An iOS studio · iPad & iPhone · free during beta
DrawEvolve is a full drawing studio with an AI coach that rereads its own past critiques before writing the next one. Draw, get an honest read, act on it — and the second pass knows whether you did.
It will never draw for you. That’s the point.
Pass 01Tuesday, 11:42 pm
Critique · Studio Mentor
“The likeness is arriving. But the shadow side of the face is the same value as the lit side — squint and the head goes flat. Push the dark under the jaw, then show me.”
The loop
A real Metal canvas. Six brushes, layers with blend modes, symmetry, pose reference. Make a thing.
Tap Get Feedback and pick a voice. An opinionated read comes back — private to you, summary first.
Push the darks. Fix the proportion. Do the five-minute exercise it assigned. Or don't — it'll notice either way.
The next critique reads the previous ones first — on this drawing, and across your recent work. It says out loud whether you moved.
Every critique feeds My Evolution: eight skill categories, charted over time. Improvement you can point at.
Two nights, one drawing
⚑ OPEN · value structure
✓ ADDRESSED · value structure→ NEXT · edge control
Critique 02 · same drawing
“You fixed the value structure I flagged last time. The head turns now. So let’s talk about what the shadows revealed: that jaw edge is too hard where it should melt into the neck.”
Studio Mentor · read its own Pass 01 critique before writing this
It works across drawings, too. Start a new piece and the coach can call back to what it told you on the last few — “same instinct that fixed the portrait, apply it to this torso.”
A real teacher remembers. That’s the entire reason DrawEvolve exists. It compounds.
The voices
This isn’t a generic feedback button. Four critics with real differences — and the differences are the feature.
Honest, balanced. Praises what works before pushing on what doesn't.
“Your line confidence is up from last week. Two things tugging at me: the right hand is reading flatter than the left, and the negative space between the legs wants tightening.”
MFA peer review. Direct. Brings up what the others are too polite to say.
“The face is finished and the body is sketched. Pick one. Either commit the rest to the same level of finish or knock the head back.”
Drills the basics. Proportion, value, perspective. Will assign a five-minute exercise without asking.
“Proportion check: the head is half a unit too small for the shoulder span. Try this: five quick gestures, head-to-shoulder ratio only, three minutes each.”
A Florentine workshop persona. Treats every drawing like it's going on a chapel wall.
“The light falls from above and behind. Let it. Your shadows are timid. A workshop apprentice would deepen them, then we would see if the figure stands.”
Or build your own. Describe the teacher you want in a line — “a retired sumi-e master who critiques in haiku” — save it, and use it again.
DrawEvolve, powered by Eve
Eve is a fifth, separate voice — a warm, persistent coach you can just talk to. She reads your critiques and helps you make sense of them: what to tackle first, why an exercise was assigned, what “lost edge” even means.
She doesn’t write the critiques, and she won’t pretend to. Ask her to judge your drawing and she’ll send you to Get Feedback. The critics keep their honesty; Eve keeps the relationship.
The Crit just told me to “knock the head back.” Knock it back where??
Eve
Ha — it means soften it, not erase it. The face is more finished than everything else, so it pops forward. Blur an edge or two and let the body catch up. Want me to pull up what the Mentor said about your edges last week? It connects.
Can you just critique it for me?
Eve
Not my chair. Tap Get Feedback and pick your critic — I’ll be here when the verdict lands.
The canvas
Six calibrated brushes.
Pencil, brush, ink pen, marker, airbrush, charcoal — with a wet-ink stroke system underneath.
A full layers panel.
Add, delete, reorder, opacity, blend modes, visibility. Undo and redo that go deep.
The whole toolkit.
Eraser, smudge, blur brush, paint bucket, eyedropper, shapes, text — including type on a path.
Selection that works.
Marquee or lasso, move, free transform with scale and rotate.
Pose reference built in.
Trace a hand or full body from a photo, mapped by Apple's Vision framework.
Touch or Apple Pencil.
iPad gets the most room. iPhone works too, and sync keeps your layers intact between them.
My Evolution · the payoff
Every critique is classified into eight skill categories and charted over time. The radar fills in as the record grows.
Skill radar · 8 categories
The record · filtered to “value”
A studio wall of every past critique, filterable by category. Watch what changed, and when — growth as data, not vibes.
Our ethos · mentor, not replacement
No generation. No autocomplete. Your hand only. The coach reads what you made and writes back — nothing in the app touches your canvas. In an era of AI slop, that's a flag, not a footnote.
We don't publish, sell, or sublicense your drawings. They aren't used to train models. Not now. Not later.
Wipe your account, your drawings, and your critique history any time. One tap.
If how the product works changes meaningfully, we tell you in plain language first, before it happens.
Why this exists
The hard part isn’t picking up the pencil. The hard part is getting useful feedback often enough to actually improve. Most artists have one critique partner if they’re lucky, an art-school teacher if they were lucky earlier, or a feed of strangers who don’t know what you were trying to do.
DrawEvolve is a working studio in your pocket. Real brushes. Real layers. Critics who know what you asked them to watch for, and a coach who remembers what they said last time.
“I built DrawEvolve because I wanted a teacher who remembered what they said last week, and didn’t have one.”
Questions
No, and it never will. Nothing in the app touches your canvas — no generation, no autocomplete. The coach reads what you made and writes back. You draw.
No. Eve is a separate coach you can talk to — she reads your critiques and helps you work through them, but she doesn't write them. Ask her to judge your drawing and she'll point you to Get Feedback. The critics critique; Eve coaches.
No. Touch works. Pencil is great if you have one, but it isn't required.
Universal iOS — iPad and iPhone. iPad gets the most room. Sync carries your work between them with layers preserved.
They stay yours. We don't publish or sell them. They aren't used to train models. If we ever change that we'll ask first, in plain language, before anything happens.
The whole app is free right now. We're in beta. Pricing isn't announced.
Richer brush sets and more export options. What's not coming: a social feed, and AI image generation — that one's a matter of principle, not roadmap.
Get DrawEvolve
DrawEvolve is on its way to the App Store. While that wraps up, join the TestFlight beta and start drawing tonight. Free during the beta.