On Art On Mobile
This is directed at somemany, and it's here cuz appie thought it would benefit more folk.
Appie is all about not having a computer, yet still being able to draw, code, manage files, etc.
Yall's options are many, if willing to draw on an Android device. Will drop some words here, in case yall are willing to try:
Software:
- Digital/Vector/Pixel -> Krita is available on Android. Krita is best used on a device with a wide screen (like an tablet). Or you could screen cast phone to a TV.
- Pixelart PixaPencil/Pixelorama/Libresprite. Pixelart is a good place to start, and yall could focus on transferable skills (colors, anatomy, composition, etc)
- Traditional art. Yall's sticker would be so uniqe, of it were photos or printer scans of traditional art.
For Krita, a wide screen, a keyboard and mouse, and a touchscreen pen, are preferable. But appie doesn't have any of the former, she uses Krita on a small screen, she learned a lot of tricks to navigate through the UI. She currently uses Krita as a general image manipulation program.
Yall could also draw traditional, then extract lineart on Krita, and color in Krita.
For pixelart, would recommend PixaPencil as it's the simplest, then Pixelorama if yall needed more features and control. Libresprite only if yall have a wide screen and/or mouse and keyboard.
Get Krita and PixaPencil on F-Droid.
Get Pixelorama and Libresprite from their respective github releases.
Wired mouses and keyboards can be plugged into a phone using a Type-C to USB converter dongle thingy. Yall can find it on those Chinese amazon-esque sites.
Or much better, get bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Have fun, and remember that limitations only birth new forms and ways to do art.
PS: Highly recommend Termux too. For rescaling, recoloring, trimming, animating pixelart and stuff, using shell commands.
Links:
- All of our pixelart was created on mobile. Find it here
- And of course, our CC-BY-NC-SA stickers. Find them here
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