Tayasui Sketches 8.0
Responsive canvas
The simplicity of Tayasui Sketches is amazing. Experienced artists will love the fact that it launches to a blank canvas with no new things to learn. Amateurs will probably have a harder time going through the motions, but they’ll get there eventually.
Your canvas is a piece of paper which can be plain, grainy, colored, etc. Your utensils include pencil, rotring pen, felt pen, brush pen, oil pastel, watercolor brush, filling tool, and more. The canvas is very responsive and the marks you leave are layered, meaning you can thicken a line if you cross over it once or twice.
Each stroke behaves like a brush on paper. The app adapts the pressure, angle, and width automatically.
On iPad, you can use as many as 4 layers per drawing, as well as export layers as separate PNG with transparency. In fact, the iPad version has so much more oomph it deserves its own review. Which is why we’ll leave that one for later.
It’s also possible to import and export pictures to and from other apps through the iCloud drive and share your drawings via the new iOS 8 Sharing extensions, which makes everything easier to handle.
UI deserves some explanation
The interface, while simplistic and accessible, is not very well explained. For example, if you’re not the kind of person who has gone through a few drawing apps, you may not know how to save your work. Or how to manage multiple drawings into books. On the good side, artists who are familiar with this kind of tool will welcome the no-buttons UI.
Everything else aside, the interface itself is a design masterpiece. Everything from the drawing tools to the menus is just impeccably designed.The flat new User interface fits the overall look and feel of iOS 7 and 8. There are new animations at every step of the way, and the workflow has been smoothed out quite a lot.
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Bottom Line
Design / UI8
A design masterpiece in and of itself, the Tayasui Sketches interface lacks a proper introductory guide and a few handy buttons in the menu. |
Function7
Makes drawing super easy and fun, but it’s easy to make mistakes. File management isn’t very intuitive either. The iPad version deserves much more attention. |
Security9
Packs the usual social sharing options which are your sole responsibility. |
Battery7
Since you’re going to be using it for long period of times, expect some degree of drainage. |
Price8
The one-hour free trial thing has us sold. It’s the best way to make your acquaintance with the full product, and decide if you want to buy. And it’s not very expensive either: $4.99 / €4.49. |
Compatibility8
Requires iOS 7.0 and works natively on all iDevices. |
Turns you into an artist before you even know it.
Specifications
- price:
- Free with IAP
- current version:
- 8.0
- reviewed version:
- 8.0
- developer:
- Tayasui.com
- category:
- IMAGE
- os version req.:
- 7.0
- age rating:
- 4+
- in-app purchases:
- Yes. Pro Version $4,99, More Tools $1,99, Layers $1,99
- hits:
- 649