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Emulating media via physical modeling
From the course: Learning Digital Painting
Emulating media via physical modeling
The medium is the message, so said Marshall Mcluhan. In the case of digital paint, the emulation of a traditional physical medium, like watercolor, is the apparent carrier of artist intended expression. The hallmarks of water color, soft edges, diffusive color, paper texture and the effects of gravity and evaporation all appear to be intertwined within the painting's subject matter, and so, affect the viewer's reading of the resulting image. Once again, the brush engine driving the digital painting app is responsible for media emulation. Now in this case we're going to take a look at Painter's watercolor which has a very sophisticated engine for recreating the effects of watercolor and I'm going to show you a very extreme example here. Let's just draw a stroke and you'll see what happens here is we get very dramatic dripping of the wet watercolor. So unlike a normal brush where you would just paint it and you see what happens, there's a lot of physical modeling going on here to make…
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