Best 5 Art Painting apps for Artists

As an enthusiastic painter you will want to always be able to paint something, anywhere you are. The best tool for paining on the go is your phone/tablet, but you will also need a good artistic painting app that will provide you with all the tools necessary for accomplishing your ideas.
Today I'm going to share with you the best 5 apps for painting, sketching and drawing, that you can use on your android device.

1. ArtRage: Draw, Paint, Create

ArtRage for Android is a realistic painting and drawing app that includes all the most useful tools from our desktop edition. Along with a full range of awesome, easy to use, drawing tools like the oil brush, inking pen and glitter, it includes a full range of the most important digital art features, like Layers, Fill Tool, Layer Blend Modes, the ability to add Reference and Tracing images while you draw, and of course, our incredibly fun color mixing.
ArtRage for Android comes with the intuitive, familiar ArtRage interface, reliable tech support, and full in-app support for pressure and tilt in the S Pen. Your ArtRage files can be easily transferred to the desktop to finish in any desktop edition of ArtRage.

2. ArtFlow: Paint Draw Sketchbook

Convert your tablet or phone into digital sketchbook with more than 80 paint brushes, smudge, fill and eraser tool. This fast and intuitive painting and drawing application will unlock full power of your imagination. With support for pressure sensitive pens (like Samsung's S Pen) you device will be changed into real canvas.
Key Features:
  • High performance (GPU accelerated) paint engine
  • 80+ brushes and tools (including smudge tool and gradient fill)
  • Selection and selection masks
  • Color adjustment (HSV, brightness & saturation and more)
  • Infinite* undo and redo
  • up to 16–32** layers with 11 different blending modes and global opacity
  • Hi-res canvas - up to 2048x2048, 2560x2560 or 4096x4096**
  • Separate flow (tip alpha) and opacity (stroke) control for brushes
  • Non-incremental flow

3. Infinite Painter

Infinite Painter describes itself in a few words: We are not Sketchbook. We are not Photoshop. We are not Procreate. We are Infinite Painte!
Key features include:
  • 80+ natural brush presets
  • Create new brushes
  • Change brush settings with ease
  • Brushes interact realistically with paper textures
  • Layers and Photoshop blend modes
  • Draw 3D cityscapes with five different perspective guides
  • It’s simple. It’s organized. It’s out of the way.
  • Transform tool: Translate, Scale, Rotate, Flip, Distort, and Skew
  • Gradient and Pattern Fill
  • Rotate and flip the canvas
  • Import and export PSD layers

4. SketchBook - draw and paint

Autodesk® SketchBook® is an intuitive painting and drawing application designed for people of all skill levels, who love to draw. We reimagined the paint engine, so SketchBook delivers more fluid pencils and natural painting than ever before, all while keeping the interface clean and simple. With SketchBook, capture everything from your smallest doodles to your biggest ideas, all in one place, no matter where you are. 
Notable Features:
  • Full screen workspace and unobtrusive user interface
  • 10+ preset brushes, including customizable pencils, pens, and markers that deliver a natural drawing experience
  • Synthetic pressure-sensitivity
  • 2500% zoom for controlling the finest details of your art
  • A complete Layer Editor with up to 3 layers and 16 blending modes
  • Symmetry and proportional transform tools

5. ibis Paint X

The ibisPaint X is an app based on the concept of social drawing, it allows you to publish the drawing process so you can share the joy of drawing with everyone.
The ability to record yourself drawing and to share the video is not the only great feature, ibis Paint X also has a full suite of drawing functions.
Key Features:
  • An easy to use app that allows you to enjoy expressing yourself through drawings.
  • Feel the smoothness of drawing, and enjoy fast functionality.
  • Upload videos of how you drew your artwork.
  • Share the URL of your artwork on Twitter and Facebook.
  • Download other people's artwork.
  • 142 kinds of brushes including dip pens, felt tip pens, digital pens, air brushes, fan brushes and flat brushes.
  • Various brush parameters such as starting/ending thickness, starting/ending opacity, and initial/final brush angle.
  • Layer modes such as individual layer opacity, alpha blending, adding, subtracting, and multiplying.
  • A handy clipping feature for clipping images, etc.
  • Frame Divider Tool important for manga drawing.
  • Advanced text tool function featuring Vertical, Horizontal, Stroke, Font select, and Multiple text functions.
Developer: ibis mobile inc.
Price: Free

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