10 Best Apps for Digital Art in the Philippines 2024 | Procreate, Sketchbook, and More

Many illustrators, designers, and artists rely on Procreate. It is one of the best digital art apps for iPad, and it's also now available for iPhone with its pocket version. Although it's great for all skill levels, it might take a few practice and exploration before you get used to the app.

From basic to advanced digital art techniques, it serves as a complete art studio. Its intuitive dashboard delivers quick access to a wide range of creative and design tools such as brushes, pens, pencils, and colors. Also, it lets you use different sizes of ultra-high-definition canvases.

What makes Procreate stand out from other apps is that you can import, export, and customize your own brushes through its brush studio feature. Plus, you can fine-tune your brushes using the pressure curve and sensitivity settings. For better results, it's highly recommended that you use an Apple pencil.

Sketchbook is the perfect choice if you're looking for an app that's packed with powerful drawing tools. It comes with a good library of pencils, felt tips, paintbrushes, textures, and smudges. Plus, it has guides and rulers as well as transform and distort features to add perspectives to your drawings easily.

Aside from sketching, the app also works great for painting as it features gradients, color, and blending tools. All of the mobile version's features are free to use while its paid desktop version offers downloadable brushes along with steady and predictive stroke features that will let you create smooth and uniform strokes.

If you want to start creating your own moving digital artworks, then Flipaclip is a great option. The best thing about this app is that its interface, tools, and features are easy to learn and use. After you sketch, you can add dialogues using its voice recording feature or add and edit audio clips from the built-in audio library.

The technique used in creating animated artworks in this app is the onion skinning technique, which lets you add an overlay on the current frame to help you see the spacing of your animation. This lets you work on semi-transparent layers, so you can see how the objects align and move as you progress in your project.

You can only use 3 layers with its free version, but if you want to use up to 10 layers and add your own audio files, you can go for its pro version. See some of the sample animations by checking out their Instagram. 

MediBang is an excellent drawing and painting app that lets users create comics and impressive paintings easily. Aside from its massive collection of pressure-sensitive brushes, it features tons of different tones, textures, panels, fonts, and word balloons. It even offers pre-made backgrounds that can be dragged and dropped onto your artworks in an instant!

What makes it more fun to use is that it comes with a speech-to-text feature that converts spoken words into text, perfect when you need to put dialogues. Additionally, it has a clean and simple interface, so even complete beginners won't have a hard time using this app.

Using Infinite Painter feels like painting on an actual canvas as it comes with different canvas or paper textures. Plus, you can choose from its 170 built-in brush presets, and you can use more brushes that are shared by other users. These brushes not only work for painting but also for blending colors, erasing, and applying a filter.

With its auto-save feature, you won't have to worry about losing your work progress. You can save your finished work as JPEG or PNG file. But if you want to save your project and edit it on Photoshop, you can also save it as a PSD file. However, you have to purchase the full version of the app to utilize this feature.

Infinite Painter is designed both for finger painting and for a pressure-sensitive stylus pen. It provides quick tutorials, and its tools are all hidden on a dockable control panel or toolbar, so its interface does not look stuffed. Lastly, it automatically records the project creation process, which you can export up to 4K quality and share with your friends.

Looking for an app that will let you draw cartoons and create anime-style artworks filled with vibrant colors? ibis Paint X will be your best bet! With this, you get to use up to 2000 types of brushes, 27 blending modes, and unlimited layers for free.

If you want to turn your work into manga, the app is also equipped with basic manga features such as screen tones, frame dividers, and vertical and horizontal text input tools. However, note that the app contains a few ads, and some users say that the user interface is a bit cluttered when used on a phone, so it's better to use it on a tablet with a stylus pen.

With Clip Studio Paint, you can create character designs, paintings, and animations with ease. When sketching human figures and creating dynamic compositions, the app lets you generate 3D models as a reference. Its AI can also scan your imported image references to generate poses into 3D figures.

Aside from using the stabilizer, line correction, and special ruler features when drawing, you can move and tweak drawn vector lines' thickness to perfection. Plus, the smart fill tools speed up the painting process as you can either color spaces in just one tap or use color hints to experiment with color variations.

Its animation studio comes with a light table and onion skin function, allowing you to draw between keyframes and add more frames to your previous and following frames. For finishing touches, you can also add music, sound effects, and voices, and set the timing and order of each frame as you like.

If you just got your Huion pen tablet or digital pen, the next thing you should do is to install Huion Sketch on your device. The app comes with cursor support that will help you draw lines and paint colors on your work precisely. Also, it features a stabilizer that allows you to draw perfect line strokes.

Since the app has only 41 brushes available, you can get creative and design your own custom brushes using the brush studio. When it comes to its coloring tools, you surely won't struggle to switch colors as it displays the 7 colors you've used recently.

To maintain balanced proportions on your artwork, you can utilize canvas flip and symmetry visual guides. Additionally, the multi-touch gestures features for action shortcuts let you work in a breeze. Although it's best for Huion pen tablets and digital pens, you can still use the app without any digital art tools.

If you want to learn how to animate, Picsart Animator is a great starting point. With this app, you can create awesome animations with no skills required! It is fully equipped with essential drawing tools and animation features such as frame duplication, frame timeline, and movement customization tools.

After adding music, sound effects, and voiceovers, you can also put fun animated stickers to your work. You can even animate yourself into an emoji using the Emoji Me feature for free. Although the app is perfect for beginners, you can still make complex and professional-looking animation videos with it.

On the hunt for a beginner-friendly drawing app? Tayasui Sketches is the one for you. Even though its interface leans towards minimalistic design, the app doesn't lack features as it comes with basic drawings tools such as adjustable pen brushes, color palette, and color eyedropper.

If you're ready to take your digital art journey to the next level, you can upgrade the app to its pro version. It gives you access to paid features like unlimited layers, realistic watercolor wet brushes, smudge tools, rulers, and gradients and patterns. Since it supports Wacom stylus pens, you can also invest in one to make your experience easier and more enjoyable.