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Paper is like Instagram for drawing

Instagram and Paper’s minimal functionality isn’t just for the sake of “simplicity” out of moral adherence to “simplicity” in design; it’s a form of editorializing. It’s telling me what looks good, and tries as hard as it can to keep me from making something look bad. Even the limited options of iPhoto let me make something look truly terrible if I slip up on the sliders, but Instagram firmly puts its foot down and tells me “no.” When I’m drawing with real-life tools, I can easily go off the rails and either spend too much time attempting to “finish a piece,” or get lazy and limit myself to a single tool like a pencil that never really expresses a final vision.

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