Class Notes from an ordinary painting class, with faint traces of doodles visible.

Lesson Review
Imagenaes are forged from the substrate of Wishpower. In natural manifestations, a Wishpower nebula will fragment into some random single-digit to hundreds of entities, each possessing distinct baseline energy levels.
Conversely, when channeled by an artist, even a massive surge of Wishpower is distilled into a sole entity. The outward form is dictated by the artwork's design and the state of mind of the artist at the moment of creation.
※ Minor anomalies have been documented.

Today's Topic
Steps of Imagenesis (WILL BE TESTED!!!)

1. Funneling
Only need to exceed minimum threshold. The specific volume of Wishpower funneled will not impact the final scale of the imagenesis.

Safety Precaution
A student one knocked over a rack of paints. He had a work as a streamer for quite a while to earn enough Wishpower to pay for the damages.

2. Invoking
※ Conceptualizing the desired imagenae.
① Which wish or emotion shall it be founded upon?
② What is the scale of this wish?
③ How much emotional weight is being invested?
④ Does a pre-existing “base perception” exist? (This determines whether the imagenae can absorb Wishpower from external sources.)
The more stable the design in this phase, the longer the resulting imagenae can maintain its physical form.

Experiment
Used a massive amount of Wishpower to draw an abstract stick figure while keeping my mind completely blank.
Result: It gave birth to a very “stout” wispae, which proceeded to hop right out of the classroom.

3. Shaping
The primary painting process. This stage determines the temperament of the imagenae and their initial impression on others.
The primary influencing factor is Technique:
Classical Techniques — Methods such as oil painting or Xianzhou ink-wash styles. Imagenae created this way are more human-like and can even achieve self-perpetuation (though they tend to be more stubborn).

• Orch
• Lightpaw

Noted. Gonna go teas my orch buddy right now and tell him he's an old fart.

Modern Techniques — Abstract art, conceptual art, etc. These are better suited for creating imagenae with high practical utility.
(The typically cannot maintain their physical forms for very long.)

• The Self-Turning Screwdriver
• This very classroom

(No wonder the guy next to me got caught playing games. Turns out the ceiling has eyes. Don't look at me, Teacher! I'm taking notes, see?)

Digital art can spawn imagenae too, but only through spirit imbuement.