You're not the only one confused, Rev. Reid started this thread with this link <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo>
which is a video of a woman on "Ukraine's Got Talent" creating some amazing sand art USING ONLY HER HANDS. Then Steve goes on a tangent saying that the iPad is not suitable for artistic use because it doesn't support the use of a stylus, and the discussion going around in circles over that issue ever since. Look at the video. It is very believable to me that the iPad would be able to do something approximating what that woman did. There is already a pretty basic sand art simulator, iSand <http://www.chrome-fusion.com/blog/apple/isand-iphone-sand-art-simulator/> which ought to scale up to the iPad (and use more than one finger) pretty easily. As to the level of detail you can get with just your fingers, do a Google image search of Sketchbook Mobile and look at some of the examples. According to what I've just read, this app handles the problem of your finger obstructing your view with a special offset mode, which strikes me as a very neat and simple solution. On Feb 14, 2010, at 8:06 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: > From: "Rev. Stewart Marshall" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad? > > I find this all too impossible to follow. > > If I remember correctly a stylus is unusable on the ipad (if it has a > touch screen like an Iphone) > > You must use finger contact. > > One of my members has a Blackberry Storm and she cannot use it with > gloves, must be a finger touch. > > Stewart > > > At 06:51 PM 2/14/2010, you wrote: > In art school we did thousands of charcoal drawings, some with > charcoal pencils, some with small blocks of charcoal. The only time > we ever used a stylus was for sculpture or to remove the ink layer > that covered colored wax. You can create minute details using pieces > of charcoal. Michelangelo did OK with his charcoal drawings. > [Forgot...we'd find a stylus to clean our fingernails after using clay.] > >> Cheap artists' brushes start about $4 each or so. I have too many >> sables that cost well over $10--each--some over $30. Brushes for oil >> or acrylic sometimes cost more than watercolor brushes, but don't >> often last as long because they're harder to clean. The bundles of >> brushes at discount are cheap and don't last. Quality brushes will >> last for years. One of the good things about calligraphy was using >> the cheap bamboo brushes, but fine sable brushes are very expensive. >> >> Fat fingers are no excuse. You can either draw, or you can't draw. >> No big deal. No excuses. > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
