From six - foot long gouache tableaus to charcoal preparatory drawings to
rough pencil sketches, these works illustrate the important role working on paper plays for sculptors in the creative process, helping to translate ideas into three - dimensional forms.
While the Apple
Pencil is designed as a
sketching tool for creative professionals, MacRumors reader Simon Gladman has created three Swift demo apps that show the accessory being used for three unconventional purposes — as a weight scale, controlled synthesizer and 3D controller for image editing.PencilScalePencilScale, based on Goodman's Plum - O - Meter, is an experimental app that uses a homemade harness to turn the Apple
Pencil into an electronic scale that is highly sensitive, but not incredibly accurate.The experiment works by subtracting the touch's force from a base weight, which is «set as the current touch force when the «zero» button is pressed,» and multiplying it by 140 for a very
rough weight in grams.PencilSynthPencilSynth is an AudioKit - powered
Using the image as my guideline I
sketched a
rough leaf shape on my wood panel in
pencil, adjusting until i was happy with the size and shape.