to developer: can you creat a 'ink-water' brush like this?

[millionart]

see the pictures:
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5306c1d30100d0du.html
its chinese painter named '水墨' and english name is 'ink-water', i love this effact but no software can paint this effact perfect, i think its crazy, isnt it?

[Karl DD]

Looks amazing.
How is it made in real life?

[VelenoSangue]

You can buy bottles of ink at art supply stores to use with quill pens and brushes. Then you can set it out for a while to let it get darker as the water evaporates, or you can add some more water to it to do lighter ink washes.

[Karl DD]

As much as I would like to create such a feature, it is most-likely impossible to do in a vector based application

[millionart]

you can try to search 'Chinese Ink Painting' from google or download PDF here (password is Alchemy)

[Zafio]

For digital watercolors or chinese ink painting there is MoXi
About those illustrations, perhaps the artist programmed a kick ass fluid simulator, but I think he used photo samples of ink drops in water, then composed and painted over in Painter. Pretty much like Andrew Jones uses Alchemy sometimes.

[millionart]

For digital watercolors or chinese ink painting there is MoXi
About those illustrations, perhaps the artist programmed a kick ass fluid simulator, but I think he used photo samples of ink drops in water, then composed and painted over in Painter. Pretty much like Andrew Jones uses Alchemy sometimes.

its realy cooool, thanks!

[Karl DD]

Thanks for the post, that Moxi looks quite cool.
I respect the amount of work people in academia put into such things, but always wonder why they try and 'digitalise' existing 'real'
techniques?
I quite like the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, who uses the burn marks from gunpowder to create patterns on canvas.
http://images.google.com/images?q=Cai+G ... +gunpowder
Maybe someone will soon try and simulate this?

Karl

[Zafio]

I respect the amount of work people in academia put into such things, but always wonder why they try and 'digitalise' existing 'real'
techniques?

Whatever their reasons are, from an ecologic/anti-materialistic point of view I'm glad they do it, so a lot of people like me don't have to waste a lot stuff like paper and ink (and sometimes ugly chemicals) to achieve certain results.

I quite like the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, who uses the burn marks from gunpowder to create patterns on canvas.
http://images.google.com/images?q=Cai+G ... +gunpowder
Maybe someone will soon try and simulate this?

That's very interesting... let me learn some C... :)

[Karl DD]

Whatever their reasons are, from an ecologic/anti-materialistic point of view I'm glad they do it, so a lot of people like me don't have to waste a lot stuff like paper and ink (and sometimes ugly chemicals) to achieve certain results.

For sure. It is also very messy
But on the flip side, there is a pretty big C02 hit from using computers/=& the internet too.
It always seems kinda magical to use Google and get instant search results, but the reality is they have whole warehouses full of servers pumping out heat 24/7

I guess I am interested in, well this project is interested in, exploring the things you can't do in the analogue world. Which means developing something new and native to the digital realm.

That's very interesting... let me learn some C...

Hey directed the opening 'footprints' fireworks sequence to the Olympics actually - you know the one that was not actually broadcast live.