Description
ASKetch brings the experience of charcoal drawing to your iPhone, iPad or iTouch and its deliberate simplicity makes it perfect for beginners who want to learn to draw without thinking about palettes and tools.
Equally, advanced artists will find a wonderful buttery, tonal canvas for their life studies, cartoons, abstracts, landscapes and other subjects. The app is engineered to deliver rapid, but powerful image capture, facilitated by a great transform function that allows you to pick up the drawing, resize it and move it around the canvas, and a amazing zoom that lets you draw in minute detail. So if you want to put a traditional black and white, but digital sketch pad in your pocket, this is the app for you.
Features and functionality:
Image zooming that actually works. Do amazing detail work when zoomed in. No pixelation of brushes while drawing! Zooming is accessed via a reverse pinch when the menu is displayed.
Use a two finger tap (or a long press) to show the menu.
Image transformation: Scale/Rotate the image via a simple pinch gesture. (When menu is visible)
Three distinct pencils types: use a swipe gesture on the pencil button to switch back and forth between hard and soft drawing modes. Tap the selected soft pencil to toggle between light and dark.
20 Levels of undo/redo. Swipe the undo/redo button to toggle back and forth.
To configure your pencil, use two fingers to pinch and rotate. This resizes the blue focus circle. The smaller the circle, the more focused/darker the drawing will be. The bigger the circle the more pronounced the procedural interaction with previous lines, and the lighter it starts out.
Rotation of the pencil circle changes the line width.
To configure your eraser, also use two fingers to pinch and rotate.
Rotation affects eraser transparency. Pinching controls the size of the brush.
Use of a stylus is not entirely recommended since ASKetch is optimized for multi-touch gesturing.
What's New in Version 1.8.2
Fixed issue that would cause random crashes.
Fixed problem with double-tap settings not being honored.
Double-tap is now off by default.
Customer Reviews
Monochrome brilliance
This is a monochrome art app and the closest thing to digital charcoal out there. Anyone who can draw should really value the great tonal values and quick sketching capabilities of Asketch. Not for nothing do most art schools start people with a stick of charcoal and paper. Well this app puts that charcoal easel in your pocket and for less than the cost of a take away coffee. The introduction of a transform function only strengthens Asketch's attractions - no more running out of space and having to rub your image out or start afresh. I now typically do all my drawing using Asketch and then import the drawing into advanced art apps like Artrage or Brushes if I want the complexity of a colour palette or layering. I would strongly recommend you ignore the reviews from buyers who seemingly can't draw and therefore don't understand a brilliant new art medium when they see it.
Regret paying for this, to be honest.
Although this is by no means awful, there is better out there.
ASKetch
This app is slightly unresponsive however you can live with it and if you can draw you can get some amazing results. A good app that I think is worth the money
- £1.49
- Category: Entertainment
- Updated: 08 December 2011
- Version: 1.8.2
- Size: 0.7 MB
- Languages: English, French, German, Spanish
- Developer: Andrew Kern
- © 2011 Andrew Kern
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
