Mental Canvas Draw

Name: Mental Canvas Draw
Rating: 3.7 (647 reviews)
Author: Mental Canvas

Drawing in a New Dimension

Free · In‑App Purchases

647 Ratings
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Mental Canvas
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MB

iPad

Pick up where pen and paper leave off with Mental Canvas Draw. Creatives are using Mental Canvas Draw every day to explore ideas, communicate concepts, design products and tell stories. Infinite space for your creative freedom: • Draw on infinite canvases arranged in space • Freely navigate the spatial drawing to view perspectives you never could on paper • Unlimited canvases, layers and bookmark views Draw with the ease of pen and paper: • Get started with templates or create scenes from scratch • Choose from several brushes with adjustable sizes and a fill tool • Select color swatches or custom colors • Use layers to organize the drawings, group strokes and adjust opacity Easy editing & image import: • Import JPEGs and PNGs to seamlessly collage images and drawings together or create entirely image-based scenes • Select, duplicate, edit and transform drawings and images • Import and replace layers from your favorite drawing apps with ease Quickly create animated flythroughs: • Save bookmark views throughout the spatial drawing to create a flythrough • Customize the flythrough animation by adjusting the timing, transitions and visibility of canvases Transform and develop spatial drawings with projection: • Seamlessly place new canvases in the scene • Reinterpret existing strokes using novel projection tools • Draw first, arrange strokes on canvases later Share your creations: • Turn your drawing into an interactive web experience, shareable across phones, desktops, and VR • Export video of animated flythrough with your choice of aspect ratio and resolution • Save high resolution images of bookmarks Optimized for Apple Pencil and the Apple iPad Pro. Mental Canvas Draw supports iPad Pro (all except 1st gen), iPad (7th gen or later), iPad Air (3rd gen or later), iPad Mini (5th gen). Please note older iPads aren’t supported. Questions: https://www.mentalcanvas.com/faq/ Privacy Policy & Terms of Service: https://www.mentalcanvas.com/company/legal/ Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @mental_canvas

Ratings & Reviews

3.7

out of 5

647 Ratings

Like it, but needs some improvement
04/27/2022

zhi 0 er
Overall I like the idea and the way it did not over complicated things.But here’s something that I believe it can improve.First, it would be nice to have ruler and/or shape tool (like round and rectangle drawing tool)or even some adjustable vector lines will be niceSecond, it would be awesome if able to import existing picture and photo to the scene since the drawing panel is kind of really simple.Third, in the angle setting area, if the app had preset angle(like 30,60,90 degrees )will helps a lot ,the distance thing is the same. I like that it has free mode and it’s necessary, but I also hope there’s some preset buttons allow me to quickly get there to see the estimate feeling.One more thing is I like the selection tool can pickup all the lines and colors, but can we also have the function to select as picture layers. It would be a lot easier to choose one entire layer I like to choose the distance and angle. Of course, if we be able to curve the layer will be more amazing but maybe also hard to achieve.Final suggestion is please find a way to improve the select things to separate the things I need from the others and then set it into a different layers. I mean the video definite helps, but I still feel a bit confuse how to make it into a different layers to allow me to make different angle.But overall, I like the idea.
Like it, but needs some improvement
04/27/2022

zhi 0 er

Overall I like the idea and the way it did not over complicated things.But here’s something that I believe it can improve.First, it would be nice to have ruler and/or shape tool (like round and rectangle drawing tool)or even some adjustable vector lines will be niceSecond, it would be awesome if able to import existing picture and photo to the scene since the drawing panel is kind of really simple.Third, in the angle setting area, if the app had preset angle(like 30,60,90 degrees )will helps a lot ,the distance thing is the same. I like that it has free mode and it’s necessary, but I also hope there’s some preset buttons allow me to quickly get there to see the estimate feeling.One more thing is I like the selection tool can pickup all the lines and colors, but can we also have the function to select as picture layers. It would be a lot easier to choose one entire layer I like to choose the distance and angle. Of course, if we be able to curve the layer will be more amazing but maybe also hard to achieve.Final suggestion is please find a way to improve the select things to separate the things I need from the others and then set it into a different layers. I mean the video definite helps, but I still feel a bit confuse how to make it into a different layers to allow me to make different angle.But overall, I like the idea.
Hands down the most innovative app I've downloaded in years
09/07/2021

Jasand P
I tend to get excited about new apps that might make me more productive or help with art and creativity. Nine times out of ten, I have found these apps to repeat what other apps do – they're just shinier, with a better UI and not much else. They don't do anything different. So they collect dust and eventually end up getting uninstalled.I came across a user demoing Mental Canvas via TikTok and instantly knew I had to download the app to my iPad and try it myself. Within fifteen minutes of installation, I had my first drawing consisting of multiple canvases in 3D. Mental canvas makes 2D art have depth in ways I've never seen before. The best part is, I didn't have to learn 3D modeling to do this. Mental Canvas also provided on-screen video tutorials and provided example scenes to learn and get up and running quickly.It's been a day, and I'm already addicted to making new art in Mental Canvas. I doubt I'll ever let this collect dust. I could see myself using this as a replacement or addition to work done in Procreate. My mind has been exploding with new ideas of what I could do in the future, and I can't wait to get started on my next piece.
Hands down the most innovative app I've downloaded in years
09/07/2021

