Digital BW, The Print

I think others actually hit the nail on the head--the
time I spend waiting on my computer that is the
greatest hindrance to the creative process is not when
waiting for a file to downsize, or for a print to get
sent to my printer . . . for those minutes I might
actually get up and see if there's another task worth
attending to.  It's when I am using my Intuo drawing
pad and I place in a dodge or a burn with the flick of
a wrist and then have to wait 5 seconds for that dodge
or burn to appear on the screen.  Or the lag between
editing a curve and then seeing the preview on screen.
 Yes, I know that the highlights will have less or
more separation, etc., but seeing the results appear
is what allows my creative lobe to move on to the next
idea or tweak further.  I can't practically do
anything in those few seconds, so all they really do
is disrupt the creative flow.  

I realize with traditional means you would have to
wait anyway--burn, burn, burn, then slap it in a tray
and see what appears--but one of the main reasons I am
using digital output is because my creative background
is in pencil sketching/drawing mediums, where each of
my changes are literally applied and rendered
instantaneously on the paper.  Doesn't mean I
*couldn't* wait those 5 seconds, absorb it, then try
again; it's just that "instant" is how I like to see
things when I'm in the creative mode.

In the commercial realm I know there is the hurry-up
and wait; but there's also a script and a timeline,
etc. etc.  By contrast, Van Gogh could not have waited
5 seconds between each brush stroke and still have
created this:
<http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/p_0222.htm>
because the process needed to be unrehearsed and
organic.  Lag/delays inhibit that dynamism and force a
separation between what you do and what you see as a
result of your actions.  That's what I'm trying to
avoid--I want that action-feedback loop to be tight.

Hope that makes sense.

Matt


--- bhhc <tawow@...> wrote:
and when you know what you are doing, that process can
become an "intuitive" (read: push here stupid) action.
I, nor you, do not need to sit and watch how mama
computer re-arranges your digits. That is something
that should be understood beforehand, if it isn't
understood, then maybe you ain't in the right place.


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