Expresii

This is the most amazing watercolor app that I've used. The way the ink flows and interacts with the brush and paper is incredible and many levels beyond any other watercolor app that I've ever used. It's the only one that I've seen where you can take techniques from the real world and really transfer them to a digital canvas. I still can't get over how "real" it feels to paint on a glass screen. I'm very excited to see how the newly announced surface pen with tilt will work with this app. I recently purchased an ipad pro 9.7 for art, but I haven't really played around with procreate since buying expresii for the surface pro. Finally, I would like to compliment Nelson Chu for his fine customer service. I had an issue launching the program due to my anti-virus program. He was very prompt and courteous in responding to my emails. I'm very impressed with what he has accomplished and I look forward to seeing what else he has in store for expresii.

It took me some time to figure it out the best settings to do Chinese calligraphy on the new Surface Pro, and once that's done, look no further. Beats anything else in the market (I also tried Zen Brush 2 in the store). My 'perfect' settings are - use Xuan as paper, use fine brush at size 1, zoom in as much as you can so only one character at a time on the screen, use default pressure setting (in Surface App), use 'Tip only' under 'mode'. Almost matches the real brush experience. Enjoy!

I just spent the last 40 minutes or so trying out Expresii and came across some weird brush behavior that pretty much killed the app for me. I was working on a piece and noticed that strokes were being generated but my Surface Pen was at least 2 inches away from the screen. In a panic, I tried to undo the last few strokes to no avail. I tried to change the last few settings I modified...nothing. Everywhere I moved the pen cursor, without touching the screen, resulted in strokes all over my piece, destroying it. There is no way this behavior can be considered a "feature" as I was unable to undo any of the ghost strokes generated leaving no choice but to quit the application. Expresii is unusable in this state which is a major disappointment because I wanted a companion application to use with Rebelle 2. Hindsight says I should have stuck with Rebelle 2 instead of spending money on Expresii. Windows Store needs better than this.