ShadowDraw: Learn How to Draw 9+

Has potential

The app is a good start, and can be fun, especially with more artists added. I have two suggestions to make it more useful. First, when starting a new drawing, it is imperative to have a faint outline of the actual finished drawing in the background. I just spent like 10 minutes drawing the squirrel, except for most of it, I was just scribbling circles and lines without knowing how they related to the final product. To learn to sketch, I need to know how to look at an image and break it down into those lines and circles. Just blindly scribbling doesn’t help a lot. Also, with the more complex drawings, at times, the artist’s next line is a dot somewhere on the page of scribbles and I can’t find where to make the next line, so I have to just randomly draw until I find out where the dot was, as the drawing won’t continue until you match the artists lines.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your suggestions and review. We have been thinking about the ideal way to show not just a finished drawing, but a preview of the next steps. Right now we have a cool preview mode that will reveal each new step moving forward. If you press and hold on the circle on the top right you will see what the artist created come to life. Please tell me what you think of that feature by emailing me at support@shadowdrawapp.com

Also we have added a new Skip a step feature in the 1.3 update. Whenever you see a little dot or you can’t find the next step and you want to go your own way, simply tap the screen with 3 fingers at the same time and you will skip forward one step. Please try this in the update and tell me what you think.

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Great app for people with little experience drawing!

I really enjoy using this app. I love how we can follow the lines one by one with the option to see the finished version any time, so I know what the lines are supposed to be. There are a couple of things I would suggest to the dev. One is to make it easy to find all the pieces I purchased so I don’t have to remember which ones are available for me to start drawing. The other one, which is even more important to me, is fixing how the eraser interacts with the coloring tool. The coloring tool allows you to fill in behind the lines you make with color. If you’re like me and erase a ton while sketching, this coloring tool basically doesn’t work properly. It won’t fill color behind the areas that you previously erased. This makes me feel like the eraser tool was implemented as a white marker instead of actually erasing. The app still gets five stars because I love it for learning how to sketch, but please fix the ability to color the areas where I erase.

Developer Response ,

Hi, Thank you for your thoughtful and detailed review :) I love all your suggestions and opinions. I agree we need to make it more clear to find all the art purchased. We are working on a better way to do this. We have hundreds more courses coming and we need to find a way to make art more browsable and especially art you have bought. That is one reason we now have an "All You Can Draw" subscription offer so that you can freely explore and discover new art.
Regarding the eraser tool, we have great news! Apple has worked hard and created a new tool for apps like ours. They call it PencilKit. This means that with the iOS13 release we will have a brush palette designed by Apple and embedded in ShadowDraw. You will have a beautiful pencil brush and pen and an eraser that will work as you have desired. This also means we can focus on giving you more great art and Apple will take care of all your pencil and coloring desires. 
We are going to do things with PencilKit that no other app can do. We are so excited to share it with you :)

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