wow, something like this and no one points out two fantastic FOSS alternatives: krita and mypaint
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#72i was actually trying to use sketchbookX from autodesk to take quick notes and draw schema diagrams. the lack of boundaries will make me continue to use your app! it is how i ever felt those apps should work in the first place. you nailed it. only critic i have now: the fake width of the traces are ok for testing out the app. do a few swipes and something similar to a brush drawing appears. nice. but using speed for…
Glad you like it! Straight bold/thin lines really aren't possible with the default calligraphy brush. There's a marker tool if you open the brushes menu which just does unshaped, straight lines. It's locked to the full version of the app however.
The inkpen brush is also 'untextured' (for lack of a better word) and has a shape profile opposite to the calligraphy brush (slower=wider).
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#73This app looks pretty neat.
I'm working on something similar for Android but focused on note taking and diagramming instead of drawing. I think of it as a kind of handwritten wiki. I allow placing of links in the document that jump to other parts of the document. It is still very much a work in progress and my lines don't look anywhere near as good as the ones in Sketchology.
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#74Fiddling around with it some. Interesting. It's not going to replace Illustrator by any means (that's been my main medium for 13 years) but I kinda like it more than Ideas - I think I might take it out to doodle some this week. Stuff I'd like to see: sync sketchbook across devices (maybe via evernote?) palm rejection with bluetooth styli an equivalent to AI's artboard - a way to say "this is the edge of my canvas, pl…
Thanks for the feedback. I could see all of those features being useful and integrating well into the rest of the app, though setting up edges to work within might require a bit to much UI compared to the gain in typical usage.
I went back and forth on the number of taps required to open up the brush or tools menu - the current implementation will open the menu directly if you already have that tool selected, and switch to the tool otherwise. Ex if calligraphy is selected then you touch brushes -> menu opens. If calligraphy is selected and you touch tools, then the eraser (or the MRU tool) is selected and the menu does not open.
This flow works really well when you switch are switching between 2 types of anything, like between calligraphy and the pencil, or calligraphy and the eraser and (I like it because) it doesn't have popups flying in your face constantly. It works less well if you switch between 3 (ex calligraphy->eraser->pencil.) A second downside is that the logic behind when 1 or 2 clicks is required is somewhat less than obvious.
(You can delete drawings, press and hold on the thumbnail in the homescreen)
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#75Very nice, it reminds me of the approach of Mischief[1] "What makes Mischief tick? Mischief uses Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields (ADFs), originally invented and developed by Ron and Sarah at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs and further enhanced by 61 Solutions. ADFs are a new digital representation of shape which provide numerous advantages including high quality anti-aliasing, very fast rendering, support for ma…
I'd been looking for Paper/Sketchology type apps for desktops but the only solutions looked to be overly complicated vector apps like Illustrator and Inkscape. Had never heard of Mischief before thanks.
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#76Very, very cool. It "feels" great to use it - the lines look smooth and satisfying to draw. I can see this being a lot of fun to use for random doodling. The simplicity is also great - it does exactly what it needs to, and no more. Only one problem: I have zero artistic talent or ability. I've often wanted to start practicing drawing, but it was never THAT high a priority, and I never put in the effort to get a pad,…
DrawQuest might be interesting to you: http://drawquest.com/
I do wish there was an Android or PC version.
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#77Wow! This is a fantastic app. All of the basic tools feel natural to use, and the vector smoothing "just works". Well done!
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#78Excellent execution for something I always wanted on the iPad, congratulations!
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#79Awesome app, well done! Any plans for POGO stylus support?
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#80You could use something like this to hide secrets 5 levels of zoom deep - steganography. Someone could always export it and use tools to find your secret, but they'd have to know it existed first.