Sketchar: AR Drawing App Reviews

This is a really cool idea and I love the idea of being able to upload your own photos and trace them. For me this helped with getting command of the tablet pen because I’m used to Wacom tablets which have more traction under the pen rather than gliding straight across, which made the pen harder for me to handle. I used this to help me gain confidence in drawing circles and lines evenly with this glossy surface. For that it served its purpose alright. But the problem is that, at least as a left handed user, the way the drawing page is set up is frustrating. For instance, I was constantly bumping the back button and would exit the thing I was drawing partway through and not be able to finish it. Also, any time I drew in a horizontal line, the opacity for the tracing paper would increase or decrease when I was trying to make the line. This would constantly pop up no matter what angle I had it at. It was very hard to press in such a way it would not trigger this pop up. This should not be something that can be triggered by the pen at all, only the button on the right side. This was just really frustrating honestly. I did manage to complete a sketch and it was nice. But I just feel like the placement and triggering for things needs to be reconsidered.

Use Sketchar because I love drawing, but it has a whole lot of issues. Number one where am I supposed to put the Phone, I understand Sketchar is mostly for adults but, I a 12 year old can’t draw with one hand. Number two I can’t draw with my window open, the lights have too be on for the Image to show correctly. Three is I am a kid, I don’t have enough money too pay for Subscription, and All the free stuff is just cartoons and hard detailed stuff. I find that there’s no Medium level free stuff. I understand that You tried hard on this but it’s not that good. Fourth is that it takes a few minutes for it to detect the paper, and I have pretty ok lighting. I’ve tried to draw even on my wall but it doesn’t work because I cannot Hold the paper, I hate that fact. I’ve grown up drawing always holding the paper with one hand so this bugs me a bunch. I got Sketchar yesterday and All these problems and I’ve seen more problems than these, I would be happy if you explained how to use Sketchar more. I haven’t drawn one thing yet because of the angles and my messy one hand drawings. I understand apps like this take quite a long time to perfect but Your app is kinda on the correct level, just going the wrong way. Anyways! thank you for reading this review!

I have this issue every time i use Sketchar. I draw something (mainly anime from my camera roll) and right in the middle of drawing, and ad pops up. After i click no to the ad, guess what happens. It kicks me out and i lost all progress from drawing. I try to do it again and line up the lines, which almost never works properly its always distorted somehow, and it all just happens again. I only get about 2-3 minutes IF THAT of drawing time before i have to restart the whole process. My lighting is perfect, i have a clamp to hold my phone so its positioned right every time, i have lines to hold the page as to not twist the image too much, but this constant ad wall is what’s killing me. If you are going to put ads, put them BEFORE or AFTER the artist is drawing. Its like taking a painters canvas mid piece and asking them if they wanna buy something, and when they shoo you you place the canvas on the ground and leave, making them have to pick it up, reposition it and line themselves back up with their focal point. Other than that Sketchar is great, just slightly unusable for free users.

I downloaded Sketchar because I am a terrible drawer and I was looking for a way to learn. Sketchar works surprisingly well, but has a few issues. The tracking is very finicky. If you do not hold the phone perfectly still and have near perfect the imagine will jitter all over the page. When using the cross feature, if your shadow touches one of the markers it will also make the image warp all over the page. That means you have to draw at odd angles in order to avoid this. I understand that is an issue with my lighting and not Sketchar , but it shouldn’t happen with such a small amount of shadow. Sketchar is still pretty neat, but is not even close to being worth nearly thirty dollars. Subscriptions don’t interest me, because I would much rather own something and pay for it in full. If the price was lowered to ten dollars for the lifetime ownership that would make up for its drawbacks, but I feel that a 28 dollar app should work flawlessly almost all the time.

I found Sketchar last night when I was searching for something to teach me how to draw better. I am thrilled this exists and can’t believe I’ve been on my iPad Pro for five years and never found an app like this.

