app that allows you to easily pose ANY number of 3D human art models with props in any way you want! A must-have app for drawing, manga, comics, storyboarding, character design, etc.
No need to use a wooden mannequin that is limited in its flexibility, or buy expensive 3D desktop software. Magic Poser is extremely intuitive, very affordable, and light-weight. Start creating poses within minutes for any artwork in your imagination on your mobile devices today!
A brief overview of our amazing features:
* Super easy and intuitive posing of the human by tapping on control points and dragging. Our physics engine allows you to manipulate the human model like a real doll and automatically adjusts it to the dynamic poses you want.
* Pose unlimited models and props for free! Whether it’s a simple one person pose or a complex scene with background setup, you can achieve it easily in Magic Poser!
* A myriad of models in different styles and head-to-body ratios, ranging from the realistic 1:7.5 models to the exaggerated 1:3 chibi characters. Our free and paid models include male, female, boy, girl, super models, chibis and more in both realistic and anime style.
* Hundreds of free and premium props, ranging from desks and chairs for your anime classroom scene, to medieval shields and swords for your fantasy artwork. You can buy them with our new virtual currency, Wombat Coins!
* You can even customize your model with many hair and clothing options!
* Fine tune your pose through sliders/text inputs to achieve more precision. You can pose every joint of the human body, even every finger.
* Realistic and adjustable studio lighting, with models casting shadows on every other object.
* Besides a large collection of preset poses, you can share and import scenes that you or others created from our PoseCloud online community. No need to start from scratch, you can easily import an airplane, a car, or a whole concert scene directly into the app and start building on top of it!
* Export your finished work as png/jpg with adjustable high resolution to be used in other apps, and easily share to social media.
* Extreme perspective: With Magic Poser’s perspective tool, you can easily create more impact in your illustrations.
Sketchbook
From quick sketches to fully finished artwork, Sketchbook goes where your creativity takes you.
Sketchbook is award-winning sketching, painting, and drawing app for anyone who loves to draw. Artists and illustrators love Sketchbook for its professional-grade feature set and highly customizable tools. Everyone loves Sketchbook for its elegant interface and natural drawing experience, free of distractions so you can focus on capturing and expressing your ideas.
• A full complement of brush types: pencils markers, airbrushes, smear and more that look and feel just like their physical counterparts
• Brushes are highly customizable so you can create just the look you want
• Guides, rulers and stroke tools support precision when you need it
• Layers with a full complement of blend modes deliver the flexibility to build up and explore drawings and color
• Purpose-built for sketching, the interface is clean and unobtrusive so you can focus on drawing
Kids Paint
Kids paint is an Android application for little children's, with this application children's can learn to draw with multi colors and they can creative to draw or doodle whenever they want, It's a free and fun-based painting and coloring activity app for kids, It is very easy to use with its view and design.
A wonderful drawing and finger paint app for all little stars, bring out your little artist in this simple magic drawing app and spend a fun time while they are painting, this app is also very useful for your children to improve their drawing and imagination. This android game is specially designed for children, so they can easily draw without any supervision.
Key Features of this Application
✓ It's a free and an fun base off-line app
✓ Kids can begin their study with this amazing application
✓ 20+ vibrant colors
✓ A magic brush tool with multiple brush sizes
✓ Color choice pallet
✓ Save your kid's artwork to the photo gallery
✓ Share and print beautiful pictures with family and friends
✓ Eraser available to make corrections
Tayasui Sketches
Because beautiful tools make beautiful drawings, Sketches has the most beautiful brushes ever seen in an Android App.
Sketches is the drawing application with the most realistic tools, enhanced with a large number of advanced functions and a minimalist and intuitive interface.
Available with Pro options: many tool variants, layers and dozens of additional features.
Pro options are a one-time purchase with no time limit.
• Features
- Over 20 ultra realistic tools
- Layers
- Import photos
- Incredibly realistic watercolor wet brush
- Brushes Editor
- Color Eyedropper
- Advanced sharing and export functions
• Layers
- Use layers to simplify your task
• Stylus support
Discover even more realistic brushes with the use of a Wacom Stylus.
The brushes have been designed so that each stroke behaves vividly and truly like a brush on paper, adapting the pressure, angle, and width to your movements.
• List of tools
- Pencil
- Rotring
- Watercolor Dry and Wet brushes
- Acrylic brush
- Pen
- Felt Pen
- Pen Brush
- Oil Pastel
- Airbrush
- Area and Filling tool
- Patterns
- Text
- Eraser
- Cutter to copy/paste
- Smudge tool
Sketchers United
Sketchers United was created to offer a replacement app for the discontinued Sony Sketch app, and is developed by core members of the former Sony Sketch team.
This app starts out modestly with ambitious plans to expand to become a platform for young people and amateur artists who wish to grow and learn and collaborate with peers.
Infinite Design
Rebuilt from the ground up: blazing fast, incredibly stable, with an improved interface.
An unparalleled experience
• Infinite canvas (pan, zoom, or rotate)
• Intuitive path editing
• Boolean operations
• Align and distribute objects
Superior tools
• Experiment with four types of symmetry
• Unlimited layers
• Unlimited undo with a history slider; scrub through from start to finish
• Easily construct shapes with the pen tool
• Draw 3D cityscapes with five different perspective guides
• Text tool: horizontal, vertical, circle, or text on path
Streamlined interface
• It’s simple. It’s organized. It’s out of the way.
