Autodesk SketchBook Pro delivers a professional-grade digital sketching experience on Android, featuring a robust brush library, layers, pen pressure, and seamless sharing to deviantART. It spans a long-running presence with 100,000+ total downloads and -1 in the last 30 days, backed by a solid 4.45/5 rating from 8,978 reviews.
Pros & Cons
Professional-grade drawing tools and a robust brush library
Pen pressure support for precise stylus input
Large canvases up to 6.5 MP on compatible devices
In-app sharing to deviantART for quick portfolio updates
Not free in the Android market (priced at $4.99)
Market category is listed as MEDIA_VIDEO, which may differ from traditional art/sketching apps
Some advanced features may require newer devices or stylus support
About SketchBook Pro
SketchBook Pro was a video players & editors app developed by Autodesk Inc.. It was removed from Google Play Oct 8, 2014 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
SketchBook Pro had been downloaded 220 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
SketchBook Pro was rated 4.45 out of 5 stars, based on 9 thousand ratings.
App Information
SketchBook Pro cost $4.99 to download. The APK download size was 11.45 MB. The last available version was 2.9.4. The last update was on July 12, 2014.
Technical Requirements
SketchBook Pro required Android 4.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play October 2011.
Description
Find out for yourself what has made SketchBook Pro the industry standard for digital sketching!
Autodesk SketchBook® Pro is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. With the same paint engine as the renowned SketchBook Pro apps, it delivers a complete sophisticated set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface.
Whether you are an occasional doodler or a professional illustrator, SketchBook Pro transforms your tablet into a powerful digital sketchbook.
Features: •Full Screen work space with support for any device orientation (portrait orientation for smaller screen sizes) •Create large canvases (up to 6.5 MP on selected devices) •Full multi-touch support •Dynamic symmetry •Comprehensive Brush Library with over 100 presets you can customize •Multiple manageable layers •Gallery to store work in progress •Copic Color Library •Customizable UI •Pen Only Mode (For devices supporting Pen input) •Pen Pressure sensitivity •Share your art directly from inside SketchBook to deviantART, the largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts •Browse the Autodesk-SketchBook group on deviantART from the in-app Gallery
Email any inquiries to: sketchbook.android@autodesk.com
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★★★★★
Would like to use this more But I need to find the time to learn the techniques to get the most out of it. Still the best drawing app I've come across!
★★★★★
Great App I love this app. Easy to use and the abundant choice of tools very nice. Nice update. I like it. I was surprised when I opened it to discover the new look but it didn't take me long to figure things out. I love using the S pen with Sketchbook Pro on my Galaxy Note 10.1. This is by far my most used drawing/painting app. It would be nice to have a lasso tool and a way to change the height/width of the circle guide.
★★☆☆☆
On Android it is worse than the free version At least the free version lets you export your work to a file in File Manager, where, at that location the free version lets you see a thumbnail so you can identify which of the automatically numbered (massive number) entries is the one you are looking for. This advantage of the free version is one which Autodesk was quick to remove in the paid version. In the paid-for version the thumbnails are absent. Identifying your work is greatly more difficult. In the free, as in the paid version, you can only rename the work after you have identified it, which is very difficult and requires a pen and paper to take down the incredibly long id number it assigns,which you needed to know beforehand, available only at precisely the moment you exported it. If you did not get the number before you clicked export, you may never have the patience to extract that file again. It renders your work worthless, really, because frustration is not what using a computer to do art is about. Of course, now that I've brought it up Autodesk is almost sure to remove the feature, after the fact, from the free version, in their 'helpful' automatic updates. They are playing with our intellectual property.
★★☆☆☆
TERRIBLE PALM REJECTION! Not for serious sketchers Exactly like other reviewers have mentioned. Pen mode allows you to stop your palm from making inadvertant strokes - but NOT to stop the app from zooming in ALL THE TIME as you sketch. Unless you sketch by hovering your hand over your tablet and holding your pen like a paintbrush, you can hardly make use of this app, which is extremely frustrating given that this is a PAID app (and I paid full price), claiming to be pro, and we are still waiting for this update . I've rated it so low because what's the use of all the fancy features if you can't complete a decent pencil-and-paper drawing? Please fix this, just a settings option to disable pinch zoom, or a zoom lock will do the trick, and I'll change my review in a heartbeat . Otherwise I wouldn't recommend it.
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Trust & Safety: The app requests storage access (WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) and network access (INTERNET, ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE) for saving/loading sketches and sharing online. The dev-features flag may_proguarded suggests code obfuscation. No location or other highly sensitive permissions are listed.
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