People have been asking me if Zanelle, my painting robot, can duplicate paintings. The interesting thing about her, is that she can, but the duplications never come out the same. There are simply too many variables including brush stiffness and painting viscosity. For example, as the paint dries, it doesn’t take to the canvas as well.
Here is an image of two works painted back to back with Zanelle. Though similar, notice how the paint became thicker in the second painting. I am not sure why that happened, but it was either because the brush became stiffer during the first painting, or that the second canvas I used was thicker. This demonstrates the level to which Zanelle can reproduce paintings.
Two other cool things about this work. The first is the speckling that is an artifact of how Zanelle paints. Check out the splatter in the details. I could fix this and remove the splatter with a mechanical dampner, but it is one of those effects that I really enjoy.
The second thing I like has to do with the theme. Nothing is cooler than retro-robots. There is also nothing cooler than asian characters whether they be from China, Japan, or most any other country in Asia. But what is funny about these characters is that us Americans often do rediculous things with them even though we can not read them. Think about all the Chinese character tattoos that people have. I love the urban legend of the asian tattoo artist that puts the symbol for “tramp” whenever a girl asks for something silly like “love.” Anyways, I have no idea what the characters next to Astro Boy say. It was the first search result when I put “Japanese Characters” into images.google.com. I will be making more. Write if you can tell me what it says. I am curious…
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