What can I say; it’s like having an art class, except you’re in quarantine. Totally worth the 20 bucks. If you really wanna learn how to draw it’s worth the 20 bucks. If you already know what you’re doing and you understand basic shapes, then it’s not worth the 20 bucks because you can already do that. I am very happy and can’t wait to sit down and draw again today.

Now that doesn’t mean this is just for beginners. Sketchar can do a lot more than what I just said and you should probably go read other peoples reviews but for my purposes this is pretty awesome.

I love the creativity. Some feedback about it though is the practicality of such a set up. I’m sure the developers are working on it. I have a small gimbal so that I could have my hands free to draw easily, but the distance from the camera to the paper is far so there is obstruction to actually freely draw since I have to look through my iPhone has the viewfinder. Another issue I kept running into is that as soon as I place my hand within the frame to start drawing the focus of the guides are distorted because the camera needs to fully see the frame of the paper. Again the developers probably see the drawback and there are more updates to come from Apple for ARkit to for better detection. Overall I love the idea of Sketchar and I hope that it develops even more! As of right now the simplest way is to literally just draw the outlines of an image yourself.

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I also love how the drawing process is step by step so that is very intuitive!

The concept of Sketchar is great and it has a lot of great features. However, it is too easy to just trace and not learn to draw. My biggest issue is that if I spend time coloring and shading but can’t finish in one session, when I come back the colors are super splotchy and all of the coloring/shading has to be redone. I’ve also noticed that they AR feature requires you to be a distance from paper that is not feasible for you to see the screen of your phone and draw at the same time. Lastly, the advertisements for you to pay for a subscription are very in-your-face, too often repeated, and very obnoxious.
But if you want to practice “tracing” in a learn-to-draw tutorial and can finish in one session, it is good practice. I don’t think I’ll be paying for the full version anytime soon.

So I downloaded it. Even after reading all the reviews... and I should have listened to them. The dev response person/bot says that animals are free, but they are locked for pro. Even though they say it’s is, it is not. Molang doesn’t exist... nor does grinch. You only get one free lesson. This now brings the question. Why not just charge 5.99$ for Sketchar ? No. You must pay 5$ monthly. Great concept! great design! But money has gotten in the way. I still give it a 3 star even after being this disappointed, I mean it promise a few free drawings. But I ended up with only one. So again good job on Sketchar , just money and a bit of greed has gotten in the way sadly. I do hope they respond to this to clear this up. Because they basically lied about what is free and not. Unless you are willing to pay 5$ monthly, I will not recommend Sketchar.

As an artist, I’ve been experimenting with this on and off for a few weeks and it’s a great idea IF you can get some random anchor to be permanently in your drawing. Drawing on anything larger than an A4 is out of the question, as you can’t draw your image b/c you’re too far away for proportion, (fully extended arm and pencil still doesn’t reach) then you get closer to touch your paper and it’s lost anchors and looses everything you just calibrated (as it’s white paper with no anchors). I’ll stick with my projector.
It has one purpose, and that is for large scale tracing for murals and that’s it. If you are actually using this to “learn to draw” you probably won’t ever improve. Drawing from scratch builds your skill and the necessarily parts of your brain and hand-trust to draw, this will just keep you in tracer category. Great for kids or using it see mistakes in your drawing.

This is a great app with a ton of really cool features however it lacks organization. The lessons are all over the place, they go from 0 to 100 very fast and then back to 0. The first lesson suggested is to draw Champagne Papi and after scrolling many, many lessons down is how to draw a sphere. Can we start with a basic sphere first?! Maybe categorize the lessons by what you’re drawing and then lead those categories up into harder things? Also would be nice to have a favorites feature where I can save lessons I’d like to do and come back to later to do!

One word... GENIUS.
My biggest word of advice is don’t give up, Keep playing around with Sketchar - I was frustrated at first but after a few drawings using the AR technology I was completely sold. It’s something I’ve been trying to do with tracing paper and a computer screen for years. Your brain will need some time since it’s not very natural drawing something you’re not technically looking directly at. Its great for novice artists like myself who need a good start to the pictures they want to recreate on their own. The other features such as lessons are neat as well but after the trial I bought it just for the AR!!

