Easter looms. Season of over-packaged chocolate eggs and lumps of yellow cotton wool disguised as chickens.
iPhone Chicken Drawn with Brushes
High time to hurry out another report for the great iPhone (and Ipod Touch) Chicken Drawing Research Project.
What with the credit crunch and dwindling amount of cash for greeting cards, there’s going to be a whole lot of chicken drawing going on. Where better to do it than on an iphone (or an Ipod Touch) if you’re lucky enough to have one? Naturally I am anxious that if you do, you should have the very best iphone drawing apparatus at your fingertips for this occasion.
So. Which is the best iphone drawing and painting app?
Aha. I was going to save this revelation for a later post, but Easter calls.
To my mind, the best drawing and painting app for both the iPhone and the Ipod Touch is Brushes
Chick Painted in iPhone Brushes
I (and according to the App Store comments, many others) find Brushes simple and easy to use. It’s fast and responsive and gives me the feeling it was made to please artists rather than geeks.
True, a wide variety of brushes is ironically one of the few amenities Brushes lacks. An offset to prevent your finger from hiding what you’re painting would also be nice.
Now the good news. Brushes offers a colour wheel with a huge choice of hue and saturation, transparency, unlimited easy Undo and the familiar and intuitive pinch-to-zoom facility for detailed drawing.
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PAINTER 12 BRUSHES
You can also check how you can draw on iphone with text on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSgJwQUeMws
You you should make changes to the blog name title iPhone Paint Apps. Which? | Seeing Things to something more better for your webpage you create. I liked the post nevertheless.
Hello Zorilla. I think I would still keep the post title, as Brushes is still the favourite painting app. Things have changed a lot since I wrote this post however – it was a year and a half ago, and there are now hundreds of art apps to choose from. Most didn’t exist when I wrote this. I’ll shortly be posting a link to the talk on 20 art apps I co-presented at the IAMDA meet-up of mobile digital artists in New York last weekend.
I kept thinking of “Brushes” while waiting for my iphone upgrade in Jan. By the time I got it the Autodesk’s “Sketchbook” for iPhone came out. I loved this application on the regular PC plus it got some better reviews compared to Brushes and Layers in one of the Magazines I read, so I downloaded this instead. To be honest, I haven’t quite investigated the options yet, just enjoyed the painting process which I find really enjoyable. There are quite a few options for customizing your brushes with the “sketchbook”, not sure if it’s the same for brushes.
The offset idea that you mention is really interesting – never thought of that (and my fingers are quite chunky!).
I’ll come back to see more of your stuff as you post and share some of mine, too.
Thanks,
FilipZ
Hi FilipZ
I was interested to read about your encounter with Sketchbook Mobile. It does take a bit of learning, especially if like me you have never known the desktop version, but it’s very versatile.
I’ll continue to post up my adventures with the painting apps I try. Glad you have found them useful so far!
By the way, Brushes now has 11 brushes to choose from, and you can adjust size, transparency and spacing. Sketchbook has 19 and again you can adjust size, transparency and spacing. However, Sketchbook also has maximum and minimum settings, which allow for tapering and fade-out of the strokes.
Hey Owl,
I have just downloaded BRUSHES 10 minutes ago, Must say – IT IS GOOD! I think this might become my choice actually although I have not tried it out long enough. Main idea behind having iphone with one of the apps was so I can sketch in colour when I am on the go. I tend to carry normal sketchpad everywhere but while I find this a great exercise I think this will add to my training. I wasn’t really after finished pieces but a nice base to transfer into photoshop. Somehow Brushes feels more suitable, but I this might simply be me. The only thing I have so far noticed to Sketchbook’s advantage is IT DOES HAVE THE OFFSET (and I only noticed it today!) and it goes for both brush and the eyedropper tool. It might be a better choice for those who are after detail. I am quite happy to have them both and see which one works better in the long run.
I’ll be seeing you:)
I really like your post. Does it copyright protected?
Glad you like my post! It is of course copyright protected. I’d be very happy for you to quote bits of it, provided you gave a link to the whole article.
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How fun! I am really impressed by the level of detail that you were able to get with that application and your finger. Much more detail then I would have imagined.
You need to be able to zoom in to draw detail – and zooming is a lot simpler in some apps than others. I’m having fun finding all this out!
Valerie, You makes me wish I had an iPhone to play with. I mean “play” in the best sense of the word. I daren’t een’t think about that right now and I will enjoy seeing all that you create here.
I’m sure you would enjoy having a go at painting on an iphone, though you might not get quite the detail of the lovely artwork you show on your websites.
Love both your chicks
Nice review of Brushes.
Anita
Glad you like the chicks. Fluffiest so far I think…. Happy Easter!
Cute Chick! I have Brushes and love it. I sent away to pogo for the stylus to use with it, because of my finger always being in the way when I tried to draw with it on the screen. The stylus works well, too. Karol
I’m impressed you got Brushes and a Pogo. I got a Pogo too. Funnily enough I have now got used to drawing with my finger(s) and forget to use the stylus! It’s steadier for lettering though.