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Best Tools to Draw with on iPad

Be it a design professional, a seasoned artist or a beginner, this app can make all the difference to your artwork.

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Ibis Paint X
Appealing and multifaceted, it offers almost everything an artist could ask for—from 1,000 fonts, 312 brushes, 58 filters, 46 screen tones, and 27 blending modes, to stroke stabilisation, symmetry rulers, and the ability to record drawings. It can mimic dip pens, felt tip pens, digital pens, airbrushes, fan brushes, flat brushes, pencils, oil brushes, charcoal brushes and crayons. You can add unlimited layers and manipulate the parameters for each according to your needs.

Procreate
Be it a design professional, a seasoned artist or a beginner, this app can make all the difference to your artwork. With features such as Quickshape, blend mode, layering, alpha locks and clipping masks, even amateur art can get an edge. It works flawlessly with the Apple Pencil. The app also has the added advantage of allowing you to create your own tools, not to mention the incredibly high-resolution canvases that allow you to print our work in massive sizes.

Adobe Fresco
A relatively new addition to the Adobe family, it is great for anyone who likes to draw professionally. Designed for artists, it offers more than 50 Photoshop brushes, vector brushes, and exclusive new AI-driven Live Brushes. Then there is the premium version that offers a library of more than 1,000 brushes, and 100 GB of cloud storage. 

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