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Paper and fabric
IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER we looked at substances whose common
factor was that they were hard. Here, we’ll see how to work with
textures that have precisely the opposite characteristics.
Paper and fabric both distort. They can be crumpled, folded,
torn, twisted, rippled, and put through as many different types of
transformations as you can imagine. To show a sheet of newspaper as
a purely flat surface may display the design, but it does nothing to get
across the essence of the newspaper itself: its pliability, its tendency to
tear, the difficulty of keeping it straight.
It’s not difficult to crumple a sheet of paper, or to wave a flag, or
even to curl a banknote so it looks like it’s flying through the air. But
when we do so, we bring an added realism to drawn or scanned
artwork, making it appear that little bit more like the real thing.
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