The way that the brush and pencil strokes interact with the canvas has no bearing in Realistic Paint Studio. While Realistic Paint Studio offers a multitude of papers for artists to create their work on, they serve as little more than textured backgrounds. Like Realistic Paint Studio, Rebelle 5 duplicates the aesthetics of traditional markmaking, but when it comes to the behavior of traditional mediums interacting with each other, Rebelle clearly outclasses Realistic Paint Studio. One of the most prominent and successful apps is Rebelle 5 from Escape Motions. There are countless other apps for digital art that have attempted to mimic the feeling of traditional painting to variable degrees of success. Source: Pocketmags (Image credit: Source: Pocketmags) This can feel a little deceptive in Realist Paint Studio, because these blending brushes look like they may provide interesting stroke effects. There are additional brushes in the toolbox that are limited to blending effects by simulating the addition of water or other paint-thinning additives, but like the sponge they cannot be used to lay down colors whereas in actual traditional mediums you could actually use them in that way. This renders the sponge to essentially serving as an eraser tool with fancier edging.

There is a lone sponge, for example, but it cannot be used to apply color to the canvas.

Likewise, the usefulness of any particular brush is limited by the software. There is one slider in the menu for which allows for pen hardness to be adjusted, but it is further limited by being a universal setting as opposed to being adjustable on a tool-by-tool basis. While the brush selection is excellently presented, there are no settings panels to control their opacity or pressure sensitivity. Source: Cole Martin / Windows Central (Image credit: Source: Cole Martin / Windows Central)įor as much good as Realistic Paint Studio's scaled back UI can be, experienced digital artists may find the limitations it imposes stifling.

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