The app has been used by everyone from Nike designer Tinker Hatfield to Garfield creator Jim Davis and many others. Since then, SketchBook products have amassed more than 27 million users, been featured on Apple's press conference stage for the iPad, and in a collaboration with Oprah Magazine. SketchBook's success triggered Autodesk to bring many more apps to market that provided new ways for everyone – from student to hobbyist to professional – to be creative and productive on their mobile devices. SketchBook Then & Now: Five Years of SketchBook on Mobile What started out as an experiment in mobile apps ended up changing the way digital artists think, conceptualize, and iterate – making it possible to capture inspiration anywhere it strikes. Sketchbook Pro includes more tools than Procreate, another professional-level creation app, though not as many options for canvas-size and resolution.By Toby-Lei Wang, SketchBook product managerįive years ago, we released Autodesk's first mobile app – SketchBook Mobile for iOS, which received more than 1 million downloads in the first 50 days. It would be nice to see a few improvements (such as a select tool, and for the Android version, a smudge tool), but all in all, it's an excellent tool. Teens can pin their most-used tools to their canvas and reset them easily in the settings, making pinning tools for specific projects easy. The options for tools, pens, and stamps are outstanding.

The app does offer an option for pen only, which lets artists use the stylus without hand pressure registering on the screen, so teens can draw with precision. The controls are exhaustive and intuitive, and maneuvering with both fingers and a stylus offers some ease in creation. Teens familiar with the desktop version of Sketchbook Pro will pick up the tablet version with no problems, but others will require some instruction and exploration to get comfortable. The app offers tools available in the desktop version with the ease of a sketchbook on the tablet. It is an excellent, professional-caliber tool designed by Autodesk, developers with a history of well-regarded apps for designers, engineers, and architects. Sketchbook Pro is a serious digital art tool not to be mistaken for the many simple drawing apps available.

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