Bridge. iPhone painting after Andre Francois, originally uploaded by purple0wl.
This iPhone finger painting was created in the app Inspire, after a watercolour by Andre Francois.
Inspire was the app I chose for this finger painting, because of its excellent blending facility. Inspire lets you choose just how much pigment you put on your ‘brush’ – down to none at all, so you can blend and smear only the colour existing on your canvas.
The feel of blending paint is so realistic that I even found myself looking for a tissue to wipe my finger before picking up my coffee cup!
Drawing and painting apps for iPhone and iPod Touch have gone a long way since I started this blog, only a few months ago. Brushes app is still the favourite of many artists, though Colors and Layers are now fast being upstaged by Sketchbook Mobile.
Personally I don’t think any of them are as good at blending colours as Inspire, but then, each app has its advantages. Applications cost so little (provided you’ve got an iphone or ipod to put them on) – that the best answer to the finger artist’s prayer is to use several apps.
I copied the general scheme of the painting by Andre Francois in Inspire, then exported it to my iphone Photo Gallery. I adjusted the colour in Photo Studio, then added a few final touches in Brushes.
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Hey, love the site! I was intrigued by your comment in this article about Inspire (one of the few art apps I haven’t tried yet) that you can choose how much pigment goes on the brush. So it’s not just an opacity slider like all the others?
What I really want is a true watercolor app that will let me choose not only the pigment, but also the amount of water, and will have those effects only watercolor is famous for: bleeding out textures as it soaks into the paper.
There’s an online Flash version called Farbe, made from Pixel Bender software that’s exactly what I want, but for the life of me, I cannot find an app that does this. Let me know if you run into any art app that does this; I’m wasting way too much time trying to hunt one down.
Do you mean an app for the iphone (or ipod touch)? For the desktop of course there’s Corel Painter. Watercolour brushes there are wonderfully lifelike. See my samplers.
I will look about for iphone apps, but Inspire is the nearest thing I have found. You can choose either a loaded or dry brush, and if loaded, you can choose how much paint is loaded, and whether the brush then reloads automatically or runs out. After it runs out, you can go back and smear the colour to blend it. But I have to admit it doesn’t run like the watercolour brushes in Corel Painter.