Digital Drawing Apps- Penultimate

For the next few days I'll be posting digital sketches from a few different drawing and painting apps on my iPad, and talking a bit about their useful features, at least from my perspective. Today's app is Penultimate. It's advertised as a note-taking app, where you can make a whole library of digital notebooks to write out notes, or sketch out things.

This app is pretty minimal when it comes to artistic features. You have very few color options, and you can't control the size of the eraser, but what makes this app amazing is the ability to upload your own papers to the sketch books. I've got a few different storyboard templates set up with different aspect ratios. Whenever I start a project, I make a new 'sketchbook' for it. I select the template I want to use,  and sketch out some rough drafts if I find myself without a stack of paper templates.

 It even includes a 'wrist protection' feature that is supposed to make sure your wrist doesn't accidentally make marks on the paper while you draw. It's nice, but it doesn't always work, however, so I usually just wear long sleeves to cover my wrists while I draw on this one.

I recommend it if you like the idea of digitally doing storyboards. It can be very convenient if you've got a good stylus for the iPad.