我正在尝试用Java绘制一个简单的画布。当我运行程序时，图像正确绘制，但程序会立即抛出NullPointerException（在调用drawImage的行）。我正在使用update（）方法自动重新绘制场景：
public void update(Graphics brush) {
paint(buffer.getGraphics());
brush.drawImage(buffer, 0, 0, this);
if (on) {
sleep(50);
repaint();
}
}
我的绘画方法：
public void paint(Graphics brush) {
brush.drawImage(mainChar.sprite, 0, 0, null);
}//paint
mainChar.sprite是一个BufferedImage对象。据我所知，mainChar和mainChar.sprite在程序开始时被正确初始化。奇怪的部分是，图像正确绘制，但程序很快崩溃。
编辑：抛出异常，但程序实际上并没有崩溃。考虑到这一点，我可以坚持这个错误继续，但我仍然想知道是什么导致它。
哦，这是控制台转储：
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
at Draegix.paint(Draegix.java:44)
at sun.awt.RepaintArea.paintComponent(RepaintArea.java:264)
at sun.awt.RepaintArea.paint(RepaintArea.java:240)
at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.handleEvent(WComponentPeer.java:347)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4937)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4687)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:729)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(EventQueue.java:103)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:688)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:686)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:87)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:702)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:700)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:699)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:146)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:138)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:91)
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
at Draegix.paint(Draegix.java:44)
at sun.awt.RepaintArea.paintComponent(RepaintArea.java:264)
at sun.awt.RepaintArea.paint(RepaintArea.java:240)
at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.handleEvent(WComponentPeer.java:347)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4937)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4687)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:729)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(EventQueue.java:103)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:688)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:686)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:87)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:702)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:700)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:699)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:146)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:138)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:91)