Best FREE Apps for learning digital drawing with WACOM tablet

my favorite drawing tablet is the wacom

one

because you can draw directly on the

screen and it works with your computer

operating system

such as mac windows or linux so because

it is a pen display tablet

it's kind of like having a second

monitor for your computer but you can

draw on that monitor

the issue i've always had with other

products and other tablets is that

they have their own operating system so

you can't really connect them to a

windows linux

device and even if you connect it to a

mac the software or

programs won't work exactly the same

because it's a different operating

system on that

standalone tablet so having a pen

display tablet

is like an extension of your computer

and then you can draw on

that display so with the power to draw

on any app that works

on your computer operating system what

apps should you use

to draw i'll be showing three different

apps in this video

while pear deck near pod and google

drawings are all great if you want to

make simple drawings and have

you know interaction in your classroom

where students can draw

if you want to get a little bit fancier

and have more freedom

with drawing tools you can use fire

alpaca critta

or photopia.com the best part is

they're all free

the first drawing app we're going to

look at is a software called fire alpaca

so the pros here besides having the most

adorable

logo is that it's free of course

and also you can animate with it which

is pretty neat it's also pretty simple

to use

and if you just take brush tool

you can see it's very easy to draw

with and

it responds pretty well if you're

drawing very fast it's pretty good

pretty good software one of the cons to

fire alpaca

is that it's a software that needs to be

downloaded so if the student doesn't

have access to downloading software on

their computer

they'll need permission to do so but

fire alpaca is

pretty pretty good if you're looking for

a free drawing software

fire up packet is compatible with mac

windows and linux the next drawing app

we're going to look at is a software

called krita

this is actually my favorite free

drawing software number one it's free

and you can also animate with it it's

actually really great for animation

purposes and for digital drawing what i

like about creta 2 is the interface is a

little bit more similar to

photoshop and it's just easier for me to

work with also very responsive

to drawing a tablet even if you're

drawing really fast which is

great one of the cons of crota is that

it tends to

crash sometimes which is not

really fun but if you remember to save

your work often

then you should be fine another con for

krita is

it is also a software that needs to be

downloaded just like fire alpaca

so you need to be mindful of your

students permissions to download

software

creda is compatible with mac windows and

linux

the third and final drawing app is a

website called photopia

not sure if i'm pronouncing that

correctly but it is a

really great app to use in the classroom

some of the pros for photopia

is that it's free number one you can

animate or draw with it

you can also use it on the web so you

don't need to download any software this

is why i prefer it in the classroom if

students

are not able to download a software or

if they can't get permission to download

a software

they can use this website another reason

i really like this website is because it

looks almost

identical to photoshop you can even

download and save your files as

photoshop files

this is what photoshop looks like as you

can see very very similar

in design and in the tools that

are being used another reason i really

like it is because

on this project window you can choose

a social media size so if you want to

make a youtube profile picture a twitter

header

youtube cover photo it gives you the

size already like pre-made

which is really helpful if you want to

make content or if you want to get your

students engaged in making

social media content one of the cons for

photopia

is that it is very similar to photoshop

so it's a little more complicated to use

for

new users so you should definitely have

a grasp of how to use it before you

teach it in the classroom

and that's our three drawing apps that

you can use in the classroom

where you can use them for anything that

you're doing really next video

i'll show you how to animate a bitmoji

in photopia

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