ArtStudio is a new iPhone/iPod Touch painting app by polish developer Sylwester Los of iPhone Clan.
iPhone Clan is another one-man-shop, “I implemented everything myself”, says Sylwester Los, “only with some design-help. After testing all drawing/painting apps i was not happy with either quality, performance or the interface. So i decided to create my own app”.
Here’s a good video-walkthrough:
MobilArt Vol. 3
Thierry Schiel keeps amazing me: not only did he just win the luxemburg filmprais for an animation he did:
–he also managed to push out the juiciest edition of his mobilart eBook series so far. Volume 3 bursts with great art again, and for me the most thrilling part was the very interesting interview with LaLegraNegra, the fingerpainter we probably all admire for his amazing skills.
This edition comes also with some great interface improvements, especially the much needed index page.
Get it now in the app-store, it’s free.
Inspire is maybe the most realistic ‘natural-media-painting’-app out there, and here’s a long but good video of Thierry Schiel, creator od the MobilArt eBook series, painting one of his fantastic pieces. I’m especially impressed by the utterly loose sketch he starts with.
Here’s the final piece:
With the latest update, SketchBook Mobile 1.2 adds some new features, including tool opacity by tap-sliding the main interface element, the ‘puck’ (that element in the center):
Also, the top right icon let’s you go into the layer-drag&resize-mode, the coolest and unique feature for fingerpainting apps so far. The behaviour differs slightly from other tools: when you drag or resize, the changes are instantly applied. That means, when you, let’s say, blow up a layer, next try to scale it back down, everything out of the canvas-bounds will have been cut off. But once you get used to it, you can easily use the undos to get back to recent states. Another new feature: you can dublicate layers now.
The update is for free, the app is available for 2.39€/2.99$ in the app-store.
Brushes 2.1 has been submitted to the app-store, and with Sketchbook Mobile on its heels, it’s a long anticipated update. And it’s a great one.
The most significant changes are coming with the brush panel:
Additional to the original 3 brushes you get another 8 great brush tips, some of them also alligning to the stroke direction of your finger (a behaviour already known from SBM). You can roll through the brushes on a horizontal ribbon, with every tip remembering its last used settings. Another new feature: the spacing is adjustable now which makes stippling easier e.g. The color wheel shortcut on the upper left lets you easy switch back and forth between brush and color panel now.
But the coolest new feature (at least to me) is the introduction of hot corners: tapping top right for example calls a quick brush size menu:
The other corners let you quick switch between brush/eraser, undo and redo respectively. It’s amazing how the hot corners improve your flow and thus get the interface out of your way.
Along with this new version, the Viewer gets an update to support the new brushtips, and the interface has been localized to Chinese, French, Italian, Spanisch and German.
Brushes 2.1 should hopefully appear in the app-store before christmas.
SketchBook Mobile updates to 1.1, some of the new features are:
In-depth review and video over at SolidSmack.
Here’s a great example by fingerpainter Schippi of the new stippling feature at work:
Parrot, by Schippi
(In this post, Thierry Schiel shares his first experiences in creating a storyboard completely on the iPhone. Thierry is a traditional animator on some 10 feature films and has also created and directed two full length CGI feature films “Tristan and Isolde” and “Renart the Fox”. He is also one of the most skillful fingerpainters you’ll find.)
Making a storyboard for a short film means doing between 150 to 200 drawings to tell a story. For my current CGI film I decided to try changing my PC/Wacom habits and to use the combined strength of Sketchbook Mobile and Hitchcock apps on my iPod Touch.
But would it work like it should?
It was very easy to do a drawing test as I had already used for some time Sketchbook Mobile and really appreciated its qualities. At first I was really impressed by how close a result I get to what I usually do on my desktop. With SBM I get the unique combination of layers, high resolution and beautiful lines for my drawings.
The latest version of kiwipixels Inspire not only adds some nice improved features (touch/hold eyedropper, up 3200% zoom and more) but also supports exporting up to 1920×2880px using the new Exporter desktop-app. And the good news for the rest of us: there’s also a Windows version available.
Fingerpainter Thierry Schiel shows us, what’s achievable with this app:
Futuristic lanscape, by Thierry Schiel
Autodesk will release Sketchbook Mobile on the Sept 17th, here’s a first glimpse over at core77.
Image via core77
[Update] There’s also a quite impressive pool of artwork done in Sketchbook Mobile on flickr, as well as another review at Develop3D.
[Update 2]Our Susan Murtaugh was one of the beta-testers and shared some quick first thoughts via mail:
Pros:
Cons:
Susans verdict so far:
“My first love is Brushes. And I will still use it, especially for landscapes, don’t know why it works better for me with scenes but it does. “For sketching and portrait work Sketchbook Mobile really shines. If and when there is full layer integration with desktop Sketchbook Pro I will be thrilled… It’s an artists dream to move from iPhone to desktop and hopefully back with little or no issues.”
Her Advice:
“Have them both.”
After using Sketchbook Mobile for a day now, I second every point of it.
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