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Create stunning anime and manga art with recommended markers!PenPick is an interactive color picker for artists that displays color swatches and shows which pencil matches a selected area in an uploaded reference photo. PenPick is available in five versions: Colored Pencils, Pastels, Markers, Graphite, and Paint.
When you select the area in your reference photo like you do in any other color picker, besides the color swatch, PenPick shows you which pencil to use for the selected area. Just upload your reference image, click on any part, and PenPick will recommend the best matching pencil. We have a lot of members, artists, and hobbyists around the world, matching colors from coloring books to serious art. Join us and take your drawings to the next level.
PenPick is a web application, color picker for artists, that suggests which colored pencils you should use for the color picked from the uploaded photo.
Our PenPick Colored Pencils is a unique app unlike any other. It offers 28 selected colored pencils, covering a wide range from budget-friendly to high-quality options favored by professional artists. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced artist, our app is designed to meet the needs of all users.
The colored pencil panel suggests the 28 most popular and highest quality colored pencils to match the selected color:
PenPick saves time by removing guesswork and, for the cost of just a few colored pencils, it also saves you money by reducing the need for creating color swatches and experimenting with these expensive colored pencils.
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PenPick started as a mobile app called Colored Pencil Picker, quickly gaining popularity among artists globally. This led to the creation of a web version that works on both desktop and mobile browsers.
As popularity grew, users and artists worldwide desired PenPick for their preferred mediums. In addition to colored pencils, we proudly provide PenPick for graphite, pastel pencils, markers, and paint.
Along with suggesting the closest color match, PenPick also shows an accuracy percentage, indicating how close the matched pencil is to the selected color. An accuracy above 90% means you can trust the pencil choice, while above 80% is still pretty accurate. If it's below 60%, you might want to try mixing colors. PenPick also features a zoom-in feature for precise color selection.
While you might believe you've got the right colored pencil figured out, it can be tricky and often leads to unsatisfactory results. Even if the suggestion, such as using gray for skin tones, appears unconventional, trust in PenPick. Also, when PenPick recommends a seemingly too dark pencil, using exactly the suggested pencil is the key to achieving depth and photorealism, avoiding the common mistakes of creating flat-looking artwork. Give it a try, and you'll witness the remarkable difference it makes in your final outcome.
In this video, acclaimed pencil artist Jasmina Susak effortlessly utilizes PenPick to select the perfect colored pencils for her realistic burger drawing.
As Jasmina's student, you get access to more than 410 hours of real-time drawing videos, tutorials, and comprehensive written guides with pictures available on Colored Pencil Tutor.
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In this video, renowned pencil artist Jasmina Susak demonstrates how to effortlessly replicate a giraffe drawing, picking colors from a reference photo and using the exact pencils suggested by the PenPick software.
If you admire her drawing style and wish to learn how to draw like her, become her student on Colored Pencil Tutor. There, you'll gain access to PenPick featuring 3 most popular colored pencil brands, in addition to narrated, real-time video tutorials and comprehensive written guides with images. Explore a vast collection of tutorials available on Colored Pencil Tutor.
Let's also highlight PenPick Graphite, which suggests the perfect graphite pencil for your drawings. This app also offers accuracy percentages. By following PenPick Graphite's recommendations based on the shade from your reference photo, your drawing process is sure to be spot-on.
The PenPick Graphite web application automatically converts color images to black and white and suggests from a selection of 20 graphite values from any brand.
We are proudly introducing PenPick Pastels for pastel pencil artists. This app suggests the 11 most popular and highest quality pastel pencils to match the selected color.
Sketcher is a web application with interactive controls that converts reference photos into clean pencil-style sketch lines on white, gray, black paper, or as a transparent PNG. Sketcher creates precise outlines you can print, project, trace, engrave, stitch, or color, without guessing proportions or struggling with tracing.
With Sketcher you get:
Try the interactive Sketcher demo at www.sketch-draw.com
We are excited to introduce PenPick Markers, a dedicated app for marker enthusiasts. PenPick Markers recommends the 24 most popular markers and pens to match your selected color.
PenPick Paint is a paint color matching tool that helps artists find the closest acrylic and oil paint colors from any reference photo. Upload your reference photo, pick any color from the image, and the app instantly suggests the best matching paints. PenPick Paint also generates realistic color mixing recommendations with percentage ratios, helping you recreate real-world colors faster and more accurately.
This tool is designed for painters who want to match photo colors without guessing, saving time while improving color accuracy.
Acrylic paint brands supported:
Oil paint brands supported:
