Realism took root in many art forms in the 19th and 2oth centuries beyond painting, as various movements emerged within literature, drama, and film.Īs with painting, the expression of Realism in these arts was both aesthetic and ideological. What is Realism in Art Cinema Realism in Cinema Movements In the next section, we'll see how this same approach has been adopted in film. (As this has moved onto another topic, you might be better off starting a new thread to ask about the anti-aliasing problem, to ensure that the right people see it).Realism has evolved greatly since the 19th century, but it has the same basic philosophical approach - to convey subjects so that they look true to life. If you can attach a small example file showing the problem you have, we might be able to better advise on a way to work around it. There are a number of approaches to avoiding this problem, including changing the way in which you draw objects to avoid overlapping parts, or ensuring they're drawn to a grid that ensures the lines will match the pixels in the export (this approach is often used for drawing small icons). This happens independently for each object, so when you lay one fuzzy line over another fuzzy line, the fuzzy translucent parts combine to give the appearance of a thicker line. The result is that your precise line is actually rendered as a very slightly fuzzy line. Should Inkscape only colour one of the rows? Both rows? In practice it uses what's called 'anti-aliasing' which adjusts the colour of the pixels to approximate the weight of the original line. Consider what happens when a line doesn't fit exactly into a row of pixels, but rather straddles two rows. When exporting a bitmap Inkscape has to force a theoretically perfect line to fit into a grid of pixels. I actually dont know any technical details of implementing vector graphics. If I draw a line of some width and black in color, and then I draw another line of the same width on top of that, (both snapped to same gridpoints for their start and end) then technically, in 2-D, why should anything look visibly different between a single line and double line? I feel like my expectation is valid!! What does inkscape do when treating these cases? Does it nudge one of the lines a tiny-bit so that the overall width seems larger and hence the line appearing bolder in a bitmap export? I feel like two lines on top of one another should be same as one line if both are opaque! right? If I think about it, this is what I feel. Its fun but after sometime I realize that I just spent several hours playing with this!!! haha).Ībout the overlapping lines: for something I am doing, I have a repetition of shapes and during it, its almost impossible to avoid partial overlap. I found this tutorial on textures and that is what I am playing with now (which is kind of a good and bad thing. Is there any way to avoid this? Can I somehow set an option which will say: if you have two lines exactly on top of one another, just treat it just like a single line? Not sure if this is a valid question but I can see how one might want this!!! Now when this happens, these lines appear slightly darker/thicker or something but I can notice it when I export a bitmap from inkscape. The two lines would be of exact same color, same stroke width and same length and right on top of one another. When I drew out things on inkscape, on occasion, I have overlapping lines. As I said, all my work involves line work. How can I atleast add a texture to the entire background, instead of plain white (or other plain colored) background? Say canvas or drawing paper etc.Ģ. However, I still have two followup questionsġ. I may be should not worry too much about this stuff. All my work involves plain lines thats all. My work is NOWHERE nearly as complicated as the ones shown on that page. PS: This is my first post on this forum!!! YAY My level of inkscape knowledge is this: I know basic interface, creating lines, duplicating, ctrl+shift+f, ctrl+shift+d options etc. Now, this is what I am thinking: Can I apply some tweaks to make the inkscape linework look like it was drawn by hand on a paper or on canvas or something like that. This is of course not true because everything I have drawn in inkscape is also drawn by hand before. I feel like when people see it, they will think that I just used computer to auto-generate the artwork. Now, the problem is this: my work looks way too artificial and perfect. So, I decided to go to vector graphics and drew out my work in inkscape.

However, I needed to replicate my art and initially I decided to just scan the work but that turned out to be quite tedious due to the size of the sheets I was using etc.

I do some artwork in inkscape and before using inkscape, I have been doing it just on paper with a pencil.

Realistic inkscape art