I recently downloaded the latest drawing app available for the iPhone. I have not been a huge fan of the others as they never felt quite right. Autodesk seems to have offered up something truly good, Autodesk Sketchbook Mobile.
The main difference I felt between Autodesk’s offering and Brushes was that Sketchbook lacked the ‘vector-esc’ functionality which brushes relies on and instead implemented a system where the data is all bitmap. Brushes uses XML data to draw, though it works well it doesn’t feel all that natural or responsive. Also Sketchbook carried over its rather intuitive tool set from its desktop offering Sketchbook Pro. Over all Sketch book is a really solid offering and definitely worth the $2.99 cost.
Check out the painting I did in Sketchbook Mobile (click to view the full res).
First things first, I am posting from that new wonderful little iPhone app that came out for Wordpress. That said, it’s here to get me to post more often.
Today a few of my coworkers and I shirked out Nickelodeon duties and made our way over to the Children’s Museum of Mannhatten. My new boss was also in our little our group. We went to go see it’s small exhibit of original Golden Book illustrations.
Hey look at this I’m on a f*cking roll here. This is like the third post this week… I just finished this sketch that had 6 previous incarnations. What I wanted was a girl longing for someone to the right of her, at a cafe. I am going to finish this as a painting on a large canvas (24″x30″, still not sure if I’m going to do acrylic or oil. There will also be another image to the right which will have the interest. The idea behind this is I want to start dabbling in fine art and pushing the boundary of what is cartooning or illustration and fine art. As these two field blur you start to find cross over like Makoto Aida’s works. I know its Japanese but it has definitely influence American culture at least in how I was brought up, thus my art tends to hearken back to Anime instead of UPA. That said that is the reasoning behind the style. The over arching theme is feelings, there will be others as well as variants, this one is longing.
PS - crits are welcome!
Girl in Cafe (aka “longing”)
