Just before you think ‘Oh no, not another drawing app’, here is something really refreshing, thinking about drawings in a whole/new/old way.

If we were ever to understand marks that a pencil or charcoal makes, it would be a close networks of cross hatched lines endlessly overlapping one another. Thicker, bolder pencil points mark darker where lighter/sharper give us thin, razor sharp marks on the paper. Now if we think digitally, how would this be translated?

Vellum does just that. Created by David Lu, instead of using brush (particle) mechanism so common amongst other drawing apps, it creates mesh like trails, wireframe ribbon like marks that resemble marks left by pencil pretty well i’d say.

The app is now available! still in development, and should be available within few weeks. To follow development, make sure you follow Vellum on Twitter or David while he tackles ad-hoc provisioning for CAN amongst other things =].

Features:
Minimal design · No complex menus or sliders
Pinch to zoom · 2-Finger swipe to pan · Tap to toggle navigation bar
3 handsome tools · Graphite · Ink · Scratch

(via Lenny on Twitter)

Platform: iPhone
Version: 1.0
Cost: $1.99
Developer: David Lu