Autodesk SketchBookPro for the iPad seems impressive
It’s day one after ipad-delivery-guy-day, so let’s have a quick look on one of the most anticipated painting apps for the iPad: SketchBookPro by Autodesk. Here are some first Impressions shared by Susan Murtaugh and Mia Robinson.
First of all there’s a glorious set of 75 new brushes, including flowers and grass and a weird one that looks like hairy skin. Hidden in the brush area is also the long awaited smear brush.

Here’s a great sketch by Mike Miller showing the potential of the new brushes.
The brush settings are now directly accessible via a toolbar, which is accessed by a 3-finger tap gesture as well as the puck and the new combined brush editor and color wheel. The color wheel also has RGB & HSB options as well as the customizable swatches pallet.
This is actually one of the opening tutorial screens, which are a great addition for newbies and pros as well. The 3-finger gesture also allows to quickly undo/redo and quick access the layer-/brush-editor by swiping left/right up/down respectively.
Straight lines and more
In addition to freehand painting, you can now also draw squares, circles and straight lines.
Instead of walking through the whole set of tutorial screens, here’s a video that gives a good impressions on fingerpainting on the iPad.
SkechBookPro is iPad only and available in the App-Store for 7.99$/5.99€.
April 4th, 2010 at 13:10
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April 4th, 2010 at 16:21
I wish the video wasn’t sped up so much. It would be nice to get an idea of what the brush lag is.
April 5th, 2010 at 14:08
so far i love this app. compared to my iphone (first gen)the speed of the iPad is noticeably quick. i havent encountered any true lag yet.
April 5th, 2010 at 18:07
Looks awesome! can’t wait to try it, so many new brushes and features. Beautiful first artwork 🙂
April 6th, 2010 at 15:36
I thought I was sold on Brushes being my main painting app when my 3G iPad rolls in this month…but Sketchbook is really tearing up the reviews and the UI seems really well constructed.
October 15th, 2010 at 00:02
Too frigging quick. Older artist requires step by step instructions. cant get the damn thing to turn on..how frustrating and all you whizz kids going at the speed of light. Have I wasted my money?