Subway Drawings on an iPhone

 
A friend of mine posted these amazing drawings on Facebook. The artist is Dug Winningham, a sound technician who was born with an ability to draw what he sees. He used an iPhone app called Brushes to create these drawings. The program allows for intense detail via its zoom capability, and the drawings show a much more sophisticated approach than what seems possible, given the diminutive nature of the tools. Each drawing is multilayered with color and line, produced with just a finger treading on the screen. It's interesting to see how artists' tools are evolving along with technology. We have literally at our fingertips the ability to create a project like this one, which involves more sophisticated technology than that which attempted to launch the Apollo 1 spacecraft.