e-fingerpainting on the phone
I stopped during my errands this morning and tried a plein air in a new medium, my phone.
This morning I tried out the Android app Magic Doodle Pro on my Verizon Droid phone.
From my limited experimenting with this app, the pros and cons of this are:
PROS:
I’ve always got the app with me so I can paint anytime.
This is the height of stealth plein air. No one could tell I was painting. Looked like I was playing on my phone.
This app could zoom in & out. Had varying brushes and brush sizes.
App has way to email pictures so I can get the finished painting off the phone.
CONS:
The soft brush was too fuzzy. The hard-edged brush is better but will take some figuring out how to use it better. This painting was done with both brushes. You can see the difference.
It will take practice to set the brush down in the right place as my finger is always in the way!
The color palette is not set out in any logical order. While outside, it can be difficult to see what the colors on the palette are. And not being in a chromatic order doesn’t help.
This app has possiblilities but is going to take quite a bit of practice to achieve anything worthwhile.
It would be good for quick, thumbnail value sketches.
Overall, worth the $2 spent on the app and I’ll be playing with it more.
I’m also going to send these comments to the developer. He seems to be very responsive to suggestions.
This morning I tried out the Android app Magic Doodle Pro on my Verizon Droid phone.
From my limited experimenting with this app, the pros and cons of this are:
PROS:
I’ve always got the app with me so I can paint anytime.
This is the height of stealth plein air. No one could tell I was painting. Looked like I was playing on my phone.
This app could zoom in & out. Had varying brushes and brush sizes.
App has way to email pictures so I can get the finished painting off the phone.
CONS:
The soft brush was too fuzzy. The hard-edged brush is better but will take some figuring out how to use it better. This painting was done with both brushes. You can see the difference.
It will take practice to set the brush down in the right place as my finger is always in the way!
The color palette is not set out in any logical order. While outside, it can be difficult to see what the colors on the palette are. And not being in a chromatic order doesn’t help.
This app has possiblilities but is going to take quite a bit of practice to achieve anything worthwhile.
It would be good for quick, thumbnail value sketches.
Overall, worth the $2 spent on the app and I’ll be playing with it more.
I’m also going to send these comments to the developer. He seems to be very responsive to suggestions.
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