Jorge Colombo created the June 1st cover of The New Yorker entirely on an iPhone in one hour using the Brushes app.
Here’s a video made with Brushes Viewer showing how Jorge created the cover image.
Colombo’s phone drawing is very much in the tradition of a certain kind of New Yorker cover, and he doesn’t see the fact that it’s a virtual finger painting as such a big deal. “Imagine twenty years ago, writing about these people who are sending these letters on their computer.” But watching the video playback has made him aware that how he draws a picture can tell a story, and he’s hoping to build suspense as he builds up layers of color and shape.
Jorge sells prints of his iPhone art through 20×200. The prints are made in San Francisco by Electric Works and fulfilled by our friends at Noonaco.
I only got an iPhone in February 2009, so all this is still very new. It all started when I realized I could draw while night-riding in a car. Soon I found myself sketching NY spots that are part of my life. I’ve lived in the USA for 20 years and I’m still looking at its urban landscape as if I was discovering it for the first time.
via Gizmodo
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Cool. There’s a free-to-use little flash app called ArtPad that my seven year old daughter uses that works like this. It has the same sequential playback of her creative process as this Brushes iPhone app. The playback of her painting makes the final product even more meaningful.
Thats pretty amazing
Ryan
Rad.
Interesting. To me, the story should be more about the person who made the App, rather than some person who uses it and sketches New York spots.