JayVe
02-20-2009, 09:04 AM
Using Colors! (http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/), a free art program for the Nintendo DS that includes pressure sensivity and other advanced features, artists will be displaying their works at the 99DS Eshibition. You can see an example of the work on the (NSFW) exhibition site (http://www.99ds.net/).
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/goodavatar/99DS.jpg
99DS is a collaborative exhibition featuring artwork digitally illustrated on the Nintendo DS handheld game console by local Wellingtonian artists Greg Broadmore and Christian Pearce. A shared, public exhibition showcasing the first two completed collections is scheduled for the 1st of February 2009. Each collection exhibits a series of full-colour digital sketch artwork - as prints, in books and on screen. Animated reels revealing the illustrative process behind each piece will be on looped playback throughout the exhibition. Housed in custom-made containers in Wellington's Civic Square, 99DS aims to show a fun and frivolous way art can be created on the digital media available to us today, free of symbolism, metaphor and manure.
Prints and books of the artwork will be on sale and the artists will be available for signings on late mornings every Saturday throughout the exhibition.
About the Medium - Colors on the Nintendo DS
The Nintendo DS has been subverted from its primary role as a handheld game platform and murder-simulator to function as a full colour, pressure sensitive digital sketch book. Using the homebrew, free software 'Colors', artists around the world are liberated from bulky sketchbooks and messy art materials and can now digitally sketch anywhere any time, without the old hassles and embarrassing trouser bulges.
About the Series
Created over three weeks, and sketched wherever Broadmore and Pearce were at the time - on the street, on the couch or on the toilet - they were all done in quick-fire bursts. Being created spontaneously and in unconventional creative spaces - whether it be lying in bed, waiting for significant others to try on shoes or pretending to be working - most took a few minutes, some longer. In fact one took a frickin hour!
The premise behind the 99DS series is a simple one - pick a subject, draw it 99 times and hit save. And why 99? That's how many save slots Colors supports and also coincides with the point at which one entertains thoughts of stylus-based seppuku
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa55/goodavatar/99DS.jpg
99DS is a collaborative exhibition featuring artwork digitally illustrated on the Nintendo DS handheld game console by local Wellingtonian artists Greg Broadmore and Christian Pearce. A shared, public exhibition showcasing the first two completed collections is scheduled for the 1st of February 2009. Each collection exhibits a series of full-colour digital sketch artwork - as prints, in books and on screen. Animated reels revealing the illustrative process behind each piece will be on looped playback throughout the exhibition. Housed in custom-made containers in Wellington's Civic Square, 99DS aims to show a fun and frivolous way art can be created on the digital media available to us today, free of symbolism, metaphor and manure.
Prints and books of the artwork will be on sale and the artists will be available for signings on late mornings every Saturday throughout the exhibition.
About the Medium - Colors on the Nintendo DS
The Nintendo DS has been subverted from its primary role as a handheld game platform and murder-simulator to function as a full colour, pressure sensitive digital sketch book. Using the homebrew, free software 'Colors', artists around the world are liberated from bulky sketchbooks and messy art materials and can now digitally sketch anywhere any time, without the old hassles and embarrassing trouser bulges.
About the Series
Created over three weeks, and sketched wherever Broadmore and Pearce were at the time - on the street, on the couch or on the toilet - they were all done in quick-fire bursts. Being created spontaneously and in unconventional creative spaces - whether it be lying in bed, waiting for significant others to try on shoes or pretending to be working - most took a few minutes, some longer. In fact one took a frickin hour!
The premise behind the 99DS series is a simple one - pick a subject, draw it 99 times and hit save. And why 99? That's how many save slots Colors supports and also coincides with the point at which one entertains thoughts of stylus-based seppuku