15 Must Try Creative Apps for Artists & Designers
DIGITAL ART | ARTISTS
Digital art has permeated into every aspect of our lives. Advertising, branding, product designing, visual merchandising, performing arts, and even spatial interiors – we see it everywhere. But artists and designers need to think beyond the normal. Ideas need to be constantly flowing and techniques need to be regularly upgraded. Simply having a vision and the skill is just not enough. Artists need to equip themselves with relevant tools that become an extension of their existing skill set. Even beginners need to keep a look out to learn new ways to learn and up their art. And these creative apps do just that.
There are innumerable apps out there for artists. We've scouted around, and zeroed down on these creative apps that every artist or designer should explore.
Capture is an amazing app for all those who love to work with real world images. Through this app a digital artist can take picture and super impose it with art, vectors, patterns and so much. It's a user friendly interface that has scope for vast design possibilities.
Just like Photoshop Sketch, this app is a lighter version of the illustrator software. It's an excellent tool for artists who heavily work with vectors. It also connects to you Creative Cloud account, through which files can be sent to the desktop app.
This is an amazing photo editing and compositing app. It offers the professional features of your desktop Photoshop in the form of a lighter and convenient app. Apart from being used a work app, it also provides the fun element to explore with photo cutting and creating interesting compositions.
This app is packed with all the goodness of the full fledged Photoshop software, but in a lighter version, that is great for artists on the go. The convenience of the full range of brushes, effects, filters and more, in an app, makes an essential tool for all artists, both experts and beginners. Photoshop Sketch also has the great feature of capturing drawings in time-lapse videos.
5. Art Rage
This is a great app to create digital paintings, with colour mixing. It also offers features to add art to photos. It comes with layers to play with and is a powerful way to push one's creative boundaries.
This is a simple to use app that provides a charcoal feel to art. The interface is intuitive and works beautifully in the background letting the artist focus on her work. It's a great app both for beginners and advanced artists.
Mac: Download
7. Auryn Ink
This is a beautiful app to make great water colour art on the virtual canvas. The app provides multiple brushes with the feature to add or reduce the water as one pleases to create vibrant patterns and designs. This app is fun allowing both expert and amateur artists to explore their creativity.
Mac: Download
Sketchbook is a professional creative app that serves as an excellent tool for seasoned artists. The app is intuitive and sleek with over 190 customisation brushes to choose from. It always capitalises on the phone camera, where one can capture a physical sketch and immediately work on it in the app. Sketchbook creating art is seamless and smooth.
9. iColorama S
Here is a sophisticated app with an exhaustive range of brushes, textures, effects and photo editing features. One can also import custom made brushes from Photoshop with other options. This app is flexible and professional letting artists get completely immersed in the experience.
Mac: Download
10. Inkflow
Here is a simple to use app to make sketching notes with quick doodles, adding images, text and many more features to create interesting compositions. This is a great tool for design thinking and brainstorming ideas with easy scribbles to refer to later while working through the ideas.
Mac: Download
Here is a beautiful app among other creative apps to put down one's creative ideas, for brainstorming, diagramming and note-taking. The vibrancy of the app really draws one in without being interrupted by the interface.
Mac: Download
12. Procreate Pocket
This is advanced app, light enough to work with. It is 3D sensitive and responds to the pressure of the strokes. It's also equipped with hap tic feedback to give an authentic painting and drawing experience. The app comes with 136 brushes and over 50 settings to work with.
Mac: Download
13. Sketch Club App
The USP of this app is the community it brings with it. Through this app artists can connect and share their work with the community for users. It's great place to discuss art, take feedback and explore what other artists are up to. This is apart from the powerful tools it provides like the high resolution brushes, filters and modes.
Mac: Download
Tayasui is a very popular app among creative apps that is user-friendly with an array of possibilities. The media tools offered include felt pen, oil pastel, water colour and acrylic paint brushes. The ultra realistic feeling gives the artist an exceptional experience.
15. Vellum
Here is a beautiful app, especially for beginners. It's a hassle-free drawing app that allows one to make realistic drawings with absolute ease.
Mac: Download
