Apps For Artists

There's an artist in all of us. Let that artist out using sophisticated tools given to you by the iPhone.

Brushes

Price: $4.99

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Brushes

By Steve Sprang

Considered so professional it was used to create the cover of The New Yorker magazine. "Go beyond the doodle" reads the description. Powerful and useful painting tools designed perfectly for use by your fingers.
Layers

Price: $4.99

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Layers

By Gotow.net

Still relatively new, so it comes with a few bugs. However, it comes with a very powerful feature - layers. Pull up an image and start to trace over it or build an image from scratch and use layers to carefully manage the look and feel of your artwork. It also includes PSD support, which means you can pop the image right into Photoshop and continue right where you left off, all your layered work intact.
Cooliris

Price: Free

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Cooliris

By Cooliris, Inc

The best image search engine on iPhone gives you a great starting point for artistic ideas. Just pick a search term and you you can search DeviantArt, Google Images, Flickr, Picasa and others. If you find an image you'd like to use for inspiration, you can even download it to your iPhone, so you could use an image you got from Cooliris as the bottom layer in "Layers," the app above. Just make sure to do enough original work to make the art your own.
iCreated

Price: $0.99

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iCreated

By Big Stone Phone

Definitely the place you should start for iPhone art. Made by the people behind Twittelator Pro, iCreated is a great teaching tool and art gallery for pieces created using the iPhone itself. You can even share your own pieces. There's also nice information about the apps people used to create the images found within the app.
Love Art: National Gallery, London

Price: $2.99

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Love Art: National Gallery, London

By Antenna Audio Inc

For the traditional fine art enthusiast, this app should become the model for apps used in all museums around the world. It's like a guided tour of The National Gallery, London in your pocket. The app is broken down by artist, including Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre-Auguste Renior, etc. From there you can learn about the artist and their specific work through photographs, audio, video and slideshows.

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