Sooooo the ar isn’t the best ever and I know people are like well it’s sketch AR and they have a good Reason but honestly the other components of Sketchar are great I don’t have the pro and I still use Sketchar all the time.I’m just saying The reason why I enjoy Sketchar and would recommend it (in fact I have) and I think that having fun on Sketchar is all that really matters at the end of the day I hope this doesn’t offend anyone have a great day.

Thx for taking time to read this sorry for the many misspellings

Today I just got Sketchar and after I drew one of my own drawings the subscription thing kept popping up whenever I went to draw my own image. I myself don’t want to pay for own image or any of that I just want to draw my own images that I want to. And all of those other people who use it are probably not wanting to spend a lot of money on Sketchar. I’m only 14 and I use drawing apps like this one and it helps me to draw better than ever so if you could work on lowering the money to whatever is possible ( I know y’all need to make money and things) Btw I like Sketchar!!

I’m really trying to like this so I can buy it but I have a few concerns as soon as I tried to use it. I’m on an iPhone XS Max and for some reason I have to hold the phone far away from the paper, and then I’m really reaching for the paper to draw...it’s ridiculous that I’m forced into a strange position to be reaching for the paper to draw. When I am drawing my hand interferes with the tracking and it’s tells me it’s lost the paper, this is hard to avoid too. I’m looking forward to see what comes of Sketchar it really is incredible... just need to figure out this distance from the page.

I love Sketchar very much but i had some trouble with the AR. Yesterday I was excited to try out Sketchar but then the AR part became frustrating trying to make sure the camera was showing the whole paper was in the camera and every time it was in the camera it would show lost track of paper I mean I should be able to draw on paper instead of drawing on the Canvas because it would look very neat on the paper but overall I like Sketchar

Sketchar is very useful two people who want to draw in different waysI love Sketchar no matter what people say about it I can do anything I want on Sketchar and this can help me draw and sketch better so I can count on Sketchar and whatever people say that it’s a bad rumor about it just look at this review and you’ll see that Sketchar is not bad it is very good and very helpful to people who want to draw better and sketch betterJust know That you can count on Sketchar

I found this and thought it would be great to help learn more about drawing and sketching. Upon opening Sketchar , and realized only a select few things were available for free. After finding something I liked, I attempted to draw it using the AR. The example picture would only be visible when the phone was three feet from the paper. How can you comfortably hold your device that far from the paper and still be able to draw? It was very frustrating for me to try to hold the phone and draw, so I did not get far into the drawing, but the result still wasn’t pretty. I love the idea of Sketchar , I really do, but it needs a lot of work to be down on it before it is really useful.

Not only does it require payment to use half the features, but it doesn’t even detect my paper correctly in AR. I tried using two different notebooks and it kept flashing the AR ui on my paper and had something along the lines of “Cant detect paper, show full page” despite me looking from many different angles and distances from the paper. Don’t even get me started on how hard it is to navigate the menus. I went through three stages of the color matching game before it broke..

Another thing I personally have an issue with as well is theor support for NFTs. What does an app meant to learn and use AR imagery as guide have to do with NFTs? It’s clearly just a way to grab NFT investors to their awful app.

I see you have to pay for some drawing lessons but it’s all the good ones I can’t learn to draw if I have to pay I might as well use the money on another more useful app your prices are way too high and too many things are labeled pro I would like to use Sketchar without having to pay for items unless it’s limited addition or something of other I will not waste my money on something that’s not even cheap and has almost all the lessons under the subscription I cannot afford this especially during school and focusing on choosing a college I would not be able to pay once I do so please reconsider the amount of lessons that aren’t free

I don’t have the money to do a subscription, and a few weeks ago when I started too use Sketchar . And draw, the pop up for asking if u wanted too do a subscription came up. And I would click no and it would kick me out of the drawing session.

