2011.03.31 Toes in Sandal
iPod Touch
Paintbook App
Freehand from life/observation
<= 15 minutes
This rant is the same on all of tonight's drawings so skip it if you've already seen it... or if you don't care what app I used or why :)
I've been settling on Paintbook for drawing on the train for the following reasons:
1. It is really really quick to get a clean surface to draw on. Click once to save what you've got, click again to get a new piece of paper, click a third time to choose paper color. It's also three clicks in Brushes but it takes longer since it loads the gallery in between. I surely don't understand all the apps that make you go to a gallery view to get a clean piece of paper.
2. This next point also applies to other vector programs such as Quill and Inkpad, By drawing with filled shapes, I eliminate the need to ever change line size and can simply draw. Basically I use a very thin line and a fill of the same color, with a fair amount of transparency. To draw a 'line' I draw both sides of the line, close together for a thin line, further apart for a thick line. While this may seem like double the strokes to draw, it gives me far more control without ever having to interrupt my drawing to go to a menu. It also allows me to vary the shape of my lines, how they taper etc. And of course a shape is just a very thick, undulating line ;)
3. This also applies to all three Vector programs I use, and is actually easier to deal with in Quill: I can focus on drawing without going to color wheels, and then change the color of each part after the fact. Of course for these very quick drawings I often leave them in a fairly monotone range, but on longer drawings I'll go back and develop the color later.
OK, while I'm listening to the sound of my own typing, what don't I like about Paintbook?
1. I hate the color wheel palette thingy and tend to treat it as just having the fixed preselected colors. Could we have an option for *any* standard color wheel?
2. When I'm in object edit mode and have an object selected it would be far easier than having all those tiny icons whose meanings I need to memorize (and whose definitions are not available offline) to simply have two-finger mode act on the object rather than the whole drawing. Then I could intuitively move, resize, rotate, etc, just by using my two fingers - as one might expect.
3. It's great that it's so easy get a new piece of paper, but I wish it didn't reset all my setting every time. I would like to keep my drawing mode, color, etc from drawing to drawing in the same session (or even across sessions).
2011.03.31 Toes in Sandal
iPod Touch
Paintbook App
Freehand from life/observation
<= 15 minutes
This rant is the same on all of tonight's drawings so skip it if you've already seen it... or if you don't care what app I used or why :)
I've been settling on Paintbook for drawing on the train for the following reasons:
1. It is really really quick to get a clean surface to draw on. Click once to save what you've got, click again to get a new piece of paper, click a third time to choose paper color. It's also three clicks in Brushes but it takes longer since it loads the gallery in between. I surely don't understand all the apps that make you go to a gallery view to get a clean piece of paper.
2. This next point also applies to other vector programs such as Quill and Inkpad, By drawing with filled shapes, I eliminate the need to ever change line size and can simply draw. Basically I use a very thin line and a fill of the same color, with a fair amount of transparency. To draw a 'line' I draw both sides of the line, close together for a thin line, further apart for a thick line. While this may seem like double the strokes to draw, it gives me far more control without ever having to interrupt my drawing to go to a menu. It also allows me to vary the shape of my lines, how they taper etc. And of course a shape is just a very thick, undulating line ;)
3. This also applies to all three Vector programs I use, and is actually easier to deal with in Quill: I can focus on drawing without going to color wheels, and then change the color of each part after the fact. Of course for these very quick drawings I often leave them in a fairly monotone range, but on longer drawings I'll go back and develop the color later.
OK, while I'm listening to the sound of my own typing, what don't I like about Paintbook?
1. I hate the color wheel palette thingy and tend to treat it as just having the fixed preselected colors. Could we have an option for *any* standard color wheel?
2. When I'm in object edit mode and have an object selected it would be far easier than having all those tiny icons whose meanings I need to memorize (and whose definitions are not available offline) to simply have two-finger mode act on the object rather than the whole drawing. Then I could intuitively move, resize, rotate, etc, just by using my two fingers - as one might expect.
3. It's great that it's so easy get a new piece of paper, but I wish it didn't reset all my setting every time. I would like to keep my drawing mode, color, etc from drawing to drawing in the same session (or even across sessions).