Yes. My iphone has produced chickens. I’ve been using it for the great iPhone and iPod Touch Chicken Drawing Project.
In other words, I’ve been trying out iphone art apps. I’ve been hoping to discover which of the ever increasing number of iphone art apps is best for a bit of serious finger painting and drawing.
That is, if your artistic ambitions extend beyond endowing a photo of your boss with a silly hat and buck teeth.
Chicken Drawn in iPhone 'Colors'
Well, Happy Easter! I have indeed found things out.
I’ve discovered that two iphone art apps stand out above the rest. Brushes and Colors.
I’ve discovered that an iphone can be more than just a handy pad for sketching out thumbnail layouts.
I’ve found impressive and inspiring artwork entirely created on iPhone or Ipod Touch.
I talked about Brushes a few days ago. I said it was my favourite iphone art app. Now I’m not so sure. I think it will have to share the crown with Colors.
Colors was originally created for the Nintendo DS games console. It has only recently been adapted for iphone and ipod.
Colors attempts to replace the pressure sensitivity of the Nintendo screen with tilt sensitivity. This takes a bit of getting used to, but it is possible to taper a brush stroke by tilting the machine from left to right instead of pressing harder as you draw.
A Colors tool I like better allows me to choose an offset, distancing the drawing point so my finger tip doesn’t hide the mark I’m making.
Brushes and Colors both offer sophisticated colour palettes, transparency and Apple’s familiar, intuitively easy two finger zoom and pan.
Twitter Bird Drawn in iPhone 'Colors'
More – with screen shots and movies no less – coming later. Now I must hurry and Twitter my Easter gift to what I fondly hope is far and wide!
Tags: art, digital painting, drawing tablet, iPad & iPhone Painting, iphone apps, Iphone Painting, ipod touch, sketching
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[...] There’s only one other iPhone art app I’ve found that equals – and in some respects even surpasses Brushes, and that is Colors. [...]
Hi Valerie, I’m still jealous about your iPhone. I just watched a tele-seminar that said there are 4 BILLION people using similar devices. And talking about blogging for iPhones and the like.
Well I do find my iPhone is lovely to use. It’s expensive and I hate being tied down to a contract with only one service provider, but it’s the best there is and at least the apps are very cheap. I’ve just bought Adobe Web Creative Suite CS4, upgrade price with a special discount and it was still, would you believe it, literally a hundred times the price of an iPhone art app!
I have the exact same thing in a student edition which I love. I am thinking of buyin brushes as I love art and need an app for it! Thankyou for some great reviews!
Hi Will. I wrote this post a few months ago, since when a few other excellent paint apps have appeared. Layers and Sketchbook Mobile for instance. Most artists still keep Brushes as their favourite all the same. I think most would agree it’s still the easiest to use, and it now offers layers, which make it even more versatile.
heehee… I saw a video online the other day that talked about the thousands of iPhone apps available, increasing daily. At that rate your work here will never be done.
Like the tweety bird. Would be very cute to use that with a link to your Twitter page for following.
Barb
Actually now I think I’m going to stick to just Brushes and Colors. I get giddy when I go to the App Store just looking at all those applications multiplying like the broomsticks in the Sorcerer’s Apprentice!
Thanks for your suggestion about using my Tweety Chicken. Good idea. I’ll try it.