In current society, Body Painting, as a 3D total art performed on human body, is watched as a beauty industry of infinite possibility and growing competitiveness while it is used for corporate advertisement, opening ceremonies and events. Though this ...
In current society, Body Painting, as a 3D total art performed on human body, is watched as a beauty industry of infinite possibility and growing competitiveness while it is used for corporate advertisement, opening ceremonies and events. Though this body painting is developed and used by beauty and art-related departments, there is short of relative expert manpower and basic data against the marketability of body painting and demands for it and so there is demand for various in-depth studies in informatization era.
The use of tools in body painting gives artists free expression and new possibility at the same time. In general, many artists use air brush and brush for their works of body painting.
Air brush has good points of shortening time, smooth brightness effect and detailed line processing but it requires skilled technology for novice in body painting to use it well and so it is hard to use at first.
However, everyone can use brush easily and any artist who uses it for the first time can participate in the production of work. It can give various possibilities only if the expression methods are used correctly. Therefore, we use brush as expression tool of body painting in this study.
As for production of works, we selected themes of 10 expression categories represented in previous studies on body painting; designed illustration by using modeling elements of dot, line and plane and used brush so we could find how to use the tools and various techniques.
We could find that selecting appropriate brush increases efficiency in body painting and maximizes the reality and effectiveness.
It was turned out that the expression techniques of body painting using design elements of dot, line and plane can give possibility of new creation according to various work patterns from simple pattern to abstract image and realistic expressions. Also, we could find that brush is effective for artist's original work expression.
Such techniques are continuously developed by artist's experimental spirit, generated in the course of creating the work, and accumulated by one's own expression method; however, it is meaningful to organize various effective methods per brush and the ways to add beauty to human body academically.