• Move your favorite tools to the top bar for quicker access
• Drag out the color wheel with two fingers
Advanced features
• Transform tool: Translate, Scale, Rotate, Flip, Distort, and Skew
• Gradient and Pattern Fill
• Rotate and flip the canvas
• Automatic shape detection
• Grid for reference or snapping
• Vectorize: turn any image into fully editable vector paths
Import and export
• Import and export SVG
• Add images from Gallery, Camera, or search the web
• Export images as JPEG, PNG, or SVG
• Share to Infinite Studio community or Instagram
• Search millions of colors, palettes, and patterns via ColourLovers
Pixio®
The PIXIO application is an integral part of PIXIO magnetic construction set in 3D pixel art and voxel art style. The app will give you the possibility to enjoy the game as well as show and unleash your creativity to the full extent.
The main purpose of the app is to inspire and to show clearly how you can create, just using the same magnetic blocks of 16 colors, a huge number of characters from the collection and create independently as long as you wish.
The app is great for development, education and entertainment, both for children and adults. This is a great tool for self-expression and self-realization in a creative sense. Our ideas strike those who consider themselves creative people.
The PIXIO app helps you to:
Create on the go
Don't miss your inspiration. When PIXIO is in your gadget, all your ideas will always come true. Even without an internet connection.
Study the design
In the PIXIO app you can work with an object in 3D, with any colors and scales
Build for real
Get real blocks to build your art from app in real life
Share your art
With friends, community and the whole world
Get inspired
Online gallery of inspiration, where you can find hundreds of different characters and ideas in a pixel and voxel art style
Reinvent art for free
Just download the app and go to the amazing world of creativity with PIXIO
More benefits
■ A variety of themes and collections for creative activities, ranging from animals and robots to artworks and interiors.
■ Interactive 3D guides, explaining how to create characters.
■ Friendly information on colors and numbers of required blocks for each creation.
■ Regular collections update.
Dedicated to all designers, gamers, artists, architects, geeks, nerds and hipsters, as well as just to lovers, fans and admirers of everything new, fashionable, technological and beautiful.
With the app and with only one set of PIXIO, there can be a new creation on your table every day that expresses your mood and develops your imagination.
Cricut Joy
Make something fun or functional in 15 minutes or less with this app.
Think simple, single-material DIY projects like cards, labels, stickers & iron-on transfers. No learning curve – just jump in and start making!
Bust out the perfect card in minutes. Browse by occasion and make it special with the Cricut Insert Card materials of your choice. Mix & match for stunning designs.
Create pro-looking labels in just a few taps – just choose size, shape, style, font & color in the guided design experience. Or design, cut & apply a custom sticker in minutes.
Note: This app only works with Cricut Joy machines. To create more complex projects or to work with unconventional materials, see full-featured Cricut Design Space app.
New to Cricut? Welcome! To use this companion Cricut Joy app, first activate your new machine at cricut.com/setup.
Existing members with a Cricut Explore or Cricut Maker machines? Use the Cricut Design Space app.
WHAT CAN YOU MAKE?
1. Insert Cards
Create the perfect card at a moment’s notice.
Choose a design, and play with contrasting colors to make it special. Then tell Cricut Joy to make it!
2. Quick Labels
Make labels for spice jars, a kitchen pantry, playroom, office & more.
Just select one of the professionally designed label styles, size it, add text, choose a font & color, then tell your Cricut Joy to cut.
3. Vinyl Stickers & Decals
Decorate water bottles, notebooks, electronics, windows, walls ... you name it.
Choose from a library of ready-to-use images, tell your Cricut Joy to cut, peel, then stick! It’s that easy.
4. Iron-On & Infusible Ink Heat Transfers
Design team jerseys, reunion T-shirts, bachelorette tote bags, or whatever you dream up.
Find an image, type out text, or create a design that uses both. Tell Cricut Joy to cut it out, then follow the instructions to complete the heat transfer.
5. Paper Crafts
Make simple but spectacular gift tags, cupcake toppers, party place cards & more.
Design, cut & assemble in just a few steps.
FEATURES of this design app:
• 600+ greeting card designs
• 23+ professionally designed Quick Label shapes
• 70+ curated fonts*, including Serif, San Serif, Decorative, Stencil & Draw
• Edit colors and font styles
• 50,000+ image library*
• Add text, images, or shapes to design
• Easily position, resize & wrap text
• Preview Cut, Cut-Out, or Draw styles in a tap
• Easily position, resize, rotate, or duplicate projects
• See changes real time
• Two-finger pinch to zoom in or out
• Step-by-step assembly instructions
• Auto-save projects
• My Stuff keeps projects in one place
• Duplicate, rename, or delete projects any time
WHAT IS CRICUT JOY?
“One of my favorite new crafting gadgets.” – Today.com
“I’m obsessed.” – Better Homes and Gardens
“The absolute best thing I’ve ever owned." – The Daily Beast
Cricut Joy is a smart little cutting & writing machine that makes it easy to personalize, organize & customize your every day.
• Cuts popular materials perfectly. Ideal for making cards, vinyl decals, iron-on transfers & more. Also cuts materials you already have, like construction paper.
• Writes & draws flawlessly. Perfect for penning a personal monogram, inscribing an invitation, or labeling just about anything.
• Compact, portable, ready to go. Fits in a cubby, looks great on a counter, packs away easily, and sets up instantly.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
1. Set up your Cricut Joy machine at cricut.com/activate
2. Download the Cricut Joy app – yes, this app right here!
3. Pick what you want to make, then follow the on-screen instructions
