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Originally Posted by col37400 View Post
Being realistic, no. I think if someone wants to learn to draw they'd be better off starting with pencil and paper. I doubt you could write an app that could teach anything meaninful. If it's giving you outlines to colour in and stuff, you aren't really learning to draw. You'd be better off just putting some time in practising freestyle. I guess you could start off trying to copy some paintings or something. But even though it's possible to get some pretty good results in mypaint on the n900 I don't think I'd recommend it as a starting point for beginners!

Who knows though, maybe I'm just old fashioned and only think pencil and paper's the best starting point because that's the way I did it.
Pen and paper is good..

.. but I think that nowadays digital is also good way to learn and it is faster, cheaper and more convenient method..
eg. working with colors is much easier.. it is of course very much different thing to mix colors digitally than different traditional mediums.

I still recommended to learn traditional natural mediums if it is possible.

Computer, medium size A5+ pressure sensitivity tablet and (free) MyPaint / (cheap) ArtRage is just good way to start learning.

Studying... perspective, composition, color theory, anatomy.. etc.. is important if you aim to be better.

Only way to learning to draw and paint is just doing it as much as possible, anything what you dare.. everyday!

Nokia N900 and MyPaint is quite good but I still recommend to
something bigger... when drawing area is big you can use your arm more and not your wrist.

There is couple benefit to use small device like N900 with MyPaint.

1. It is so easy to check composition at "thumbnail" size work...
if picture looks good in small scale it will mostly look good in big scale.

2. It is always with me!

3. You can work easily in the dark!

btw. Andrew Loomis and George Bridgmans books are very good...

Just draw and learn to look...

Tone aka Creativetone aka Luovatone