UPDATE!:
Okay, so Sketchbook recently updated they're software. I LOVE IT! Many of the complaints I mentioned have been addressed and it's now my new go to app for sketching on the move. All I can say is LAYER OPACITY! YEEHAW! If you have the app and haven't updated, do so! NOW!
A shiny new super created in Sketchbook Mobile.
So I'm an admitted iPhone junkie. One of the things that makes the iPhone the absolute shiz are the apps. A friend of mine turned me onto the drawing app called
Brushes awhile ago. I downloaded it, played with it a bit but never really took a serious look at it. Well just recently (yesterday in fact) Autodesk releashed it's own sketch app called
Sketchbook Mobile, a mini version of it's big brother Sketchbook Pro. Well I recently took them both for a test drive in an effort to try to squeeze more sketching in for 365 Supers. Here's my initial response to both offerings.:
Brushes is a pretty solid little sketch program. You zoom in and navigate around with your two finger. Tapping lightly brings up a small menu at the bottom. You have your undos/redos, brush size, color and a layers button. The touch is pretty responsive and it's pretty easy to zoom in there and get some details.
A 365 super done it Sketchbook Mobile.
The same can be said for Sketchbook Mobile. You navigate and zoom in much the same way with your two fingers, but SM has retained it's radial menu that allows to select colors, change brushes, etc. You can tap the edges of the screen on the top left, right and bottom left and right to clear a layer, fit to view, undo and redo respectively. This was super intuitive and I found myself wanting that when I drew in Brushes.
I found that the touch isn't quite as responsive zoomed out in Sketchbook, but I'll admit right now, that drawing on an iPhone isn't the easiest thing for guys like me with huge meat mitts. Sketchbook does have something that emulates pressure sensitivity which is awesome.
On both programs layer function, I absolutely
LOVED that you can change the layer opacity in Brushes. Something I was really missing in Sketchbook Mobile. But Sketchbook has more layers. One thing I was missing from both programs was a way to actually move a layer. If Sketchbook added that function I'd stick solely to it an never turn back.
Sketchbook beats Brushes with it's brush library. There are a lot of choices and there's a fair amount of customization that can be made. I'll also add that pics made in Sketchbook look a bit sharper than Brushes. I'm not sure if that's programming or native resolution of the software.
Redspot done in Brushes.
All in all I felt that if I could take the best of both programs and add them together you could make a great program. They're both super solid programs, but at this time I'm liking sketching a bit more in Brushes. But Brushes has been out for much longer than SM so I predict that Sketchbook will see some great improvements in the near future.
