Sketchbook

RATING:

4.6

(36)

About Sketchbook

Sketchbook is a drawing app for artists, designers, and other creatives. It provides hundreds of customizable brushes and pens used to create artwork. It provides an intuitive interface that supports the drawing process and includes color fill tools, rulers, symmetry tools, and more. Sketchbook can be used on desktops, tablets, or mobile devices. The app provides natural pen interaction and is responsive to a stylus. Traditional, curved, ellipse, and French curve tools are available to assist with drawing smooth lines. Users can access a predictive stroke tool to draw smooth strokes. Sketchbook brush types include pencils, markers, paint, airbrushes, and others. To work with a clean interface, users can choose to hide tools and palettes as needed. A free Sketchbook mo...

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Sketchbook Pricing

Starting price: 

$19.99 one time

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

Customizable brushes
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Sketchbook Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Sketchbook

1 - 5 of 35 Reviews

User Profile

Wahaj

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

Sketchbook

Sketchbook installed in any graphic tablet is like a sword in any artist's hand. It has enhanced the quality of creativity and improved my sketching and graphical representation a lot.

PROS

The software is open to all and is free to use.

CONS

In my opinion, the software has not any demerits for initial users.

Simon

Arts and Crafts, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2022

An amazing software but.....

I'm old enough to remember using the old glass bottle Magic Markers but since going digital, with the help of Sketchbook, Photoshop and CSP, I find I am more productive in terms of speed and quality of work. Drawing in Sketchbook is incredibly intuitive and satisfying, I only wish I could open more than one file at a time.

PROS

I think the drawing brushes and pencils for linework are some, if not the best I have found in a drawing app. I especially like the snap to curve, elipse and perspective rulers.

CONS

I am a storyboard artist which means I am usually drawing and colouring a number of frames at once, sometimes as many as 30-40 frames. I would love to be able to open up a number of frames so I can achieve uniformaty of line and colour across the frames. I also dearly miss the Copic colours you used to have.

Reasons for switching to Sketchbook

I found Corel Painter to be too bulky and slow. It also did not provide me with the accuracy of linework that Sketchbook offers me.

Gal

Design, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed February 2022

Benefits and struggles of Sketchbook

PROS

Sketchbook has a great variety of brushes, allowing you to recreate your favorite traditional media or adopting a new technique and style. Sketchbook is ideal for those random drawing ideas you get while out of the house (remember the software doesnt reach its full potential unless it's paired with a pressure sensitive stylus)

CONS

While you can get anythin you may need for sketching and drawing, there are some functions that are limited in sketchbook that you can get in other drawing softwares regarding editing, heavy rendering and vectors

Anonymous

1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2022

Sketchbook Your Smart Drawing.

Rated one of the best modern drawing programs, has many dazzling tools, has great drawing tools library months and was in my office in the middle of brushes and pens and colours, I can put Layer If I want to try something and don't want to spoil your painting, Easy to use, you don't need a course to become a professional using, suitable for all ages and different fields.

PROS

I like its tools, it has many colours many brushes and a pen . I like to use my pen tablet to draw Paintings or any view. it has a contemporary style for the tools bar. I like using Sketchbook, like the board to teach my class. Easy to use, you don't need a course to become a professional using, suitable for all ages and different fields.

CONS

sometimes, on my mac, I can't see the tools bar

hussein

Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2022

review

so powerful software to draw

PROS

the best software for drawing anything you need

CONS

in reality, the software provides everything you need to draw so I don't see any disadvantage in it till now