Introduction to Digital

Painting
Mr. Nomar J. Mercines
 History of Digital Art
1960 1963 Mid 1982
Desmond James 1960 Adobe System,
developed the
Paul Henry Larsen People PostScript
Wrote a involved in language and
Henry
computer creation of digital font,
Drawing making drawing,
program computer
Machine painting, and
based on art. image
artistic manipulation
software.
principle.
 History of Digital Art
1987 1990
Adobe Thomas &
Illustrator, John Knoll
vector
Adobe
drawing
Photoshop
program and
Adobe
Photoshop
 2D and 3D Art
2D Art
- This is emulating traditional art using computer
software.
- Objects in 2D art only have height and width.
- It is a process or technique are those that created on
a flat plane.
 2D and 3D Art

3D Art
- A type of artwork painted or drawn in a specific way
that creates an optical illusion.
- Objects in 3D art have height, width and depth.
 Basic Drawing Tools
• Pencil Tool – the tool that draws free lines onto the
picture.
• Line Tool – used to create perfectly straight lines.
• Paint Bucket – used to fill an area with a solid color
or pattern.
• Square Tool – used to create perfect square and
rectangle.
• Circle Tool – it is used to create perfect circles
 Selection and Erasing Tool

• Erasing Tool – these provides several different ways

to erase various parts, or all, of your drawing.
• Moving Truck – allows various parts of the image to
be selected and moved around the canvas.
• Dye Tool – used to pick out colors already used
somewhere in the canvas.
 Text Insertion
• Text Tool – includes “rubber stamps” of the letters of
the alphabet which speak the name of the letters
when selected.
• Typing Tool – includes basic abilities to add text to
the image in different fonts and various sizes.
• Opacity – the degree to which something reduces
the passage of light.
• Undo – cancels, annuls, or reverse an action or its
effect.