Basics
This page discusses basic drawing and usage of the app.
Drawing
- Tap the + icon to add a new page. You can draw on it immediately.
- You must unlock an old page to draw on it. Tap the Pencil icon to unlock.
- Use one finger touch to draw.
- As you draw, the stroke is smoothed and curves are added where appropriate.
- If the stroke is in the wrong place or looks wrong, use the undo icon to remove it and try again.
- If you see that a stroke is going wrong but you haven't yet lifted your finger, tap with another finger to cancel the current stroke and try again.
Zooming and moving the paper
- Use two fingers to move the paper.
- The paper follows exactly where you have placed your fingers to rotate and zoom.
- If troubled by unwanted zooming, put your two fingers farther apart at the beginning; this will cause less zoom as you move.
Using the palette
- Tap a colour well (circle of colour) to select and paint with that colour
- You may touch several colours at the same time to blend them.
- Tap and hold a well to adjust the colour in that well using the colour adjusters (at the bottom)
- Stroke your finger across the adjuster to make a change
- The left adjuster changes colour without changing brightness (value).
- The right adjuster changes value and colour intensity without changing its overall hue.
Brush selections
- Tap a brush pad (bottom of screen) to select and paint with a brush.
- Brushes remember the last colour used; when using a new brush it will start as black.
- The current brush is shown highlighted in blue.
- Use the upper slider to control density from 10% to 100%
- Density is how much pigment (or ink) is put on the paper with each stroke.
- Use the lower slider to control brush width from 0.1mm to 100mm wide.
- Tap the preview pad (top of screen) to change medium from pigment to ink (droplet)
- Tap the preview pad further to change brush shape from round to square.
Pigment vs. Ink
- Pigment colours are opaque.
- Applying more pigment obscures what is under it.
- White pigment can be used as an "eraser" if needed.
- Ink colours are transparent.
- Applying more ink darkens what is under it.
- White ink is completely transparent.
Browse mode (drawing locked)
- Swipe on the screen left or right with one finger to flip pages.
- Tap the book tool to go to the page catalogue.
- Use two finger pinch/stretch gestures to change zoom/rotation levels.
Saving your Sketches
- Sketches are saved by pressing the Lock icon, or by exiting the App (e.g. if the phone rings).