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Why Go Digital? 電腦繪畫有什麼好處?

7/7/2016

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PictureDigital Work printed on Chinese xuan paper 數位畫打印在宣紙上
I was recently  asked  why  one would want to paint  digitally. The two most common reasons are: 
  •  Convenience   (can undo, save copies  at different stages, no setup and cleanup time, already in digital format) 
  • Cost reduction (no worry for wasting art materials)  

​And what are the cons of digital painting?  Long time ago, I discussed with Wucius Wong on this.  Wong suggested two main  concerns:
  1. Lack of physicality  
  2. No  tactile feeling of using a brush  on paper  
For 1,  printing the artwork on real paper somehow  solves the issue.  For 2, I would leave it to hardware makers.

As a software developer, there's still things we can do.   We'll discuss digital painting tech  innovation in  our next blog entry.

還有就是,畫家如果靠賣畫為生,傳統畫較易賣高價。相反數位(digital)畫,大家覺得打印出來的沒那麼有價值。其實打印出來的東西也可以賣高價,如罕有的郵票。還有傳統版畫,也是重複印出來,但通常限量,畫家每幅記號並簽名。大家大不了就把你的電腦畫用最高檔的(抵擋的放久了會褪色 >x<)墨水打印出來並簽名,然後把原檔刪了就可以'物以罕為貴’了。

Ease of change - good or bad thing? 容易修改熟好熟壞?

PictureWucius Wong & Nelson Chu. Photo by Shuen Leung
Wucius Wong   is one of the few senior (Chinese) ink painters who does make use of computer technology.   He exclaimed to Nelson  - it is too easy to make changes in your digital art!

​王無邪 (Wucius   Wong) 是少數很關心我們Expresii 開發的傳統畫家,他自己也很早就有用電腦輔助作畫。他說我們用Expresii作畫,太容易修改了!

It's true that in traditional  ink painting, it's much harder to make afterthought changes and thus  masterpieces don't come by easily.  But when it is easy to make changes, one might be trapped to spend too much time keep making changes.
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傳統繪畫難修改,所以精品難求。但就純粹作畫者來說,容易修改應該是一個優點。但這‘優點’有時就帶來更多‘麻煩’ --  就是改來改去,一幅畫拖太長。

有趣的是Wucius  也講過^ Interestingly Wucius once said^:
When the painting is still there, there's always a temptation to adding a line or a dot to it. I think all artists would do the same thing naturally.
大家也有改來改去的煩惱嗎?以下我也是因為電腦畫太容易修改,所以改來改去。老人耳前的髮絲,都很多考量。畫粗一點好像較好表達老人‘幹活’的情況,畫細一點優美點但會不會給人太年輕的感覺?

If you're a digital painter, do you find yourself keeping changing little details  in your art pieces?   For me,  for instance, I kept changing details on the hairs in from of the ear, trying to find a look that better represent this old lady:
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有人說一幅畫磨太久,不如把時間花在下一幅。Some say you should spend time on your next piece rather than lingering  on your current one. Anyway, here's the Old Lady 'final' version:
Check  out a video showing  the  process of creation:
^  In video 'Mountain in the Mind', Minneapolis Institute of Art,  1986.
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