SketchBook 8.6 is available for Windows 7+ (there is a separate Windows 10 edition) and macOS 10.12+. The mobile editions are also well regarded, with both Android and iOS editions currently outscoring Adobe’s Photoshop Sketch on Google Play and the Apple App Store. Recent reviews praise the software’s shallow learning curve, contextual interface, and streamlined workflow. Those robust capabilities include the standard features you would expect in a professional tool: a choice of natural media brush types, image-editing tools, layers, tablet support and PSD export. Streamlined design workflow and well-regarded mobile editions While “not all functionality” will end up in the free edition, users will “continue to enjoy the robust capabilities of SketchBook and benefit from ongoing enhancements, free of charge”. Still being developed actively, at least for enterprise usersĪlthough SketchBook is now free to individual users, Autodesk continues to offer enterprise licences of the software, aimed at studios that need multiple seats of the software, for $85/year.Īccording to the company’s FAQs document, SketchBook is “not being retired” and will continue to be developed “to enable designers, architects, and animators to capture conceptual art and designs”.
The mobile apps were free, though it took an in-app payment of $4.99 to unlock the pro tools. Over time, it evolved into a more general-purpose package for sketching and illustration, with Autodesk introducing a consumer edition and mobile versions, and eventually dropping the Pro edition entirely in 2017.īy the time SketchBook 4.0 for iOS and Android were released last year, the desktop version was rental-only, with a subscription to the entire product family costing $29.99/year. Originally developed by Alias, and acquired by Autodesk along with Maya, the software began life as SketchBook Pro, a streamlined sketching tool aimed at concept artists and product designers. The company will continue to sell paid-for Enterprise licences for studios needing multiple seats of SketchBook, and says that the software will continue to be developed.Ī robust sketching tool with roots in professional concept design
Autodesk has made SketchBook, its professional digital sketching software, available free on all platforms: Windows and Mac desktops and Android and iOS mobile devices.
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