SpinArt will remind you of childhood art projects.  Playing with SpinArt feels like a combination of blowing paint with a straw, tie-dying and that game (whose name I cannot remember) where you make geometric patterns by drawing with round plastic things that spin.  But SpinArt is not messy, and it is not just for kids.
When [...]

While there are a slew of iPhone apps that give you the opportunity to be creative, and it is more unusual for an app to allow for creativity on multiple levels.  Type Drawing does just that:  it allows you to write and draw, combining the two to make captivating visual art.
I immediately fell in love [...]

The June 1 cover of The New Yorker magazine is a finger painting created on the iPhone. As far as I know, it’s the first time the iPhone has been used to create a magazine cover, at least for a brand-name pub.

Artist Jorge Colombo drew the cover using Steve Sprang’s Brushes, a flexible drawing app [...]

Draw Me is an artistic style app that challenges users to recreate a simple image from memory by drawing it on screen with your finger. Letters, symbols, and pictures pop up on the screen and then fade away leaving a blank page for you to render your version of the image. As an extra help, [...]

The closest I’ve come to painting a canvas is the drop cloth I used the last time I painted the bathroom in my house. Steve Sprang’s Brushes is just the thing for a guy like me who’s more likely to paint himself into a corner than to create great works of art.
Brushes is a flexible [...]

Pixi is a new iPhone/iPod Touch app from Tiny Wonder Studios that they describe as “music to your eyes.” It definitely is a visual app, but it is infinitely deeper than that because you can control what you see. I find it difficult to describe Pixi in any way other than a new-age spirograph. However, [...]

Doodle or scribble much? MyPaint2, from My Media, is a neat little app for doodling and scribbling notes. You can start with a blank canvas or a photo from your camera roll.
Tap the color picker, use the sliders to fine tune your color if you want. Go back to the main menu and use the [...]

Flipbook is a fun app that is much more sophisticated than it lets on. For an iPhone app with such a low price, Flipbook contains an incredible level of features — color and brush size controls, layers and onion-skinning, undo, the ability to load pics from and save images to your photo library. These are robust tools.

Sketchy — Aaron Tait’s new-fangled version of the classic etch-a-sketch — is just like the original. Two large white nobs control a tiny bead as it draws lines across the screen all rolled up in a familiar red package. For some it’s just another artistic medium. For me it’s an exercise in futility as I try [...]

The exciting follow-up to the popular web app, iDoodle2 utilizes the power of the iPhone’s advanced graphics and UI to create a great drawing app that’s also a lot of fun.
You can draw a wide array of shapes and even text with a full spectrum of colors and gradients with alpha support. Sketch shapes on top [...]