Value Study vs Oh Sketch!

In art, value (or tone) refers to how light or dark a colour is. If you're learning to paint or draw, doing value studies is one of the best ways to improve. These small, loose sketches in greyscale help you understand where shadows fall and highlights appear—essential for capturing depth and form. Value Study is a simple, focused tool designed to help you see values more clearly in your reference images. Instead of just converting a photo to black and white, this app lets you break down tones step by step. Start with just black and white to map out the biggest shapes, then gradually add more values to refine your understanding. You can also highlight all areas of an image that share the same value, making it easier to see subtle shifts in tone. This is especially useful in complex references, like portraits, where different parts of the image might have the same level of shadow but look completely different in colour. Value Study isn’t here to replace traditional studies—it’s here to enhance them. Whether you're sketching, painting, or working digitally, this tool makes it easier to focus on the fundamentals of light, shadow, and form. Try it for free with all features enabled on sample images from Unsplash before deciding to unlock the full app with a low-cost yearly or lifetime purchase. All Value Study Pro upgrades count as lifetime purchase. Either option will unlock Value Study across iPhone, iPad and Mac. Annual: Auto-renews yearly. Lifetime: One-time payment, no fees. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Welcome to Oh Sketch, your go-to creativity app with drawing challenges, prompts and art inspiration! Discover creative ideas, improve your drawing skills and bring your artistic expression to a new level with our hand-picked art content. Oh Sketch was designed by an artist, for artists, with a simple goal in mind - to create an infinite pool of ideas that can be used by anyone, anywhere, anytime. We believe that creativity can be trained just like a muscle, and it only takes a few minutes a day to build a habit of practising your art. This is why we have created a very simple and easy-to-use tool that provides you with an endless supply of drawing challenges and prompts. Daily drawing challenge Every day you are offered a task to complete, whether it is a DTIYS (draw-this-in-your-style) challenge, a prompt or a suggested colour palette. Our goal here is to help you get out of your comfort zone - explore unfamiliar art mediums and techniques, use your imagination and think out of the box.Whether you create sketches or full paintings, traditional or digital art, feel free to adapt suggested ideas to your preferences! Random prompt generator In Oh Sketch app you can create random drawing prompts with our who?-where?-does what? generator. Combining unrelated words is a great way to create fun unconventional motives for your art. Save content for later Don’t have time to draw at the moment? No problem! You can favourite prompts and challenges that you want to come back to later. Art blog Join us in our blog as we talk about all things art - from learning the drawing basics and training creativity, to finding your individuality and place in the art world. Discover community Explore posts and challenges from fellow artists like yourself! You can even submit your own challenges to be featured in the app. Made with human intelligence As AI is causing turbulence in the art community, we are commited to cherishing the wonder of human creation. All content in Oh Sketch app, including random prompts, challenges and articles has been written by a real person.