[pylonsound]

“We Doodle” is a freebie (ad-laden) iPhone Pictionary with a few different modes of play. Amongst a bunch of terrible pens and brushes is the “Doodle Assist” mode drawing tool, which actually antialiases lines and has variable line thicknesses based on movement speed. It also fills in the spaces between lines with the mechanical spiderweb pattern you see all over the doodle above. The density of fill-in lines is determined both by how many times you go back and forth over the same area and how close the lines are to one another.

There was another recent drawing app which used an almost identical set up, and I find this sort of drawing tool really fascinating — it appeals in the way I’d always set up soft synths and effects chains. I want any synth set up to be constantly on the verge of going hysterical and melting into a puddle of processed feedback. Likewise, digital pen tools that have this potential to squawk like a guitar amp in what’s actually a really rigidly systematic way are very having cake and eating it, too.