And even if you only ever sit there doing the odd bit of tracing, or using the eye-dazzling abstract brushes, it’s money well spent. Apps that you can use on a mobile tablet are ibisPaint (iPad), Paintstorm Studio (iPad), Clip Studio Paint (iPad/Android), Procreate (iPad), Adobe Fresco (iPad/Windows), and MediBang Paint (iPad/Android). At a tenner, it’s cheaper than an beginner’s art kit, and far less messy. What of the rest of us, though – the lapsed and the wannabes? Even there, Procreate offers value. Arguably, Stop Motion Studio Pro remains a better bet on mobile for full-fledged animation projects, but Procreate’s new tools give you an excellent digital canvas on which to get started. CMYK support may rope in print-oriented creatives (there’s a rather unsubtly labelled ‘Comic’ preset), and Animation Assist lets you unleash your inner Disney, fashioning a slice of hand-drawn stop-motion by effortlessly converting layers to frames. Otherwise, the speed, responsiveness and quality you get here is first-rate.īut Procreate is now also making a play for other types of artist.

Also, some colour mixing seems a bit off. Anyone waiting for Painter for iPad should keep twiddling their thumbs.

In other words, each medium remains oblivious to the others. Although, for example, oil paint pleasingly mixes together much as in real life, you can’t then draw through the goop with a pencil.

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