Unedited sketch of Link on Colors DS
As one who formally trained and have honors in traditional painting, it hurts to admit that I suck at it now. I really need to start practicing and drawing again. Look at how badly I’ve regressed! I can’t even visually translate a gashapon of Link!
I am really glad I discovered Colors for the DS though. Since I carry my DS Lite around more than I carry my moleskine or laptop, the homebrew programs are very nifty to have around. And Colors! is now on my top 3 favorite homebrew applications for the DS.
Colors! is a simplistic digital application for Nintendo DS and iPhone / iPod Touch based on modern painting-techniques developed for drawing tablets. By taking advantage of the pressure sensitivity of the DS touch-screen, or pressure emulated by tilting on iPhone it becomes a perfect portable digital sketch-book.
I haven’t sketched a lot with it yet, but it’s working pretty nicely for me. Once you get around with fiddling the controls, it is pretty much intuitive! It’s like your own mini portable Cintiq! It fully utilizes the pressure sensitivity of the touch screen so strokes and colors are translated nicely, if not perfect. Your artworks are saved in the PNG format — small file sizes but pretty high in quality — which you can easily upload to your computer and edit with your favorite program.
You can also upload your artworks via wifi into their gallery to show off. I have no plans on doing that yet, considering all the practice and relearning I need to do. Browsing through the gallery, you wouldn’t think they were made via this little handy program.
