Apps for Art Lovers

When Inspiration Happens, Use These Apps to Capture Your Drawings and Paintings

You don't always have a pad of paper or all of your pens and pencils with you when inspiration strikes, but you probably have your phone or tablet. Here are apps that will let you make quick sketches, jot down ideas, or paint your masterpiece. Combine them with a stylus to have all the freedom and flexibility of analog tools while cutting down on clutter.

Your note-taker, sketchbook, and diagramming tool.

Paper: Sketch, Draw & Create

For those who want to take simple notes, draw sketches, or annotate photos.

This one burst onto the scene and immediately became the darling of artists and non-artists alike. It is just so easy to pick up and start using, with or without a stylus. Its free price tag makes it an absolute must-download, though of course, in-app purchases unlock even more features. It's simply beautiful on the iPad's retina display and a pleasure to use.

Why we love it

Paper is simple to use and comes packed with a ton of useful tools that make note-taking, photo annotation, and drawing easy.

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Procreate is a must-have

Procreate

For any professional artist.

This is a deceptively simple app with a devoted following. The focus is on brushes (there are eight) rather than tons of different art tools. The interface is uncluttered and the app doesn't have the "bloat" associated with some of the more feature-heavy apps. Even with just a few tools in its repertoire, this app is a fantastic means for artists to create amazing works of art. It's also an easy-to-use app for doodlers.

Why we love it

Procreate is simple enough for anyone to use, but the best results will be made by those who know what they're doing. The app has plenty of powerful tools to help you create your next masterpiece.

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Procreate Pocket

Savage Interactive Pty Ltd

Rebuilt from the ground up, the updated app is now powered by the same graphics engine of its larger sibling. With that upgrade, the app can be used to create illustrations with a richer P3 color depth. Artists can also take advantage of 136 different brushes, including new wet painting effects with your finger. The app now also supports a number of features previously reserved for the iPad including ColorDrop, QuickLine, Layer Masks, and more. And Procreate Pocket also sports two new exclusive features. A 30-second time-lapse feature drops non-essential frames to create a short video that can be shared on social media. Users can also import and export brushes through online marketplaces or with others. Developer Savage has also optimized the app specifically for the iPhone X. There are also a number of features that can be used with 3D Touch and provide haptic feedback. Procreate Pocket is designed for the iPhone and can be downloaded now on the App Store for $4.99. <a href="http://getapp.cc/app/425073498">Procreate for iPad is available for $9.99.</a>

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Graphic Designers? We Have You Covered

If you're a graphic designer on the go, these apps will help you get your work done without even having to be at your desk. They'll help you easily turn your ideas into design with an assortment of powerful but simple-to-use tools.

Quickly make vector drawings on your iPad

Inkpad - Graphic Design

For graphic designers who like -- or need -- to take their work to go

Create text objects, illustrations, and more with this easy but powerful app. Inkpad features a suite of drawing, editing, and sharing tools to let you translate your ideas into design elegantly.

Why we love it

Its assortment of tools and output options make it a powerful tool for creating, sharing, and using your work. Getting your platform to function shouldn't be the "work" part of work, and Inkpad makes getting your ideas down quick and convenient.

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Start from scratch or with a built-in image to create some sticker magic.

Vector & SVG Maker - Assembly

For those who want to create and customize their own iMessage stickers.

Assembly is a wonderful app for creative and artistic minds. With editing options, you can create images from scratch and rotate, duplicate, shadow, and fill. Creating stickers is enjoyable with tons of options if you want to begin with a built-in sticker such as emojis, food, animals, vehicles, and more.

Why we love it

Assembly is terrific for those who really like to use their imagination with images. Create your own or start with a sticker. Then, edit and customize and share within iMessage easily.

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Adobe Illustrator Draw

Adobe Inc.

For those who want a vector drawing app that works with Illustrator CC and Photoshop CC.

Design vector artwork that you can send to Illustrator CC or Photoshop CC easily. With Adobe Illustrator Draw, you know that your files, fonts, design assets, and settings are there for you whenever and wherever you need them. The app offers support for various stylus types, has zoom up to 64 times, and lets you work with multiple images and drawing layers.

Why we love it

If you enjoy the tools from Adobe and are ready to make your designs stand out, Adobe Illustrator Draw is the app for you.

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Easily Convert Your Photos Into Artistic Masterpieces

You don't have to be a professional photographer to express yourself through a camera. These apps help you goose up and transform your basic pictures into beautiful, expressive pieces. They'll add textures and effects to let you quickly and effectively create a masterpiece or just something fun from the pics on your Camera Roll.

Waterlogue: Watercolor Camera

Tinrocket, LLC

Waterlogue captures the essence of your photos in brilliant, liquid color.

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Distressed FX

We Are Here

Create gorgeous works of art from your photos with this effects app.

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Oil Shine Pro - paint effect

Alexander Dr. Rieger

Let your photos oil shine by turning them into an oil painting.

