Are there alternative apps?
Over the past few months i’ve been playing with several different apps.
If you’re into painting ArtRage is a great app. It’s a painting app with several different types of brushes. It exports into PNG / JPEG and ptg. The last one is native to the app and can be used to get back into it if your painting is not finished or if you own the app on your Macbook or Windows, you can open the file on your Macbook. How to save: click the logo of Artrage on the bottom of the screen and press – export image.
Another cool app is Realistic Paint Studio . It’s a painting app that as the name suggests is as if you’re painting with realistic brushes. The brushes feel a lot like how oil and acrylic is supposed to feel. You kind of forget that it’s just an app. Exporting is something I do want to point out. It’s not easy to do that. To export the file you’re file comes with a scene. So basically as if you’re painting is in a museum or on an easel. Which in one end does make it realistic. To export you click a small icon on the left side to export to an image.
More into Vector? One app I recommend is Vectornator. It’s a small vector based app which lets you freely create and paint vector images. It has the ability to export to several different types of files. From Send to Illustrator to continue in Adobe Illustrator, to jpeg / png / svg / pdf / AI and VN. Or you can simply save it as an image on your iPad or print it straight away. The last option is AR. Which if you wanna play with things, try it out.
Zenbrush is another app which I recommend if you got a passion for Ink work. When using the brushes it feels like you are drawing with inks that true feeling with bleeds and strokes is completely there. The app only works with 2 color sessions but that’s only in ZenBrush 2.