Free digital art apps anyone?

**AriaTheFiremaiden** · #1 June 21st, 2024, 05:07 PM

So I would like to get into digital art, to try and gather more customers for my art shop. However, I have no idea which apps or websites are best to draw with! Artists of WCO, please help!

**bailu** · #2 June 28th, 2024, 06:16 AM

ibis paint x !!! ((:

**Blaaze** · #3 June 28th, 2024, 08:23 AM

I use Sketchbook! It's available on mobile. Android and Apple as well! It's simple and easy to use. I'm probably going to buy the only in app purchase have on there, which is 50 more brushes for 1 US dollar. It works well for drawing with or without a stylus! Also has a nice recording feature.

**Willowfern** · #4 June 28th, 2024, 08:39 AM

Hi! Before I used Procreate, I used an app called AutoDesk Sketchbook on my iPad! It was a pretty solid app for what it was, and it was free 100% iirc, and here are some of the pieces I was able to make with it (Ignore the old art, I’m just pointing out that it can do shading n’all that):

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My only complaints are that, one, it doesn’t have brush sensitivity or pressure, but sometimes that’s a good thing, two, you can’t record a Speedpaint unless you’re actively are drawing for that entire given time, or it will stop recording if you leave the app for a moment (+ you have to remember to hit the button as well), three, you can’t upload custom brushes, but that’s not really that big of a deal, and four I don’t think you can do clipping masks so you have to do all your art for something on one layer if you want it to stay in the lines, though I could be wrong, I haven’t used it in a few years since I pooled my money with my sisters to buy Procreate.
It’s a solid 7/10 IMO

**SnowheartTC** · #5 Today, 05:12 PM

I use this website called Kleki. You can just search up Kleki.com on google and it launches you straight to the drawing place. There is lots of options and stuff, but it does have it's limits, i'd suggest it for starting out.

**dino.** · #6 Today, 05:29 PM

if you have a laptop, i use Krita and it works great. a bit intimidating to figure out at first but there's plenty of guides online to help!

if you're restricted to mobile apps, i used to frequent Autodesk Sketchbook and Ibis Paint X. both work just as well as Krita does aside from lacking pen sensitivity and i usually go back to either/or if i'm stuck with just my phone for a while @AriaTheFiremaiden