Digital Painting: An Innovation in Conventional Painting
21st century would seem incomplete without the term ‘Digital.’ We are surrounded by digital measures. From equipment to procedures, applications, shopping, trading- anything and everything can be performed digitally.
If the world is so progressive in adapting Digital measures everywhere, do you think we, as a technological community, will stay aside in adopting the same technology in artworks? Yes, you got it right. We won’t. and we haven’t.
The sky is the limit for ever-developing technology. We live in an age where everything seems possible on an 11x11” screen. And so is painting. Yes, you heard it correctly. We’ll be discussing the interesting artwork feature, Digital Painting.
Knowing about Digital Painting
What we generally comprehend of painting is tons of brushes and paints. From Ivory Black to Ultramarine Blue, from oil paints to pastel colors, from 10/0 brush size to 28, the inventory still sounds scant. But, today in the digital world, one can acquire loads of tools on a single screen. Let’s get you introduced to Digital painting.
Digital Painting, immensely flourishing, is an art process of painting or creating artwork digitally. The technology uses digital mediums rather than physical to create an artwork. It tries to simulate what one does with a paper and a pen. Therefore, simplistically, rather having a paper and a pen, one has a piece of digital equipment and a stylus to create its artwork.
Thus, Digital painting is an intelligible medium like acrylic, oil colors, and watercolors but without their physical presence. Though it may sound easy, it comes with a meticulous skill set. Just like the traditional painting requires canvas-skills, digital painting demands artistry as well as tech-comfort.
Applications of Digital Painting
Software used for Digital Painting
Digital Painting battling with Traditional Painting
Digital design is like painting, except for the paint never dries.
- Neville Brody
At the beginning of Photoshop and Illustrator — what became Creative Suite — and to me it looked like another tool, another set of tools. And it fits in well with my photography. The photography had been there to support my art, basically, a way of gathering information and images in order to create better paintings.
― James Stanford, Shimmering Zen
Summing up, Digital Painting plays an important role in today’s world. Everything has been digitalized and we are to expandingly grow more on the journey of digitalization. Digital painting has brought many advantages to itself in the art. It gives the artist freedom of action. One could choose from a variety of tools to canvases, to prints.
A digital artist can feel liberated. Moreover, this art form has not limited itself to just art. It has diverged in streams like creating movies, games, concepts, and similar artworks used for various mediums. It has increased the efficiency and productivity of an artist. Moreover, in many cases, it is economical too.
Traditional art form has its own advantages, but it seems in an age when one can’t live without digital mediums, Digital Painting is an appropriate measure to vouch for.
Compelling. Isn’t it?
Written By: Ayushi Jain (ayushi@wharfstreetstrategies.com)
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