Direccion in Digital

Paint
Here starts
the lesson!
 Members
● Laos Padilla Miguel
● Martines Valladares Anderson
● Gonzales Grados José
 Table of
Contents!
01. 03.
Definition Differences in method
02.
Visual characteristics 04.
Mainstream directions
 01
DEFINITION
A 'digital' painting is created on the computer using a
graphics program, a virtual paintbox with brushes, colors
and other supplies. The definition applies to a painting
on its primary digital carrier (as a computer file) as
well as when it is transferred in a non-manual process to
a secondary physical carrier (printed on paper, acrylic
glass, aluminum, canvas, etc).
 02
Visual
characteristics
Apart from the traditional tools, the virtual painting box
contains instruments that do not exist outside the computer.
The use of these instruments distinguish a digital from a
non-digital painting. Typical characteristics can be traced
back to the power of the computer to attach geometrical
formulas to lines and shapes.

Specific digital traits include:

- Sharp transition between color panes

- Transparency
- Symmetry
- Exact repetition
- Perfect circles, squares and other shapes
- Perfectly smooth gradients
- 100% monochrome color panes
- Absence of brushstroke
 03
Differences in
method
Spontaneity:

In most programs it is possible to

undo all or a large number of
brush strokes and other actions
without a trace. A painting is no
longer spoiled by a single
brushstroke. The 'undo' option and
many push-button transformations
give digital painters the freedom
to work faster, to freely make
mistakes and to take a more
experimental and spontaneous
approach to their work.
Creative
influence:

While ‘art’ is usually defined as

‘human’ creative skill and
imagination, it becomes
increasingly difficult to assess
to what extent a painting is the
result of human effort. The
influence that the artist exerts
on the final result can be
assessed by the software, the
painting medium that has been used
in the process and the preferences
of the artist. In traditional
painting this influence is by
nature 100 percent.
 04
Mainstream
directions
Computer generated painting:

The artist doesn't create the artwork by hand, but instructs the
computer how to do it. Like a composer who creates music, not by
playing it on an instrument but by writing music notes on a
score.
Raster painting:

In raster painting, colors and lines are registered pixel by

pixel on the canvas. In procedure as well as appearance, raster,
'grid' or 'bitmap' painting resembles most closely a traditional
painting with real brushes and paint.
Vector painting:
Together with hybrid and generated painting and new
photography, vector is one of four directions that create
the new visual language that has emerged since painters use
a computer.
New photography:
Placing an image on a digital canvas and transforming it into a painting
now requires nothing more than the press of a button, and today a
photographer uses the same software to edit and transform a photograph
as an artist does to create a painting.
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