Sketchwise turns any photo into a step-by-step drawing lesson built for you, then coaches you through it stroke by stroke.
HOW IT WORKS
Pick a reference photo — a face, a pet, a building, anything you want to draw. Sketchwise studies it and builds a custom lesson broken into clear construction stages, each with its own guide image showing exactly what to put on the page.
Draw each stage on real paper. Snap it. Get specific feedback on what is working and what to fix before you move on.
A GUIDE IMAGE FOR EVERY STAGE
No vague advice. Every step comes with a generated guide showing the shapes, proportions, contours, shading, or details for that stage — so you always know what the page should look like before you commit a line.
FEEDBACK AS YOU GO, NOT JUST AT THE END
Each step is reviewed on its own. You get a score, a short summary, the corrections that matter, and one clear next action. Mistakes get caught at stage two instead of surviving to the finished drawing.
A SCORED FINAL REPORT
Finish a lesson and get a full breakdown — proportions, shading, accuracy and more, each scored and explained, plus what you did well and what to focus on next time.
CHOOSE YOUR STYLE AND LEVEL
Pencil sketch, manga, watercolor, realistic graphite or cartoon, at beginner, intermediate or advanced. The same photo becomes a different lesson depending on what you pick.
BUILT FOR REAL PAPER
This is not a digital canvas. Use whatever you have — pencil, pen, notebook, sketchbook — and build skills that stay with you when the phone is away.
TRACK REAL PROGRESS
Finished drawings are saved to your gallery, and every completed lesson earns XP and builds your streak. Progress you can actually see, instead of a vague sense that you are getting better.
TRY IT FREE
Complete sample lessons are free — walk through a full lesson, guide images, feedback and report included, before you decide about a subscription.
MADE FOR
Absolute beginners who do not know where to start. People coming back to drawing after years away. Anyone who can copy a photo but wants to understand why it works. Manga, portrait and pencil sketchers who want structure instead of another blank page.
Pick a photo and draw your first lesson today.
Sketchwise is a subscription. Sample lessons are free; building custom lessons from your own photos requires an active subscription, which renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
- Turn any photo into a custom step-by-step drawing lesson
- See a generated guide image for every stage
- Get AI feedback and a score on each step as you draw
- Finish with a scored report on proportions, shading and accuracy
- Choose pencil sketch, manga, watercolor, realistic or cartoon
- Set beginner, intermediate or advanced difficulty
- Draw on real paper and photograph your work
- Save finished drawings to your gallery
- Earn XP and build a daily drawing streak
- Try complete sample lessons for free