Tried out a new painting app for the iPad last week—ArtRage. Unlike other programs, it attempts to simulate real paint behavior, so your “brush” leaves directional streaks that cast shadows in the simulated lighting, and previously-applied paint can mix with what you’re currently putting down. It’s pretty clever, and gives a lot more character to the finished work.
And here’s the final version. Since it’s meant to be shrunk down quite a bit, I decided it should be carrying a more recognizable form of message.
Anyway, you can also go see it in its final website design.
A sketch for the logo of a web service that deals in notification. And no, that’s not a rolled up newspaper for swatting other flies, it’s a missive.
So here are a couple different color ideas that I’m working with at the moment. Let me know which one(s) you like best…
So, as the title may or may not suggest, this was done on my iPhone, using a simple drawing application.
As can be seen, precision isn’t the easiest thing to manage when using your finger to draw lines that are smaller in width than it is. I hope to get better, though, for having a portable digital sketchbook could come in quite handy.
Here’s the first draft of the basic linework. The butterfly is definitely going to have some sort of pattern… I just haven’t figured out what yet.
Back from vacation, so here’s something somewhat appropriate… There were a lot of dragonflies in Minnesota.