Joey Livingston is an avid fingerpainter who has been around quite a while, but to my own worries had turned a bit silent over the last weeks. Turns out he was busy with one of the most complete and impressing illustration projects done on the iPad that I’ve seen so far.
(I met Joey in a small café at the back of our minds for a little interview.)
Joey, you just relaunched your own website, Commotion Creative, completely illustrated on the iPad. What was your job in it?
I was the illustrator with the iPad. Actually, it was my task to oversee the whole project. I did all the illustration work, designed the look and feel of the site, and did much of the writing.
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tenOne shows video over on their blog with a a proof of concept on pressure sensitivity on the iPad. Looks great, sad thing is they use so called “private methods” which leads to rejection when used by third-party app developers. Let’s hope apple sees this and adds this functionality to the SDK. {via @kevinbarba}
The role of the stylus is unclear here, I would assume it’s independent and should also work with the finger.
“Burry & Cannot: On Strings” by Benjamin Rabe. So often, Benjamin looks beyond his own stream of work to find great new fingerpaintings to post to the FP.it blog. I just could not allow for this little masterpiece to slip under the radar. So, yes, I am posting this extraordinary piece by B. Rabe himself as Painting of the Day!
The iPad is fingerpainter’s new toy, and SketchBookPro for the iPad one of the most promising painting apps out there. Chris Cheung, Product Manager of SketchBook at Autodesk was so kind to answer us some questions about the birth of the idea, future plans and hand-made iPad replicas.
fp.it: Hi Chris! So, the iPad is finally here, did you find any time to paint yet?
Chris Cheung: “Our team is based in Toronto, Canada, so we weren’t able to directly buy iPads when it launched in the U.S. on April 3. My wife knew how much I wanted one at the time so she actually surprised me on that Saturday, April 3, with a hand-made replica. Luckily, we did get a few iPads shipped to our office a couple of days after, but with all the activity, I’ve only had little time to try it out. It was wonderful to hold it for the first time and to fire up the App. There is something about the size that does give a new experience, different than using an iPhone or a desktop with a tablet device. So far, I’ve barely even gotten off the first page of brushes, creating raw sketches with the #3 pencil. I’m definitely going to get my own. According to Apple, I’ll have to wait until Mid-May to get it here in Canada.”
Brushes for iPad (App-Store) is as much of a delight to use as the iPhone version ever was, without the restriction of the small screen. For a long time, we finger painters convinced ourselves that the iPhone was the answer to mobile digital painting, because it was the only solution that worked elegantly and simply, and didn’t cost thousands. But now we have the iPad, with a far bigger screen, and the same elegance and simplicity, and (oddly enough) for almost the same price, and the difference for finger painters is night and day. Only time will tell, and I can’t speak for everyone, but I don’t know if this artist will ever paint on his iPhone again. I feel like I’ve been painting through a periscope for the past couple years.
New features
The Brushes gallery is far more interesting than I expected. Being able to browse through your artwork as if it was all framed and hanging on a gallery wall is pretty relaxing, and then being able to watch a replay of every stroke of your painting right there on the iPad, on that gallery wall, is magical for both me and my friends.
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Animators used to rely on them, airbrushers still use them and now iPad painters will consider using them to allow palm contact: the painting glove. Here’s mine:
And a video of some iPad-painting-glove-live-action:
It’s day one after ipad-delivery-guy-day, so let’s have a quick look on one of the most anticipated painting apps for the iPad: SketchBookPro by Autodesk. Here are some first Impressions shared by Susan Murtaugh and Mia Robinson.
Actually, it was my task to oversee the whole project. I did all the illustration work, designed the look and feel of the site, and did much of the writing. Continue reading
