[gimp-book-painting] Preparing draft to GIMP and Style - talk about brushes, tool presets and paint dynamics.

[Americo Gobbo <amerigo src gnome org>]

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Author: Americo Gobbo <jag rabisco gmail com>
Date:   Sun Jun 17 10:40:03 2018 -0300

    Preparing draft to GIMP and Style - talk about brushes, tool presets and paint dynamics.

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+# Style & GIMP
+
+GIMP has the capability to adapt very well with many styles and ways to painting from the well-formed to 
personal and/or customized styles.
+Is evident that each artist do paintings with our own styles (or unawares are considered as theirs) or using 
some traditional manner of the painting. So, any kind of software to digital painting has a UI and that 
creates certain conditions, many times not specifically and/or purposely, to superposes the 'inner' style 
painting in our's style. This is more common when the apps are deeply based upon tool presets… and where the 
application is viewed more as presets ready for the painting.
+
+To explain it better I think usable this metaphor:
+
+* All language is a kind of UI software, this "feature" permits ourselves to exchanging /experiencing 
/practicing /making /learning /teaching things with thoughts /talking /seeing /showing and writing things;
+ * As any language or any software's UI, it has an strong relationship with "environment" where is molded;
+ * The 'style' or 'our own way' to expressing sensations, ideas in the art form is molded by the UI;
+ * The language is molded by the influences and relations with UI;
+ * So, different software's UI promote naturally an imprinting on the our own styles in an unaware way;
+ * If we have languages, UI, where the capabilities are in some way expressing with a 'style', that is not 
our own…
+* all things, that we do with this software also will be influenced by it.
+
+When we are using a tool preset to painting anything, is important know the designer of the preset and his 
style… so, is probable that the way and how the preset is working/showing the results are more aligned with 
designer's style than that of the user that using it.
+
+So, is possible that using different applications our 'style' could be influenced by them, read the 
interesting chat discussion that I did with Elias Silveira, questions 3 and 4). I intend discuss this better 
on the next point on Prêt-à-porter.
+
+## Tool Preset as Prêt-à-porter
+
+Since is introduced the Tool Presets on GIMP (when I began utilize, on 2.6+ release, them were already 
present), it becomes an application capable to record the our way painting's style… and is possible also to 
share them with other painters and common users.
+
+In this sense the French term "Prêt-à-porter" (Ready-to-use) from the fashion is important to understand why 
reason the presets have inner an way to understand the painting and therefore have an own style.
+
+In many situations the user can, if he wants, customize a "prêt-a-porter" the tool preset, but all depends 
if the application has an easier way to do this… many times the approach is very complex and hard to 
understand for the artists.
+
+Is possible that a certain rules these presets could cause in our styles… mainly if this fact is not clear 
for the users, in this sense, I think very important to know well these aspects during the design of presets, 
mainly if we have intention to share them. So, is very important for the default presets on the painting 
applications, to have an approach more classical for the painting techniques, must be more possibly 'basics'. 
As advice I read today a quote very interesting wrote by Brian Eno that is useful in this issue about Tool 
Presets as Prêt-à-porter:
+
+"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences."