Art on the iPhone and iPad

I have tried my hand at doing some artwork on the iPhone and now on the iPad.  I finding the process frustrating.  The tactile experience is very different, for one thing.  Figuring out all the options -- how to do this, how to do that, how to save, etc. is driving me insane.  Having said all that.  I am also having some fun.

Here is an invented head, done using the Asketch app on the iPhone.  The teeny screen on the iPhone adds quite a challenge for me.  I'm used to a lot bigger sheet of paper!

I'm also used to having charcoal under my fingernails.  The iPhone doesn't leave a trace.  You wouldn't even know I had been drawing.

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Here is another Asketch drawing, done on the iPhone.  I tried to get a likeness of my son Paul, as he sat across from me at a restaurant.  I see hints of his face, here, not a true likeness.

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I drew this on an iPad.  Darned if I can remember which app, tho!  I emailed the screen to myself.  See the bottom of the image, with the menu.

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I'll stop here, closing with an image by artist David Hockney, who has been playing around with the iPad as well.  He created this piece using the Brushes app.  He believes that, if Vincent van Gogh were alive today, he would be using the iPad, too.  "Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well."   See the article on bloomberg.com: 
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-04-25/david-hockney-s-ipad-doodles-evoke-high-tech-stained-glass-martin-gayford.html

At the moment, I am insanely jealous.  

Altho I will say, the lamps do kind of look like toothbrushes to me.



















copyright David Hockney

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