Jasand P

I tend to get excited about new apps that might make me more productive or help with art and creativity. Nine times out of ten, I have found these apps to repeat what other apps do – they're just shinier, with a better UI and not much else. They don't do anything different. So they collect dust and eventually end up getting uninstalled.I came across a user demoing Mental Canvas via TikTok and instantly knew I had to download the app to my iPad and try it myself. Within fifteen minutes of installation, I had my first drawing consisting of multiple canvases in 3D. Mental canvas makes 2D art have depth in ways I've never seen before. The best part is, I didn't have to learn 3D modeling to do this. Mental Canvas also provided on-screen video tutorials and provided example scenes to learn and get up and running quickly.It's been a day, and I'm already addicted to making new art in Mental Canvas. I doubt I'll ever let this collect dust. I could see myself using this as a replacement or addition to work done in Procreate. My mind has been exploding with new ideas of what I could do in the future, and I can't wait to get started on my next piece.
Incredibly Powerful & Expansive
10/09/2022

Elykahn
To say this app allows you to “go outside the box” doesn’t even begin to express how powerfully it expands your abilities. Unlike any other tool I’ve ever seen or used Mental Canvas makes infinite canvases for drawing(acknowledging that you’re drawing on a 2D screen) which can each be positioned at any angle, distance, relation to the other layers/canvases and then travel through your creation by saving particular perspectives/positions and zooming from one to the next as though you were hovering in 3D space. The drawing tools are relatively basic/simple, probably for the best 90% of the time but I would like to see SVG imports and basic vector type integration. Otherwise the limits are imaginary. Well, and cost. I’m generally happy to pay for well-made apps rather than be advertised to or having my data sold to fund the development, but I’ve had a difficult time justifying the ROI for this one. I want it to keep up to date and progress, I love to use it from time to time but I haven’t quite cracked how to make it worth the paid investment.
Incredibly Powerful & Expansive
10/09/2022

Elykahn

To say this app allows you to “go outside the box” doesn’t even begin to express how powerfully it expands your abilities. Unlike any other tool I’ve ever seen or used Mental Canvas makes infinite canvases for drawing(acknowledging that you’re drawing on a 2D screen) which can each be positioned at any angle, distance, relation to the other layers/canvases and then travel through your creation by saving particular perspectives/positions and zooming from one to the next as though you were hovering in 3D space. The drawing tools are relatively basic/simple, probably for the best 90% of the time but I would like to see SVG imports and basic vector type integration. Otherwise the limits are imaginary. Well, and cost. I’m generally happy to pay for well-made apps rather than be advertised to or having my data sold to fund the development, but I’ve had a difficult time justifying the ROI for this one. I want it to keep up to date and progress, I love to use it from time to time but I haven’t quite cracked how to make it worth the paid investment.
Awesome tech
05/09/2022

Rashaad Bell
If you’re able to figure out how to use it, you can create some amazing things. There is a learning curb, and the screen always readjust from where you want to place something, when you go to frame mode, which might throw people off. I also don’t understand why they limit how many interactive videos you publish, regardless of the tier you subscribe to. It’s like, dude, stop gatekerping features from a product I paid for. One time purchase gets one interactive video and the highest monthly sub only gives you five. Stop being greedy. If more randoms could physically interact with the video, then you would get more subscribers. As is, nobody wants to “waste” their 1-5 interactive videos, so nobody is doing them. I mean, I’m sure they are, I’ve just never seen one. Overall, keep this in mind. If it doesn’t bother you, then go create some dope stuff, cause trust me, you will. I gave it five stars, but I wanted to give it 4 1/2, due to gatekeeping features you paid for.
Awesome tech
05/09/2022

Rashaad Bell

If you’re able to figure out how to use it, you can create some amazing things. There is a learning curb, and the screen always readjust from where you want to place something, when you go to frame mode, which might throw people off. I also don’t understand why they limit how many interactive videos you publish, regardless of the tier you subscribe to. It’s like, dude, stop gatekerping features from a product I paid for. One time purchase gets one interactive video and the highest monthly sub only gives you five. Stop being greedy. If more randoms could physically interact with the video, then you would get more subscribers. As is, nobody wants to “waste” their 1-5 interactive videos, so nobody is doing them. I mean, I’m sure they are, I’ve just never seen one. Overall, keep this in mind. If it doesn’t bother you, then go create some dope stuff, cause trust me, you will. I gave it five stars, but I wanted to give it 4 1/2, due to gatekeeping features you paid for.

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