This is the plan, Stan...

Categories: artwork, and-another-thing

Tags: iPad, Artwork

Date: 05 May 2010 14:41:30

So, iPad in hand I've got a plan.

Until now, for the past year, Brushes has been my weapon of choice in the drawing on glass category. I've tried others: Inspire, Layers, Sketchbook and Art Studio all come close, many have excellent additional features, but none comes close to the loveliness of Brushes.

This is for a couple of reasons: the UI is cleaner, imo, easier to access, more sensibly laid out. Also, and most importantly, it keeps up with quick drawing better than the competition. The first thing I do with a new art tool is draw four or five quick strokes at half opacity. If the tool can keep up with what I'm drawing then so much the better. I draw very quickly, haphazardly even, and draw, make mistake, fix and repeat until I've beaten the picture onto the page. If the tool can't keep up with that I'm not going to slow down for it to catch up.

Then, if I'm happy with a tool, I draw this picture:

It's one I always do with kids to learn to draw so I tend to draw it three or four times a year... Each time differently, sometimes it's a rabbit, sometimes a happy alien, sometimes a scary one.

So the plan, Stan, is to draw this type of picture in each of the tools I've downloaded onto the iPad. I've often wondered if I've given them all a fair crack or whether it's 'favourite Bond is the first Bond you've seen' syndrome. So I'm going to try them all out and document the process. So I'll be quiet on here for  a week or so, I think, until they're all done and dusted.

Taht's the plan anyhow, I'll probably be back on tomorrow all gushy. We'll see.