For an iPad, this is pretty much THE drawing app. Simple enough for beginners, but powerful enough to have been used to create multiple different New Yorker Covers (videos below). This App has 19 high quality brushes, gives the user up to 10 Layers to work on and the ability to reorder, merge, and change the transparency of the layers. You can import photos at any size and scale. It has a fantastic color picker and eye dropper. You can undo and redo any action just in case their are any mistakes. Finally, the app offers you an in-app replay of all your moves that you can export as a mpeg.
The Brushes series is a drawing/painting app that has not only been used in the Educational and Tech communities, but also in the professional art community like Artists David Kassan, Roz Hall, Kyle Lambert, Jorge Colombo, and David Hockney.
The artist David Hockney, now 74 years old, is the first artist to have a major show including drawings made on his iPad.
The Royal Academy of Arts in London put on the show ‘David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture’ which spans a 50 year period, demonstrating Hockney’s long exploration and fascination with the depiction of landscape. Included in the show are 51 drawings from his iPad, as well as a series of landscapes of his native Yorkshire. All of the iPad drawings depict the arrival of spring along a local road – Woldgate – near where he lives. They show his vision of the small area in all seasons.
Years ago, Hockney began by making drawings on his iPhone and emailing pictures to his friends on a daily basis. “You can make a drawing of the sunrise at 6 am and send it out to people by 7 am.”
In 2010 Hockney had a show in Paris called ‘Fleurs Fraiches’, or ‘Fresh Flowers’ showcasing flower drawings done on his iPhone. “I draw flowers every day,” he said, “and I send them to my friends, so they get fresh blooms every morning. And my flowers last. ”
On the iPad, he prefers to use his fingers rather than a stylus. Different fingers are used for varying effects, and even though he is right-handed, he often draws with his left hand, giving the final works a quality that he’d have difficulty replicating with his stronger arm.
Hockney uses several apps, including one called ‘Brushes’, to draw the pictures. ‘Brushes’ has a nice feature that allows you to playback the process of making the drawing. The lines and washes reappear one after another – as if performing the drawing.
“Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I’d never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I’d always be thinking a little bit ahead. That’s especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.”
While Hockney thinks this technology will change the world of news media and television irreversibly, he believes drawings, like songs, will always be with us: it is only the means of making and delivering them that may change.
“Picasso would have gone mad with this,” he says. “So would Van Gogh. I don’t know an artist who wouldn’t, actually.”
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/8066839/David-Hockneys-iPad-art.html
The Brushes series is a drawing/painting app that has not only been used in the Educational and Tech communities, but also in the professional art community like Artists David Kassan, Roz Hall, Kyle Lambert, Jorge Colombo, and David Hockney.
The artist David Hockney, now 74 years old, is the first artist to have a major show including drawings made on his iPad.
The Royal Academy of Arts in London put on the show ‘David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture’ which spans a 50 year period, demonstrating Hockney’s long exploration and fascination with the depiction of landscape. Included in the show are 51 drawings from his iPad, as well as a series of landscapes of his native Yorkshire. All of the iPad drawings depict the arrival of spring along a local road – Woldgate – near where he lives. They show his vision of the small area in all seasons.
Years ago, Hockney began by making drawings on his iPhone and emailing pictures to his friends on a daily basis. “You can make a drawing of the sunrise at 6 am and send it out to people by 7 am.”
In 2010 Hockney had a show in Paris called ‘Fleurs Fraiches’, or ‘Fresh Flowers’ showcasing flower drawings done on his iPhone. “I draw flowers every day,” he said, “and I send them to my friends, so they get fresh blooms every morning. And my flowers last. ”
On the iPad, he prefers to use his fingers rather than a stylus. Different fingers are used for varying effects, and even though he is right-handed, he often draws with his left hand, giving the final works a quality that he’d have difficulty replicating with his stronger arm.
Hockney uses several apps, including one called ‘Brushes’, to draw the pictures. ‘Brushes’ has a nice feature that allows you to playback the process of making the drawing. The lines and washes reappear one after another – as if performing the drawing.
“Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I’d never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I’d always be thinking a little bit ahead. That’s especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.”
While Hockney thinks this technology will change the world of news media and television irreversibly, he believes drawings, like songs, will always be with us: it is only the means of making and delivering them that may change.
“Picasso would have gone mad with this,” he says. “So would Van Gogh. I don’t know an artist who wouldn’t, actually.”
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/8066839/David-Hockneys-iPad-art.html
ISSUES WITH bRUSHES 3
As mentioned before, it is in my humble opinion that this is the best drawing/painting app out there....That is prior to Apple releasing IOS 8 update. For whatever reason, the drawing files get corrupted in the new update. What does this mean? It means that once you are done and you close out of your creation, you can not open up your project again. So, before you close out, take a screen shot of the your drawing by pressing the power and home button as mentioned on the Basics: Nuts and Bolts page.
Brushes app features
General Features:
– Create paintings with dimensions up to 2048x2048 – Full support for all Retina devices – Background autosave – Unlimited undo and redo – Simple and approachable interface |
Painting:
– Full screen painting – Record and replay paintings – Ultrafast OpenGL-based painting engine – Huge brush sizes up to 512x512 pixels – Simulated pressure – 64-bit painting on the latest hardware – 14 parameterized brush shapes – Adjustable brush settings (spacing, jitter, scatter, etc.) – Adjustable color opacity – Invert color and desaturate – Flip and arbitrarily transform layers – Adjustable color balance (iPad only) – Adjustable hue, saturation and brightness (iPad only) |
Layers:
– Create up to 10 layers – Lock and hide layers – Lock layer transparency – Adjust layer opacity – Duplicate, rearrange, and merge layers – Change blending modes: normal, multiply, screen, exclude |
Import and Export:
– Integrated with Dropbox – Import native Brushes 3 files, JPEG, and PNG files – Export as native Brushes 3 files, JPEG, PNG, and Photoshop files (with layers) – Place images from your photo album into paintings – Copy paintings to the pasteboard – Tweet paintings – Post paintings to Facebook |
Flickr Group
Want to see what other people are creating?
Want your students to join a Brushes community? Click on the button and take look:
Want your students to join a Brushes community? Click on the button and take look:
Digital artists
David Hockney in action
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Jorge Colombo In action
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David Hockney |
Roz Hall art |
Jorge Colombo |
Kyle LambertUses Art Rage and Procreate
but still awesome to see some of his stuff. |
David Kassan |