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Creating Illustrations on the DS
Hoygeit \| 8:21 PM on 05.27.2008	15 comments

I would like to get a tablet PC but they’re kinda (REALLY) out of my price range.

Yesterday, MaxVest introduced me to this neat DS application called ‘Colors!’ It’s a small DS application you can run with any DS Loader.

(Sorry for the crappy image - thought I'd try my hand at illustrating Peach again)

While not a real substitute for mobile tablet, does a really good job and is really quite a lot of fun. The brushes feel akin to Photoshop (which I’m used to) and the color picker akin to Painter.

Let me do a quick copy and paste of the features they have for it-
• Hard and soft circular brush
• Pressure-sensitivity can affect opacity and brush-size
• 512x384 image resolution with 2 stage zoom
• Replay the whole painting process of an image
• Hue-circle and luminance and saturation-triangle style palette
• Load and Save to memory card

COLORS!

(seems Cowboy TTop had mentioned this in a blog earlier this year and I totally missed it.)

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15 comments | showing # 1 to 15

Das Inchworm says:
(# 0) on 05/27/2008 20:41

I love colors but I'm nowhere near as good as you. Aweomse.

Puppy Licks says:
(# 1) on 05/27/2008 20:44

Yeah I concur with inchworm, colors is Aweomse ;) But I'm not the best with speed painting sadly.

Also, who knew that the DS was pressure sensetive?

bahss says:
(# 2) on 05/27/2008 21:52

Excellent stuff man. Looks awesome.

Soggy Toast says:
(# 3) on 05/27/2008 22:00

I agree, I got colors a month ago and it was great. Still yours is better

riomccarthy says:
(# 4) on 05/27/2008 22:12

I looooove Colors. Wonderful job on Peach! She looks amazing!

DJDuffy says:
(# 5) on 05/27/2008 22:42

hey wow thats really impressive, Hoygeit! I'm downloading the program right now, so hopefully I'll have something to show you soon :)

Electro Lemon says:
(# 6) on 05/27/2008 22:45

Fucking amazing!

I've had Colors since I got my R4 about 8 months ago, but I could never do something like this. So good, Chanh.

Hoygeit says:
(# 7) on 05/27/2008 22:48

Haha, thanks for the kind words. :)

Man- seems I really missed the boat on this one. Couldn't seem to find a blog about it initially and thought I'd share.

Sorry!

MaxVest says:
(# 8) on 05/27/2008 22:55

Yeah, I remembered hearing about this waaaay back in the day when Kotaku ran an article on it. The main point of interest was the fact that the DS touchscreen is pressure sensitive, although no other software that I'm aware of makes use of it. Glad you like it!

Justice says:
(# 9) on 05/28/2008 04:51

That's pretty damn cool & I didn't know the DS touchscreen is pressure sensitive!

Kryptinite says:
(# 10) on 05/28/2008 06:26

I never heard of this until now and...I'm going to get it when I get home :)

Cowboy TTop says:
(# 11) on 05/28/2008 07:52

Strangely done a post on Colors before, but no one was interested. Oh, well!

Anyway, I got my Cyclops DS and downloaded Colors, and being an artist myself, its a recommendation for anyone looking for something different and cool for DS.

Just wish someone like Ubisoft, would look at releasing Colors officially. Its definitely a great flagship for the otherwise frowned upon homebrew scene, and shows what can really done by the small guy.

Teta says:
(# 12) on 05/28/2008 10:15

:O
Looks amazing, you really have a great talent.
Now i wish i had a DS with a loader and try to make cool Teta draws some destructoid.

MaxVest says:
(# 13) on 05/28/2008 15:36

@Cowboy TTop:

Post your stuff somewhere! I think seeing what you can do with the software is what gets people interested. Otherwise it's a little abstract.

Ronin says:
(# 14) on 05/29/2008 03:14

Thank you for this post. I snagged Colors and spent most of the day with it. :)

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