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SketchBook Pro goes mobile

Andrew — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:44:12 +0000

I’ve been playing with it for months on my iPhone, but now it’s gone public – Autodesk’s Sketchbook Mobile is coming to the app store. A fantastic addition to the digital designer’s workflow, this is the drawing app you’ve been waiting for if you’re a professional designer or digital artist.

Check out Carl Alviani’s article about it on Core77, and I’ll be putting up my impressions soon.

Sketching with Brushes

Andrew — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:46:15 +0000

Inspired by Jorge Colombo’s cover of the June 1, 2009 issue of The New Yorker, I did a quick sketch in my living room using the Brushes app on my iPhone. Although it’s far from cover-worthy, it is fun to play with and a great tool for forcing looseness into your sketching.

More sketching…

Andrew — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:15:18 +0000

Ok, these aren’t really coming in order, but I thought I’d post my favorite recent sketch next.

This is a morning sketch of my office after a night on the sofa. Still just getting back into the groove of sketching with a rollerball in a sketchbook. It’s been so long.

Sketch is done with a Pilot Precise rollerball in a hand•book 5.5 inch square sketchbook (from Dick Blick)

Jumping out of my ‘skine

Andrew — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:57:40 +0000

Ok, so all the cool kids are posting their sketchbook pages these days, so I thought I would too. I’ve been trying to sketch more regularly to get out of my keyboard and mouse mentality, and although the results have been mixed, I thought I’d start to post them when they go well. Here’s the first of several I’ve done recently and that are awaiting posting.

Done in Moleskine 5 x 8.5 inch sketchbook with Pilot Precise Rollerball.

Sketchbook Pro 2010 announced

Andrew — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:11:57 +0000

I’ve been a beta-testing Autodesk’s Sketchbook Pro for years now (since version 2), so I’m really excited to see the new version (2010) is getting released soon. Sketchbook is a lightweight, fast, digital sketching software that I use every day in my workflow. If you’ve never tried it, you owe it to yourself to download the free trial here.

There’s also a great article outlining some of the new features coming out in the 2010 release on Autodesk’s AREA. The ellipse and rulers have changed my life.

This is really a great product that not a lot of artists and designers know about, and that’s a shame. So check it out. It’s cheap, it’s great, and you’ll never go back to sketching in Photoshop.