About this app

In 1525 Durer invented his drawing machine. It is a way of mechanically producing a picture. Drawing Machine is an implementation of this technique on a mobile device that helps you draw a picture. This app will help you learn to draw. As your skill improves you can use the app less and less as you develop the proper mental repertoire for drawing pictures.

Durer's drawing machine works by dividing the picture into many smaller contiguously-connected pictures. Instead of drawing one large picture all at once you draw each of many small pictures, one after another. You can see how each smaller picture is connected to the other small pictures. The original picture is cut up into these smaller pieces by you specifying the number of squares you want. If you specify 10 squares then the original picture is sectioned into a 10 by 10 mesh of smaller pictures for a total of 100 small connected pictures. Overall, the technique is very simple and very effective.

If you wish you can use the app only to locate and place certain problematic points on your target image. Alternatively, you use the app only for some of the picture but not all of the picture.

In this free version of Drawing Machine you can use an image from the Android Google Camera app or from the snapshots you have taken of the screen of your mobile device. However, the app itself does not take a picture. This free version does not provide a built-in camera function. A built-in camera would be good if you don't want to be forced to use other apps during the process. Drawing Machine Pro does have a built-in camera function. Getting an image from the Google Camera is good if you want the additional control of the camera itself provided by the Google Camera app. Getting an image from the snapshots lets you find an image of the internet and make a drawing of that particular image using Drawing Machine. Nothing prevents you from using some other physical camera then transferring a digitized version of your camera image to one of the directories from which Drawing Machine can access. Ads will play in this free version.

New features

This release reduces download size from 2.85-2.89 MB to 2.13-2.17 MB.

App Permissions

Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.