The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.
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Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.
I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.
A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.
I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.
The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.