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Create impressive images by oil shining your photos. The oil shine effect will make your photos look like they have been painted with a brush and oil colors.

Creating oil shine images is quick and easy. Take a photo with your camera and apply the oil filter on the image. Share your oil shine images on Facebook, Twitter and other social nets. Send an email with the image attached to it or save it in your photo album.

Pro Features:
+ Select different brush sizes
+ Save and organize multiple paints in a list

There are no limits on what you can oil shine. Oil shine your car, friends, kids, your dog or your holiday pictures.

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Popsicolor

Tinrocket, LLC

Gorgeous watercolor filters that really make your photos pop-out from the crowd.

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Spektrel Art

JixiPix Software

Spektrel Art is an extravagant otherworldly display of webbed light that glistens and gleams with intersecting lines of tapered light. Applied to photos, this medium of imaginative and magical art form transcends the ordinary to extraordinary creating something wild with movement, sparkling life and divided color spaces.

Powerful adjustments allow you to fine-tune to create your own imagery filled with tapered points of bright intersecting lines, fluid streaming ones, and phantasmal qualities.

INCLUDES

• Detail slider increases the amount of intersecting lines
• Taper Length and Sharpen sliders to add twinkle to the effect
• Lighten and Brighten sliders to make it illuminate
• Sharpen slider to exaggerate the lines
• Smoothing slider to softens lines
• Color Boost for enhanced color
• Dramatic glow slider to add a dreamy quality
• Presets to start you off
• Infinite variation to create art with illuminated twinkles, fluid lines or ethereal softness

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Study Masterpieces Without a Museum

Maybe you're looking for inspiration, or maybe you just want to broaden your experiences. No matter the reason, these apps will let you study, learn, and enjoy some of the most beautiful works of art ever created.

Just search on Twitter or Instagram with #GoogleArts to see all kinds of matches.

Google Arts & Culture

With that said, the selfie mode is the stand out because it’s simply fun. Celebrities have joined thousands of everyday users to post their matches on social media. The matches are usually 40-60%, but it’s easy to see how the distinct facial features are matched between the photos. You can even get different results based on changing your expression, and it’s always fun to see the changes that the system produces. The only limitation is the number of pictures included to potentially match with, and hopefully Google expands their database soon. Just search on Twitter or Instagram with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoogleArts?src=hash">#GoogleArts</a> to see all kinds of matches. It’s trendy enough that companies are using fabricated matches in their advertising campaigns.

Why we love it

The selfie feature is great to get people in the door of the app, and then they can hopefully explore all that it has to offer. At select museums, you can point your camera at a piece of art, and have the app provide the details, kind of like a guided tour. If you’re not sure what museums are compatible and nearby, the app has an explore tab to find museums near you, and you can continue to explore the art after you leave, or before you go. As you dive into all that’s included, the definite highlights are the street views and 360 degree videos to immerse yourself in a given museum without leaving the comfort of your device. There are over 1200 museums included, but the surprising amount is the number of curated collections. You can get lost going from one to the other, and it’s difficult not to find one that you may be interested in. Some of the extra features send you to other Google apps, and the service could always use more art and museums, but it’s a great starting point that will likely be updated going forward.

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Explore centuries of fine art

Art Authority for iPad

For students and lovers of beautiful visual works.

Art Authority is a virtual museum containing over 100,000 of the greatest works of the Western World. It will let you explore masterpieces from 1,500 creators from throughout history. You can explore paintings and sculptures and create personalized collections and exhibitions based on artistic movements, eras, and artists so you can immerse yourself in a custom exhibition tuned to your interests.

Why we love it

We don't have a lot of success typing, "Show cool artz" in our internet search engines because that only brings up a lot of questionable fan art about mermaids. It's nice to have an app that will help us focus our art love into something a little more constructive and useful. And that's nothing against mermaids or their fans, but we'll take a Monet most days of the week.

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Have Fun and Relax in an Immersive Coloring Experience

It's possible you don't know a mandala from a spirogram, but that doesn't mean you can't use coloring as a handy relaxation and focusing tool. These apps hand you the blank sheets and put you to work making them gorgeous. Luckily, however, it won't feel like work.

Colorfy: Coloring Book Games

Wildlife Studios

Colorfy is a very popular digital adult coloring book on iOS, filled with thousands of designs that you can color.

Adult Coloring Book - Pigment

Pixite Inc.

From mandalas to holidays to abstract and more, this digital coloring book has it all. Sit back, pick a coloring tool, choose your color palette, and start coloring.

Masterpiece Color by Number

Simple Simple

Masterpiece is a new adult coloring book featuring pixel perfect drawings to color to your heart's content.

Colorgram: Adult coloring book

4 Axis Solutions (Pvt) Ltd

Colorgram is the original time-lapse coloring book. A relaxing, therapeutic game for all ages.

