Although you can print it out on canvas and it looks pretty darn good. For traditional painters, painting digitally will never be as satisfying as laying paint down on canvas and having a finished painting you can hang on the wall when you’re done. I’m still learning to paint on the iPad using ArtRage, have tried ProCreate and am noodling around with Sketchbook Pro (which I just downloaded for free!).

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On the drawing, I lined up the tip of my pencil to the edge of the cheek and made a mark in the location where my thumb was on the pencil. Then I placed my thumb on the pencil where the edge of the nose was positioned and moved the pencil over to my drawing. For example, I lined up the tip of the pencil on the left cheek, then measured the distance from the edge of the cheek to the edge of the nose. I did this by taking my Apple Pencil and holding it horizontally over the photo. Sight-sizing is a little difficult to do on the iPad Pro, but will help to get fairly accurate measurements. In the image above I started the envelope on the left side and then sort of switched to using the sight-size method.

I never really got the hang of it, but keep trying it as I think it has value in helping to see overall shapes. Last year in a painting class I learned the envelope method for drawing. For the drawing, I used the pencil tool and started with drawing simple shapes and angles.

Artrage oil painting