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The biggest drawback for me working in a digital format is how the precise gridsystem strongly suggest me to work with perfect straight vertical and horizontal lines. Now and the I try to break out of this grid cage. For some days now I have been trying to work in a more painterly style. Not much much brush strokes in thin one though; just mucking around (if one can say that) in Photoshop. Sort of abstract but not all together. Get any ideas? Inspired by: [link]

Digital paint/collage by edvard derkert

One story goes like this: Rene Decartes, when living in Sweden observed a fly walking around on a window ad wondered how the flies walk on the glass could be described in mathematical terms. He came up with the cordinate system with an y an an x -axis for the vertical and horizontal lines. [link] He then died of a cold he got from a severe Swedish winter. And so it goes. And that was maybe the first grid-system.

And of course that system was binar, digita, either/or and was of course used for visual represenation in the computer. These straight lines and right angles are not to be found in nature (I think) and when you draw or paint it is really hard to produce them just by hand. Even when you cut up a piece of paper as an rectangle with aid of a ruler the result is never perfect. So these straight lines and right angles are not the prerogative. In a pixelbased or systems it is. It can be be very convenient when aligning objects and text. Looks good and tidy. Graphic design was not all that straight in the old days.

I work mostly in photoshop. And of course you dont have to use the ruler, the guidelines or the automatic
guidelines. But the fact remains that the right angels rules.The workspace are always rectangular and your are constant reminded of them by the edges of the workspace.

More so is the first and most used marquee tool rectangular, and being a collage guy I cut and paste a loot and usually with the rectangular marquee tool. It is fast and convenient. Maybe I would feel different about if I only painted in Photoshop. I know my pre.-digital stuff was free from "the right angle syndrome", freer, more organic. So I have to deliberately make organic forms, they dont come by themselves as rectangular does.

Description
The biggest drawback for me working in a digital format is how the precise gridsystem strongly suggest me to work with perfect straight vertical and horizontal lines. Now and the I try to break out of this grid cage. For some days now I have been trying to work in a more painterly style. Not much much brush strokes in thin one though; just mucking around (if one can say that) in Photoshop. Sort of abstract but not all together. Get any ideas? Inspired by: [link]

Digital paint/collage by edvard derkert

One story goes like this: Rene Decartes, when living in Sweden observed a fly walking around on a window ad wondered how the flies walk on the glass could be described in mathematical terms. He came up with the cordinate system with an y an an x -axis for the vertical and horizontal lines. [link] He then died of a cold he got from a severe Swedish winter. And so it goes. And that was maybe the first grid-system.

And of course that system was binar, digita, either/or and was of course used for visual represenation in the computer. These straight lines and right angles are not to be found in nature (I think) and when you draw or paint it is really hard to produce them just by hand. Even when you cut up a piece of paper as an rectangle with aid of a ruler the result is never perfect. So these straight lines and right angles are not the prerogative. In a pixelbased or systems it is. It can be be very convenient when aligning objects and text. Looks good and tidy. Graphic design was not all that straight in the old days.

I work mostly in photoshop. And of course you dont have to use the ruler, the guidelines or the automatic
guidelines. But the fact remains that the right angels rules.The workspace are always rectangular and your are constant reminded of them by the edges of the workspace.

More so is the first and most used marquee tool rectangular, and being a collage guy I cut and paste a loot and usually with the rectangular marquee tool. It is fast and convenient. Maybe I would feel different about if I only painted in Photoshop. I know my pre.-digital stuff was free from "the right angle syndrome", freer, more organic. So I have to deliberately make organic forms, they dont come by themselves as rectangular does.