Painting with Nintendo DS Colors

These are all drawings I made. I do most of my drawing on the Nintendo DS with an "R4" programmable cartridge and a free painting program called "Colors". If you look at the official gallery site (linked on right), it will have names and descriptions of all my pictures. You will also be able to do a playback and see how the picture was drawn.

 

My favorite pictures

Thoughts on drawing

Posted by otavio on 08/24/08

Maybe I should talk a little about this drawing thing since it seems like some people are interested. Most of my drawing experience has been in the last year using Colors on the Nintendo DS. Before about a year ago, I had probably drawn about 20 or 30 pictures in my whole life not counting stick figures and flow charts. :) But I guess it depends on what you count as drawing. At work, I program graphics for video games. I think it is sometimes very similar to drawing, but instead of a brush, I use equations. In order to write these equations, I have to think visually, in a way that artists probably think, but I translate that into the physics of light. I'm not even sure how most artists think. I just know that when I sit down to draw, if I don't know what to do, I think about the physics. What would the computer do? That is the sad truth behind my "art" skills. :)