Show HN: Painting app with many brushes, reference drawing and auto color picker

[Michal_B]

It is a free drawing app that I took the courage to finally reveal after years of development.

Main idea was to make drawing from reference effortless but also make an app that makes sketching very realistic especially with pencil.

After Importing a reference image the "peek" button and additional slider are unlocked, allowing for quick preview of the reference image and fast changing of the reference image opacity so that you can trace or paint over the reference.

The app is still in beta so expect bugs and crashes.

In the near future I am going to create a website to describe its features in detail and post some tutorial videos.

Apart from the "peek" button and the reference opacity slider there are more unique features for example each brush has 5 toggles, eraser allows you to erase with the given brush, pen pressure and pen opacity toggles, blending allows to blend colors with that brush and the last one is auto color picking, when reference image is available the brush will automatically peek color from the reference image while you paint - simple magic ;).

Thus far I was the only one testing the app so I am quite scared about the feedback especially worried that it will crash for you, in case it happens please let me know here or via email [e-mail]

I am exhausted today (working to publish the app) but will do my best to reply to any questions you may have.

Thank you and enjoy!

With regards,

Michal Bednarczyk

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[codingdave]

It feels really smooth, but when you click you get the full size brush stroke while if you click and drag you get a thin stroke that gets thicker... that is the opposite of how actual painting strokes work - the strokes would start big and get smaller.

It is a nice start, it just does not feel natural.

[Michal_B]

Hi, it was made for digital stylus/pencil drawing, indeed with mouse or touch without pencil I advise to switch the pen pressure and opacity toggles off and adjusting the pen size to your liking, I feel I will get a ton of valid feedback, thankyou!

[codingdave]

Aha! Great - I tried it with my Wacom tablet and you are correct, that is way better. And it still had the sketch from my prior session, so that is likewise really cool.

[Michal_B]

Just made first update release fixing some minor bugs, if you are an artist, consider creating even some basic artworks using my app and send it to me if you want me to use it on the website that i am creating for the app of course with full credit given back to you, thank you!