And I got really annoyed. Cause Sketchar is helping me draw bodies in good proportions. But now that that keeps happening I stopped using it. If there’s a way to fix it I would love that

So Sketchar itself is pretty good but I find it annoying and confusing as to why I can’t view my sketches that I’ve already done. After completing a lesson, the sketch made from that completely disappears.. there’s no way to see it again. Even if I go back to that same lesson, I have to start a new one all over again. Overall decent drawing app but if you love to view your work afterwards, then maybe try a different one.

The concept for Sketchar is great. I would love to see some of the glitches ironed out. The fact that this only works with 2 paper sizes, in a very brightly lit room, is the first issue. Constantly arranging the phone, pulled very far back, to capture the page begins to wear on you. I do love how you can capture a wall or floor, to draw/paint murals. But the image sometimes shifts, which defeats the purpose. I want to love Sketchar, and can see great use for it. The tutorials are wonderful. Especially if you’re a beginner. I foresee Sketchar becoming better, more stable. So I’m going to stick with it.

I love the idea, but I found it very difficult to focus on my screen while trying to sketch on anything larger than a standard piece of paper. I specifically wanted to use Sketchar for photos but found even if I turn the contrast up, it did not pick up the lines well. I tried a second photo to see if it worked better but had to purchase a subscription to do so. I purchased one month to continue “trying out Sketchar ”. I have since decided Sketchar does not suit my needs but cannot find a way to cancel my subscription and have not received a response after contacting the company.

This game is overall great bu I’m short and I have to stand on a tablet for it to see the paper and when it finally did work I sat down and it said that it was out of view but this game is probably great for tall people.

Sketchar is a great app but my problem is that it glitches whether I move or not. The first thing you do is to put the crosses on the paper but it glitches every time I put my hand on the paper to draw it. When I finally finish that step, I go to drawing the picture. The paper is fully in the camera and no matter what I do, it says the paper isn’t fully in the camera and so then I have to restart. It constantly freaks out on me and it’s very frustrating.

I have tried to use Sketchar to draw on a chalkboard (18x24 inches) which appears best when paper is selected but I would need a giants arms to draw it because Sketchar loses registration when you get close. Coupled with the irritating insistence you pay before you try (ok I paid) and the irritating pigeon which u can’t turn off and the obvious lack of fit and finish - this is a great idea waiting for someone else to make it useful - graffiti paint ...

I want to the cats and I know I can’t spend money on a game and so next update could you plz make it so u can just watch an ad to draw it or it’s completely free so could u plz consider this because I really like cats and my friend won’t give me drawing lessons because she is hanging out with her best friend and I want to be good and the only free thing is the beginner and that is so annoying and I just want to draw the cats so plz consider this update to where it’s all free

I downloaded Sketchar a couple of days ago and thought it would be amazing since I can’t draw very well, but when I try to use it, 90% of the drawings available a subscription required. Also if you don’t have a steady hand then this is going to be a nightmare. I even tried with a friend holding it and it was still way too hard to draw something so simple. I rated it 3 stars because the idea is very good, but that's it

i just downloaded this game because it looked like a good drawing lessons app. when i went the beginner lessons it showed me a flower.... well i tapped it & it said draw a big circle so i did and the when it said draw petals it said put the petals in the circle when it got to the end it didn’t have the circle. so that made me mad and i didn’t draw the circle the second time because it didn’t. so pls fix that and that’s all. have a good day.

I thought Sketchar was amazing at first until I wanted to go back to fix some of my drawings and there was no way to go back to them. It only gave me an option to share them, which was absurd and ridiculous. It’s like I’m forced to give up my work once I’m done with them and if I want to see it again, I have to draw them again. I’ve contacted you guys about this problem and it still hasn’t been fixed. I paid the one year subscription fee and I’m mad disappointed.

Sketchar is really cool for me to use in my free time but I don’t like that Sketchar will close by itself when I’m coloring a picture.
And when it does close I loose all of my progress and have to start over again and again. I also wish that there were more tools to use to color. And I’ve tried to save my progress so I can color later but I can’t find a save button.