10 Facts About David Hockney’s iPad Drawings

Hockney’s digital drawings are the product of relatively recent technological advancement. Hockney himself has remarked that, not long ago, “the computer was too slow for a draughtsman. You had finished a line, and the computer was 15 seconds later … but things have improved, and it now enables one to draw very freely and fast with colour”. With a simple tweak of an option on his iPad, Hockney had every colour, medium, and texture at his fingertips.