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This Week's Cover of 'The New Yorker' Was Sketched on an iPad
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Jeez... does every thread on MR need to have negative ninnies spoiling anything that may be positive?
It's nice art. But there will still be haters here on MR. They probably wouldn't have half the talent of the artist above, so they're just being jealous.
This week's cover of The New Yorker has been sketched using an iPad
And it shows. Not putting it down or anything, just simply noting that it looks like the early artwork to come out of the first iPad.
I have seen some insane drawings coming out of an iPad these days but this one looks very much like a first generation iPad one.
Apologies in advance if someone gets offended, I can at best draw stick cartoons on it but that doesn't make my perception of it less valid. Maybe as a visual artist I am spoiled for content.
I really like the illustration and am glad Mac Rumors is taking the time to point out the tools used to create it. The iPad Pro and Apple Pencil in my opinion, are some of the best products out of company in years, truly innovative and useful. I wish the Pencil could be used throughout their platform. The amount of hours I spend on an iPad Pro in any given week really surprises me. I am early adopter, but I find the iPad pro very close a perfect product for most of mobile needs, I did not think I would use it nearly as much.
I think it would be nice if Mac Rumors had a section of forums where artists could post links to their work done on Apple products to promote the platform. I know it is against the forum rules, but I would imagine their are a lot of talented people that would like to show there work, myself included. I know it walks a thin line between forums full of crap and self promotion, but maybe a special location to post artwork.... Just a thought.
The Apple Pencil, the AirPods and the Apple Watch are all really great products! Hoping they get back the Mac soon.
I think it would be nice if Mac Rumors had a section of forums where artists could post links to their work done on Apple products to promote the platform. I know it is against the forum rules, but I would imagine their are a lot of talented people that would like to show there work, myself included. I know it walks a thin line between forums full of crap and self promotion, but maybe a special location to post artwork.... Just a thought.
The Apple Pencil, the AirPods and the Apple Watch are all really great products! Hoping they get back the Mac soon.
Heh. This headline reads like that is some marvel like the Taj Mahal or discovery of a root that cures and prevents all cancers. I put it up there is "Dog bites postman," and "Cars speeding over 55 on remote desert highway."
Click on his name in the first sentence of this story and you can ask him directly.
Next news will be,"Front cover of The New Yorker done on a Mac"
Don't be silly they have moved over to PCs until Apple refresh their hardware
Exactly. If I continued to come here every day like I had been doing for the past 15 years, I'd be a depressed ball of negativity. Now I only come here when I see news on other sites and am curious about MacRumors' take. I don't frequent the forums anymore. I only read the highlighted comments on the main page but even those have been overtaken with negativity and the same idiotic jokes and criticisms irrelevant to the topic.
As for the iPad Pro + Pencil, I've been using it to stretch out my drawing fingers again. I used to draw as a teen but life happened and I didn't keep it up. These days, I take my 12.9" iPad Pro to the museum and sit there drawing some of the artifacts. It really is an incredible tool.
Heh, maybe so but it's nice too see some "pro" art thats been created on an iPad..
I know people have done it before but I have not seen that much.
Good to know you can do pro work with an iPad.
I've never gotten anything like that out of my iPad!
Guess it proves its the Indian not the arrow
The cover is pretty typical of the style of The New Yorker, and seems to fit right in. The magazine itself sucks, especially the editorial section which harps on the same themes week after week. These days I just read it for the clever cartoons...
Jorge Colombo has done several of New Yorker covers using touch screen interfaces.
In 2009 he did a cover using the iPhone so it's not really news.
Despite that I find his work excelent.
In 2009 he did a cover using the iPhone so it's not really news.
Despite that I find his work excelent.
I think if you're an artist, the Pro makes this an easy purchase. I'm not a sketcher/artist, but for those who are, the Apple Pencil makes the Pro more "Pro" in terms of how somebody could use this for work purposes or graphic design.
No, admins need access to the file system. Users - no matter if pro or not - do not need access to the file system.
For so many years, computer users have been forced to do unproductive sysadmin jobs like having to decide where to place files in the file system instead of doing their actual productive work. It has become so ingrained in people's thinking that they actually don't realize anymore that this is an admin job, and they actually think it's something a user should do to be "professional".
And it's actually such a dumb unproductive admin job that operating sytems can ge made smart enough to take it off your hands.
Heh, maybe so but it's nice too see some "pro" art thats been created on an iPad..
I know people have done it before but I have not seen that much.
Good to know you can do pro work with an iPad.
I've never gotten anything like that out of my iPad!
Guess it proves its the Indian not the arrow
Yeah, uh no. It's well known artists use the iPad as a sketch tool -- especially so on a site that caters to everything Apple. Using a pro tool doesn't make you skilled. I have an iPad Pro and Pencil and I still draw like a kindergatener. My video edited on FCP could not be compared to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Only if stylus lag somehow helps you express your artistic vision.
Replicating a process that's normally done on paper using a few pencils isn't easy. Read some artists' tablet reviews to understand why. You need good tech, including a high enough sample rate and smart sensor implementation, to avoid lag, jittery pressure sensitivity, contact offset, and surface grab, among others. Laying it all on an "active digitizer" (what's that?) is a little simplistic.
Many things which seem simple are difficult to pull off when you ask a computer to do them. And that's one thing that distinguishes Apple here as well as the artist.
The iPad Pro + Pencil is a terrific art platform, particularly if you are an amateur and want to hone your skills with the least possible frustration. Reasons:
- You don’t need to invest in or carry around a bunch of supplies.
- Your “paint and canvas” are always with you. You can work on your projects anywhere and anytime.
- You can build your art in layers. Provides tremendous flexibility and freedom.
- Unlimited undo. If you aren’t happy with something, you can go back and try again until it’s just the way you want it. It's impossible to ruin a project. You can see the New Yorker artist doing this in the little video that was posted.
- You can zoom way in to work on fine details.
- Procreate and other art apps are top-quality and allow for a very wide range of art styles.
- The final result is digital and can be shared, printed, etc. very easily. If it’s vector art, you can blow it up as big as you want without quality loss.