Best Painting Apps for Android Tablets and Phones

PAINTING APPS FOR ANDROID TABLETS AND SMARTPHONES

SKETCHBOOK MOBILE

Autodesk have now made Sketchbook Mobile available for Android. Artists and designers now have a painting app rivalling those that Apple can offer for mobile sketching and more detailed work. With a host of adaptable brushes, several layers and a wide spectrum of colours, Sketchbook is the prime app for Android tablets and smartphones.

MAGIC DOODLE

This is a bonanza. Choose from 40 art brushes, 6 pencils and 6 eraser heads, all with adjustable size and transparency. There are plenty of colours too, from a wheel or swatches. There's even a smudge tool with four varieties: Soft, Blur, Light and Dark, plus a slider to vary the degree of smudging to apply. When starting your painting you can select from six canvas sizes. Magic Doodle offers only 4 levels of Undo, so it's as well to save your work often. You can always delete unwanted versions later.

CANVAS

This digital painter's app is well organised, simply laid out and well explained. It allows you to make your own brushes. Canvas even offers a Selection tool, something so far rare in mobile painting apps. (This is your magic Lasso that summons up an army of marching ants, patrolling a selected area for manipulation.) Selection does not run to intricate outlines here, but you can, for instance, transfer an area from one layer to another, say to put one object behind another.

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