I started from the image of small drawing I made a while ago. Adding colors, manipulating shapes and layers, and putting them together to compose the image, I found the decision-making process on digital painting/drawing is much similar with one of actual painting/drawing.
However one thing very different is the level of manipulation and filters which give much freedom to change images drastically and easily (undo, history and preview help a lot). The order of layers can be rearranged and tested easily as well which would be hard in case of real collage when once all elements are glued. The physicality of real painting and drawing is not a consideration in digital one.
I divided process into two sections to test and experience the similar and different ways of creating and manipulating digital images and hand painting or drawing. In the process 2, the freedom or new feature that digital tools offer are more explored:
1. using image elements to compose the image
2. using filters and effects the digital tools have
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| the outcome of the process 1 |
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| the outcome of process 2 |
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| original drawing image I started |
Wow! This is fascinating. I really love how you used this exercise as a way to experiment with a new media, and compare one approach to another! One thing I noticed right away was how you created an intricate and enveloping piece of work even without the advanced tools and effects you used in Process 2. In process 1, the work looks like it could have been done without digital tools, but when you do add the advanced techniques, the work looks way more digital to me. Both were done digitally, but the second one feels more obviously digital then the first. It's really cool to see how versatile digital media can be! I also think it's neat that you used one image to create two connect yet unique works. It makes me wonder, how many different pieces could you make out of a single hand-drawn image?
ReplyDeleteThank you Nina for your thoughtful response! I thought the effects and filters specialized on Photoshop provide certain aesthetics which is interesting. And yes, one image can versatile very easily as digital images can be copied, reproduced, edited and explored compare to images using traditional media. I think that's a really big distinguishable characteristic of digital image. Your comment inspires me to think about the further approach on creating and editing digital images :)
DeleteJihyun,
ReplyDeleteThis looks so cool! While these definitely feel kaleidoscopic, I want to see these move! If you're familiar with Tumblr there's a collective called Artists Protobacillus, they create bizarre animated gifs that I think your work definitely alludes to. I'm pretty sure Ava and Nina created a gif using photoshop, definitely consult them for tips and tricks.
http://www.booooooom.com/2016/02/09/tumblr-of-the-day-oozing-bacteria-like-animated-gifs-by-artists-protobacillus/
Cheers,
Carianna
Carianna, thank you for suggestion! yeah I was thinking it would be fun to explore the moving versions. I will try. thanks :)!
DeleteJihyun,
ReplyDeleteI love all three of these works! I wish I could have seen them in process. I especially appreciate the results from process 1. The repetition of your original drawing creates such an interesting pattern- I can't decide if feels organic or mechanical. Either way- excellent.
I would love to see your others drawings and how they can be interpreted in this way!
-Casey
I really appreciate that you included a photo of your original works as well as the two new pieces of digitally altered art. I think that the three images together make an interesting timeline. The original, the slightly altered, and the majorly altered. It shows how little or how far you can take digital manipulation. I think it would be interesting to create a gif of the three images, or even more images of other levels of progress in between, so that all the images would be shown in a loop and play off of one another.
ReplyDeleteHi Jihyun. Thanks for including your original drawing with this post - it really adds to our experience and interpretation of the subsequent digital pieces. What really strikes me is that the addition of so many layers and so much detail actually makes your colourful digital pieces appear softer in their line work.
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