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As someone who teaches both oil painting and digital painting, I find this project fascinating. They have certainly identified two of the key difference between
by Daub 2y ago
As someone who teaches both oil painting and digital painting, I find this project fascinating. They have certainly identified two of the key difference between digital and real paint:
- RYB mixing (e.g. yellow painting plus blue paint = green). I tested it on a mix of alizarin crimson plus hansa yellow to produce a cold orange (e.g. blood orange).
- Relative behavior of specific pigments. For example, a Prussian blue is almost black when applied thickly, but very chromatic when applied as thinly over white. A cerulean blue is pretty much the same in those two states. I tested this on a Prussian and the app performed well.
The app seems to make the assumption that the artist will always want the paint to mix. In a glaze, a thin transparent layer of paint is applied over dry paint. Effectively the result is a filter (the result will always be darker). To a degree, this can be faked using paint applied in a layer the blend mode of which has been set to multiply. It might be nice to add a drying brush to the tool set which selectively dries the paint to prevent mixing. Maybe also a mode switch to selectively different modes of physical application such as glazing, scumbling and dry brushing. While we are at it, why not add a Tonk mode using which thick paint can be lifted off the surface without smudging.
When I paint digitally, I mix the incredible nuance of real paint... even its smell. When I paint with oils I miss the incredible flexibility of the digital process (blend modes, compositing, even the humble undo). Never the twain...
- magicalhippo 2y ago> It might be nice to add a drying brush to the tool set which selectively dries the paint to prevent mixing. The effect of thinning out the paint is effectively letting more light passing through the paint and reflecting off the canvas instead. So in the case of drying out, seems it would be a good fit for simply painting on a new layer, and having the code reflect off the combined layers below. That would make it easier to change the paint/glaze on top, as well as not having to commit to drying the layer underneath.