About Pencilbloom
Drawing should feel possible.
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Most people stop drawing as kids because the picture in their head never matched the paper. Pencilbloom closes that gap: the phone shows the lines, your hand learns them.
Why tracing
From Renaissance workshops to animation studios, artists traced first and freehanded later. We built a calm, modern version of that.
old trick, new tool
Every lesson, checked by a person
Before a lesson goes live, someone on our team goes through it step by step.
made by iHux
Made for every age
Kids trace their first cat, grown-ups pick up a hobby they dropped. No sign-up, no ads inside lessons.
Who we are
iHux builds apps people keep. Pencilbloom is our love letter to the humble pencil.
What you’ll find here
Pencilbloom is an app first, but this website is made to help on its own, even before you install anything. Here is what each part is for, and where to start.
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Learn to draw
Free step-by-step drawing lessons for beginners, sorted by subject. Each one builds a picture part by part, with an image for every step, so you can follow along on paper or trace it in the app.
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Coloring pages
Free printable coloring pages for kids and grown-ups, each one a PDF. Print a page and color it with your own pencils, or color it on screen in the app.
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Tracing guides
Short, practical articles about setting up your phone and paper, tracing clean lines and turning a traced picture into a drawing that is your own.
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How it works
The whole idea in a few steps: prop your phone over the paper, pick a picture and trace the lines you see on the screen with a real pencil.
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Photo to lines
See how a photo becomes a clean line drawing, using our sample photos. In the app, you can do the same with photos of your own and then trace them.
Most pages end with a way to open the same picture in the app, so you can go from reading to tracing in one tap.
Start your first drawing
Free on iPhone, iPad and Android.