Drawing on your iPhone - Doodlebuddy example

Ok, artists of the iPhone persuasion, there are many drawing apps to explore. Some will suit your style more than others, but the beauty is most of them are free or have a free version you can try on for size before buying. And the ones I have bought are cheap as chips really - the cost of a soy decaf cappucino or two at most.

Anyway this is Doodlebuddy, one of my first and favourite drawing apps. This walk thru to drawing a face with it - more of a doodle face than a portrait, but you can do a portrait if you work from a model or photo.
It's so much like working with pastels I want to wash my hands afterwards... My complaints about it are that it's slow at startup but then it's a powerful program, that a phone call interupts it and you lose  your unsaved changes, and the limited pallette. But it's free and for that price i like it a lot!

Step 1 Select base color and size of brush

Here is where you put the basic structure for your face. I like to start with a large brush in a dark tone - any colour that grabs me at the time will do - bearing in mind I want to have it showing thru a litte at the end.

Select your brush by touching the colour then go back into the brush menu to set the size using the slider at the bottom. You can set the size first then the colour in one step but I always forget.

Then make a mark that suggests the outline of the face. If you don't like it, you can use the undo button at the bottom left of the screen, or the eraser in the brush menu, or keep scratching at it with more colour till something pleasing emerges.

Comments

[ChrysN]

Wow, great drawings!

[CocoBeanCoco]

i tried it it is really good great tutorial i love it

[atombomb1945]

Very cool.  It would be awesome to see a video of you doing this.  How long does it take to do something like this?

[startree]

Thanks atombomb - i'll see if i can post a video shortly. These took between 10 minutes and half an hour or so - like any art, depends on how long you have and how obsessed you get!  Some of the iphone apps allow you to go on working with your image after shutting down - with doodlebuddy you can import the saved image to work over the top, but you can't undo or smudge your previous work, so pretty much you have to finish it in one sitting.

[fruitkid101]

I make drawings like this all the time! I made a stylus which helps me do the finer touches. Here I Instructableized it. http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-Touch-Pad-Stylus/