Pencil against Photoshop.

How much does a computer drawn picture of a pencil sketch of the same scene? Two cartoonists to compete against Stefan Dokoupil and John Wieser report how they compete with pencil and mouse two variants have painted a scene.

 

Even professionals can now no longer differences between analog and digital photographs to determine the blind tests have been sufficient. The same would have been drawn or Painted in a few years ago does not even have to try.

However, although actually a Photoshop image editing program and - in contrast to Painter or Art Rage - no specialized software for painting or drawing techniques, are now two Austrian artists in the virtual ring, and have risen by the same photo create a nude drawing realized: John Wieser traditionally the pencil, Stefan Dokoupil with Photoshop, Mac and Wacom tablet.

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The fact that two artists against each other, is nothing very new in the Greek antiquity already made the painters Zeuxis and Parrhasius. Pliny reported that: "Zeuxis painted in rivalry with Parrhasius grapes so lifelike that birds herbeiflogen in order to pick out. Parrhasius then introduced his rival before a canvas on which a curtain of canvas was to be seen. When Zeuxis asked impatiently, but this finally to one side, around which are supposedly behind this picture to be had Parrhasius secure the victory because he had managed, Zeuxis deceived. The curtain had also painted. "

As the presence of the artistic rivalry with Eva clone "came and went like this, says Stefan Dokoupil here for DOCMA:" When I was last year on Natura 2008 in Altenmarkt Zauchensee was invited, I learned the Photorealistic John Wieser know. I saw his works and was immediately excited. After the intensive period of the exhibition, which is more than a month you buy a new, and some conversations I had the idea for this project.

I want my photos look like drawings, and John's intention was to always, his pictures are like photographs to be. So why not implement a joint project, where we meet in the middle? No competition, no question of faith, but a symbiotic relationship ...

We started with the common shooting a model and pose and lighting provided by common consent. It was important to us above all the shadows, so we are on a structured background could forgo.

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Then we began to draw - John after the photo on a white sheet of paper and I in Photoshop. We sent each other the intermediate stands, so the one from the other knew in what direction the whole thing developed. And finally, I then addressed John, because fixes have been easier for me than for him. My biggest problem was the hair.

I went from the original size of the image. John had a certain advantage. With very hard and fine details, he was able to pencil in the picture, which I shall in Photoshop could not implement. To view the character of the image drawn in conclusion to stress, I said by adding an alpha channel interference. A texture of coarse paper then served as a "paper" background.

Then can I just a big compliment to John directed, which affects its performance. This richness of detail, the contrasts and the light with such a pencil on the paper to bring - including a ridiculous talent and a merciless eye loose. I have with my digital tools for 15 hours drawing the implementation of 'clone Eva' is needed - John has worked with the pencil in his 140 hours worked Aktversion.

This project has for me and my work in Photoshop a lot, and I am going more and more as a painter / illustrator to work: My goal is not only the existing issues, but with a certain artistic freedom also add details.

The first step was out of the picture shows a line drawing to make. The contours have been added by hand (Wacom tablet) and traced with the wiping fingers alternately brighten and abdunkelnd processed. The shades of the body, I have layers and is applied in layers with the wiping fingers for so long afterwards, until I achieved a pleasing result, then the details at 300 percent magnification view of the finger and wiping a very small peak is created.

For the hair, I stood in front of the problem, not so fine detail to be able to prepare, as I myself would have wished. Therefore, again wiping the fingers are used. I have black spots initially created as a substrate, with small white dots on the strands, and again with the wiping fingers worked - with a high opacity (so long Verschmierungsstrecke) and the mode "Normal". Since depends very much on the brush tip from, and a coarse top, when the hair look a blurring creates is by default in Photoshop. By adding an alpha channel, I added noise, as the texture, I photographed a wall in addition to a paper look to be strengthened. It has a lot of fun and was a real challenge. "

While preparing to play the digital file in DOCMA no problems with their reproductions of the pencil drawing on the other hand, the two were not satisfied. Doc Baumann had coincidentally just before an interview with the developers of the Cruse scanner, and knew that one of its devices in Stuttgart Photolab M stands. Labor boss Rainer Tewes was immediately ready to help.

On 17 April 17 clock photo opens in cooking - Digital World, Innsbruckerstr. 73, 5020 Salzburg, the exhibition "Gang border between photography and painting," where these images are presented, they will run until 17.5.2009.