Charcoal Alternatives

Charcoal is described as '- Charcoal is incredibly easy to use: Just create or open a sketch and start drawing. There are no layers, properties panels or confusing settings. Instead, Charcoal features rich tools and beautiful color palettes' and is a digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Charcoal for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPad, iPhone and Android apps. The best Charcoal alternative is Krita, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Charcoal are Paint.NET, Affinity, MyPaint and Clip Studio Paint.

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  1. Sketch Club icon
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    Ranging from professional illustrators and concept artists to students and hobbyists, creative people from all over the world join together in Sketch Club to create, share, and inspire!

    13 Sketch Club alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    Inks and Pens is a natural media drawing app. It reproduces the feelings of drawing tools: B&W pencils, coloured pencils, felt-tip pens, ball-point pens, fountain pens, oil pastels, inks ans brushes ….

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPad
     
  3. Sketchable icon
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    Seamlessly fusing the freedom and romance of your physical notebook with the power and flexibility of the digital world, Sketchable provides the best creative experience on the market.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Draft icon
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    Draft is a straightforward sketch app for iPad. You can get it in the App Store for $9.99.

    It only comes in black. You can draw in white or red.

    It automatically saves whatever you draw.

    You can share sketches via email or Campfire.

    See, there it is in Campfire. That too.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  5. IsoPaint icon
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    IsoPaint is a quick, simple & fun isometric drawing app. It's designed to make isometric drawing easy for everyone, with no complicated layers, menus, filters or excessive tapping like similar apps.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    PaperColor is an excellent painting application which is imitating the real paintbrush to draw and doodle,graffiti. Easy to painting, learning to paint, learn to draw.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
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    Everyday drawing There are hundreds of painting and drawing apps on the App Store. This one is a bit different. It doesn’t want to grow up to be Photoshop, Illustrator, or Draw Anything the Next Generation. It’s not intended for professional artists.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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