Look for the June 1 issue of The New Yorker magazine and you’ll see a cover drawn entirely on the iPhone by artist Jorge Colombo. Colombo used Steve Sprang’s Brushes, a flexible drawing app that features three different brush styles of varying widths. You also can vary colors, hues, shades and density and employ other doodling techniques that artists know more about than the the rest of us.
Today, The New York Times reports “the novelty and popularity of the cover has provided a healthy boost in sales for the 32-year-old Sprang who works shifts in a coffee shop when he’s not developing applications for the iPhone and Mac. On Monday, Mr. Sprang said the application had its highest selling day since it was first released into Apple’s App Store in August, with 2,700 copies at $4.99 apiece flying off the virtual shelves. To date, the application has sold around 40,000 copies, he said.”
Although I’m not much of an artist, Brushes has been my top pick for an iPhone drawing app, ever since I reviewed it for AppCraver in late January.
