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Art Rage is very sluggish, making trying to produce a free-flowing sketch a pretty nasty experience. Once the sketch is blocked out, adding texture is another story.\nArt Rage has long been a favorite of mine on the Mac. Having given up on Painter long ago (I actually had a copy of Painter when it still came in a can, and I also had a copy of its forerunner, Fractal Sketch), Art Rage managed to capture the really cool features of Painter (namely wet brush simulation) without the overwhelming UI cruft. Art Rage on the iPad manages to be even cleaner and simpler while retaining the coolness, but boy is it slow. It's almost impossible to \"sketch\" in because lines move like treacle.\n\nIn the end, I think Sketchbook Pro, as its name suggests, is the supreme sketching tool, but filling out a sketch is less satisfying. (That said, better artists than I get amazing results out of it.) Art Rage gives simple sketches an amazing \"real media\" quality with very little effort, but I think it really wants more RAM and CPU. Art Studio is a nice toy. It's the fastest program in use, and it is possible to produce decent stuff in it, but in the end I think it's just too crude.","$updatedAt":"2024-06-05T09:10:30.277+00:00",path:"ipad-painting-programs-compared",_created:"2024-07-09T20:30:35.928Z",id:"3704",_modified:"2024-07-09T20:30:35.928Z","$id":"3704",_path:"post/path=ipad-painting-programs-compared"}}