I’ve not even tried everything yet, but some of my favourite elements are: The amount of elements you can combine to create your own style and perfect the texture and colour you want are just incredible. The capabilities of the tools are just amazing for an iPad app. You use 3-finger tap to open the tools, 2-finger pinch and drag for resizing and moving the canvas on the screen (so you can zoom for the fiddly bits) and a 3-finger left-to-right drag to undo your last marks (and right-to-left for redo.) I’m usually a bit rubbish at remembering all these kind of gestures but they just feel so right that it’s easy.
SketchBook Pro uses gestures as naturally as any native iPad app. I’m actually surprised by how much this looks like if I’d painted it in acrylics. Finger painting is a bit thick, blobby and impressionist. Some clever person has probably come up with a way of using a stylus but I think that might spoil some of the charm. (And using the WordPress app for writing this, but that’s a story for another time.) Asides from the sunlight making it a bit tricky to see anything other than my greasy fingerprints, it felt incredibly natural painting with my finger. I was sitting at the fishing lake at Longleat, sketching from a photo in Matt’s fishing magazine whilst he fishes. The idea of drawing on-screen is pretty appealing (I never really got the hang of the chunkiness of the Wacom tablet) and SketchBook Pro is better than I expected. I’d seen the iPad apps available before launch, and Autodesk’s SketchBook Pro caught my eye. Though I was still loving wireframing and taking notes by hand, I just threw all the paints out in frustration at how slow and difficult they were. I totally loved art when I was small, but as I’ve got older, and more technology and web-obsessed, a lot of the old media went a bit out of the window.
I took Art at school, did an Art Foundation and a Graphics degree.
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