The sons of Mac painting pioneer & Photoshop GPU/brushes maven Jerry Harris have released Sketchable, a fast new painting tool for Windows 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cODTMUdu4oQ
Digital painting trailblazer John Derry (one of the original authors of Painter) writes,
Silicon Benders is the brother team of Miles & Ryan Harris. Painting apps appear to run in the brothers’ genes: their dad is Jerry Harris, co-author (with Keith McGregor) of early Mac paint app PixelPaint Pro, the first full-color paint application for the Macintosh. Jerry is now a Principal Computer Scientist on the Adobe Photoshop team.
Sketchable is designed to be easy to pick up and start using with a minimal learning curve. It is a particularly pressure-sensitive savvy app offering a wide range of expressibility in concert with its tools. Sketchable has a simple interface with plenty of room for expansion. I have a feeling we’ll be seeing this app grow over time. Highly Recommended!
The icons are courtesy of painter Don Seegmiller.
[YouTube]
That looks mighty similar to Fifty Three’s Paper app…
[Indeed it does, which I frankly think is unfortunate as it distracts from the app’s real merits (namely its speed & rich brush engine. This isn’t a simple Paper clone, but that’s how many will see it. –J.]
Seriously?
That’s a Samsung of Fifty Three’s Paper. Shame on you Silicon Benders.
Ex-Adobe people ripping off ex-Microsoft people’s app for Apple’s platform…
[They’re not ex-Adobe people. –J.]
Highly Recommended? Really?
It doesn’t look too tempting, not too innovative, not too promising.
[I haven’t spent a lot of time using it, but in some testing on a Wacom Cintiq, I found it to be very fast, and the experience of drawing with a real stylus made my iPad feel like painting with my elbow. –J.]