iWallflower & Technical Art

Now I’m not sure I’ll participate in this new technological venture, but iWallflower, does propose a new intriguing, artistic, networking opportunity, created by iCloseby. This new app or iPod application allows one to draw in real time and submit for greater viewing and voting. The app provides constant streaming of new drawings that are continuously being submitted. These drawings resemble what one might draw on a steamed mirror in the bathroom or like my previous post on a dirty car windshield.

As rudimentary as these can appear, vector art is highly precise and can create photo realistic art that can be digitally manipulated as animation, print or other media. Here are some examples:

http://www.hemmy.net/2008/03/26/photo-realistic-vector-art/

And also seen on the Crooked Brains Blog.

We’ve been learning a lot of vector art as we’re considering enlarging our casart coverings logo to be printed on a banner and we want to make sure the images will be sharp. Presently our wording is in vector, which allows it to be enlarged without losing quality, but our the caterpillar and butterfly images that I illustrated are not, so we have to question how would these look if they were enlarged @ 400 times? Maybe with each pixel looking like huge post-it notes, not good for this purpose. Our task is to decide do we use largescale photos from highest resolution, scanned images or do we go another route and get them put into vector, which will be costly.  Just some of the many business decisions we’ve been making.