Quick Poses

An iOS app to help artists improve their drawing skills

  • Download QuickPoses for iOS on the App Store


About Quick Poses


Quick Poses is THE ultimate tool to help artists sharpen their drawing skills by simulating REAL LIFE academic figure drawing sessions.

Select your pose duration, choose your favorite photo galleries, and start drawing right away!

Train your observation and anatomy skills with Quick Poses. The goal is simple: capture the ESSENCE of each pose within a limited time. As soon as the timer runs out, a new pose appears, keeping you focused and in the flow. At the end of your session, a SUMMARY gives you a clear picture of your progress. Over time, track your improvement in the HISTORY section and see how your skills evolve.

This practice, called GESTURE DRAWING, is one of the BEST ways to build confidence, observation accuracy, and dynamic composition. It’s also an excellent warm-up before longer drawing sessions.


Configure your drawing session

  • Configure your poses duration to your liking.
  • Add a warmup delay at the beginning of each pose so it gives you time to prepare (eg. get a new sheet of paper if you practice using traditional medium).

Draw side by side using your Apple Pencil™

  • Use your favorite Apple Pencil™ directly in the app if you want to. If you do so, you’ll be able to analyse your drawings at the end of the session.
  • Support undo/redo during a session with a two and three fingers tap gesture or the buttons in navigation bar.

Or draw in overlay mode

  • Try the overlay drawing mode to develop new skills like your 3D comprehension of a pose.
  • Hit the palette icon to show the system tool picker and try different croquis styles.
  • Use the pencil button or double tap your Apple Pencil™ to quickly switch between your drawing brush and the eraser.

Use multitasking to practice in your favorite drawing app

  • Disable drawing mode to practice outside the app like with pen and paper for example.
  • And use iPad multitasking feature to run the app side by side with your favorite drawing app (eg. Procreate™, Paper™, Tayasui™, Photoshop™, etc.).

Check your session results

  • At the end of the session, a summary is displayed, use it to see how good you did this time.
  • Tap on each thumbnail to inspect your work in fullscreen.

Analyse your progress over time

  • Find all your previous sessions in the history screen.
  • Compare how you have progressed since last session.

Share sketches with your friends or teachers

  • When viewing your past croquis, hit the share button to export it.
  • Share it with your teachers or friends to have feedback.
  • Or continue your best sketches in your favorite digital drawing app.

Create your galleries directly in-app

  • Create your own galleries directly within the app. Simply tap the Manage Galleries button to get started.
  • Customize them with your chosen name, thumbnail and poses
  • Setup your safe filter settings for each poses
  • Add, delete, rename each poses
  • Import them from Files or your Photo Library

Support dark and light mode

  • Choose between dark and light mode in your iPad control center to switch between light or dark background

What artists say

I have purchased the QuickPoses and used it for years. It’s one of the most stable and useful app I’ve ever used. I have used the quickposes’s random feature to practice gesture drawing and in other learning topics such as anatomy and cloth drapery.

— Wasinee

I’d like to thank you for making such a great app! I use it all the time and recommend it to everyone I know. It’s literally the best gesture drawing app available for iPad. It’s so good I also use it for general reference when drawing.

— Annelise

I use it all the time now for warm ups to my drawing sessions.

— Coine

Love the app. I was looking for an app where I can upload my reference photos and time them, and this is perfect. I don’t worry about the time or changing pictures anymore, just draw. 👌

— JAlex


What is gesture drawing?

Click the image below to discover what Quick Poses is primarily made for: Gesture drawing!