I’ve just been reading on Yahoo News that the Apple iPad’s wireless signal may be too strong for European networks and cause interference. Israel has even banned iPad imports as a result!
Read all about it at Yahoo News
Earlier today I was also clobbered with the news that the iPad will not now officially be setting out to swim the Atlantic until late May. Apple had promised its landing on our shores here in the UK by late April.
Ah well. I suppose I’d better doodle on my iPhone while I wait…
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How do you draw a doubtful owl? Hmmm…
Luckily sleight of hand comes to the rescue when you’re drawing facial expressions. (Or rather, sleight of finger in this iPhone drawing.)
Facial expressions are always a mixture of unconscious and deliberate grimaces. On paper (or as in this case the iphone screen) the artist, caricaturist or cartoonist has a further repertoire of gestures at his disposal.
All kinds of marks can symbolise states of mind.
This iPhone finger painting was made with an app that’s new to me, LiveSketch. I added a few touches in the old favourite app, Brushes, and increased the contrast in PhotoFX.
Tags: art, Art on the iPhone, brushes, cartoons, creative, doodle, doubtful, expression, expressions, face, facial expression, iPhone Art Apps, Iphone Painting, ipod, purple owl, sketching, valerie beeby
IPhone Art App Mixer, originally uploaded by purple0wl.
How many iphone art apps were used to create this image? Four, if I remember rightly. Maybe more.
The background started life as an iphone photo of a doorway in Barcelona. After a tracing in Vihgo followed by a mashup in Photo Studio it was never the same again.
The monastery was embedded into the background in Juxtaposer. The Art App Mixer was added on a separate layer in yet another iphone app, Brushes.
I have a feeling this promiscuous piece would not be invited to the party over at Inspire! (More about that at the Inspire Contest page.)
Tags: Art on the iPhone, digital painting, iPhone Art Apps, ipod touch, purple owl, valerie beeby, visualise
iPhone (or iPod Touch) painting is always rewarding. Now there’s actually a generous prize on offer to the winner of a competition for finger paintings done in Inspire app. The contest is run by KiwiPixel and Mobile Art Books.
Inspire competition deadline is March 14th. First prize is USD 150. Very nice.
You must do your painting exclusively in the Inspire app. No app skipping or imported images allowed. Your artwork must be wholly original and on the theme “Humanoid in confrontation with nature”.
Read all about it here – and warm up your fingers ready for the inspiring Inspire contest!
Spider Assesses a Web Page, originally uploaded by purple0wl.
Why does fine art have to have the monopoly of abstracts? Actually I think most cartoons are abstracts. They use notations to express actions and emotions that are not at all what you actually see in real life.
Here we see a web spider, doubtless one of Google’s tireless army of minions, poring over a web page. Like all web spiders, he sees only words and is colour blind.
How was the image made? I shone a rainbow (made a while ago in Corel Painter) on a scribbled doodle (made a while ago on paper).
The rainbow was projected on my iphone, using an application called DXP (Double Exposure), and finished in Brushes app.
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iPhone Finger Painting. Sizing Up. Originally uploaded by purple0wl.
Nocturne, originally uploaded by purple0wl.
Click on the picture then on ‘View On Black’ to see this picture at larger size
I’ve been thinking a lot about texture in iPhone paintings now the iPad is on the way. It’s no use trying to give a tiny picture interesting brush strokes or textures. There just aren’t enough pixels.
Paintings made in Brushes app are saved quite small if you sync them via the iPhone gallery to your desktop.
Help is at hand if you have a Mac. It looks as if help will be even handier if you have an iPad with its much bigger screen than iphone or ipod.
Meanwhile my helper when using Brushes app is the Brushes Viewer, as far as I know still only available on the Mac.
Brushes Viewer syncs with your Brushes gallery via wi-fi. Not only does it play an animation of your brush strokes as you painted your picture. It exports the finished result at surprisingly high quality in a choice of much larger sizes.
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