The fine art of drawing

Create stunning images with or without a stylus

Assembly Free assemblyapp.co

Do you want to make cool graphic designs but find yourself lacking in experience or specialist art knowledge? This is a vector illustration tool without the drawing: It comes with a series of shapes and editing tools, and you can assemble designs from component pieces (which snap together to ensure accuracy) and create surprisingly advanced and detailed images – then export them and pretend you made them by hand!

Graphic From $2.99 graphic.com

This is the closest there is to Adobe Illustrator on iOS. It’s a vector drawing tool for iPhone and iPad (each must be bought separately) that’s ideal for everything from technical drawing to coming up with funky logo designs, and supports the import and export of Photoshop files.

Linea $9.99 linea-app.com

This iPad-only app is designed for sketching. Whether that’s rough art ideas, outlines for projects, app designs, or… anything really, Linea is laser-focussed on plotting out your drawings. The interface is optimized for Apple Pencil, though, meaning the controls are tiny in places.

Procreate From $2.99 procreate.si

Turn your screen taps into beautiful paintings with this fantastic art app, which is easy to use but incredibly powerful. You can work in a variety of digital pencils, pastels, inks, and paints to produce natural-looking results. It comes with 128 brushes, and you can create your own for unique looks. You can work on huge canvasses too – up to 16,000 pixels wide – in multiple layers. It even records how you built up your canvas, so you can play it back as a video later.