Draw This App

iPad

Teaches: art, drawing, cartoons, animation

CTR Rating: 90%

CTR Review

This is a clean, straightforward set of self-correcting art sketching tutorials, with content sold as an in-app purchase (the first two levels are free). Your efforts are graded, with a score and a comment such as "really?" (for low scores). The scoring is less than accurate, but it's close and it successfully motivates you to practice for a better score. Created in Toronto by artist Peterson Hamilton, this app adapts cursive writing teaching techniques, for shapes. You start with simple cubes and cones and eventually get to cartoon hands. The result? It works. You learn how to break down complex objects into lines and curves. Content includes four drawing modes including left and right handed, and six units in version one, hoping to build a complete library over time. Note that you might want to use a stylus to help you see your line.