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A Guide to Phone Art, Using Sony Mobile “Draw” App

Ever been bored? This is for you: did you know you could access a rudimentary form of digital art on your phone? For doodling in between important things, in case you lack a tablet and a computer, for simple art practice…

This app offers multiple brush choices as well as tweakable settings and changing backgrounds. However, only one layer at a time! If you cannot manage one layer painting, just save as picture your sketch and use it as a background to the next layer and repeat. It works but you will loose in picture quality!

Today, I will teach you the basics I learned in one layer art, on a black and white semi realistic example. Just follow the instructions below, illustrated by the pictures above!

Step 1: The Sketch

Use the marker brush, choose a color, click the color settings and lower the transparency to something like 10%. Choose the size you want and sketch out your drawing: the transparency allows you to do guidelines! You can zoom in for details. At this stage, you cannot really fuck up, but just so you know you can cancel your lines! (warning: a saved picture’s lines cannot be canceled anymore!) Make sure that your sketch has well adjusted proportions, for it is the absolute base to what comes next!

Step 2: Drawing

(saving is recommended once in a while. To save, click the “back to app home” icon, you will be asked if you want to save or not) Sketch is here but incomplete! In this step, you will trace the outlines of your drawing. To do well defined lines, just go over and over the spot. For darker lines, adjust the transparency in the color menu. Zoom in and out to check how your are doing: when you judge your drawing satisfactory, of to the next step!

Step 3: Shading

Back to the brush menu! Select the paintbrush tool, same color and transparency (warning: if you sketch using colors other than black, this tool will automatically darken your color). This tool paints with a smooth texture and blurred outlines. Go over your shaded areas with a large brush, then diminish brush size for details and more precise shading. You can also use the Big Marker tool for a lighter, bigger, non blurred shade.

Step 4: Details

I use the Pencil tool for hair and skin wrinkles! The texture is great and brush size can go from the tiniest eyelash to the floofiest sideburn. It also works great for lips. In this example, I turned the transparency a little lower for the brows.

About the Eraser

We are one layer here and the Eraser tool is more of a demon than something helpful… Use it only for clearing large areas, cleaning lineart and (like above) white highlights in black and white drawing.

Step 5: Background

We use the Paintbrush tool here once more! In this example, the background consists of distant objects. The paintbrush’s smooth outlines give the impression of depth in contrast with the clear lineart.

First step is outlining different “layers” in the perspective, from closest to faraway, using our sketch brush settings. Then, fill your spaces using the paintbrush, starting with the closest only, then going over the next closest and your previous paint, just like you would go over your semi transparent watercolor paint over and over to darken it.

Add some details to the closest background elements using a thin paintbrush.

Let’s finish with a little useful tip!

Want moar depth effects? Use the tiniest paintbrush you can as your lineart tool for faraway parts! (back of neck in this picture) Wanna do a badass bird’s eye perspective? Lineart the feet with your paintbrush and the head with the little marker! The blurred effect gives focus on the nearest parts of the drawing!

This tutorial is now finished! Have fun, try out new things, and tag me in if you want me to give a look and/or help you with some other tips! Coming soon: color or textures using the same app~