Circles within circles (with a "mistake" in the number)
Playing with circles and color combinations in SketchTime, an iPad app. The white circle at the bottom is sort of a color key that contains all of the 8 colors appearing in this picture.
Like some of my other doodles, here I was also arbitrarily choosing some limits, in this case the number of the biggest circles. The obvious exception is the color key, but there's also the unintended exception where I got carried away, which you might have noticed (two big hints are it's my favorite color and I must have assumed there can't be too much of it).
Actually, Hansol Huh's app, SketchTime, is one of the simple art apps that is itself a challenge to use because it has so few options, such as only 20 colors (including black & white and 2 grays), 3 tools (including the eraser), and 15 hard edged widths for the marker. The programmmer had the interesting challenge of what few things to include, and now users who accept it can try to make the most of what he included. Maybe partly because it is relatively simple, it responds quickly and has not yet crashed for me, unlike, say the far more complicated ArtRage that can do many more things. Two nifty advanced features surprisingly included in SketchTime are its zoomability and the option of adding an image under the drawing/painting for background or tracing, with opacity adjustable from zero to 100 percent. Most challenging and frustrating is the lack of more colors and shades, which is probably what drove me to invent this little doodle game of colored circles.
For those with great drawing skill, like Tom Pokinko, SketchTime is a fine little app for capturing the character of people and places where one has taken along an iPad. And for those who want to develop some drawing skill this little app can probably help keep attention focused on simply practicing drawing, without getting distracted by too many choices.
Circles within circles (with a "mistake" in the number)
Playing with circles and color combinations in SketchTime, an iPad app. The white circle at the bottom is sort of a color key that contains all of the 8 colors appearing in this picture.
Like some of my other doodles, here I was also arbitrarily choosing some limits, in this case the number of the biggest circles. The obvious exception is the color key, but there's also the unintended exception where I got carried away, which you might have noticed (two big hints are it's my favorite color and I must have assumed there can't be too much of it).
Actually, Hansol Huh's app, SketchTime, is one of the simple art apps that is itself a challenge to use because it has so few options, such as only 20 colors (including black & white and 2 grays), 3 tools (including the eraser), and 15 hard edged widths for the marker. The programmmer had the interesting challenge of what few things to include, and now users who accept it can try to make the most of what he included. Maybe partly because it is relatively simple, it responds quickly and has not yet crashed for me, unlike, say the far more complicated ArtRage that can do many more things. Two nifty advanced features surprisingly included in SketchTime are its zoomability and the option of adding an image under the drawing/painting for background or tracing, with opacity adjustable from zero to 100 percent. Most challenging and frustrating is the lack of more colors and shades, which is probably what drove me to invent this little doodle game of colored circles.
For those with great drawing skill, like Tom Pokinko, SketchTime is a fine little app for capturing the character of people and places where one has taken along an iPad. And for those who want to develop some drawing skill this little app can probably help keep attention focused on simply practicing drawing, without getting distracted by too many choices.