Drawing program for an 11-year-old child?

You asked: "I am looking for a medium powerful program for an 11 years old child who likes to draw a lot." I suggest Appleworks 6, unless there's consumer level quadra around, where I'd recommend Clarisworks 4. Best yet, find an old 68030 machine and set the tyke loose with Clarisworks 2.0. IMHO Clarisworks is underappreciated especially considering all it's native Macintosh goodness. Get an old enough version and you might find a paper manual, but the Help function is as good an alternative to a good paper manual as I've found. Your mileage, as always, may vary.

On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:30 PM, jdmuys wrote:

> I am looking for a medium powerful program for an 11 years old
> child who likes to draw a lot. I would like it to be simple enough
> to do simple things without me having to hold his hands too

There is a program for kids "Tux Paint" that is very simple yet
its powefull enough to give results. And to boot its FREE !! Get it at:

http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/download/

Hector

Go to squeakland.org, they have a Squeak image for kids, squeakland have paint and draw tools to create "morphs". And after that, is posible to animate the morphs using a graphic programing language (the "tiles" also called eToys). And it's free.

On Mar 6, 2006, at 1:30 PM, jdmuys wrote:

> I am looking for a medium powerful program for an 11 years old
> child who likes to draw a lot.

My 11 year old nephew loves Kid Pix Deluxe, as did his sister and
brothers they were that age:

http://www.mackiev.com/kid_pix.html

Print Shop is also a favorite for making greeting cards, gift tags,
CD labels and covers, calendars, labels, etc. out of their photos and
art:

http://www.mackiev.com/print_shop.html

The prices are good, and you'll probably be able to find an even
better deal by shopping online.

I'd also think about having a kid try a drawing tablet before buying
one, as I'm one of the few people who can't seem to get the hang of
not looking at my hand while I'm drawing. The tablets that enable you
to draw directly on a viewing screen are prohibitively expensive.

Marilyn

  

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I forgot to say that we indeed have a graphic tablet (an old Graphire).

The suggestion for Kid Pix doesn't work. I do own it, and clearly the target user has outgrown it!

AppleWorks might do. I check into that. I'll also check into Squeakland and TuxPaint.

I am also currently assessing Alias Sketchbook, and I am delighted: very clean, purified design, support for pressure, transparency and layers. Very nice. The only shortcoming I found so far, is the lack of a paint bucket. Any user around?

Thanks a million

JD

I think EazyDraw should be on the list.

Drew

The author of KidPix, Craig Hickman, did a presentation last night at the
Portland Mac User Group, showing his latest creation, "Beautiful Dorena."
One audience member characterized it as "Kid Pix for adults." So it might be
what you are looking for. And it is free:

www.dryreading.com

It is a wacky, quirky program, far more than a drawing program. In a way it
is a program without a purpose, designed simply to be played around with.
See what you think.

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There are a couple Magic Mouse offer.

Take a look...

http://www.magicmouse.com/h_curious.html

Rich

On Mar 15, 2006, at 11:36 PM, Allen Watson wrote:

> The author of KidPix, Craig Hickman, did a presentation last night
> at the
> Portland Mac User Group, showing his latest creation, "Beautiful
> Dorena."
> One audience member characterized it as "Kid Pix for adults." So it
> might be
> what you are looking for. And it is free:
>
> www.dryreading.com

I put Beautiful Dorena on my daughters computer to see what she
thought of it. All of the kids have been in there playing with it for
days.

Responsiveness is a bit slow on a Beige G3. The swirling
pattern can be difficult to get out of after the kids have clicked 59
times. It can take the computer a while to start and stop the pattern
59 times. Being able to cancel everything going on would be nice. The
adults in the house are getting very tired of the school fight song.
The sounds played by the drawing tools get the kids to turn up the
volume and then the whole house gets to hear the fight song on quit
at full volume.

Thanks for sharing the link to the program.