Link: Drawing Pad App
My Rating: 5/5
This iPad app is great for artists. It is a digital canvas where they can experiment with different mediums and practice drawing, painting, sketching on a digital platform. It allows them to have all their tools with them wherever they go, totally eliminating the need to carry around paint, brushes, pencils, markers, paper, water, paper towels, ect. This makes if fun! Artists have a studio at their fingertips. When inspiration strikes, they can simply turn on their iPad and start creating.
This app is only one payment of $1.99!
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| This provides an example of what you can create with the app and how cool and realistic the tool drawer is! |
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| This shows how much detail you can actually create with this app and that it is not just an app for kids but also for skilled artists. |
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This app is perfect for the instructional strategy: sharing ideas and opinions. It allows people to create and share their work. It provides a drawer of supplies that realistically mimic the feel of the tool/ the resulting mark of the medium. As a teacher I could use this app to do demo's and have my students try to mimic me, perhaps when trying to educate about a certain technique. For students, it allows them to learn about different artistic tools as well as create and share their work. This app provides a way to share work through social media as well as downloading it to your computer.
The limitations that this app might create is that students might become more comfortable using the tablet (since they are most likely already spending a lot of time on tablets outside of class) and they might overlook the art of actually getting your hands dirty and making messy 3D art. As an fine artist, I value getting my hands dirty. This would be unfortunate to see in my classroom if my students ended up enjoying the app more than the actual art class. And another obvious limitation is that it requires an iPad.
Hello Paige,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your post, thanks for sharing this app with us. I like the idea of using the application in a classroom, but I have similar fears as you do. Drawing and painting on the tablet is great except for certain physical characteristics of art execution. For example, life drawing in charcoal or pencil would not be as efficient on the tablet as it would in life. You would lack the ability of accuracy (provided the tablet pen technology does not improve), the ability to smudge, or to develop texture. Would they learn beyond the tablet in later stages of learning? I'm sure they would. This, of course, is also coming from a traditional artist despite my abilities in digital art. I believe the app would be great for sketches than actual replacement of physical lessons.
Hi Luke, these are great points that you've raised. There is no way to replicate mediums on a tablet, though they are close and somewhat realistic. However, like you said, charcoal and pencil smudging are something you cannot do on a tablet. I definitely would not want to see this used as a replacement of physical lessons but more for reinforcement. It is nice that it allows students to use different mediums and draw without having to own all of the supplies.
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