Art & Design
Tayasui Sketches
A drawing app known for realistic brushes, especially its wet watercolours, with layers and PSD export.
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- Developer
- SKETCHES SRL
- Score
- 4.5
- Downloads
- 10K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 36.9
- Price
- Free
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About this app
The reputation of Tayasui Sketches rests on how its tools feel. Strokes respond to pressure, angle and movement, and the wet watercolour brushes in particular behave more like paint on paper than most mobile apps manage. It suits sketchers and painters who care more about the mark-making than the length of the feature list. The toolbox has over 20 instruments including pen, felt pen, oil pastel, acrylic, airbrush, dry and wet watercolour, a smudge tool and a ruler (shapes are iPad only), plus a brush editor and an eyedropper. Layers export individually as transparent PNGs or together as a layered PSD, and PSDs import too. Drawings sort into folders and sync between devices via the cloud, with sync set folder by folder. Apple Pencil and pressure styluses are supported, and the interface hides its controls while you draw. The full tool set sits behind a Pro Bundle in-app purchase or a weekly or yearly subscription.
Tayasui Sketches: the full guide
What the app is
The brushes are the point. Tayasui Sketches is a drawing app whose reputation comes from how a stroke responds to pressure, tilt and speed, and in particular from wet watercolours that bleed and pool the way real paint does. Over twenty tools include pens, pastels, acrylic, airbrush and a smudge tool, plus a brush editor.
It handles layers, exports them as PNGs or a layered PSD, imports PSDs, and keeps drawings in folders that sync between devices. The full toolset is paid, either as a Pro Bundle or a subscription.
How it works day to day
A session usually starts with a quick pencil sketch and then the fun part, loading a wet watercolour brush and watching the colour spread into the paper texture. The controls hide themselves while you work, so the canvas is yours until you tap to swap tools. Layers keep the line work separate from the wash, and the eyedropper pulls a colour from what you've already laid down.
When it's finished, you export a PSD to carry on in desktop software, or drop it into a folder that syncs to your other devices. With an Apple Pencil the pressure response is where the app earns its name.
Why people look for it
Watercolour. People who've tried other mobile painting apps and found the brushes stiff hear about this one specifically for its wet media. It also draws sketchbook keepers who want a quick, pleasant tool rather than a Photoshop substitute, and the PSD export means serious users can start here and finish elsewhere, which widens its appeal.
Look and feel
An Art & Design app with five screenshots on the page gives you a fair look at what the brushes produce, which is more useful than any description. The interface is designed to get out of the way, with tools retreating while you draw, so expect a canvas-first layout with a slim toolbar rather than panels of options. Shapes and the ruler are iPad only, so the phone version is slightly leaner.
