Get the pencils and brushes ready! The best apps to draw on your Android

Drawing apps

Do you like to draw? Surely there are many of you who are artists with pencils and brushes (or with the digital tablet). So it wouldn't be bad if you could draw and paint whenever you wanted. Well maybe we can help you by carrying the sketchbook in the pocket. These are the best apps to draw on your Android phone (or tablet).

There are many different apps for drawing, some more geared towards professionals, some more for your personal creations and others for both. Here we recommend a little of everything so that whatever app it is, you feel completely comfortable or comfortable with it.

PicsArt Color - Who Said PicsArt was for photography only?

The first app is PicsArt Color, this app is a completely different version of the PicsArt we know, the famous app for editing photos. This app will allow both novices and professionals to draw, since its options are easy to learn. We can draw in multiple layers, we have several blending modes and even options to add texture to brushes. You have a thousand options to explore your full potential as an artist.

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Picsart Color Paint
Picsart Color Paint
Developer: PicsArt, Inc.
Price: Free

Autodesk Sketchbook - The most popular sketchbook in your pocket

We cannot talk about drawing apps and not talk about Autodesk Sketchbook. If something is clear it is that the people of Autodesk know how to make applications. The creators of AutoCAD, one of the most important apps in the world of 3D modeling, have this app focused entirely on drawing.

With infinite options for brushes, colors, perspectives, the possibility of layering and a very long etcetera, since it is one of the options with more options on Android. Will you be another of the more than 10 million users who use Autodesk?

sketch book
sketch book
Developer: sketch book
Price: Free

PaperDraw - Draw without complications

Maybe you don't want so many complications. With the right brushes and pencils and a good color palette, you have enough. If you use your mobile more as something punctual and to work seriously you use paper or the computer, perhaps Paperdraw Interest you. It has several brushes and great color palette options. Enough to let your imagination fly and make great creations.

Paper Color
Paper Color
Developer: eyewind
Price: Free

Adobe Illustrator Draw - For a perfect workflow

If there is a company that knows about software, it is Adobe. And we have two apps from this American company. The first one is Illustrator, an app that surely many of you know for its desktop version, since it is one of the apps most used by graphic designers. This version is made expressly for drawing and to be able to export the projects already prepared for Photoshop, Capture or the full version of Illustrator itself.

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Adobe Illustrator Draw
Adobe Illustrator Draw
Developer: Adobe
Price: To be announced

Adobe Photoshop Sketch - To Finish Completion

And to complete the workflow with Adobe we have photoshop sketch. Similar to Illustrator, it is a version of Photoshop but designed entirely in drawing. Layers, different brushes, colors and a long etcetera. It will also allow us to save the project in PSD or open it in Photoshop or Illustrator CC.

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Adobe Photoshop Sketch
Adobe Photoshop Sketch
Developer: Adobe
Price: Free

Infinite Painter - For infinite possibilities

If we talk about complete apps we have to mention Infinite Painter. This app is designed entirely for drawing, it has more than 160 different brushes that work differently depending on the pressure applied. It allows you to make layers, an extensive color palette and something very interesting is that once the drawing is finished it allows you to do photo editing on it.

Infinite painter
Infinite painter
Price: Free

ibis Paint X - Easy to use and highly functional

Another extremely interesting app is ibis Paint This app will allow you to use brushes, zooms, fill options and other options that you could find in Photoshop but quickly and easily on a mobile or tablet.

ibis Paint
ibis Paint
Developer: ibis inc.
Price: Free

MediBang Paint - For comic book lovers

If you want to draw comics or manga, this app may interest you, since apart from being able to draw like in any other app with more than 80 brushes and many more options, it has specialized functions for creating comics, so you can draw your vignettes here . Will you be the next great comic book artist?

medibang paint

ArtFlow - Perfectly compatible with professional life

Art Flow It is presented as an alternative to Adobe programs. You have a thousand options that you can find in apps like Photoshop. It is highly optimized for tablets. It has a free and a paid version that allows you to export in PSD to follow the drawing in Photoshop (among many other options).

Bamboo Paper - A notepad in your pocket

Surely all digital cartoonists know Wacom, the most famous digital tablet company. Well, it also has its own app: Bamboo Paper. The options are basic but very functional and fast, you also have the option to create your own colors to leave it to your liking.

You can also add images to use as a reference ... Or to paint on top, what difference does it make, once inside your sheet you can do whatever you want with it.

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Bamboo Paper
Bamboo Paper
Developer: Wacom Co.Ltd.
Price: Free

These are our options for the best apps to draw on Android. Which one did you like the most? Do you use a different one? Leave us in comments!


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