Galleries Month
The Digital Art - Drawings and Paintings gallery is one of the fastest growing galleries here on DeviantArt. Within the gallery, members of the community will discover a wide variety of styles as the possibilities for Digital Drawings and Paintings are endless. So what exactly are Digital Drawings and Paintings? Is there even a difference between the two? Well, in this article I will explain exactly what Digital Drawings and Paintings are as well as why they are indeed different.
Digital Drawings and Paintings Defined
Let's begin with something easy such as defining what is considered Digital art. Digital art is any artwork that is created using digital software and/or tools. In the simplest of terms, your art is considered to be digital if it was created using a device such as your computer, digital tablet (ie: iPad), a Nintendo 3DS, or even your cellular phone! Digital artists often will use tools to assist them in digital drawing and painting. The tools most commonly used by digital artists are: digital drawing tablets such as a Wacom Pro, a mouse, and much more. As mentioned above, digital artists also use software to create their art. Some of the most commonly used software used by digital artists are Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Painter, PaintTool SAI, Apophysis, Gimp, Google SketchUp, Poser, Blender, Maya, and 3DS Max.
Digital Drawings are defined as art that adapts traditional drawing techniques by means of computer software. Essentially, digital drawings bring the techniques of traditional drawing to the digital format, which gives the drawing a different look and feel than its traditional counterpart. Just like traditional drawings, digital drawings vary in a wide variety of styles.
Digital Paintings differ from digital drawings in that it adapts traditional painting techniques by means of computer software. For instance, digital painting attempts to simulate mediums such as oils, acrylics, ink, watercolour, and airbrushing through the use of computer software. Both digital drawings and paintings vary greatly in styles. Due to the variation in styles, the Digital Art - Drawings and Paintings gallery consists of several sub-categories for artists to submit their artwork. Included below is a list of the gallery's sub-categories along with definitions and examples of the various styles.
Abstract
Digital Drawings & Paintings focusing on the formal, non-representational aspect of imagery, emphasizing lines, colors, generalized or geometrical forms.
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Animals
Digital Drawings & Paintings featuring animals as the main focus.
Fantasy
Digital Drawings & Paintings that depict supernatural or magical themes often relating to legend, myth, and enchanted creatures.
Graffiti
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Illustrations
Digital Illustrations can range between Conceptual, Storybook, to Technical depending on the intended purpose or message of the illustration.
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Landscapes & Scenery
Art that is digitally painted to depict scenery, whether it be real or imaginary.
Macabre & Horror
Art digitally painted that represent extreme fear, be it visual (ie. blood and gore) or psychological (ie. mind games).
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Digital Drawings & Paintings that do not fit into any other category.
People
Digital Drawings & Paintings of a person or a group of people that can range between Fantasy, Open Format, Pin Up, Portraits, and Sci-Fi.
Political
Digital Paintings representing current or historical events in the political arena or depicts political figures.
Pop Art
Digital Drawings & Paintings displaying objects or scenes from everyday life that employ techniques of commercial art and popular illustration.
Psychedelic
Digital Drawings & Paintings characterized by morphing objects, bright colors, and spirals, kaleidoscopic or fractal patterns, extreme depth or stylization of detail with the repetition of motifs or warped figures.
Sci-Fi
Digital Science fiction depicting speculative scientific discoveries, space travel and scenes, and other world life forms.
Space Art
Space art in general is about ideas associated with outer space. Common used elements are planets and planetoids, nebulae, stars and the infinite imagination of the individual artist.
Still Life
Digital Drawings & Paintings showing a representation of inanimate, but mobile, objects. For example: a painting of a bowl of fruit.
Surreal
Digital Drawings & Paintings that defies the laws of logic and physics, creating often dreamlike scenery in which the impossible and implausible is depicted.