The app features,

▸ New pictures everyday
▸ 2500+ of Coloring Pages
▸ 500+ flat/gradient colors / Custom color palettes
▸ Pictures of mandalas, girls, patterns, animals, florals ,etc
▸ Creative time-lapse community
▸ Backup your custom color palettes

Coloring is the perfect way to distress, reduce anxiety and relax whether you’ve just finished a long day at work or you need something to pass the time – any time is the perfect time to dive into our family friendly coloring book!

With a huge range of colors and pictures to enjoy plus DAILY artwork updates, there’s endless hours of relaxing fun to be had with ColorGram!

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WHY PEOPLE LOVE COLORGRAM...
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▸ Watch the playback coloring videos with soothing background music to release your stress.
▸ Sign up to the first ever Playback coloring Social Community to interact and inspire other Millions of colorist around the globe! Follow colorists to get inspired and grow with the community.
▸ Easy tap to color option with thousands of gradient and flat colors with extremely user- friendly color palettes to choose from.
▸ A carefully selected group of talented artists to bring you the best unique coloring books from 19 categories to paint: Girls, Animal, Fashion, Patterns, Cats, Garden Sceneries, Dogs, Mandala, Serenity, Cities, Fantasy, Floral, Food, Messages and more.
▸ Coloring for the whole family; designed for adults, but boys and girls will still love our unique coloring pages.
▸ Make your coloring page more amazing by applying our 12 magical filter effects.
▸ Apple Watch support has make the color picking much more effective.
▸ iMessage app to send colorful messages to your loved ones.
▸ Optimized for Apple iPad Pro and pencil to get the pixel perfect, true coloring experience.

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▸ Unlimited access to the full artwork catalog and daily new artwork updates.
▸ Access all pictures and receive daily updates during the subscription period.
▸ You can choose yourself which subscription suits you best.
▸ You may cancel a subscription or free-trial anytime via the subscription setting through your Apple ID account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the free trial or subscription period to avoid being charged.
▸ The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a Colorgram Unlimited subscription.

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Coloring for Adults

Teazel

Relaxing adult coloring book with beautiful pictures and gorgeous colors.

Our adult coloring book comes with 2000+ beautiful and highly detailed professional pictures for you to be creative with.
Mindful coloring is a great way to relax and be creative with a quick five minute fix, or for many hours of pleasure.

Floral pictures, animals, and sea creatures are ready to be colored in by you. Take as long as you like to perfect your creation, or maybe just a quick dab and share to impress your friends!

You can fill with a tap, or paint with strokes. There is an unlimited color palette to choose from, and different brush widths available.

If you make a mistake, unlike a book, just undo it and carry on. Or simply rub out the bits you don't want.

There are plenty of free pictures to try, with all features enabled, and no time limits to worry about.

Coloring for Adults is suitable for all ages.

Features:
- 2000+ high definition pictures
- 60+ free pictures
- iPad support
- flood fill mode to tap and fill
- brush mode to draw freehand
- large range of brush widths
- unlimited palettes
- undo feature
- eraser
- fully enabled features for all users, to try before you buy

Set Your Young Artist Loose

These apps will help growing artists express themselves and get their imaginations out into the world. If they're interested in drawing, painting, or just making amazing scribbles, they'll be able to find the tools and space they need to get creating.

Get artistic with two of your favorite Muppets

Sesame Street Art Maker

For kids who like a lot of options and variety in their creativity

Sesame Street Art Maker contains 100 tools and decorations for your future master creator to play around with. It offers fun and challenges throughout the year and lets you build on its base content with purchasable Expansion Kits. It even includes an Art Maker Challenge to provide prompts and opportunities to share their masterpieces with the world.

Why we love it

It brings an amazing arsenal of tools, options, and backdrops to provide kids opportunities and encouragement to express themselves. And its options update throughout the year for seasonal fun. With everything on offer here, your young artist will always be able to find something fun to do.

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Quickly make colorful doodles

Drawing Pro:Neon lights effect

For kids who want to make their masterpieces glow

Kids Doodle provides a spectrum of glowing colors that your young artist can use to make bright, vibrant creations. They can start from scratch or scribble on top of photos and "improve" them. And that's surely preferable to letting them draw on your real photos or walls, which is something we hear kids might do.

Why we love it

Kids Doodle is a cute, easy app that lets young painters and sketchers express themselves and create beautiful, vibrant works. It's simple, fun, and just silly enough.

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Give your kid their own creative space

SketchBook - Drawing Pad

For young sketchers with a ton of ideas.

SketchBook Kid gives your little one their own space to draw, paint, and create. And when they're done with a project, you can save their masterworks to your Camera Roll or show off their masterworks by sharing them to Facebook and Twitter.

Why we love it

A lot of apps will let your kid draw. But SketchBook Kid gives them pencils, paints, and even pastels to let them find their favorite medium. We like the extra flexibility and opportunities to explore and experiment, and we think kids will, too.

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