Drawing Guide AppearanceĬolor: to adjust the color of the guideline, use the hue bar at the top of the Drawing Guides screen. You can adjust the look and behavior of your symmetry guide with some of the additional options.

When Symmetry is active, the thin guideline will appear in the middle of the screen and overlay your artwork. When you first open Symmetry, the Vertical Symmetry Guide is shown by default, no worries, but you can change it. Step 2: Tap the Symmetry button on the bottom of the screen. This will take you to the Drawing Guides screen. Step 1: To access the Symmetry tool, go to Actions > Canvas > Drawing Guide > tap Edit Drawing Guide. The tool is especially useful when you draw mandalas or faces. Further to Sunday’s post, I thought I’d share some of the things I’ve been able to do.Symmetry guides mirror your art across multiple planes for beautiful and impressive effects. My favourite drawing tools so far are the artist’s crayon, oriental brush and calligraphy pen, though I want to keep experimenting. I’m mostly tracing from photos so far while I want to get better at freehand sketching, my focus at the moment is getting used to the app. I’ve been impressed by what I’ve been able to draw with a finger, and while I’m still yearning for an Apple Pencil-none of my sketches have been as precise or expressive as the ones I posted last weekend-I’m getting a lot out of it.

For £5.99, you get layers, transparency and the ability to zoom in and rotate the canvas without moving the iPad. In Sunday’s post about wanting to draw better, I mentioned being tempted by the iPad Pro, which lets you draw with a handheld pencil my current tablet doesn’t support that, but since Procreate also lets you sketch with a finger, I downloaded it this week and started picking up the basics. I’ve been trying out Procreate, the Photoshop-for-iPad drawing app.

Learning to draw on procreate