Digital painting

Digital painting is a contemporary art movement , the main method of which is the creation of electronic images using computer programs that imitate the traditional techniques and tools of the artist. At the same time, the monitor is both a canvas and an easel. A work of digital painting is a raster image, a set of dots – pixels, the size of which forms the resolution of this image.

Accessibility = globalism. Today, a huge number of people have computers, tablets and other gadgets that allow you to create electronic images using several programs. This forms a certain virtual market, the main elements of which are online galleries, stock sites, accounts where digital paintings are sold, bought and displayed. Digital painting is widely used for designing advertisements, books, posters, creating computer games, and in cinema.

Neo-eclecticism. Computer programs allow you to imitate and combine all kinds of traditional media, techniques, artistic techniques that give a specific texture. High-tech functions make it possible to easily correct errors, correct, use a large number of shades of colors, textures, filters. An artist can draw a perfect circle or square without the slightest difficulty. The finished work does not need to dry, as with oil painting.

Existing problems:

– is digital painting art?

– difficulties with the output of an electronic drawing on a material carrier;

– small number of highly professional schools and teachers;

– the difficulty of mastering the material;

– lack of computer equipment and the Internet in certain regions;

– the problem of copyright.