Sketchbook 2

Start creating professional digital art instantly with a full suite of sketching, painting, and editing tools designed for precision and speed.

Sketchbook 2 transforms your Android device into a portable digital canvas, eliminating the need for expensive hardware or complex software. Whether you are a concept artist, illustrator, or hobbyist, this application provides a streamlined workflow for capturing ideas, refining details, and exporting finished artwork.

Core Drawing & Painting Tools

Sketchbook 2 delivers a complete set of raster-based creation tools optimized for touch input and stylus support. The brush engine includes over 140 customizable presets, each adjustable for size, opacity, flow, and pressure sensitivity. You can create custom brushes by combining shape, texture, and scattering parameters. The paint engine supports smooth blending modes, including multiply, screen, overlay, and soft light, for layered color work.

The drawing system features a predictive stroke algorithm that reduces input lag to under 10 milliseconds on compatible devices. You can activate symmetry tools for mirroring along vertical, horizontal, or radial axes. The perspective guide system offers 1-point, 2-point, and 3-point grids with adjustable vanishing points and horizon lines. The ruler tool provides straight-edge accuracy for architectural lines and technical drawings.

Layer Management & Compositing

The layer system supports up to 100 layers per project, each with independent blend modes and opacity controls. You can group layers into folders for organizing complex compositions. Layer masks allow non-destructive editing: paint with black to hide content, white to reveal, and grayscale for partial transparency. The clipping mask feature confines brush strokes to the shape of the layer below, useful for coloring line art.

Blending modes include normal, dissolve, darken, multiply, color burn, linear burn, lighten, screen, color dodge, linear dodge, overlay, soft light, hard light, vivid light, linear light, pin light, hard mix, difference, exclusion, subtract, divide, hue, saturation, color, and luminosity. Each mode can be applied to individual layers for precise compositing control.

Selection & Transformation Tools

Precision editing is supported through multiple selection methods. The lasso tool offers freehand, polygonal, and magnetic modes for isolating complex shapes. The magic wand selects contiguous areas based on color similarity, with adjustable tolerance from 0 to 255. The rectangular and elliptical marquee tools provide geometric selection. All selections support feathering up to 100 pixels for smooth edges.

Transformation tools include move, scale, rotate, skew, distort, and perspective. You can apply transformations to entire layers or active selections. The warp tool allows free-form deformation using a 3x3 control grid. The liquify tool pushes, pull, twirl, and bloat pixels for creative effects. All transformations are non-destructive when applied to duplicate layers.

Advanced Color Management

The color picker supports HSB, RGB, and hex value input. The color wheel provides hue and saturation selection, while the value slider controls brightness. The color swatch panel stores up to 36 custom colors per palette, with the ability to save and load multiple palettes. The eyedropper tool samples colors from any point on the canvas with a long-press gesture.

The color harmony guide displays complementary, analogous, triadic, and tetradic color schemes based on your current primary color. The gradient tool creates linear, radial, and angular gradients with adjustable stops and opacity. The fill tool applies solid color or pattern fills to enclosed areas or selections.

Export & Workflow Integration

Finished artwork can be exported in PNG, JPEG, PSD, or TIFF formats. PNG exports support transparency and 8-bit color depth. PSD exports preserve layer structure, blend modes, and opacity for compatibility with Adobe Photoshop. TIFF exports support 16-bit color depth for high-fidelity printing. Maximum export resolution is 4096 x 4096 pixels.

The auto-save feature stores your work every 5 minutes, with manual save triggers available. The undo history supports up to 100 steps, with a redo function for the last 50 actions. You can import images from your device gallery or camera as reference layers, with adjustable opacity for tracing. The canvas rotation tool allows 360-degree rotation with snap-to-angle increments of 15 degrees.

Key Advantages

• 140+ customizable brushes with pressure sensitivity and stroke smoothing
• 100-layer support with 26 blend modes and non-destructive layer masks
• Perspective guides, symmetry tools, and rulers for precise technical drawing
• Advanced selection tools: lasso, magic wand, and geometric marquees
• PSD, PNG, JPEG, and TIFF export with up to 4096 x 4096 pixel resolution
• 100-step undo history and auto-save every 5 minutes for workflow security
• Liquify, warp, and distort transformation tools for creative effects
• Color harmony guide and custom palette management for consistent color schemes

Consider downloading Sketchbook 2 now to equip your mobile device with a complete digital art studio.

Internet required for initial download and feature updates. In-app purchases available for additional brush packs and premium tools.