1. Digital Painting

2. Digital Painting
Digital painting is a method of creating an art object in a computer. It adapts traditional painting medium such as acrylic paint, oils, ink, watercolor, and so on. then, applies the pigment to traditional carriers, such as canvas, paper, polyester and so on and by means of the computer software driving printers.

3. As a technique, it refers to a computer graphics software program that uses a virtual canvas and virtual painting box of brushes, colors and other supplies.
The virtual box contains many instruments that do not exist outside the computer, and which gibe a digital artwork a different look and feel from an artwork that is made the traditional way.

4. Digital painting differs from other forms of digital art particularly computer-generated art, in that it does not involve the computer rendering from a model.
Digital painting try to mimic the use of physical media through various brushes and paint effects.
Digital painting is also distinct from digital manipulation of photographs, in that it is an original construction “from scratch”

5. Raster Painting
Octave Pixel’s Small Rocks is a typical raster painting. It is not possible to create the ‘Perfect imperfect’ lines and shapes that are made by a human hand in a program for vector painting.
- Soft, nuanced overall and appearance
- Multicolor planes
- Hand formed lines and shapes
-Digital Texture (abraded patches)
Octave Pixel: Small rocks, raster painting

6. Vector-Raster Painting
Divided by 2 types:
Hybrid program
Two program combined

7. Vector-Raster Painting
Hybrid program
In Sunny Angle (below), stroke by stroke raster forms and lines are subtly smoothed by Bezier curves. The overall appearance of the painting reflects the hybrid basis of the program (Art Rage) and gives it a homogenous appearance that is somewhere in the middle between vector and raster
- Smooth, homogenous, overall appearance
- Sharper than raster, softer than vector paintings
- Textured color planes (orange, white)
- Multicolor planes (grey, green, mauve)
- Transparencies (yellow line)
- Perfect forms and shapes (circle, rectangles)
Helene Goldberg: Sunny angle, vector-raster painting

8. Vector-Raster Painting
Two program combined.
In Rear window (below) a program for raster and a program for vector painting are used in the same painting. Combining programs makes it possible to contrast the characteristics of vector and raster.
- Hard-and-soft overall appearance
- Vector shapes (red shapes, green and white oval forms, grey planes left and right)
- 3D illusion (red shapes)
- Smooth computer gradients (red-white shapes)
- Transparencies (grey shadows)
- Uniform color panes (yellow, blue, mauve)
- Multicolor planes of raster (patches of soft pink-red, grey-purple)
Programs for vector and raster painting combined in Rear window

9. Vector Painting
No artist could better illustrate the characteristics of vector painting than Amparo Higón, a pioneering vector painter with an impressive oeuvre of abstract and figurative work hosted at Flickr. The image below was created in freehand- style using Corel.
- Highly defined, bold, sharp forms
- 3D illusion (red balls and the eye)
- Digital texture (plastic in the epaulettes, glass in the balls, metal in the button)
- Architectural forms (collar, mouth, hat)
- Monochromatic color planes (all)
- Smooth computer gradients (red-black ornament top-left on hat)
Amparo Higón: Clown

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