You will be pleased to learn that I have been busy wasting my time,
teaching myself finger drawing on my iPhone.
Okay, okay. You haven’t got an iPhone. You haven’t even got an iPod. In which case the following slice of knowledge will be even more useless to you than it would be if you had.
On the other hand, to the creative person, who can say that any piece of knowledge is entirely useless? You never know when you might need to fish it out and put it to uses for which it was never intended.
Another solution would be to get an iPhone, a process I can strongly recommend.
The Icebergs Confer. iPhone Finger Painting.
The highly responsive touch screen on the iPhone and the new iPod Touch has made it possible. The screen is also large (well, large for a cell or mobile phone). Resolution is sharp as a pin and the colours glow.
You don’t need a stylus. In fact the Apple touch screen will not respond to a stylus. Controlling your finger is surprisingly difficult at first. Lettering can be distinctly wobbly, but improves with practice and concentration. I did evolve a method of holding my forefinger with my thumb and middle finger as though it were a pencil. This helped me out of one or two sticky corners.
Talking of sticky corners, iPhone finger painting is not to be confused with the variety that vies with mud pies for the delight of toddlers.
The Night Tree. iPhone Finger Painting.
…But of course the real use of drawing on the iPhone is to add speech bubbles saying “Glad you’re not here” to your holiday snaps, and give your mother in law or teacher horns and a moustache.
Never mind. You’ll probably grow out of that stage too.
Meanwhile bear in mind that you can’t draw on photos as easily on the iPod Touch. The iPod Touch doesn’t have its own camera.
Tags: art, digital painting, doodle, expressions, iPhone Art Apps, Iphone Painting, ipod
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Sorry I haven’t replied sooner to your question Karol. I am even now busy cooking up a post and also some pages on my website about finger drawing on an iphone.
To quickly answer you for the moment, daily there seem to be more and more drawing and painting applications available at the iTunes store for the iPhone and iPod Touch. For my iPhone art, I generally use several, which I will in due course tell you how to do.
Most drawing apps are not expensive, two or three dollars. Just go to the iTunes Store. Most of the painting apps are in the Entertainment section. I think an easy one for you to start with might be Sketches. Hope this helps until I get the fuller pages and posts up.
I have an iphone. Love it. I didn’t know you could draw on it, and I want to do that! Do you download an app?, or what is your secret?
Great work.
Bev you are a hoot! (And to be called a hoot by an owl is a real compliment
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Your finger drawings should be quite something when the old phone finally kicks the bucket and you can get an iphone!!
Love your blog Val and will return and follow your journey …
My daughter has the Blackberry and my niece has the iphone and im trying to kill my mobile, have been trying for a while now but the old buggar wont die lol just keeps on keeping on like and eveready battery lol anyway no iphone for me till the oldie croaks it, but at least im now looking forward to its passing with a new passion………..finger drawing how cool……..
cheers bev
That is just gorgeuos! I did not even know you can do such things with any phone…gotta get an iphone!
When I was at WordCamp last weekend, I was amazed at the number of iPhones in almost constant use. I assumed they were microblogging, uploading pictures, using twitter but who know how many were finger painting!
Hi Valerie,
I was just reading your comment in LVS about why you put the Google ads in here. I have read that unless you have a lot of traffic it is now worth it. However, I liked your reason for doing it – something I had not thought of – thank you very much
– so I am here to check out what you did and find the ads that come up are actually interesting. So that is inspiring me as well
Well, I’m impressed although I still don’t “get” it since I have no newfangled gadgets
Anita
…hmm, I actually think I’d like to doodle with the stylus…
Love the iceberg conference — I even see the coffee cups! Looks like a lot of interaction.
You have me wanting to drive to the Verizon store to just look at the thing… even though my Blackberry is only two months into the contract. And I love it.
Your Night Tree is actually quite sensational! My question is, do you have light filters and color sets you use? As in Painter?