When using the watercolor brush you can adjust brush size, pressure, the load (how much paint is on the brush), bleed and even make adjustments to the paper to determine if the paper is wet or dry. The brushes themselves are very customizable. However, if you are very meticulous in your work I don't think you will notice the slow down quite so much. The average user will notice this 'slow down' making drawing/painting very frustrating. It would be nice if the speed could be significantly increased if desired. The publisher states in its FAQ that the slowdown is created on purpose to mimic the speed of using actual drawing media, but some of the slowdown feels as if it is going well beyond mimicking the slower pace of the media and instead feels more lagged than purposeful. With slow down, but I notice that there is a slight lag even on the first iPad Air and the iPad mini. The publisher recommends closing all other apps and restarting the application if a slowdown does occurs. Due to all of the rendering required for each brush however you will notice a slowdown using this app on iPad 3 or older iPad devices. and before you know it you could look up and realized that you have lost a hour just trying them all out (like I did) as you find out what each tool can do.

You can spend hours exploring the settings as you try different brushes, markers, pencils, airbrushes, etc. Tool Box - ArtRage comes loaded with a ton of tools available for artists who use a wide range of media. But in the end even with all of the bells and whistles there is one thing hold ArtRage back from making it a real 'go to' app for me. ArtRage includes important features found in other strong drawing/illustration programs such as layers, history tool and the ability to save your work in different file formats.

that feel more like the real thing than just about any app I have tried so far.

I discovered that with ArtRage has some areas that sets it apart from other apps on market such as access to a tool box with a wide range of brushes, pencils, markers, airbrush, etc.

Pro so I got my hands on a copy and this is what I have learned. I was intrigued by the differences between ArtRage and other art apps like ProCreate and Sketchbook ArtRage and Digital Painting for iPad and iPhone

Artrage 6 review