Zen Brush 3 is a drawing app focused on the strong yet beautiful feel of the East Asian ink brush which can be used to perform calligraphy, ink painting and more.
The drawing system that brings to life a feeling of silky fluent and delicate painting now allows an even wider range of expression thanks to the addition of "water" and "color". Providing a new simple and intuitive user interface, this app is designed to be optimal for performing Zen art.
Simply start the app and you are immediately ready to draw. Anyone, anywhere, can create superb Zen art with this app’s uniquely rich expressiveness. You can also easily share and edit your calligraphy and images with other apps using the Export functionality. Skillfully use the rich background style templates to create and share atmospheric artwork.
- The drawing system simulates a 3D model of an East Asian ink brush to enable varied and natural styles of brush handling.
- The adjustable amount of water makes it possible to create expressions ranging from powerful edge effects to "nijimi" (bleeding) and "bokashi" (blurring) where colors mix.
- You can also enjoy creating colored-ink paintings as well as watercolor paintings by making use of 30 selected traditional Japanese colors.
- The layer functionality allows more flexible editing.
- Import photos to add text to them or use them as background images for tracing.
- Create fascinating artwork with a rich assortment of background style templates.
- Traditional Japanese paper templates provide an authentic feel.
Features:
- 5 main tools (ink brush, color brush, water brush, eraser, blotting paper).
- 10 levels of thickness.
- 5 levels of water (not applicable to blotting paper).
- 10 levels of ink tone (not applicable to water brush and blotting paper).
- Color palette with 30 colors.
- 89 background style templates.
- Drying functionality (fast dry, instant dry, adjustable natural dry).
- Layers functionality (import image / color adjustment / move / rotate / scale / reverse left and right / white transparency / gradation effect).
- Guide display (character guides / partition guides / grid guides).
- Movable toolbar (top / bottom / left / right).
- Canvas zoom (zoom in and out with pinch gestures).
- Undo / redo (5 levels).
- Export functionality (formats: JPEG, PNG, transparent PNG (no background)).
- Android stylus support (pressure: only if supported by Android OS).
- Drawing tool selection (finger and stylus / stylus only).
- Adjustable brush pressure sensitivity (5 levels, with supported stylus only).
- Adjustable tilt sensitivity (5 levels, with supported stylus only).
- Gesture functionality (pinch zoom and drag, zoom toggle with 2-finger tap).
- 3D brush display (enable / disable).
- Pointer display (enable / disable).
- 5 levels of canvas resolution with a maximum of 3072 x 4096 pixels (the higher resolutions do not work on devices with lower specs).
There's no question that Zen Brush 2 is a different program all together. Zen Brush 3 is a little more like everything else with it's own user interface.
Slick, reasonably simple and lovely results.
One of the best sketching apps. Lots of brush control. UI cramped on small screen but does not really impact on the experience
Zen Original template papers install to Zen 3 would be nice.
This is so insane. I accidentally found it ok the store. It didn't pop up at all when finding artist or paint apps. Easily the best watercolor app on the store. It uses almost real fluid dynamics.
Fun. Realistic drawing experience. Limited undo, colors and brushes. UI is weird. Layer panel is weird.
Wonderful. This app is so realistic and so much fun! Worth every penny. The interface is intuitive and easy to use. I have used genuine Chinese and Japanese paper, brushes and ink in the past. This app feels like the real thing. Truly a great app to practise and create Japanese and Chinese style art. You will also save a fortune on paper and ink supplies! Plus, no mess to cleanup! Very pleased!
- Updated the drawing engine and improved it so that changing the brush size does not change the shade of the ink anymore.
- Adjusted the screen display.
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