Phones

Give me a phone and a couple of art apps and I'm happy :) 

I've owned a LOT of phones, almost none of which I've bought first hand, and almost always a few generations behind the technerati.... But fortunately for me the art apps I love tend not to fear an older phone model.

This one... drawn on iPhone in ArtRage and then finished in Procreate because I wanted to change text and orientation... It changed a lot in terms of the background between the two versions. 

Below... probably my two favourite phone art exemplars. Both Brushes app, both from the same art prompt (look at the black lines on the Heston pic ear and rotate for the other image). Both drawn on iPhone 3 using a LOT of zoom.

Obviously I have a mobile phone on me a lot (and in the current case I'm rocking a Honor Magic Pro 5 which I got for an absolute steal) and I use it for way more than calls and text (in fact I'm pretty rubbish at communication with people for the most part). I use it for artwork, photography, video editing and so much more... SO much so that I rarely get to 8pm or around with any sort of battery life left.

If at a life drawing class I always have my phone on me, sometimes for an audiobook in the background and sometimes to draw on (link - but slightly more an NSFW  page)...

Examples of life drawing created on Samsung Note 20 using the Samsung Notes app.

Examples of life drawing created on Android phone using the Samsung Notes app (left) and ArtRage (right)..

My local PC World/Currys store used to call me the Digital Banksy (sadly very much not true in any metric) as I would often go in on a lunchtime find a screen, draw on it and go back to work. Sometimes a laptop, sometimes a phone. Here are a few examples...

Currently I use phones far less than I used to (for illustration) but far more (for video editing). An evolution, and I do sometimes miss the phone focus I had (but delight in my new ink focus...)

That said: having put together these web pages I'm started to get the itch back :)