Early iPhone Painting Using 2 Apps, originally uploaded by purple0wl. The first iphone drawing app I bought was Sketches. Fascinated and frustrated by the doddery marks that were all I could come up with on the touch screen, I forked out in some desperation for iDoodle, Scribble and NetSketch. Not that these apps exactly broke [...]
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It occurs to me that people who do not accept the legitimacy of digital art are not asking themselves “Is it Art?” but “Is it Photography?” Critics of art works created in computer art software – Corel Painter for instance – seem to regard drawing as some kind of fairground trick. Regardless of the often [...]
Week 29: Small, originally uploaded by purple0wl. Run any iphone painting through the photo app 101 PhotoEffects, and even if you don’t transform your finger work into a masterpiece, you’ll learn a lot. This seascape was painted on my iPhone in the app Inspire. In Inspire you can choose how much paint to load onto your [...]
Some while ago, hidden in a dusty corner of my parents’ loft, I found an old trunk. In it my adoring mother had hoarded bundles of letters and drawings I made as a child. This is a very early example. I remember drawing it. The house was not hard to draw. Door, windows, chimney and [...]
Easter looms. Season of over-packaged chocolate eggs and lumps of yellow cotton wool disguised as chickens. 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 [...]
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