Digital Art...Real Art...

MY ARTWORK!!!

I used artpad (art.com) to create the image above. I quite like the bucket which throws paint onto your canvas because final product looks quite effective. I also like the selection of frames that were available and the replay of how the painting was created. This is a great programe that had me interested and it was fun to play with.

Is digital art a valid form of art?
I believe that digital art is still a valid form of art because it is somthing that you have created yourself and you should be able to gain credit for it.

Some advantages of digital paint programmes include the following:

• You won't have to clean up the mess after you finish painting
• You can create duplicate copies after you complete it
• You will not have to wait for it to dry
• You can fix your mistakes and this cannot be done on a normal canvas
• You don't need any extraordinary skills to create an artwork
• You will be environmentally friendly because you can save it on the computer
• You can use many different tools to gain great effects on your artworks
• It final product might look quite professional
• Any person of any age can experience these programmes (even children)

What skill must a digital artist possess to create great digital art?

There are no real skill a digital artist needs to possess to create great digital artworks because you use the various tool available on the programme. Anyone of any age can use digital programmes to create an artwork with no experience at all.

Programmes

There are two different types of art programmes that can be used. They include the following:
DRAW PROGRAMME
- Drawing programmes have separate tools/objects which makes editing the picture much simpler to edit a picture.
- Pictures that have been created using the drawing programmes usually resemble cartoon characters.
- Vector images (mathamatical formula)

PAINT PROGRAMME
- You are capable specifically editing each pixel
- The images created will look realistic because you are editing every pixel
- The pictures are bitmap images (a grid defining each pixel)

MY HORSE!!! (Inkscape)

Digital Media

DIGITAL MEDIA

Digital Media can be seen all around us. Some examples of Digital Media include:

• The radio
• Digital television
• Digital cameras
• E-book
• Mobile Phones

Digital Data is based on the binary numeral system, these days. The two numbers that are used to code all digital data are '0' and '1'.

The terms 'bit' and 'byte' are common words used in computing network and they refer to digital data transmitted over a computer network. A bit is a single numerical value that consists of a single unit of digital information, whereas byte refers to a sequence of bits. Eight bits is equal to one byte.

The sampling rate defines the number of samples per second, taken from a continuous signal to make a discrete signal.

Analog signal

Sampled Signal

Colour depth is used to describe the maximum number of colours that are used in a particular image. The higher the number of colours, the more enhanced and realistic the image will appear.

1 bit (2 colours)

2 bit (4 colours)

4 bit (16 colours)

8 bit (256 colours)

True colour (24+ bit)

Colour depth affects both still and video digital media. Sampling rate affects only video digital media because it incorporates sounds whereas still does not.