

You have all the needed images in the asset catalog and the main view of the app with all needed constraints set. As you can see, not much work has been done for you. Start Xcode, open the starter project and have a look at the files inside. Use the Download Materials button at the top or bottom of this tutorial to download the starter project. Grab your pencils and get started no need to make this introduction too drawn out! :] Getting Started Set the brush stroke width and opacity.In this tutorial, you will create an app very much like Color Pad for iPhone. Want to learn how to make a drawing app of your own? The good news is that it’s pretty easy, thanks to some great drawing APIs available through UIKit in iOS. Abdul Azeem Khan wrote the original and Jean-Pierre Distler completed a previous update.Īt some stage in our lives, we all enjoyed drawing pictures, cartoons and other stuff.įor me, it was using a pen and paper but, these days, the old pen and paper have been replaced by computers and mobile devices! Drawing can be especially fun on touch-based devices, as you can see by the abundance of drawing apps on the App Store. Easy Pen and Ink Drawings: Group 1Ĭlick here to download the templates in PDF that you can use to practice following drawings.Update note: Ron Kliffer updated this tutorial for Xcode 10, Swift 4.2 and iOS 12. I have combined them in different groups based on their focus and level of technique involved. Most of these easy pen and ink drawings were draw at approximately 5 by 4 inches and in the PDF template file, the drawings are sized approximately to the original size at which they were drawn when printed on letter size paper. The size of a drawing matters in pen and ink as certain details are plausible only at certain size. There are also step by step drawings you can attempt as well. Please consult tutorials if you haven’t done so to learn how to draw elements of nature used in these easy pen and ink drawings. After attempting these, you can try advanced landscapes. These are really fun to draw as they can be quickly done in relatively small amount of time and really help to build confidence in initial stages of learning and drawing.

FREE templates are provided below that can be used as a starting point. The purpose of these easy pen and ink drawings is to help you practice drawing elements of nature and to show how quick and easy pen and ink landscapes can be drawn by combining them.
