Apple Thoughts: New Yorker Cover Done on iPhone

"Jorge Colombo drew this week’s cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square. “I got a phone in the beginning of February, and I immediately got the program so I could entertain myself,” says Colombo, who first published his drawings in The New Yorker in 1994. Colombo has been drawing since he was seven, but he discovered an advantage of digital drawing on a nighttime drive to Vermont. “Before, unless I had a flashlight or a miner’s hat, I could not draw in the dark.” (When the sun is up, it’s a bit harder, “because of the glare on the phone,” he says.) It also allows him to draw without being noticed; most pedestrians assume he’s checking his e-mail."

Awesome stuff. The New Yorker has an embedded video of the drawing being made; it's even more impressive than the drawing itself. I downloaded the app, Brushes, figuring I could just wing it. Nope. You need skill for this one!

Simply amazing stuff.