Why even consider simulating real paints digitally?
Which was done with real paint and which was drawn digitally? That's a question I often quized my daughter when she was growing up. We'd be looking for picturebooks in the library and I always favoured picturebooks drawn with real paint. Asking myself why, I'd explain it this way: Real paints feel more warm and organic. Like a real person really got their hands into it. With real paints I feel that the painter took more thought and skill to craft it a certain way. As in, it took more effort to fix a mistake or just go with the mistakes and made it work.With digital, it's easy to undo and hide mistakes as if they never happened. The lines textures feel more natural and rich. Digital paint and textures can also feel rich especially when scanned from real paint, but I find they often lack spontaneity, too orderly, too controlled. (Btw, the top picture is with real paints) When drawing comics with a half-natural-line-and-half-digital-colouring approach (which I often do),...
