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10 of the best Android apps for drawing, painting and sketching

Posted: 09 Nov 2014, 23:07 , posted by Florin T.

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10 of the best Android apps for drawing, painting and sketching

While some mobile users are privileged when it comes to sketching, drawing and painting (owners of Samsung Galaxy Note smartphones and tablets are certainly included here), pretty much anyone can create art on their Android device - assuming they have talent, and the right apps.

Of course, drawing on a screen feels more natural when you are handling a stylus, but don’t worry if you don’t have one - the apps that we’re presenting below work very well with your fingers, too.

We've selected both free and paid apps, and we're pretty sure that you'll find at least a few that are to your liking. Of course, if you know any great apps that we didn't include, feel free to let us know about them in the comments section.

10 of the best Android apps for drawing, painting and sketching

ArtFlow

Painter Mobile

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10 of the best Android apps for drawing, painting and sketching

ArtFlow works best with Samsung’s S Pen or Nvidia’s DirectStylus, but you can certainly enjoy its multitude of features even if you don’t have a device that comes with a stylus. The app is intuitive, offering - among other things - more than 70 brushes and tools, up to 16 layers, infinite undo and redo (this is restricted by available device storage), and canvases up to 4096 x 4096 pixels (once again, this depends on available memory). ArtFlow is free, but you have to buy a Pro license if you want to have access to more features.

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posted on 09 Nov 2014, 23:26

1. 0xFFFF (Posts: 3806; Member since: 16 Apr 2014)

Some great tools here. Interesting to see that Fractal Painter finally made it to mobile, as "Corel Painter". I notice that it exports to Photoshop/PSD for easy sharing with desktop apps. I would think SketchBook Mobile files can be used by SketchBook Pro on the desktop as well.

I am hoping there is some app made soon that can import S-Note files so I can save them as something else, i.e. Illustrator. It's been frustrating having a lot of S-Note files that I can't edit on my desktop machine.

posted on 10 Nov 2014, 05:43

4. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)

+1. Drawing apps are one area that enable the Note to show its stuff. I am going to be loading some of these apps and trying them out.

Props to PA for putting up this article!

posted on 10 Nov 2014, 00:12

2. Sauce2 (banned) (Posts: 199; Member since: 21 Oct 2014)

Why isn't Procreate 2, Adobe Photoshop Touch, Tayasui Sketches, and Inspire Pro on the list?

Best apps for professional artists on a tablet.

posted on 10 Nov 2014, 05:34

3. Jon.b (Posts: 42; Member since: 05 Jul 2014)

I like "Draw - your messaging keyboard" the best it can get try it out guys your can make it and sent it right from there have look...

posted on 21 Dec 2014, 02:31

5. heabideth (Posts: 1; Member since: 21 Dec 2014)

Excellent list, but I don't know how you guys could have missed Infinite Painter. The new version's a game changer.

posted on 13 May 2016, 06:22

6. gaurav3017 (Posts: 1; Member since: 13 May 2016)

Also try Doodle Paint by CodeHustle. Its pretty sweet!

Search Doodle Paint Codehustle in play store

posted on 27 Jul 2016, 14:51

7. creativityunlimted (Posts: 2; Member since: 27 Jul 2016)

Also try Paintastic. It has variety of built in shape bundles and unique multicolor feature.
Just google "PAINTASTIC" in playstore

posted on 31 Jan 2017, 00:20

8. creativityunlimted (Posts: 2; Member since: 27 Jul 2016)

Thanks for the insights on few best Android apps for drawing, painting, and sketching.
Could you please review android app "PAINTASTIC - Draw, Color, Paint" (bit.ly/paintasticApp) and see if it can make to one of top ones in the category.
Its a highly appreciated app with over 1 lakh downloads and a rating of 4.1
Its USP is a lot of custom predefined shapes or vectors ranging from basic shapes to floral to apparels and body parts, and also the unique multicolored brush/background feature. Also there are all sort of edit options as in a desktop paint app.