

See how they run.Ī very wet watercolor brush made the oil swatches bleed and mix.Īdobe calls them "live brushes," but really they're just brushes that behave the way you expect. Adobe credits Apple's latest graphics processor and Metal graphics API for delivering the speed necessary for the real-time mixing. Those and more are on the roadmap.īut when it comes to blending strokes for oils and watercolors, I haven't seen anything on mobile that comes close to Fresco's realism. The feature-complete beta of Fresco that's been keeping me up at night doesn't even come close in fact, it's missing a lot of crucial capabilities and brush types, such as charcoal, airbrush and palette knife smudging color jitter controls and the ability to save custom brushes and palettes. ArtRage has custom paper types and metallic papers and ink. Procreate has seven sets of options for every brush, including the ability to adjust the Pencil's behavior on a brush-by-brush basis. There are a lot of painting apps littering the App store, most of which have more brushes with better-developed features.
