Autodesk SketchBook Pro review

Digital painting and sketching comes to the Mac App Store at a great price, but is it for everyone?

SketchBook Pro
Customise and save brush sets in SketchBook Pro, the versatile painting and drawing app

TechRadar Verdict

A unique, powerful and fun painting tool. Highly intuitive and also inexpensive; recommended for all

Pros

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    Incredible UI

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    Highly customisable

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    Great brushes

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    Realistic

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    Easy to use and get into

Cons

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    Sluggish on slower Macs

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There are many apps that enable you to create digital pieces of art. There are the big expensive apps, such as Photoshop and Painter, as well a raft of less expensive tools such as Pixelmator and ArtRage.

Autodesk's SketchBook Pro is a similar proposition to ArtRage, being an app geared to enabling you to get painting and sketching quickly. Don't be fooled by the name – this is not just pencil/pen and ink, it's a fully fledged art studio, with a huge range of natural-media painting tools.

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