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In the history of Chinese ink painting and Western water-media painting, there is a list of brushes developed over the years. The tools developed are highly related to the skill requirements, techniques developed, and the chosen painting surfaces. In this project, a comparison of Chinese and Western brushworks is made. Through the comparison of Chinese calligraphy and ink painting brushworks and Western water-media painting brushworks and their tools, the advantages of both brushwork application processes can be combined with minor sacrifice of their original capacity. After knowing the strength and weakness of these two categories of brushwork application, the results can be introduced to current commercial applications including animation, digital painting, and digital image processing.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_density: In the metric system, the mass per unit area of all types of paper and paperboard is expressed in terms of grams per square meter (g/m2). This quantity is commonly called grammage in both English and French (ISO 536), though printers in most English-speaking countries still refer to the “weight” of paper. Here a sheet of imperial size watercolor paper of 0.56 m × 0.76 m weights [0.56 × 0.76] × 300 g/m2 = 127.68 g.
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Lam, N.W. (2016). Comparison of Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting Brushes with Western Water-Media Painting Brushes. In: Abidin, S., Legino, R., Noor, H., Vermol, V., Anwar, R., Kamaruzaman, M. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research (i-CADER 2015). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0237-3_56
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