Artist draws cover of New Yorker on the iPhone
You illustrators might not want to throw away that $5000 Mac Pro/Adobe CS4 rig just yet, but this story makes it seem like one day that might be an option. Jorge Colombo drew this week’s New Yorker magazine cover using Brushes ($5 iTunes store link), an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square. Passers-by just assumed he was checking his email.
“I got a phone in the beginning of February, and I immediately got the program so I could entertain myself,” says Colombo, who first published his drawings in The New Yorker in 1994. Colombo has been drawing since he was seven, but he discovered an advantage of digital drawing on a nighttime drive to Vermont. “Before, unless I had a flashlight or a miner’s hat, I could not draw in the dark.” (When the sun is up, it’s a bit harder, “because of the glare on the phone,” he says.) It also allows him to draw without being noticed; most pedestrians assume he’s checking his e-mail.
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Comments (19)
How'd they get that screen capture. Jailbroken iPhone? There's no way he took a screen grab after every paint stroke. I don't think artists like to be interrupted like that.
from the New Yorker story:
"There’s a companion application, Brushes Viewer, that makes a video recapitulating each step of how Colombo composed the picture."
Haha thanks!
can't find it in the Danish Apple store :( got brushes application though
It sounds like a good ad for the iPhone, but if you read the article, you find that THREE previous covers were created on the BlackBerry Storm. And one of those won a Pulitzer for digital magazine cover art!
The iPhone has 1 spot in the top 4.
Blackberry has 3.
And Please don't give me the 2 for 1 deal. BB gets their revenue from phones on the street.
They don't have Free & 99 cent software. They have real business software & apparently real drawing software that Apple copied.
Apple did not wrote this app, you're being ignorant.
My employer got my BB Curve for free under contract. Maybe that's why BB is so big - they sell a different, cheaper, lower class of phone like the Pearl and the Curve which are give-a-ways by the carriers. Literally.
You obviously know nothing of Blackberry's. The Pearl is a crappy give-a-way phone, but the Curve (I own a 8330) is a very nice phone and PDA. I'm an iPhone lover and will get one as soon as it is available on another carrier than AT&T, but until then, I know I will be happy with my Curve (and Palm Pre soon).
Semper Fidelis; Proud Father (and son) of a U.S. Marine
I have the Storm, it is not a better phone. The response is so choppy its painful to watch. It is not an intuitive design at all, everywhere you look there are flaws in its layout, structure, programming etc... the only thing I like is the push email. I am just patiently waiting for a VZ Iphone.
Yes, you read it here first. A Verizon iPhone is on it's way! And it's MUCH improved!
1. 5 GB/month data limit!
2. Full GPS can be enabled for only $2.99 per month.
3. Verizon 3G quality! WIFI not needed (or available)
4. Photos can be sent via MMS, only $4.99 per month.
5. One email account for free. Extras at only $2.99/mo
6. "Home" button launches V-Cast!
8. Overseas loaner phone program eligible!
9. SD-card compatible! 512k base memory included!
10. Ringtones available from Verizon.com @ a low 2.99/tone!
11. Apps can be leased thru Verizon.com for low a monthly fee!
12. Verizon store exclusively offers chargers, cases, etc!
This is GREAT news!
So you really think apple will let that fly? Interesting. I just like their coverage I didn't know I was to be damned for liking one thing over another. I like applejacks too, do you want to tell me that I should like cheerios? Or perhaps that the real money is in the kind of bowl I eat it out of.
Cherrios are pretty good... Mmmmmm
Semper Fidelis; Proud Father (and son) of a U.S. Marine
The link is dead pull the article because it's useless without the link.
"Probably becuase Blackberry is a better phone" 1) Probably not. In fact I am quite sure RIM and every other handset maker would give their left nut and a kidney to have the iPhone platform. 2) Because is spelled because.
"The iPhone has 1 spot in the top 4." 1) Top spot in what? 2) Except for the memory and color differences, there is really only one model of iPhone.
"And Please don't give me the 2 for 1 deal." Why not? In fact I saw them offering 4 for 1. If you give them away people are going to take them. BB might very well be #2 in units delivered if charged 1 for 1.
"BB gets their revenue from phones on the street." True this. So their strategy is smart and paying off. Good for them, they needed to do something about the iPhone juggernaut.
"They don't have Free & 99 cent software." Is this a bad thing? Are you jealous? Totally win, win, win. Win for the customer; win for the developer, win for Apple. Jobs is a smart man.
"They have real business software & apparently real drawing software that Apple copied." 1) True, the BB platform does and so does the iPhone platform. 2) Apple copied no drawing software. A developer submitted a drawing app and made lots of money off of it. Is this a problem?
"The link is dead pull the article because it's useless without the link." The link is not dead.
This had to turn into a blackberry vs iphone debate right? lol! Look the cover is great no matter how it was created, would like to see a link to the blackberry covers, just out of curiosity.
It is only slightly clumsy, but in the hands of a real artist, 5.99$ for this software is definitely worthwhile; this story only proves that statement. Great work 9to5.
Got some artists here playing on this:
http://www.touchmyapps.com/2009/05/13/brushes-in-review-dali-finger-to-t...
I love, love, love this.
I don't think too highly of the artwork itself; but the fact that he did this while waiting in line is awesome.
This just opened my eyes to the potential of phone apps.
What a great app. That alone is worth getting an iPhone.