A tutorial for your fast and easier way to learn drawing.
Turn your photo into a 9-step portrait lesson. Trace any picture with your camera. Invent characters with the Mash-up game. All in one app, made by art teacher Simon Sanda.
Three Fun Ways to Learn Drawing
Draw a portrait
Upload a photo and get a 9-step guide based on the Loomis method: from the ball and axes to the final shading. This method will help you whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist.
With AI, a photo becomes a step-by-step drawing guide
Click any step thumbnail below or use the arrows to see the Loomis method construction unfold.
Original selfie or portrait
Step 1: Starting Ball
Basic cranium ball construction with center axis
Trace a picture
Tracing builds muscle memory and teaches your hand and brain the physical feeling of drawing correct proportions and lines.
Hold your phone over the paper. The picture appears over the camera view and you trace it with your pencil. Perfect for your first drawings and practising proportions.
Draw a mash-up
Spin the wheels: animal, activity, job, object, place, character and emotion. A wolf drawing on a bicycle dressed as a superhero? Why not. Draw it! A new challenge comes every day for everyone. Or mix your own challenge and let your imagination run free :)
A closer look at Simon Sketch
A clean, modern and intuitive interface designed specifically for learning to draw step by step. No ads, no public chat, pure creativity.
Home Screen
Draw a portrait with the Loomis method, trace a picture, or play with drawing mash-ups
Draw a portrait
Preview the steps and start drawing
Photograph your drawing
Photograph your drawing and share it with friends
Trace a picture
Pick a photo and trace it onto paper using the camera
Draw a mash-up
Mix concepts and draw an original imaginary character
Collection of creations
All your creations are saved into collections
How It Works
In three easy steps, without stress
Download and sign in
Download the app and sign in with your email.
Choose
Choose: a portrait from a photo, tracing, or a mash-up.
Draw and share
Draw on paper, photograph your drawing and share it with friends.
Coins
Tracing and the Mash-up game are free. The 9-step portrait is drawn by AI, so it uses coins. New accounts get coins for their first portrait for free; more coins are available in the app. If a guide is not finished, you get part of your coins back.
No purchases are made on this website. All transactions take place securely through Google Play.
Safe, Pure Creativity — Without Distractions
Simon Sketch was created at the Risomania art school, where we have taught children and adults to draw for years. The app is for users aged 13 and over. It shows no ads, has no chat with strangers and never publishes drawings. Drawings stay on the phone unless the user shares them.
Frequently Asked Questions
Your first portrait is a few minutes away.
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