How Do You Create A Graphic Design On An iPhone?
Despite tough competition, the iPhone remains one of the best smartphones for artists. Apple’s pocket-sized wonder may be a very useful interface tool. When combined with the right iPhone software, it can pack a serious punch in – and, most importantly, out of – the studio.
Adobe Creative Cloud
So, if you want to draw on the go, need a specific tool to assist with your everyday design work, or want to take it more seriously with something to help you handle your tasks, time, and resources, there is a great range of must-have apps right here.
Procreate Pocket
The majority of what we like about the iPad edition is present in Procreate Pocket, including form equipment.
Procreate has long been the go-to art app for the iPad, but it still feels a bit too fiddly on the iPhone’s smaller screen to be worth the effort. The most recent version, on the other hand, is a much more satisfying experience, with a redesigned GUI and a custom Fast Menu that helps you to easily navigate your favourite resources.
It also has some amazing new features like QuickShape, which turns your rough doodles into flat and flawless forms, as well as the text tools that wowed iPad users a few months back. There are also tools for Liquify, Warp, and Distort, as well as a sophisticated layer framework that can be used to make animated GIFs. If you have been putting off trying Procreate on your iPhone, now is the time to do so.
How Do You Create A Graphic Design On An iPhone
Retrospecs
Retrospecs is the ideal retro choice if you want a simple and easy way to make authentic-looking pixel art. Simply feed it images and video clips from your phone, and it will pixelate them to look as they did on most home computers and games consoles from the 1970s to the 1990s, including the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Sega Mega Drive.
The free edition has a limited range of presets, but for a small one-time fee, you can access all of the systems and dither modes, as well as a personalised editor, video editing, and animation modes.
Tayasui’s Sketches
Tayasui Sketches is a venerable iOS classic that is received several upgrades over the years. It is well designed for sketching on the iPhone and comes with everything you need to make stunning pictures. It is free to download, but if you want more software, you can upgrade to the Pro edition for £5.99/£5.99 and have more brushes, infinite layers, gradients, and the option to save your favourite palettes among other things.
Draw with Adobe Illustrator
This software contains all of the common drawing resources and features from Adobe Ideas, as well as all of the strength that designers have come to expect from Adobe.
Adobe Illustrator Draw includes everything an illustrator needs to submit layered and flat artwork, including the ability to draw with vectors, access high-resolution, royalty-free images, and sync assets to appear in your workflow whenever they are needed.
Photoshop Sketch (Adobe Photoshop)
With Adobe Photoshop Sketch, you can draw on the go with various paints, pencils, pens, and markers. The iPhone app uses Photoshop’s painting engine, which allows you to import brushes, allowing you all of the textures and blending effects you can get on paper. Your drawings can be shared on Behance or sent to Photoshop CC for further editing.
Assembly
Assembly wins a spot on our list of the best iPhone applications by allowing users to effortlessly design stunning vector imagery without learning Illustrator’s tricky ways.
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Rather than painstakingly designing your vector forms, you can browse Assembly’s library of over 1,000 simple shapes, which you can then match together to create larger patterns, either over a plain backdrop or on top of a background picture.
It is a building-block approach to design that can seem too complex. Still, it has been put together intelligently and with only enough materials to allow you to craft precise images in minutes. It is ideal for doing projects on the go.
Changes in the graphic design industry in 2021
More work and higher pay
Across the board, 2020 was a catastrophic year for the majority of the economy’s industries. However, the design community has avoided the worst of the effects, and some designers have also ended up better off at the end of the year than they were at the beginning. That makes sense because with society shifting to the internet for most of its operations, every company has been a digital company, and the need for great design to differentiate a brand has never been more pressing.
Improved home/life balance
Once upon a time, the distinction between employers and freelancers was unmistakable. The former usually commuted to an office and worked fixed hours, while freelancers worked from home and had more flexibility in their schedule. By 2020, the distinction had blurred, with remote employment being the usual standard for employees and the pressures of home-schooling requiring managers to become even more pragmatic in who and where people worked.
Now that architecture firms have shown they can produce excellent work from the comfort of their kitchens, few designers are likely to choose to spend big portions of every day commuting while they might come in one or two days a week. And we agree (and hope) that this will result in a much healthier work-life relationship for all working designers.
The need for graphic designers
Although we anticipate continued growth in demand for designers through 2021, this does not mean that the gains will be distributed equally. Only those with the requisite expertise and experience will be able to enjoy the benefits of this trend. Employers are looking for applicants with talents that can improve their client and end-user experience, so now is the time for these candidates to step forward and hopefully land a dream job.
So, while graphic design’s basic skills remain essential, the skillset known as ‘digital design’ is becoming increasingly important for better work and higher pay. If you are unfamiliar with the difference, you will learn more about it here. Digital design goes beyond conventional graphic design concepts to provide an appreciation and awareness of user-interface design and branding.
Both graphic design and visual design are concerned with aesthetics. Whereas graphic design expresses a concept through unique visuals, digital design incorporates a brand’s whole vocabulary, look, and sound on the internet.
If you look at every artistic work board these days, you will see that jobs labelled ‘image artist’ pay considerably better than jobs labelled ‘graphic designer.’ As a result, it is highly recommended that you improve your skills in this field so don’t miss the chance to study graphic design with Blue Sky Graphics!
