Notes on drawing and tracing on the device you already own, how working artists have always used reference, and how to read an App Store listing before you trust it. A new one every Tuesday.
Before you look for a free alternative to Procreate, it is worth working out whether what you need is a different brush engine or a picture to draw: those have completely different answers.
Why creative software went subscription, what it actually costs to rent a sketchbook for a decade, and how to tell a one-time purchase from a recurring one before you install anything.
Most free iPad drawing apps are free in one of four ways, and only one of them is the way you meant. Here is how to tell which you have installed, before you have put three hours into a drawing.
Tracing is a four-hundred-year-old studio technique, and a phone is a better place to do it than its reputation suggests. How tracing fits into working practice, and how to trace on an iPhone without a stylus.