ShadowDraw vs Masstone

Learn to draw with confidence using your Apple Pencil. Featured by Apple as App of the Day in 2023 and 2025. ShadowDraw® is the easiest way for beginners to learn how to draw on iPad using their Apple Pencil. Our guided lessons teach you step-by-step by showing the real strokes of professional artists, helping you build confidence, accuracy, and real drawing fundamentals from your very first session. LEARN TO DRAW THE SMART, BEGINNER-FRIENDLY WAY
 ShadowDraw breaks every drawing into simple, guided steps. You follow the same strokes as a professional artist, learning: * Line control * Shapes & construction * Proportions * Shading * Final detailing
 Each step unlocks only after you complete the previous one, giving you a structured, supportive learning path—like having a private art teacher with you on your iPad. THOUSANDS OF STEP-BY-STEP LESSONS
 Explore beginner-friendly drawing lessons across the most popular art subjects: * Manga & Anime Characters * People & Portraits * Animals (cats, dogs, horses, birds, dragons, and more) * Architecture & Buildings * Botanical & Nature Drawing * Birds & Butterflies * Coloring & Simple Shading * Holiday & Seasonal Art * Warm-Ups & Foundations * Sketching Basics
 With over 2,000 guided tutorials, there’s always something inspiring to draw. PRACTICE YOUR WAY
 ShadowDraw offers two flexible learning modes: Art Teacher Mode
 We pick brushes and colors so beginners can focus on fundamentals. Sketch My Way
 Choose your own tools and colors for creative freedom. BUILD A DAILY DRAWING HABIT 
Short, approachable lessons help you build confidence and stay consistent. ShadowDraw makes daily practice easy, fun, and motivating—even for busy beginners. RECOGNIZED BY APPLE & TRUSTED WORLDWIDE 
ShadowDraw has been featured in the App Store collections, including: * Incredible iPad Apps * Great with Apple Pencil * Apple Pencil Starter Kit * Better with Apple Pencil * The Best Drawing Apps * The Best Apps for Creatives ShadowDraw has also ranked as the #1 Drawing App in its category. Apple writes: 
“With over 1,500 hand-drawn lessons developed by real artists, ShadowDraw is a drawing app for beginners who want to improve their skills through daily step-by-step exercises.” PRAISED BY THE PRESS
 The New York Times
“ShadowDraw… teaches drawing forms by having you follow along the animated pen strokes of another artist in an updated take on the ‘copying the masters’ approach.” MacBreak Weekly — Pick of the Week
“…the next generation of step-by-step.” Also featured by CNET and Creative Bloq. LEARN TOGETHER WITH SHADOWDRAW+
 A ShadowDraw+ membership unlocks the full library and supports Family Sharing, so everyone in your household can learn to draw at their own pace. WE’RE HERE TO HELP 
Need support or have feedback? Contact us anytime through in-app Chat Support. Email: support@shadowdrawapp.com
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Are you an aspiring artist? Do you struggle with mixing colors? Masstone turns a color into a paint mixing recipe: which tubes, and how much, from the paints you already own. Give it the color you're after (pick it out of a reference photograph, or just select it from a color picker) and it will give you a recipe you can act on (ex: 2 parts Titanium White, 1 part Ultramarine Blue, 1 part Alizarin Crimson) The hard part was never seeing the color. It's knowing which colors to mix on the palette to get there. REAL COLOR MIXING, NOT RGB AVERAGING Screen color is additive; paint is subtractive. Blend blue and yellow as pixels and you get grey. Masstone never averages RGB. Every mix runs through spectral reflectance curves, so blue and yellow make green, as they do on your palette. BUILT AROUND YOUR PAINT BOX - Set which tubes you own. Recipes are searched only from those. - Star your go-to paints and the search leans toward them. - Set a paint aside to ask "what would this look like without the Cadmium?" WHAT YOU GET FOR EVERY COLOR - The mix, in whole parts you can measure with a knife. - Step-by-step mixing instructions showing the pile's color at each stage. - Alternative recipes. - A warning when a strong tinter is about to run away with the mix. - Pigment sheets: tinting strength, color index, and what to substitute if you don't have it. MORE - Pin colors and compare them side by side. See what they share, where they diverge. - Pick a color without a photo, from a wheel or a hex value. - Acrylic mode shows both the dry color (what has to match) and the wet color (what should be on your palette). - Sample history for the last few picks. IMPORTANT NOTE This is a mixing aid for painters, not a laboratory instrument. Lighting, camera white balance and your own brand of paint all change the outcome. What matters is which pigments to reach for and roughly in what proportion. Made by an oil painter who kept mixing mud.