Nokia Lumia 520: Best App for fine-line sketching with thin stylus ???

[Mikedigi]

Quick pencil or ballpen sketches on cigarette packets are a pivotal part of our engineering tradition, and I would like to be able to do them on my Nokia Lumia 520 - and save and send them.

What is the best App for fine-line sketches (simply black on white) on a Lumia 520? Is there a corresponding fine stylus, or would I have to make one, and if so, what with?

Note - this is engineering, not art, or kids' games.

Most of the sketching Apps out there seem to be aimed at small children.

I am looking at Papyrus and Chalkboard, have not tried them yet, and I am wondering how to find, or make, the best possible stylus for this. I do realize that the thinness of the stylus may have no effect on the thickness of the line drawn.

Mike

 

[Mikedigi]

PS - I am now looking at Papyrus, Chalkboard, Sketch Pro Lite, Sketch Board Pro, Notes Book and Whiteboard [there are two - I mean the one with the blue squiggle]. So many apps, so little time.

Tempted to go back to my paper, ballpen and scanner . . . :-|

Mike

 

[Mikedigi]

I've been trying Papyrus and I could quickly set up an 0.5 mm (or whatever) line, and the software is good, but there's no way I can make a properly joined-up sketch with a finger end. I tried all kinds of pointed shapes as a "passive" stylus - plastic, rubber, steel, copper, etc, but some were dead and others inconsistent. The finger was consistent - because of electrical impulses in our body? Is the finger an "active" stylus? What is the trick of making a "pencil-like" active stylus? Maybe a battery-powered device?

Mike

 

[Mikedigi]

OK, I have now ordered an Adonit Jot Mini stylus. This comes closest to having a "pencil point", but surrounded by a ball-jointed flat, clear, plastic disc.

Mike

 

[Mikedigi]

Hmmmm . . . . it's gone back. When we are writing or drawing with a pen/pencil on paper, there is friction. With the Adonit Jot Mini on a glass screen, there is slide. More difficult to control, no steadying of our jittery fingers.

Maybe this is why, in the end, styli keep coming back to a rubber end. Friction.

Not that anyone but me is interested.

Mike

 

[nnitish123]

Guys!

You can use an actual pencil to write or draw on Lumia 520. No need to buy expensive stylus!

 

[Mikedigi]

Guys!

You can use an actual pencil to write or draw on Lumia 520. No need to buy expensive stylus!

Thanks, missed your message - I'll try that!

Mike