A couple weeks ago, I got the Brushes app for my iPhone. This incredible little app allows you to make digital paintings by touching and dragging your finger around on the screen. It’s a very simple interface and has three brushes (all adjustable sizes), a color picker, and a way to adjust the opacity. As someone who only occasionally doodles, I quickly fell in love with this app. It’s like carrying around a tiny canvas with you along with a full palette of paints and brushes, and what’s more, is when you are done with your painting, you can grab it on your computer as a hi-res png or jpeg image AND a time-lapsed quicktime video of your work. I decided to try my hand at making one of these every day, and don’t see myself stopping anytime soon. I don’t know if I’m particularly good at painting, but it’s a ton of fun. Check out the iPhone paintings that I’ve created so far.
06.19.09
