iPhone Space Art Collage

I had really forgotten how fun it can be to just quickly throw
together some quick illustrations.

I made these all on my phone using the apps "Sketches" and "Brushes."
Each took about 15 or 20 minutes, and it took about 5 to put them
together using the "Collage" app. I did the text using "Photogene."

Talk About Accurate!

I'm in a court building in San Jose awaiting the arrival of a judge
for an interview. Out of curiosity, I fired up the GPS...

More iPhone Art

I had a little more time to kill today while monitoring something that took only a tiny portion of my brain, so I was able to pull a complete paint set, canvas and easel out of my pants. Really, that's what it feels like. Except no mess or turpentine. And a really small canvas, but sometimes painting small can be fun.

This one was almost entirely done with Brushes (http://brushesapp.com).

Entirely on the iPhone!

I thought I'd see if I could go back to my space-art roots on the
little computer in my pocket, and do a quick Star Trek inspired
painting with the tools on my phone. Many years ago, during what my
dad called my "bohemian phase," I made my living doing acrylic and
airbrush paintings of similar Sci-Fi and fantasy images. It was a fun
time in my life, and painting this took me back -- if only for the 25
minutes it took to create.

For the iPhone/iPod touch-enabled out there, here's what I used:

Brushes (http://brushesapp.com/)
I painted the explosion, phaser, and starship freehand in this
excellent hand-held natural media emulator.

Sketches (http://www.sketchesapp.com/)
The starfield had to be a little more crisp than I could achieve in
Brushes, so I saved the painting to the phone's photo library and
opened it in Sketches to add the various stars.

I saved that to the photo app and opened it in Brushes again, because
I wanted to add some nebulosity to the image. If I'd thought of it, I
could have done this during the first generation in Brushes, and saved
some quality. Ah, well, I know better for next time...

Comic Touch (http://plasq.com/comictouch)
Saved that output and opened it in Comic Touch (still one of my
favorite apps on the phone) to add the caption and word balloon.

Photogene (http://web.me.com/omer.shoor/photogene/main.html)
Finally, after saving the output from Comic Touch, I took the file
into Photogene, a very useful app that handles a number of things
(including word balloons, though I like the font and look of the
balloons from Comic Touch more). Using Photogene, I cropped the image
and added the frame.

Literally, this all took me 25 minutes, about as long as it took to
tap out this blog post on the phone. (All of this was done while
babysitting a print-to-tape operation at work.)

Pretty amazing for a phone!