It's been quite a while since I wanted to do something with Adobe Ideas that went beyond just doodling. Some impressive work has been produced with this app (check out this Flickr Group for example); I needed to see for myself. Adobe Ideas lets you draw on the go, and the drawings you create with it are in fact vector graphics.
I thought who is better to inspire me on this new experiment that the father of vector graphics himself? John Warnock it was. I mailed myself a picture of him and saved it to my Photos on the iPad, and then added a Photo layer in Ideas to have a base upon which to draw. Then it was just a matter of defining light and dark areas (you know the drill). To have more precision (beyond the thickness of my fingers) I used the Wacom Bamboo Stylus and added strokes and areas of varying widths, and also used the eraser to gain control over negative space. The experience was actually quite relaxing and it took me just under two hours to create this:
Why would I do this with Adobe Ideas, you ask? Well, the awesome thing about Ideas is that it is a tablet application, and I could have done that drawing anywhere and on the go, in the garden, on a plane, or in my bed. The result can then easily be transferred to Adobe Illustrator (for example) to be refined.
Here's the file I emailed myself from Ideas. But I am pretty sure that I will continue working on it as time goes by. That's another interesting thing about the app, you have your drawings with you on the tablet, and you can work on them whenever you feel inspired.
