uDraw Studio comes bundled with the THQ’s uDraw Tablet, and is a surprisingly robust art tool that contains features to satisfy talented artists, while providing enough basic fun for anyone up for grabbing the stylus.

Players will control the menu system for uDraw Studio by using a light movement of the stylus to drag the cursor across the screen.  When players need to make a selection, they’ll need to press down harder.  Many of the drawing tools have similar controls.  A light touch simply moves the cursor around, but a harder push will start putting colors onto your virtual canvas.  These controls do take a bit of getting used to, and one thing we found ourselves doing was trying to control the stylus like a mouse (quickly lifting it up and “backtracking” to try and move faster).

uDraw Art Studio also makes use of the Wii-mote and stylus buttons for various functions.  The plus and minus buttons are undo and redo, and pushing up and down on the d-pad will zoom in and out of your drawing.

As with many art programs, uDraw Studio provides options for using a brush, crayon, chalk and more, while being able to control the size of the line. Because of the pressure-sensitive stylus, players can also select to have how hard they are pushing impact their drawing as well. There’s also the ability to stamp on different shapes, use a paint bucket to fill in large areas of color and more.

There is also a “coloring book” feature in uDraw Studio which provides already-created line drawing for youngsters (or parents) to use as a starting point, and they can choose to color them however they’d like.  Although this type of feature often appeals to toddlers, the pressure-sensitive stylus and complex menu selection system are too difficult for them.  However, kids that are as young as 5 or 6 can definitely get the hang of it.

uDraw Studio also has a couple of really cool features. One feature that’s cool is the ability to play back the creation of your drawing step-by-step in a replay mode. Additionally, the game lets you save your artwork as JPEGs to an SD card (if you know what that means, you’ll think it’s cool), so you can pretty easily save and print them just like you would a photo you took on your digital camera.

THQ’s uDraw Studio is a great demonstration of many of the capabilities of the company’s uDraw Tablet control system.  The art program is robust enough that it will provide an interesting and challenging medium for accomplished artists, yet accessible enough for kids as young as 5 or 6 to be able to have fun with it.  Although there isn’t technically even a game here, it is possible to enjoy this title together, whether it’s collaborating on making something by sharing the uDraw, or just sharing your work with your family when you are done.

INFORMATION FROM COMPANY FACT SHEET:
Product Description
Discover your inner artist with uDraw Studio. Utilizing the uDraw GameTablet, players can finally express their own individual artistic creativity on Wii™

Featuring versatile and easy-to-use tools, users can paint, draw, and color anything from simple doodles to intricate masterpieces. uDraw Studio offers the freedom to create spectacular works of art without the hassle of clean-up and comes bundled with the uDraw GameTablet.

Key Features
• User-Friendly Experience – Intuitive approach and easy-to-understand tutorials covering all of the major tools make it very simple to start painting.

• Myriad Of Tools – More than nine unique painting/drawing media allow users to draw simple lines with a pen then add character with the airbrush tool or chalk.  Simple sliders and toggles adjust opacity, size and paint drop-off.  The Line Tool allows users to draw perfectly straight lines and  the Paint Fill tool enables users to fill in areas with their color of choice.  A huge library of stamps (100+) and more than 15 post-processing effects including black & white, sepia, negative, and neon, create endless customization options.  Zoom in up to 400% for truly refined strokes and utilize the robust editing features for a detailed masterpiece.

• Diverse Environments and Surfaces – users can select from eleven canvas types to paint on anything from notebook paper and cardboard, to a sidewalk and concrete.  Users can also paint in eight unique environments designed to encourage creativity, such as on a street corner in Paris or in a beach house overlooking the ocean.

• Replay Fuctions – Creations unfold at  normal, 2x, and 4x speeds in replay mode.  Stroke-by-stroke playback brings artistic creations to life.

• Save and Share – Unprecendented access to SD-Card enables users to save, export and print their original artwork on compatible devices to share with friends and family.