Tracing Buddy: Drawing Grid

This is an awesome app for pencil drawing for watercolor…and the price is awesome. I would actually pay a little more for the lifetime ($20?), but really appreciate that is affordable. My favorite feature is the ability to tap of a square and isolate it for drawing. THIS IS AWESOME and sets the app apart from all the rest. I think my mind tries to fill in if I’m looking at the whole picture. For a long time I didn’t understand how to get back to the whole grid, so I thing a back arrow would be helpful. I finally figured out you just swipe. I would like the ability to crop the photo inside the app so I don’t have to go into Photos and crop the original. That would be a great feature. I do think getting a photo into the program and starting a new drawing is more difficult than it could be. Look at how Sketchbook and Procreate handle this with a gallery (and all other drawing programs). Maybe use icons instead of the words and plus sign…they run together and it’s hard to tap the right one on a phone. Maybe add a quick tutorial on that for now? I just wiped out a previous drawing by importing a photo over it. That said, this is hands-down the best app out there.

I’ve been using the free version of this app for several months, and I am very pleased with it. I’m an artist and sometimes making a grid on the photo I’m drawing from, to keep everything in perspective, and the options this app has, work perfectly for that. The free version allows you to get the photo, lay a grid across it, you choose the size of the boxes in the grid. And you can change the colors of the lines of your grid, so that you can see it better. And it also allows you to mess around with Augmented Distortion, I don’t know how to use that, but I am very pleased with the other features I can use.

Tracing buddy is exactly the app I needed for when I am using Procreate to draw on my ipad. I find it a lot easier to have the image separate from the Procreate app, but I also like having a grid overlay to help with image proportions and perspective. Another thing I like about this app is the realistic pricing it offers, 2.99/year for a subscription or 4.99 for a lifetime unlock. I appreciate that it is not pricing me out of the pro option by being 2.99/week or something ridiculous like some other apps. Finally, my suggestions that would improve my user experience would be: 1. The ability to rotate the image in the same way you zoom in, so you’d pinch out to Zoom in and rotate your fingers to adjust the image. 2. The ability to have a number overlay for the grid with the option to start the 0 in different positions. As you could drag the 0 along the vertical and horizontal side to adjust where the numbering starts - with it snapping to the center points. 3. The ability to set the grid size based on a specific measurement (e.g., inches, millimeters, centimeters, pixels, and points) That’s what I have for now from spending about 30 minutes with the app!