Zen Brush 2

Don't expect to be able to bust out any bamboo portraits or koi like in the sample images. Those things take a lot of time and practice. It's a fun little app with a lot of different but simple background choices for the canvas. You're able to choose the size of the brush and simulate pressure. Don't expect to be able to paint with all of the colors of the rainbow.

This app provides a beautiful representation of tilt support, and if you treat it like a brush on paper (rather than as a digital stick on a magic rock) the strokes you make feel true. Rewarding and restful.

I've been using Zen Brush for years on an iPhone. It also is quite nice on a Galaxy Note phone with the S-Pen. But here on Windows, on a Surface with the new Surface Pen, its just lovely. The developers are so good at this I wish they'd try their hand at a regular painting/drawing app. I'd buy it!

The install is light and the program runs perfectly on my Surface Book 2. It also runs without a hitch on my Acer Switch Alpha 12. Tilt support is excellent. The various brush widths and water levels are neat, and the flow and brush strokes look really realistic and cool. There are dozens of background colors and textures, mimicking paper and the like. Files are easily exported as PNG, both with and without transparent background. All in all, for the money, this is a great buy.

lots of pen lag, I have 8th gen core i7 and 16gb of memory, so I am pretty sure it is not my resources. Immediately regretted the purchase, wish there was a refund option.