The examples display a degree of vorticity that I have never seen in real life watercoloring. They look great superficially, but they look super weird at reasonable inspection. Water on paper does not flow nearly so freely.
Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation
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#12I like that adding pen strokes to a watery section continues to blend in. Ima copy you now and become a cool art person
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#13As an amateur watercolour artist (shameless plug: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBlKG5cMPxa) I have to say the feeling your made with this wash is gorgeous. Back in the analogue world - paper grain and type/brand has a lot to do with it. Watercolour is really about unpredictability - it's about taking advantage of this unpredictability in terms of how the water travels down the grain and the impact that it makes, combined with light/shadow and "confidence" the artist brings with the brush. So of course it's never going to be truly transferrable digitally, but I still love the work you put into this.
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#14It is very fun and aesthetically pleasing also, great job.
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#15Nice visualizations - have you tried Rebelle? They have an online version that lets you play with the watercolor/brushes of the painting software so you can see the colors drying on the canvas. https://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/rebelle/index.php
I never got into rebelle, though this demo is pretty cool.
I used to use expressii, and always thought it was one of the most under rated painting apps. Has a very natural feel to it.
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#16Nice visualizations - have you tried Rebelle? They have an online version that lets you play with the watercolor/brushes of the painting software so you can see the colors drying on the canvas. https://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/rebelle/index.php
I never got into rebelle, though this demo is pretty cool. I used to use expressii, and always thought it was one of the most under rated painting apps. Has a very natural feel to it. https://www.expresii.com/
That's super neat looking - I really like the demonstrations of Chinese calligraphy with the brushes as well.
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#17Great example of a Single File Web App (https://gods.art/articles/single_file_web_apps.html). I'm trying to get a wikipedia page up for this concept (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Single_File_Web_Apps).
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#18Why is just having the web page loaded in a browser's (Firefox) tab ramping up the iGPU on my computer to 75%? The GPU load is consistently 75% whether I'm drawing or just have an untouched web page.
MS Edge has the same behavior with GPU loading regardless of drawing or not, but the GPU is at 50%.
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#19this is really gorgeous. I build ed tech apps for kids, which often includes whiteboard. I am always in search of inspiration to make it more tactile and less MS Paint, love this!
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#20The examples display a degree of vorticity that I have never seen in real life watercoloring. They look great superficially, but they look super weird at reasonable inspection. Water on paper does not flow nearly so freely.
I agree, some of the examples look very nice, but some have small-scale vortices that really don't look realistic.
That said though, lovely site and project!