Jorge Colombo’s art got a fair amount of attention last May when the painting shown in this video was published on the cover of The New Yorker. His work was highlighted again last week, in the short segment featuring Brushes for the iPad during the Apple announcement event. You can see more of his work here: Jorge Colombo.
I hope Layers and Autodesk’s Sketchbook Mobile will be ready for the iPad by the time it is released, but two factors make Brushes my “almost always” drawing app. First, the simplicity. Both Layers and Sketchbook are certainly well designed and easy to work with, but Brushes just seems more immediate. For me at least, it is better at getting out of my way.
The second thing Brushes has that the others don’t is the recording of the painting process. I know it seems like a novelty – after all, the finished product is what really matters, right? But the video recording has a lot to offer. I think it is helpful to see the process, and I love to watch other people’s drawing “grow.”
The New Yorker has a few more of Colombo’s painting videos you can watch.
