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Found Footage: Creating manga on the iPad

by Michael Grothaus (RSS feed) on Apr 21st, 2010

In the video above, artist Yoshitoshi Abe uses LiveSketch HD [$0.99] to sketch one of his characters named Ain. Yoshitoshi's normal medium is pencil and paper, but you can see that the detail he achieves in the sketch on the iPad is almost in parity with his pencil sketches.

What's even more impressive is that he does the sketch in under four minutes and uses only one hand. As you can see in the video, his other hand is busy holding his iPhone 3GS, which he is using to record his creation. Ah, when talent and technology meet.

[via ZanyPickle]

Tags: art, artist, drawing, ipad, likesketch hd, LikesketchHd, manga, sketch, Yoshitoshi Abe, YoshitoshiAbe

Tip of the Day

Another iPad tip, for those who lament the lack of full punctuation options on the soft keyboard. Looking for a quicker way to get to the apostrophe? Try holding down the exclamation point/comma key for a moment. Just like the accented letters that are accessible via that technique, the apostrophe will pop up for your use.

Most words that normally take an apostrophe will get one automatically via the iPad's correct-as-you-type approach, so you may be better off just going full stream ahead for some writing. (Just don't mix up "its" and "it's," we beg of you.)

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