ShadowDraw: Learn How to Draw

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4.2
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App Age
8y 4m
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Last Update
Dec 08, 2025
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$2.99 - 49.99

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4.21
4.59
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Number of Ratings (Voted)
2.9K
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8y 3m
7y 11m
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$29
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69d
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ShadowDraw: Learn How to Draw
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Easy Drawing App for Beginners
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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
 Website: shadowdrawapp.com 
Instagram: @shadowdraw For our EULA agreement, please visit: 
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ShadowDraw® and Shadow Draw™ are trademarks of Shadow Draw Inc.}
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4.2
2 889 voters

Some Latest Reviews

Rise2021
24 Nov, 2025
2
You have to pay for most things but it’s better than Simply Draw because every day one of the lessons you have to pay for becomes free for minutes.
ayabennouna
23 Nov, 2025
3
I got this app today for fun and I really just wanna delete it but I also wanna learn. So you see if you wanna draw something for example a cake you can but you have to pay for a trial and it’s unfair cause when you use the free drawings you get a new free drawing every day,you get a bunch of cats that are unavailable!? And there’s not even that much free art to learn! I don’t like this app so I’m thinking to delete it! Devs please respond!
Loudil57
23 Nov, 2025
3
Ce jeu est super pour dessiner mais des gens n’ont pas de stylo ou stylé pour téléphone ou tablette donc ce n’est pas facile pour tout le monde.
Broga68
23 Nov, 2025
5
As someone who has never had an artistic fibre in their being, this is great. Very intuitive, but does feel a bit like painting by numbers where its hard to recognise what is the apps doing, and my own progress, but fun nonetheless. One thing I would like to see is when the tutorials opt to use a different brush, that it shows which brush is in use, to help create that connection to how best you can use some of the other brushes available to you.
Realsville
11 Nov, 2025
3
Hi, we need the ability to rotate the canvas, along with the zoom feature. Also, we need the ability to move the reference image. It is always on the right side of the lesson and is blocked from view by a right handed persons hand as they try to draw the lesson. Thanks. This app needs the ability to rotate the canvas, then it will be worth purchasing. When you draw with iPad on your lap, it is to hard to rotate the whole iPad. Much easier to just rotate the canvas with your fingers like most other sketching apps. Update: Will purchase and recommend when the ability to rotate canvas is added as a feature.
Melliemoo46
10 Nov, 2025
4
I downloaded this game to help me draw a wee bit better and it worked but the problem is that you can get 8 different things free then everything else you have to pay for Thanks Melliemoo46
Kozak7946
03 Nov, 2025
5
I just want to say you will not be disappointed with these courses. It has helped me tremendously even in drawings of faces. I also got it because when my granddaughter was seven, she loved to draw. So after getting the app, she’s been able to enhance her skills as well and it is just amazing what she can do.
Churro the grump 19
22 Oct, 2025
5
I love this app so much. It gives you a step-by-step guide and it personalise‘s the experience for you. It teaches you so many different things like shading and colouring and so much more. It has separate seasons and always has events going on. It Has Helped me improve my drawing so much over the past month.
thatsjewels
21 Oct, 2025
1
So the Reason why I don’t recommend this app because it’s all about drag Left like creatures and I’m drawing life by creatures is Haram and on the day of judgment, God will say bring life into it the person will fail, and be thrown into hellfire and the app is just making this fate real so if you are a Muslim, please delete the freaking app if you still have it

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.2
Voted: 2.89K
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Categories: Education, Entertainment
Size: 818MB
iAP: 2.99 - 49.99 $
App Age: 8 years 4 months
Release Date: Aug 22, 2017
Last Update: Dec 08, 2025
Version: 2025.6
Version history
2025.6
Dec 08, 2025
现已支持 SonarPen 2 触控笔。
2025.5
Nov 22, 2025
This update brings beginner-friendly winter drawing lessons for iPad and Apple Pencil. • Draw through a festive Advent Calendar: unlock a daily step-by-step lesson every day through December 25 — your cozy drawing companion for the holidays. • Explore the new Hygge Collection, filled with warm indoor scenes and the simple joy of slowing down to draw. • Revisit a hand-picked mix of favorite winter lessons: sketch wolves, bears, foxes, reindeer, cheerful snowmen, winter villages, and sweet baked goods fresh from the oven. We love seeing what you create. If ShadowDraw inspires you, please consider leaving a review — your feedback helps us keep improving and adding more art for you to enjoy.
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