#ScreenFrenzy.

Categories: artwork, and-another-thing

Tags: Bus, Art Academy, Adobe, Sony, Photoshop Touch, Adonit Jot Script., Android, NIntendo 2DS

Date: 27 March 2014 20:08:53

I like screens.

Yes, I know. I assume that (well, one or two people notwithstanding) you're patient with the fact that I like creating images on a variety of touch screens. Occasionally I like to create images on a lot of screens in one day and today? Well. Was one of those days...

So I started in a meeting about all sorts of rubbish and how to deal with it and, after that, I splurged pictures onto a Tesco Hudl using Photoshop Touch app:


After that I found myself in a Carphone Warehouse shop drawing on a Sony Xperia Z with the in-built Note app:

And of course the video won't embed. Grr. Here it am though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZyjlAduF_k&feature=youtu.be

Xperias used to be phones and tablets that I avoided, as they normally had not a single drawing or visual note making application installed to play with. Now Sony have both Sketch and Note and both are very good apps to have a test on and the Xperias work very well indeed.

After that I found myself in an o2 shop drawing on a Note 3 until the guy on duty asked if I would draw on his Note 10.1 instead...


(although by this time I think I was beginning to become away I should really be at home, waiting for the school bus and cooking dinner for the evening. So I drew both pics as quickly as I could and dashed back for the bus...)


Which brings me to...


Every so often I tell people I draw on buses. I suspect they think this:



...which I drew on the last bus of the day, on a Nintendo 2DS using the very playful and enjoyable New Art Academy cart.


I don't draw on the actual bus itself but, as I often say to the students I teach, it's all about finding your zone. I'm never more happy that when I can sit on a bus with some good music in my ears and a fully charged tablet to draw on. It's my comfort draw place and that, in many ways, epitomises the magic of this increasingly powerful generation of tablet computer power. To have so many screens to choose from, to have so many marvellous styli, so many awesome apps? At prices that are frequently lower than the 1gb ram upgrade that I put in my first computer?


Amazing. We live in fabulously interesting times.


Videos to come. Processing now. On a laptop that feels slower and cludgier than the tablets I've drawn on through the day.


Here's to computing evolution and the screens that throw data around at the glance of a finger tip.