Drawing References

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.0
1.55K reviews
100K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

If you are learning to draw, you already know that you need to practice. A LOT.

This app will give you hundreds of portraits and poses to practice on. All you need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

šŸ‘ Are you struggling with likeness? No problem, use customizable grid.

šŸ‘ Are you lost in details and missing on the main shape and form? Blur the reference photo!

šŸ‘ Are colors distracting you from seeing the correct value? Use the grayscale filter.

This app will give you EVERYTHING you need to learn drawing realistic portraits. Except for will to practice :-)
Updated on
Mar 18, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
App activity and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
Data canā€™t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.1
1.44K reviews
A Google user
March 19, 2019
This app is pretty good but has a couple unintuitive aspects that could be fixed. First, you can swipe to go to the next photo, but you cant swipe to go back...why? You can flip the image with a button that is close by, but it flips vertically. ?? I feel like most people want to flip it horizontally, right? I do. But to do that you have to open a menu.
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fnx.io
May 25, 2019
Hi, thanks for the review! The latest update includes both of your suggestions, enjoy!
Jos van Riswick
August 23, 2022
Great app for checking your drawings, though UI can be improved: When positioning the photograph over the reference, the reference kind of snaps to the photograph. So when I try to change the rotation or zoom of the photo, moving my thumb and index finger first does nothing, then the photo suddenly jerks into a new position, overshooting what I was aiming for. After that, adjusting the zoom/rotation works smoothly. Positioning the photo accurately is difficult like this.
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A Google user
February 21, 2020
Fantastic! Who needs Sktchy? After waiting (and waiting....and waiting....) for Sktchy to come out with an Android version, I found Drawing References. This is a great app, tons of reference photos, portraits, poses, young, old, etc. Also has a neat timed practice feature to hone quick sketching skills. Couldn't be more pleased with this app.
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What's new

fixed issue with access to local files, now it's limited only to images (required in Android 13 and above)