Whether you just want to doodle on your tablet, or you want to make a few quick sketches or notes, or you're a bona-fide artist and want to make beautiful digital paintings, there are drawing apps for any device that can help you express your creativity. Last week, we asked you which drawing apps you thought were the best for the job. Then we took a look at the five best tablet drawing apps, and put them to a vote. Now we're back to highlight the winner.
Autodesk's Sketchbook Express (iOS/Android), Sketchbook Mobile (Android), and Sketchbook Pro (iOS/Android) won your praise for being the most feature rich, widely available, and offering the most bang for your buck. It took home the top spot with close to 42% of the overall vote. Paper, an attractive and free(mium) drawing app for iOS, took the second spot with close to 38% of the votes cast. In third place, Procreate for iOS won your votes for being incredibly feature rich and aimed at serious artists, and brought in just over 10% of the vote. Behind it in fourth is Infinite Design for Android and its free version, both of which earned over 6% of the vote. Bringing up the rear, despite its professional tools and availability on the desktop as well as iOS devices was Artrage, earning about 4% of your votes.
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