10 Most Popular Drawing iPhone Apps 2012

iPhone is one of the most popular and widely used Smartphone out there. One of the biggest reasons of its fame and success is the fact that the Apple App Store boasts a plethora of amazing apps in almost all categories. So iPhone is not an ordinary phone and lets you do a lot more than just making phone calls. You can play games, read books or even draw (yes, draw!) on iPhone thanks to all the apps! A lot of awesome drawing apps are present out there, but finding the good ones is not such as easy task. We have a list of 10 Most Popular Drawing iPhone Apps 2012. Check the list out and pick the ones you like the best. It includes both paid and free apps. All the apps in this list are really fun and even experienced artist will like them.

SketchBook Mobile

SketchBook Mobile

SketchBook® Mobile is a great drawing and paint app from Autodesk. It is almost as good as any professional app out there. This app has an extremely user friendly and smooth UI. You can use this app for drawing sketches or paint whatever you like on the go. It is a really awesome app with many amazing features like multi-touch navigation with a 2500% zoom, 1024×682 Canvas size, layers , undo and redo. A total of 45 types of brushes are available, pencils, markers, felt pens, fine tip markers, erasers, a flood fill and a many other texture brushes. You also have the option of customizing the brushes according to your choice. A great color wheel is available, while you can also customize the colors.

DrawCast – draw, paint and edit photos

DrawCast

DrawCast is a really nice app which boasts almost all the features of a paid app. The list of its features is growing day by day. This app allows you to import photos directly from your Facebook account, your digital camera or from your PC. It also includes layers, and claims to be the only free drawing app out there with layers. It allows many levels of undo and customizable brushes. Mixing an unlimited number of colors is also possible. And it provides sharing options too, so now you can share your creations via email or social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook.. On the whole it is an awesome free drawing app with many features.

ColorTilt

ColorTilt

ColorTilt is an app from IMAK Creations. This app has been sold more than 50,000 and is one of the top three apps in the Apple App Store. Using this app you can create some really unique and interesting drawings. It boasts about 4,096 different colors and an RGB color picker. It has brushes of many kinds i.e., pencil/eraser, brush size, and opacity etc. One of the best things about this app is that it has email support, from where you get the answer to all your queries in usually within 24 hours.

Drawing Master

Drawing Master

Drawing Master is a great app and all you have to do is to take the chalk of the color of your choice and start drawing by getting help from the tutorial. It allows dragging the stickers into the blackboard, zooming in or out, and turning off the lights of the blackboard etc!

Brushes 3 – iPhone Edition

Brushes – iPhone Edition

Brushes is one of the most popular iPhone drawing/painting apps with many amazing features. It boasts a really easy-to-use UI. This app actually lets you create awesome pieces of art on your iPhone. Some of its best features are: importing photos as layers, a great color picker, high level zooming (70% to 1600%), eyedropper tool and an option to undo and redo a great many times. It also has an inbuilt web server which makes downloading paintings to any PC a breeze.

Draw Something Free

DrawCast

Draw Something Free is the free version of the ‘Draw Something’ app from OMGPOP, which is the top paid app in more than 80 countries. It is a really awesome social drawing and guessing game in the Apple App Store and has been used to create more than 100 millions drawing. It is a really fun game and you are not even required to have any drawing skills, as you can simply squirm your finger for making a masterpiece. It boasts more than fifty amazing colors. It is a turn-based drawing game, which is quite enjoyable.

ASKetch

ASKetch

If you love making charcoal drawings then this app is a must have for you as it offers a great charcoal drawing experience. It can prove to be a really useful app for people who want to learn or practice drawing with charcoals without having to spend money on actual palettes and tools. Both, advanced and amateur artists will like this app. It offers many awesome features like the ability to redo and undo 20 times, has three diffferent pencils types and the image can be zoomed to a great degree!

iGraffiti

iGraffiti

iGraffiti is a fabulous graffiti art app by Big Stone Phone. It is definitely a must have if you are into graffiti. It is a fun drawing and painting app that lets you create unique pieces of art. It has many great brushes and colors too . This is a nice app for both: drawing for fun or doing some serious sketches.

My Brush for iPhone – Painting, Drawing, Scribble, Sketch, Doodle with 100 brushes

My Brush For iPhone

This app is unique in the fact that it provides 100 different types of brushes, which you can use for creating realistic pieces of art. Its brush collection includes: brush, pencil, pen, airbrush, watercolor brush, chalk, charcoal, neon pens, special effect pens. Importing photos from your iPhone and drawing over them is also possible. It also allows 10 levels of undo or redo. The best part is that this app is really easy to use.

iDoodleIt

iDoodleIt

iDoodleIt is also known as DoodleIt. It is a great drawing app which offers many different colors and shapes, and it allows you to save your pictures to your library and load a photo to draw on! It is a really fun app that you would definitely find enjoyable.


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3 Comments

  1. Motyar says:

    You must try my web app http://motyar.info/draw/
    Thanks for sharing.

  2. Julia Kay says:

    Thanks for the art app list – there was one on there I haven’t used. Your readers may also want to check out:

    Inspire
    Zen Brushes
    Henpitsu
    Typedrawing
    Sketji
    Drawing Pad (iPad only)
    Artrage
    Scribblify
    Auryn Ink
    JacksonPollock
    Sketchclub

  3. Awesome Drawings