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Featured iPhone Artist: P.M. Allen

by patrickj June 15, 2011

Today’s featured iPhone artist is P.M. Allen, a Boston artist who does freehand sketches on the iPhone and is fresh off a gallery showing that was mentioned in the Boston Globe. The image above is titled ‘Galway House’. I like the colors and the feel of a typical neighborhood Irish bar. Allen works with the [...]

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Inspire Pro for iPad – On Sale for $0.99 Today Only

by patrickj May 8, 2011

Inspire Pro – the popular and acclaimed iPad painting app – is on sale for Mother’s Day. Just for today, May 8th, it is down from $7.99 to just $0.99. Here’s a little slice of its App Store description on what makes it unique: Try Inspire Pro and you will quickly see that it is [...]

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SketchBook Pro for iPad Gets a Huge Update and a Big Price Drop

by patrickj May 7, 2011

SketchBook Pro for iPad – Autodesk’s popular, award winning painting and drawing application for iPad – has had a huge update this week, to Version 2.0. This already feature-rich app has added a slew of powerful new features including UI customization capabilities, additional brushes, additional brush properties, special new features for the iPad 2, Dropbox [...]

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Painting & Drawings Apps Featured in the iPad App Store

by patrickj May 6, 2011

This week painting and drawing apps have got one of the banner spots in the Featured area of the iPad App Store. Clicking through to the page full of showcased apps reveals some of the leading names in this arena – apps like Brushes – iPad Edition, ArtStudio for iPad, ArtRage, Layers, Inkpad, and a [...]

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iPad Art in Austin

by patrickj April 24, 2011

iPad Art came to my hometown of Austin last month, during the SXSW festivals. The Art from the iPad exhibition was held at the lovely Austin Details gallery in the heart of downtown. The gallery is run by my friend Jann Alexander, creator of the wonderful ‘Vanishing Austin’ series – and yet somehow I didn’t [...]

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Featured iPhone Artist: Steve John

by patrickj April 16, 2011

Steve John is an old favorite iPhone artist of ours. It’s been a while since we featured his work here. Too long. So I’m glad to be sharing a couple of his iPhone artworks today. The image above is titled ‘Pandemonium’. That’s normally a word with negative connotations – but the image feels somehow happy [...]

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ArtStudio and ArtStudio for iPad Updated

by patrickj April 15, 2011

ArtStudio and ArtStudio for iPad – the stellar painting apps from Lucky Clan – have been updated this week, to Version 3.2. Here’s the list of changes for the iPad app (the iPhone list is nearly identical): – INCREASED MAX CANVAS SIZE FOR iPad 2: 2048×2048 pixels – IMPROVED QUALITY OF ALL BRUSHES – added [...]

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Featured iPad Artist: Darlene Twitchell

by patrickj April 12, 2011

What a gorgeous image. It’s titled simply ‘Just a Bird’ and it was created by Darlene Twitchell using the Procreate app on iPad. Here’s a little more background on it from the artist herslef: My friend Kathy announced yesterday on Facebook that it was Draw a Bird Day in the UK yesterday. So, I drew [...]

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Featured iPad Art: MANIAC’s Thank Each Mistake Stop-Motion Video Made with Brushes

by patrickj April 6, 2011

Such a clever and fun video. Especially once you hear how it was done by Shawn Harris, aka Maniac: I illustrated this video for "Thank Each Mistake" using the Brushes app for iPad. I heard about it through Jorge Colombo’s New Yorker covers, but for me, the best media for this technique wasn’t print, but [...]

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Featured iPad Art: InkPad Illustrations by la legra negra

by patrickj March 26, 2011

I posted a week ago about the new InkPad vector drawing app for the iPad. Today I see that some of my favorite iArtists have already been getting some good use out of the new app. Above is an image titled ‘José Buenaventura Durruti 1896-1936’ and it is by Joseandrés Guijarro, aka la legra negra. [...]

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Inkpad – New Vector Drawing App for iPad from the Creators of Brushes

by patrickj March 18, 2011

Inkpad is a brand new vector illustration app for the iPad, from the creators of the superb Brushes app.  This is only the second iOS app from Steve Sprang and it looks very promising.  Here’s a slice of its App Store intro: From the creators of Brushes! Inkpad is a professional vector illustration app designed [...]

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