[[alternative]]Research on the Application of Wash Painting Techniques to Digital Illustration

[[abstract]]Wash Painting is a mainstream of Chinese painting. It has a long history and has been recognised as a particular kind of art that is marked with a distinguished style. The "ink and wash" technique plays a significant role in wash painting. The spirit of wash painting is to express an emotion or a kind of atmosphere. By means of simple and pure lines executed with various brush strokes and colouring with the wash and ink painting techniques, the spiritual qualities of the painting are emphasised. Digital Arts, a primary innovation in the twentieth century, has influenced the daily life of the masses with its development during a short duration. The Precision, Iteration, Transformation and Serendipity of Computer Graphics have potent influence in the annals of art and graphic design. In addition, the techniques of Mimetic, Derivative, Innovative and Emergent in the process of creating Digital Arts even subvert the conventions of the artistic techniques in the History of Art. The aim of this dissertation is to explore the employment of "ink and wash" techniques in wash painting as the basic formula in Digital Illustration. The combination of traditional Chinese painting techniques and Digital Illustration has achieved new features in Art development by means of deploying the brush strokes of "ink and wash" (e.g. thick, thin, dry and wet) and of combining the characteristics of Digital Illustration via the Computer Graphic software. The discussion and exploration of this research will be presented in several sections by the following procedure. The motivation and aim of this dissertation will be indicated first, followed by the research method and subject, and then the summary of research procedure. In the section on literary review, the development of brush and colouring, concepts of composition, brush strokes, creative formulas used in Chinese wash painting in addition to the innovative ideas in contemporary wash painting will be explored. The comparison between traditional painting and Digital Arts will be analysed. The subject of the creative work is God of Flowers, and Flowers in Chinese Mythology that are characterised with Romanticism so as to explore the "wash and ink" technique, lines and composition of a picture in theory of construction, and to construct the elements and creative formulas of this research. The issues of the discussion include: I. To discuss the origins of Flowers, and Gods of Flowers, and the characters of Gods of Flowers. II. Exploration of the application of "ink and wash" techniques to the creative formulas in Digital Illustration. III. Exploration of the composition of a picture and the application of colours. Finally, the process of creating the work, executing the creative concepts of concrete art works, and revealing a new Digital Illustration style via Computer Graphic software will be analysed and exemplified. The research concludes with the thoughts and suggestions of the future development of the application of wash painting techniques to Digital Illustration.