Sketchbook Express

Sketchbook Express Key Features:

Streamlined UI

• Gesture-based marking menus for ultra-fast access to tools and commands with a flick of the wrist
• Optimized for pen and tablet-based interaction for a natural drawing experience
• Space Bar invokes a 'Puck' to quickly navigate the canvas

High Quality Preset Brushes

• Familiar preset tools, including pencils markers, airbrushes, erasers, flood fill tools, blur, and sharpen brushes
• Draw modes to quickly create circles, lines, rectangles

Use 6 layers to build up drawings before you save (Saving of layers requires SketchBook Pro)

Drag and drop or import images into a layer

Quick cropping tool

Sketchbook Express Screenshot

How to use Sketchbook Express

• It's very easy to use SketchBook Express to create a new pictures. Open the App, simply click on “Image -> Canvass size“. You can then change canvass sizes by percent, pixels, inches, centimeters or millimeters. Once you are done, click OK. You will notice that as you adjust the canvass size, the amount of memory taken up by the image will also appear.


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• Sketchbook Express has a basic pallet of tools that will give you different effects on your digital paper. There is a range of tips that are available. That range includes pens, pencils and brushes. There are even some tools that are hybrids of the two, which makes for some interesting tool options. Just keep in mind that if what you are looking for is a wet paint effect, Sketchbook Express cannot help you out at all. That is a feature that you may have to find another tool for.
• So, how do you toggle between the tools? Like any good piece of software Sketchbook Express makes it easy to switch between the most basic of your tools, the brushes. By default a pallet of brushes should show up on your screen, but if you dismissed it to clear up canvass space, retrieving it is simple. Just click on the image of the brush and pen on your top bar and you will have the pallet back. Now you can select your tool of choice.


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• Let’s say that you like your tool, but it is too fat, or too thin, or too solid. On the brush pallet you will see an icon with a set of slider bars. Just click on that and you will be taken to brush properties. From here you can adjust the thickness and opacity of the tool, and you can even see a real time preview of what the tool will draw like, which is handy if you were on the fence about what settings to use. Then, just click on save and you can use your newly customized tool to draw to your hearts content.
• Sketchbook Express works well with drawing tablets (not the iPad tablet), which is a good news if you prefer to draw by hand, or if you just feel like the look of more traditional digital art is too sterile for your needs. When that hand drawn feeling is essential to your project using the tablet is the right way to go. This software is tablet ready. Just be aware that if you have a newer drawing tablet with advanced support for assisted gesture based interfaces, you may need to turn them off in your tablet software options, or you may end up drawing in places that you did not mean to.