Waiting for the market response to the Ipad (specifically new developments in stylus compatibility).
In the meantime, i heard about some artists hijacking the nintendoDS as a crappy tablet pc substitute, and it works. I can now make full colour-studies in under 4 minutes standing on the platform waiting for the train.
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No pressure sensitivity, no undo, but huge novelty value. Introducing: my cup of tea that went cold, my long-suffering brother, some other nonsense, inside the Perth Artifactory, Leederville train station at night (in under 3 minutes) and a plushy frog that i dissected/reassembled.
The following week: the honeymoon was over and the absence of pressure sensitivity started getting to me. Fancy tools do not make you a better artist. However, i'm getting faster at composing my tones, and the lack of an undo function is good discipline.
Above are a few more train stations, a hilarious collaboration (the squiggly one is a snippet) and some special requests.
After a few weeks i got over the lack of pressure sensitivity and started to have some fun.
More train stations! (including an icy sunrise), some robofun, a nebuliser in a kitchen sink.. and a persistent aquatic theme.. Most of these took less than 10 minutes.
You could pick up a DS-Lite (versus DSi) and have pressure-sensitivity. There's no undo, but the playback feature will let you playback up to the moment you messed up. It's not a perfect undo substitute but it works until you max out the playback cache.
ReplyDeleteAh thanks, i haven't tried the playback trick. But i really appreciate the discipline you get from not having undo.. i hardly miss it.
ReplyDeleteI have tried the ds-lite and it's nice, but i've been learning to get the most out of rigid brush sizes and making them do what i want. After only a month i actually prefer the xl (especially for the screen size)
Thanks for commenting, do you post any of your work?
simply amazing!
ReplyDelete... wish you could sketch me sometime.. perhaps when i next run into you in leederville at night you might have your DS on you with 3 mins to spare :3
I like your paint/sketch approach to DS drawing very much, I'd be lost using color layering for shading rather than sensitivity. Though I've only done one drawing since pressure-sensitivity was introduced.
ReplyDeleteI do post, but I'm not very good. As much enthusiast as participant. Search>Paintedby>eyak
Thanks very much, Brad, and i usually do.
ReplyDeleteCatch me if you can.