Sketch Guru - Handy Sketch Pad 1.4.2
Free Version
A Feature-Rich Sketch App
Sketching is a fine art with people blessed with the talent for sketching normally appreciated all over the world. Sketching requires a lot of patience and a bright and colorful imagination. To imagine something interesting in your mind and then putting it out on paper is an immensely difficult job and only people who dedicate their time to the art are normally able to master it. While different type of sketching requires different type of hardware, there is one way you can bypass all of these requirements. The way to hone your sketching skills without using any sketch hardware is to download and use a sketch app. Sketch Guru – Handy Sketch Pad is an app that looks to provide sketch artists and sketch enthusiasts with all the necessary tools to create fantastic sketches directly on their phones.
The sketch app has a very user-friendly interface and can get you started right away. The app shows you three options on its launch namely New, Photo and Gallery. By tapping on the 'New' button, you start with a clean slate where you can develop a sketch from scratch. By tapping on the 'Photo' Button, you can click a new picture and directly use the photo on the sketchpad to create changes as you see fit. The Gallery button essentially allows you to pick a picture from your phone's gallery and to edit the picture using the tools available for sketching.
The sketch app has a number of great tools if you want to develop a sketch from scratch or if you want to work on a picture. The main options are available in the 'Brushes' feature where you can decide which brush to use. There are seventeen types of brushes in total with each brush offering a unique functionality. The choices include Watercolor, grid bunch, ribbon, circle, square, shadow etc. You would need to experiment a bit with the brushes to know when to use which type of brush. The size of the stroke and its opacity can also be decided for the brush that you choose to use. There are also multiple choices available for the brush color. There are a number of pre-defined colors available though you can also pick a certain color tone from the color scales offered by the app.
The sketch app also offers a unique video feature that shows you how you went on about actually creating the sketch. It shows you your hand movements and how you created a particular sketch and then how you made changes as well. Frustratingly, the app doesn't provide any option to export the video of how you made the sketch as it would be a cool thing to share with your friends and family.
Sketch Guru – Handy Sketch app doesn't offer any tutorial about its tools and this is where the app can probably improve. There is no supporting guideline on which brush to use for which purpose and therefore, people who are well-versed in sketching would find the app useful from the get go while untrained individuals would need to experiment themselves with multiple brushes to see which brush can be used for what purpose.
Features:
- Simple and clean user interface
- 17 different brushes available
- Opacity and size of each brush is customizable
- Vast variety of brush colors available
- Excellent 'video' mode that shows you how you went on about creating the sketch
Conclusion:
Sketch Guru - Handy Sketch Pad is a fine sketch app that is great for sketch artists well versed with the vast variety of brushes that are used in sketching. With 17 different brushes, multiple color choices and an excellent video mode, this app can prove a great utility for sketching enthusiasts.
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