These are my first attempts to draw something on iphone. Neither one is finished, but is enough to see the possibilities of the two applications.

My Paint 2

Brushes

Is nice to draw with your finger, but it takes a lot of time zooming, choosing color, opacity etc. And a big downside if you have think finger :) . First drawing is made in Brushes, said to be the best drawing application for iphone. Two big points for having opacity and multi-layer support – up to 4 layers (not much, but enough if you manage your things right) that can be rearranged, deleted, merged, and even copied between paintings. Also, fast access to controls as you draw by just taping the screen on any spot saves some amount of time. For color choosing it has the friendly well known color wheel and an opacity slider, wich makes it pretty straight forward, but I find it a bit difficult fine tuning the opacity at low values.

Second drawing (ergh…) is made using MyPaint2, the first iphone painting app I ever tried. Also a decent painting application, but lacks of layer and opacity support. It has a brush softness slider wich slided to the low end point makes the brush transparent but is not what you`d expect, and certainly not a true opacity option. A very interesting feature is the possibility to upload your masterpieces directly to their website, where drawings are rated and commented. I tell you I found some amazing drawings there, made me feel so talent-less. Another good thing is the ability to save some colors, if you frequently need them, but the color choosing tool is… uhm… I don`t like it. Overall, a decent painting application, but when I found out that there is no “redo” button,  I given up.

So, if you ever fell like finger drawing on you Itoy, my advice is to go with Brushes, even though is a bit more expensive, both applications are very cheap (3,99 euro Brushes, 1,59 euro MyPaint) .