
ShadowDraw: Learn How to Draw 9+
Drawing App & Art Sketch Book
Shadow Draw Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Celebrate National Manga Day on March 15! Enjoy free manga courses for a limited time. Beginners and pros, try our top guides on drawing manga characters, heads & poses.
* 2023 App of the Day *
Are you ready to draw with a more confident hand? Learning how to draw better can be easy and fun! ShadowDraw has everything you need to start drawing from scratch. If you’re a true beginner, and want a fast way to learn the basics, ShadowDraw is the drawing app for you.
LEARN TO DRAW LIKE AN ARTIST
ShadowDraw lessons use drawings created by real art professionals, and guide you through the exact steps taken to create those drawings. Simply follow the pencil strokes of an experienced artist with your Apple Pencil. In just a few lessons, you’ll discover how to create realistic drawings from start to finish.
IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS DAY BY DAY
Daily practice is important to becoming a great artist. ShadowDraw lessons encourage you to make art every day! Freshen up your skills before jumping into your own unique work.
HUNDREDS OF STEP BY STEP DRAWING GUIDES
ShadowDraw works like a real art teacher by making sure you complete each step correctly before revealing the next one. This way, you can progress in small steps. Watch your lines come together step by step to create a complete drawing!
PRACTICE YOUR WAY
Make practice fun for you with two ways to draw each lesson:
• Art Teacher Mode picks the color palette and art tools so that it's easier to follow along.
• Sketch My Way lets adventurous students choose their own colors and tools to add a personal touch!
FAMILY SHARING INCLUDED
Draw something new every day when you join ShadowDraw+. Become a monthly or yearly ShadowDraw+ member to share 2000+ drawing guides with your loved ones via Family Sharing.
CONNECT WITH US ANYTIME
Need help with the app or have feedback about ShadowDraw? Contact us anytime through Chat Support!
You can also reach us at:
Email: support@shadowdrawapp.com
Website: https://shadowdrawapp.com
Instagram: @shadowdraw
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https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s New
Version 2025.2
We've been busy making your drawing experience even better! Here's what's new in this update:
Celebrate National Manga Day with Free Courses!
In honor of National Manga Day on March 15, we're making all our manga courses free for a limited time! Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned artist, now is the perfect time to explore our step-by-step guides on drawing dynamic manga characters, expressive faces, and action-packed scenes. Don't miss this opportunity to level up your skills!
Spotlight on Van Gogh: A Birthday Celebration
March also marks the birthday of the legendary Vincent van Gogh! To celebrate his incredible artistry, we've curated a special collection of lessons inspired by his iconic works. Dive into:
• Sketching Like Van Gogh - Learn to recreate his personal sketches, full of raw emotion and energy.
• Bedroom in Arles - Capture the charm and perspective of one of his most famous interiors.
• Self-Portrait - Study his brushwork and expressive use of color as you recreate his likeness.
• Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette - Explore this striking and unusual piece with guided painting techniques.
• Cafe Terrace at Night - Master Van Gogh's bold colors in this timeless masterpiece.
Join us in celebrating art and creativity this month. Start drawing today!
Ratings and Reviews
Amazing app!
This is an amazing app, and I really enjoy it, but I was kind of disappointed when I hopped on ready to draw, and then it said I had to pay to draw, and don’t get me wrong. I know this probably was gonna happen because you guys work hard on this app and you don’t deserve to not get paid, but I enjoy drawing animals and the free daily drawing helps a lot but I would appreciate it if you get like gems every time you complete a a drawing based on its difficulty so like two gems if it’s easy five gems if it’s medium and eight gems if it’s hard and like it could cost 10 gems 20 gems to buy a medium drawing and 30 gems to buy a hard drawing or like 100 to buy one set or 200 to buy a medium one and 300 to buy a heart set and I’m not saying the gems have to be easy. They should be kind of hard because you guys work pretty hard on this app I bet, and you could have a gem shop whenever somebody wants to buy a few gems it costs money, and then you could keep your plans to get access to every single plan is just remove gems for the people that have the premium plan or the monthly plan.
Anyways, I think this app is really great. I enjoy the free daily drawings that you get my favorite is the owl, the wolf and the dragon queen, I was also wondering if there was a way to post your own drawings make your own tutorials?
THE BEST APP TO LEARN HOW TO DRAW PERIOD!!!
Stop looking for other drawing apps because you just found the best drawing app there is PERIOD. This is by FAR the definitive, must have, absolute winner of the drawing apps. Not only is there so, SO much content to learn how to draw, the way in which the tutorials work are intuitive. If I can draw using this app, trust me you can too! Step by step tracing instructions, abilities to alter the canvas and zoom in and out to better see the strokes and the endless amount of subjects to draw! You want to learn how to draw faces better? They got it, Male and female faces. You wanna draw horses better? They got it! You wanna learn how to draw mountains, trees, bushes, landscapes, portraits, THEY GOT IT! If they don’t have it, message their team. I have never had customer support like this. These people actually do care, I know that makes you uncomfortable thinking that they actually do care. But they do so get over it! I love this app. It will never get old. Even when I become a professional artist! I’ll know where to hone my skills. Man I am thirsty. Gotta go! Download this app now! You won’t regret it!
Ambitious, limited, and glitchy
This app offers some very cool exercises, but sadly just a couple of months into a 1 year subscription, I’m waiting for the next great thing, and it’s been quite a while since I’ve seen anything new that’s as great as the Van Gogh or similar paintings. They offer “minimalist” versions instead of full versions of a few other famous paintings, but they really do disappoint in comparison. Also, one of the paintings disappeared at the moment I finished it after over 4000 steps of applying colorful strokes, and they didn’t respond to my email when that happened.
More accurately described, this is a digital coloring book, for people who are happy tracing drawings, because it doesn’t provide much in the way of theory, even in concepts as simple and foundational as cross-hatching. They don’t give any info on what brushes the “ teacher” has chosen, or why, and sometimes, it’s clear that the brush they do choose doesn’t match the reference drawing.
My hope was that this app is a work in progress, but there haven’t been any new updates in quite a while. It appears that they are the only app using this approach, so I continue with it. But my hopes are dimming fast as I am running out of exercises and realize I haven’t actually learned how to draw anything.
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Information
- Seller
- Shadow Draw
- Size
- 879.6 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Spanish, Swedish
- Age Rating
- 9+ Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Copyright
- © Shadow Draw Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- ShadowDraw: Monthly Plan $7.99
- ShadowDraw: Yearly Plan $49.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.