Lichendust

I'm Harley, an artist, animator and programmer.
I make all kinds of useless stuff.

Ochre

Upcoming — The painting app artists deserve
HOMEPAGE
ochre.art
YEAR
2025—Present
ROLE
Design
Implementation
DISCIPLINES
UI/UX Design
Systems Architecture
Graphics Programming

Ochre is a project designed to deliver actually useful tools that production artists and illustrators need in their daily workflows, alongside a buttery-smooth painting engine packaged into an extremely performant app1.

Ochre will be —

Ochre is still in development, but you can sign up to the early news mailing list over at ochre.art.

  1. At time of writing, the startup time, including document load, is <100ms
  2. Following similar logic to apps like the Sublime Text and iA Writer text editors or the Reaper DAW