iphone drawing apps pt2

Can an iPhone app truly transform a photo in to a drawing?

I've posed this question before - see here 

Does it really matter?

They can be a useful tool for suggesting mark making possibilities and compositional ideas. Playing around with the phone camera's contrast / light and dark settings can help inform drawing decisions too.

organic...

man-made / inorganic...

scribble + draw

A childhood game ... scribble on the page...get someone else to transform the scribble in to something. 

I found these recently - the transformed scribbles of a 12 - 14 year old self + friend.

I'm liking the face profiles most..oh, and the cat :-)

The process seems to be favoured as a form of creative therapy (blog)

A 3 minute video of the same idea....

and another as weekly scribble drawings ...

The scribble as an important part of children's creativity and development is featured in this Art and Creativity blog which offers a pdf handout too...

+ a parent / illustrator's observation of her youngster's work...

"I've created a monster"

+ Digital versions....

Scribbles app

Scribble Press app

"Eye Candy" in August

"Exciting news! The ebook of Freehand has been chosen for Chronicle “Eye Candy” ebook promotion, lasting the entire month of August."

Throughout August 2014 my book Freehand is available as an ebook at a bargain sale price from a variety of ebook retailers:

Kindle 

Nook 

Apple iBookstore

Google Play

Kobo

Bookshout

  

drawings (and more) for an imagined film

An exhibition at Cornerhouse, Manchester (Jan - Apr 2014)

Jamie Shovlin: Hiker Meat
Another of the artist's hoax works - this one a film that never existed, complete with convincing posters (including pinholes and old sellotape marks), character pencil studies, drawn annotations, blackboard configurations, a film score, rough cuts, film posters in several languages and director's notes too.

"Hiker Meat and its fictitious Italian director Jesus Rinzoli have been imagined by Shovlin to represent an archetypal exploitation film – a type of filmmaking characterised by its low budget aesthetic and exploitation of sensational subject matter, which boomed from the late 1960s to the early 1980s."

"Shovlin collaborated with writer Mike Harte and composer Euan Rodger to produce a full screenplay and soundtrack for the film. He then made a prototype cut-and-paste feature by collaging over 1500 found clips from existing exploitation films."

Intro from Jamie Shovlin (video)

Guardian newspaper article