Painting apps work better with stylus

When he introduced the iPhone and iPad, Steven P Jobs asserted the touchscreen devices didn't need a stylus because humans come with 10 great touchscreen controllers sticking out of our palms: fingers. He was proved right, and most new smartphones and tablets don't require a stylus to work their touchscreen.

But some apps work better with a stylus, particularly painting apps.

SketchBook Pro, a $5 app for iPad and Android, takes the prize for this category. It's a comprehensive sketching and painting program from Autodesk, a company with decades of expertise making design software. This powerful app comes with a variety of painting and drawing tools that you can use to create sophisticated works.

If you're no painting expert, the app is still simple and entertaining to use. It has many different controls for painting effects — pen and brush shapes, sizes, stroke pattern and so on — but the menu system makes it a breeze to navigate. You never get lost. And while you can use this app with your bare finger, if you use a stylus it'll feel almost as if you're drawing in real life, not digitally on a screen.

SketchBook Pro also has a few extras, like the ability to time-lapse record your painting in progress, that could be used by teachers to show how an expert would create a particular image. The app is impressive all around.
Brushes 3 is an art app that is definitely more about painting than sketching, given the wide variety of brush effects, including a simulated airbrush and one akin to painting with oils on a heavy canvas.

The interface on Brushes 3 is straightforward, but not overly basic. All sorts of settings let you control how the paint is applied to your image, but these are buried beneath a much simpler set of controls that make it easy to change brush effects and colour — the chief things you use when painting. The app is free on iOS.

For a similar painting experience on Android, Line Brush is worth a try. It also has a simple and appealing interface that conceals some powerful painting effects, and though it is a bit more basic than Brushes, it's worth a look. The app is free.

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