Robert P. Taylor's : Fountain: Reflections of
3 Dancing Maidens
Revising, presenting, and explaining digitized drawings
Revealing the process of drawing by presenting intermediate stages
Presenting drawing as a process requires presenting some intermediate stages of a drawing, to show its development. Being able to present intermediate stages depends upon digitally preserving them so that they can be resurrected as needed (see Preserving intermediate versions below). However, if they are preserved, they can be used to dramatically illustrate the process of drawing. Each image above is linked to a display that illustrates such development, for a particular drawing of one of the maidens. The left image links to a display of the process involved in replacing the badly rendered head on a north maiden drawing. That display presents the two alternatives that were carried out: (1) enlarging the existing head, and (2) replacing the existing head with an altogether new drawing of the head. The center image links to a display reflecting a different process: drawing an object, seeing it as too inadequate to correct, and as a consequence, drawing it all over again on a new sheet. The right image links to the display of a similar, but less radical process, the altering, with pencil, the original drawing, on the paper upon which it was created. In neither of the latter two cases was the computer involved in making or altering the image. But even in the first case (left), the point is how the computer can present the process of changing the drawing through showing something at least of the stages behind the drawing's reaching its final appearance. Analogous examples are presented in SeeAnew, too (see Related Taylor webberies see below).
Preserving intermediate stages of a developing drawing
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