New Yorker cover drawn with iPhone app
The cover of this week’s issue of New Yorker was drawn on an iPhone, using a application called Brushes. And the artist drew it in an hour, while standing on a busy streetcorner in Times Square.
Jorge Colombo has illustrated for the New Yorker since 1994, the magazine says in a brief story about the cover. Colombo bought his iPhone in February. The drawing app set him back only $4.99.
The iPhone has allowed him to draw in the dark, the artist says, increasing his productivity. Stephanie Clifford of the New York Times reports:
There is one other advantage of the phone, too: no one notices he is drawing. Mr. Colombo said he stood on 42nd Street for about an hour with no interruptions.
“It gives him an anonymity in the big city that an artist with the easel wouldn’t have,” Ms. Mouly said.
“Absolutely nobody can tell I am drawing,” Mr. Colombo said. “In fact, once I was doing the drawing at some place, and my wife was around, and they asked her why did I have to work so hard? I seemed to be always on my iPhone sending messages.”
Find the New Yorker cover story here. Find the NYT story here. Find yet another story about the cover at Gizmodo.
Find the artist’s portfolio here.
Here’s a video of the artist at work: