Sketchpad 5.0

Hot off the press, released January 2018! Introducing Sketchpad v5.0 (codename Fancy Fox), a year after 4.1. The biggest change: brushes now draw into layers instead of just on top of them, which opens up a pile of creative techniques that weren’t possible before.

Sketchpad’s exciting new features:

• Thousands of new Clipart provided by OpenClipart!
• Hundreds of new Fonts provided by Google Fonts!
• Entirely new Sketchpad User Guide developed by Ryan Reece!
• Paint into layers: You can now use any brush to draw into any Shape or Image layer!
• Mirror Brush: A crowd favorite! The mirror brush, as its name suggests, allows you to easily draw symmetrical imagery, similar to a mandala. For example the image above was created with this brush! We find this tool to be especially effective art therapy.
• Tile Brush: Perhaps the most versatile brush, the Tile Brush, allows you to stretch an image across any path that you draw. This can be a lot of fun! If you want, you can even drag an image from your Desktop onto the Stroke, and stretch that image along the path you draw. Experiment for joys abound.
• Align layers: When using the Select tool you can now align layers in respect to other layers. The new methods supported are: top, left, right, bottom, horizontal, vertical
• Distribute layers: When using the Select tool you can now distribute layers in respect to other layers. The new methods supported are: horizontal, vertical

We hope you enjoy Sketchpad v5.0!

As always feel free to drop us a message and let us know what you think :)