In today’s recitation we are going to practice using the processing to draw. I chosen an image drawn by Josef albers from Bauhaus School of Arts.
I chose it for it just use some simple cube construct a sense of cyberpunk. The character look like a green robot, while stare at you by a lackluster grey eyes.
At the first I thought it will be very simple. To begin with, I draw the image in the chart to make sure about the wide and height. Then I set up the canvas size into 600×600 as I learned in the class. Then I used fill to set color. The first problem I met is setting the color, this image use a special dark mix color which hard to reappear. In addition, I used rect function. At that time I realized the main challenge using the processing to draw something is bear the boring. Using the processing to draw is not like draw by CNC version, each brushstroke and color shape are separate into single coordinate. I really felt sleepy when I measured the cube one by one. I once asked the teacher if I can just draw a stroke and paint the Blank between the stroke and the frame, but get an unpleasant reply. After that, I fought the cube with a black stroke, I checked the reference and use noStroke to fix it.
This is the final draft, though the color still too bright. What’s more, because we can get the accurate coordinate for unavoidable error, my image looks thiner to the original one.
I must say that using processing it is not a ‘drawing’ process for”drawing” is an artistic process. Holding the brush is not only the painter but also the god, by the hand of random. But when using the processing , all the step is too correct to let the freedom exist, meanwhile is too correct to let the art live been the brush.
But we should permit that precessing also can produce a wonderful art. And once you want to build a complex model as an agency to achieve your goal.