Adobe Fresco: Sketch & Draw 4+

Digital Painting & Art Studio

Adobe Inc.

    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

The only free app that combines vector, live, and thousands of pixel brushes, Adobe Fresco is one of the highest rated drawing & painting apps built for iPad and iPhone.

Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app designed for digital artists. Built for iPad and iPhone with Apple Pencil Pro compatibility, Fresco offers a wide variety of brushes and features to help you create your next masterpiece.

Take your artwork to the next level by adding motion with Fresco’s suite of animation and motion path tools. Explore frame-by-frame animation and revolutionary motion paths. Draw and paint with rotational and reflective symmetry guides. Paste photos from your clipboard or your camera roll to practice your form. Show off your process by exporting a time-lapse video of your process. Explore hundreds of tutorials and inspiration pieces from the Fresco Community. Plus, brushes and projects follow you across devices so you can work wherever and whenever inspiration strikes.

• Brush variety — Paint with thousands of pixel brushes, vector brushes, and exclusive Live Brushes. You can also import your favourite Photoshop brushes as .abr files
• Unlimited layers — Create like a pro and discover infinite possibilities with unlimited layers.
• Symmetry — Draw stunning symmetrical artwork quickly and easily with new reflective & rotational guides.
• Snap to shape – Hold down at the end of your stroke to snap a perfect circle, polygon, line, or arc into place.
• Paint inside mode – Speed up colouring by constraining your brush strokes to your line art.
• colour palettes – Fresco automatically creates a colour palette when you import any artwork.
• Recolour your artwork — Photoshop-like adjustment layers allow you to easily test and apply changes to brightness, hue/saturation, and colour balance.
• Text — Add stylish text to your artwork using Adobe’s expansive collection of free fonts.
• Multicolour swatches — Pick up the elements of any piece of artwork to paint with multiple colours at once using any pixel brush or Live Brush.
• Motion tools — Adding motion to your artwork is as easy as drawing a stroke. Create an animation using frame by frame or motion paths for a GIF or MP4 movie file.
• Time-lapse — Export a video that replays the creation of your artwork from start to finish.
• Magic wand, liquify and free transform — Easily select your artwork with the magic wand tool and use liquify and other free transform tools to alter any object.
• Learn content — Strengthen your skills with step-by-step tutorials and built-in video tutorials.
• Drawing aids — Trace along the edges of a ruler, circle, square or polygon with a brush or fill inside or outside of a shape with the Fill tool.
• Guides & grids — Align your artwork easily and create perspective grids from an imported photo.
• Share your artwork — Export in popular formats like PNG, JPG and layered PSD files.
• Seamless integration with Photoshop and Illustrator — Open documents in either app without importing or exporting. Send your layered vector illustrations directly to Illustrator for desktop or iPad for finishing touches.

Terms & Conditions:
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What’s New

Version 6.1.0

THOUSANDS OF BRUSHES UNLOCKED: Everyone can now enjoy free access to thousands of previously premium, game-changing brushes in Fresco. Plus, you can also import your own.

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
3.2K Ratings

3.2K Ratings

FreedomRoses ,

Very good

This is a very good drawing app. Love it!

It’s a bit trickier to get the hang of than Adobe Sketch, which I usually use, but this has much more variety in terms of brushes and can zoom in far more than adobe sketch when you’re working on intricate details.

And also can I just mention the watercolours? I love the watercolours. I can finally make good gradients with the watercolours! Thank you! Maybe you could add a dry button next to the colour-flow-waterflow options instead of needing to click on the layer to get the dry button to come up?

And one other suggestion: The colour picking method is cool but it would be nice if you could include an option to use a colour wheel similar to Adobe Sketch’s colour picker, because I know I’m finding it hard to adjust to the new colour picker.

All in all, an amazing app!

P.s. Thank you for fixing the crashing bug where the app crashed when you try to open it. Big help ;)

B Clements ,

The Good. The Bad. And the ugly.

Unquestionably, this is the very best vector drawing app for iPad Pro that I’ve come across. I have lost files between crashes. And when reported, Adobe gives me the runaround. So hardware to cloud processing is still in the lap of the god’s. Exporting vector to AI desktop is horrendous. Crashes etc. The workaround is export a PDF from Fresco; open it in AI and save it as an AI file. I think they’re taking advantage of everybody with their subscription model as I only use four apps - Fresco - AI - Photoshop and Lightroom and there’s not a business model that supports this for a struggling artist working on a game. All that said, we’re in miracle days with the software available to us. I just wish it came with a plug in called Empathy.

SurfBreaks ,

Love this

It has so many tools and is amazing, I have used other drawing apps but this is by far the best, it has vector and raster and you can use both in the same drawing on different layers. The layers are also amazing and easy to use, it also sinks with creative cloud so everything is saved as you go onto a easily accessible cloud. This is an amazing tool for Digital art and drawing.

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