Rather than constraining his artwork to the 3.5” size of his iPhone’s screen, photographer and artist Russ Croop has created extremely large sketches using the iPhone and iPod touch application NetSketch. His first large-scale work, a drawing of his living room, is the equivalent of 85.6 inches x 70.1 inches at 72 ppi, and proved so large that Croop had to enlist the help of NetSketch creator Ben Gotow to get it out of the application, following repeated crashes when trying to save it from within the app.
“I felt like the guy who built a boat in his basement and couldn’t get it out because it was so big,” Croop said. Cult of Mac reports that Croop went on to create other large-scale drawings, and is even interested in getting his work into galleries.
When asked what the installation would be like, Croop said, “I envision big flat screen TVs replaying the paintings (videos of them as they’re made) and iPhones attached to walls or kiosks where people could try out drawing on them.” All of Croop’s iPhone art is available for viewing on his website.
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