One of the reasons I bought the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 was sketching or drawing. I love sketching, though I am not a pro but I do like sketching for my stories. Unfortunately, my favorite apps Sketchbook by Autodesk was not optimized for Honeycomb or Tablets. The good news is, this morning Autodesk released a new app for Android called Sketchbook Pro, which is optimized for Tablets and also offer landscape mode for sketching.
The app is available for only $4.99. I bought and installed the app. This was the first time I was making full use of my $30 Samsung Stylus that I bought from Tiger Direct.
Sketchbook Pro is one of the best and most polished sketching app on Android tablets. I heavily recommend it for aspirant artists using Android Tablets.
The new app comes with cool features such as Landscape UI, professional-grade brushes, 60 Preset brushes, synthetic fall-off and option for pressure sensitivity.
You can also set the canvas size, based on screen resolution. There are 6 layers which you can use to create professional grade artwork. The app also offers a layer editor with controls and option for layer transform. You can import and export images – supports PNG, JPEG & layered PSD.
In a nutshell, Sketchbook Pro is a very powerful tool for artists. I will be using my tablet extensively for sketching and drawing, will keep you posted with my artwork (how about a comic strip?)
Swapnil Bhartiya
A free software fund-a-mental-ist and Charles Bukowski fan, Swapnil also writes fiction and tries to find cracks in a proprietary company's 'paper armours'. He is a big movie buff and prefers listening to music at such high volumes that he's gone partially deaf when it comes to identifying anything positive about proprietary companies. You can follow him on Twitter, Google+ & Facebook. You can write to him on editor at muktware dot com
