It’s been far too long between updates here – I’ll try to improve on that soon. Today I’m very happy to feature another iPhone artist – who claims not to be an artist – who approached us directly via our site contact form: David Khabie-Zeitoune.
David has dived into iPhone art by doing a set of portraits with the iPhone and the wonderful Brushes application:
Sleeping commuters I sit opposite on my way to or from work. All created with Brushes on the iPhone, mostly in real-time (i.e. on the Tube).
Here’s a little more background that David was kind enough to share with me:
I stumbled onto the whole iPhone art thing recently. I’m not an artist by
profession but I find it very relaxing to push virtual paint around on my
iPhone screen. I have a dull and dreary commute every day on the London Tube
(underground trains). As I travel quite early in the morning or late in the
evening (long hours…) there are often other commuters asleep opposite me.
One day, I thought it might be fun to have a go at sketching one of them on
my iPhone using the Brushes app. I’ve added a few more since then, every
time I see someone interesting looking or who doesn’t look likely to wake up
and wonder why I keep staring at him/her.I usually get about 80% of the picture done while the subject is sitting
opposite me (which takes about 10-15 minutes); then I need to change Tube
lines, so I normally try and finish the picture off on the second leg of my
journey or that evening on the way home.
And here’s one more from the Sleeping Commuters series:
I’d say David’s ‘stumble’ into iPhone art has seen him land very much on his feet – and I look forward to seeing lots more characters from the Tube (this brings back memories for me of London tube and overground train journeys).
You can check out all of this series at David’s Flickr stream HERE.
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