Sketch Blog

As a non student and someone who writes a lot (don't let my messy handwriting fool you), I am always buying notebooks and I'm sick of it. I run out of storage quickly or I lose the books or worse yet, they get damaged. So I've recently committed to going fully digital. Instead of typing out this blog, I spent more time handwriting it in the app I was was planning to review. Below is said image. I used the grid template and then turned it off on export. Going digital is great although I do need to work on my outer margins a little more than I do. Bad habits from high school die hard. I combined the two pages into one image for easy of upload and viewing. Just beware, there will be mistakes. I had more to say but time was running short and I needed to get this post done, but I got the bulk of what I wanted to say written out with only a few spelling and grammar mistakes. The beauty of making mistakes in apps like this is the vector style eraser and the ability to cut,...

I watched one video about Good Notes 4 and I was hooked! I love this app! It’s fantastic! The writing in Good Notes 4 is surprisingly natural without too much auto correction on the lines. It’s smooth without being too smooth and simple to use. With how natural the writing feels and the use of the zoom feature it makes it even easier to write and use withing a limited space without making it uncomfortable or weird. My only gripe is a lack of pen styles to choose from. With my messy handwriting and the fact that I have a tendency to switch between cursive and print as I write after years of rush rush rush in high school that never left my hand’s memory, there are particular pens that look better, neater and more legible when I write with them such as a standard slanted calligraphy pen. I have a person preference for fountain and calligraphy pens that are sharp and/or slanted at certain angles. Most digital art or doodling apps provide these pens and it seems with their forever gr...

It’s great. No doubt about it. It’s still lacking in some very basic features suck as proper masking and clipping masks but it’s pretty damned good, especially for the price. What I liked the most was the power consumption. Plenty of apps now have great pressure sensitivity and paint like blending but a lot lack the ability to do so without killing your iPad or phone after 10 mintues. For me though Medibang Paint still has it beat in every aspect except one. The timelapse feature. I love how it similarly to OpenCavas only better and it doesn’t crash. The paint brushes are interesting and I like the simplicity of creating brush textures from photo’s. Inking was also quiet nice but again I prefer Medibang Paint because of the highly customisable line correction. It helps since my hands shake and the iPad I am using is very sensitive and new. However the pen quality, customisation and pen choices were very nice and fun to use. I enjoyed a lot of the more natural media brushes especi...