

There’s a whole page dedicated to this topic in the online Help Guide ( ). You can then capture that texture into the brush settings panel. This can be as easy as drawing a few vertical strokes in SketchBook. To do so, you will need to first create a texture.

You can add more depth to paint layers and, of course, you can create your own textured brushes. Textured brushes let you create more natural brushes with more character to them. Textured Brushes are the second new feature.

However, I do expect that to change in the future. It guesses most primitives but beyond that not much.

Predictive stroke has its limitations and this is one of them. The pentagon was consistently re-drawn as a circle and the shaky star, well, remained a shaky star. Then I tried it with a pentagon and a star and both failed. I also tried this with straight lines, squares, rectangles and triangles. Suddenly, my shaky circles that always look like potatoes now looked as if an invisible drawing genius had taken possession of me. I tried it with ellipses and that worked like magic. It doesn’t just smoothen, it guesses what you want to draw and replaces your attempt in real-time with what it guesses you wanted to draw in the first place. The app smoothens the lines you draw to perfection. Drawing a really straight line or curve is never easy, so the smoothing feature lets you first decide on a smoothing strength and then draw your lines as usual. For some time now, SketchBook Pro has enabled you to smoothen your lines. My two versions share only one new feature: predictive stroke. Mind you, the iPad version is currently at 4.1, with the latest update adding support for the newest iPad Pro’s 120Hz display refresh rate. I tested the macOS and iPad (Air 2) versions. SketchBook Pro is available for Macs, iPads, Windows 10 and Android systems. I checked out what the new stuff is all about. A few months ago, Autodesk’s sketch app was upgraded to version 8, which comes with textured brushes, a new predictive stroke and direct access to brush libraries created by leading professionals. SketchBook Pro users enjoy a whole year of improvements and new features for a price of about €30/year.
