Dear Artists..
What do you think about Fine Art Digital?
I was given a WACOM Digital Tablet but I am still reluctant to use it as I actually have No idea how to use it.
I was also given Corel Painter No 9, which I have still not tried..
Saw some awesome digital art on YOUTUBE, jaw dropping images from some digital artists..
Just curious to know is Digital art real art or just a phase one has fun with.
ALL opinions will be apprecreated, xxxxxxxx
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On a personal level I am not attracted to doing it myself I thoroughly enjoy all of the tactile aspects of mixing paint, handling brushes and applying paint to work surface.
I often really feel that I am sculpting with paint, I don't think I would get that on a tablet.
Digital art for me is iPad and Procreate and the big benefits are portability, convenience and speed.
I can paint and draw; on long car or train rides, in bed on sleepless nights, at an al fresco cafe.
Hugely assisted by having a great camera and music on my headphones, all on the one device.
Denis
I'd give them a go even just to have a bit of non destructive experimentation and fun. Painter is like having your very own personal art supply shop but also the ability to craft your own art brushes and surface. The tools are very realistic.
@Mayeoli, I also watch Andrew Tischler's videos. He produces amazing paintings and states openly that he could not do what he does without modern technology. I recently watched him create a painting of wave swept rocks. He used various photos to come up with a marvelous composition and painted wet over dry to create glistening wet rocks, spray and foam. The end product, the physical painting with its beautiful texture was, IMHO, miles better than any photo or purely digital work which, to me, never looks like real phyisical painting. You can always tell that it's computer generated art and not real painting.
I'm not criticising digital art - advertising, movies and much else relies on it these days and it produces wonderful imagery. But painting with real paint and brushes is a distinct art form, whose appeal has much to do with brushwork and 3D texture which relies on the human touch using phyisical media and that won't be repaced by computer generated art anytine soon.
Some artists will want to go down the purely digital path. Others will stick with plein air painting and purely phyisical media. And many, like Tischler, will marry the two in the studio. It's all good.
HUGE thank you all you informative answwers.
I own WACOM INTUOS TABLET and COREL PAINTER NO 9
Will try to use my tablet and corel painter I have.
I have NO technophobia, but being a seniour artist some technlogy just escapes me, LOL..
After all even my favorite artist VERMEER was supossed to use technology in the form of Camera Obsecura..
I wonder if Digital Art will ever be accepted as REAL Art..
Cheers to everyone here.
Keep safe keep helathy all of you. xxxxxxxx
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oooh Vermeer..have you seen the documentary called Tim's Vermeer? It is absolutely fantastic! I actually traveled to the Hague in the Netherland's last December to see the girl with the pearl earing, it is such an amazing painting
That is an incredible amount of patience! Watching the documentary and the hours upon hours he spent just painting the fabrics would drive me insane.
Something a lot of people do when starting out is to do their sketch first on paper, take a photo, and then work on top of that.
Stephan
@Catlady
You should try ArtRage. I am using it now... along with Mark Carder's method... at least until I have a studio set up. I really like it .. you can try it for free. Of course nothing simulates real paint and brushes properly yet, but I think it is the best currently out there.
That said, I have used DMP in the digital realm... as prep for the real world...
You might recognize the reference I used for this digital piece I did:
I used a grid to for drawing since nothing quite like a proportional divider or a workable omni-orientational ruler was available. I color checked on the reference by guessing at colors and painting digital dabs directly on the reference. I generated a full palette with "steps" prior to painting and tried not to "blend" too much with the digital brush. Of course I added new colors to the palette and the piece as this progressed.
I'm hoping my practice in the digital realm translates... although I am finding a shocking amount of paint is required for coverage, and I've given up on mixing a whole set of steps in acrylic prior to getting paint on the canvas, things start to get sticky even after I mix only one color! ... So, still very much a novice. Let's see how it goes.
Outstanding work. Well done.
Denis
https://www.bertmonroy.com/index.htm
This link is a story on CNBC about the NFY craze.
https://youtu.be/C1jJ-08kKCU
This is a digital piece I did in the early 90s using 3d render and photoshop.
I much prefer paint. Oil, acrylic, watercolor… whatever
This was a popular print of mine.
@tassieguy thanks. I agree acrylics are not easy, but right now I have no permanent space for a studio, I'm working from a photo (covered in glass... soon to be replaced with one sprayed with acrylic sealer) painting on a very small canvas and put I everything away in a desk after a session. I spend less than an hour (getting good practice mixing colors and putting them on right away... and having to remix some of them next session...) once every 1 or 2 weeks... family and work keep me busy... and/or guilty.
I feel a strong temptation to dive into oils and comandeer/confiscate a nice portion of our storage room for a little studio, but 1. I want to make sure I like real media and am passably good at using it prior to jumping in. 2. I am still intimidated and a little put off of on the idea of a. prestaining with harsh chemicals, b. dealing with and keeping track of multiple random oil or paint soaked brushes, c. dealing with or keeping track of or mixing oil for dipping, fat over lean, etc d. worrying about adherence, drying, cracking, dust, varnishing, cleaning...
I'm not a chemist, and I'd prefer to think about composition, light, and form rather than thinking about fats and fiddling with molecular recipes, and worrying about the lifetime of the paint... I have precious little time or patience as it is.
Perhaps acrylics are a sort of temporary avoidance of the inevitable... if the bug bites me hard I realize I might have no choice but to move to oils... but it scares me and the thought of everything makes me cringe a little.
So oils being "easier" is perhaps a little subjective in this context...(now it certainly would be easier if I could just step into someone else's studio and start working away
it's probably the right choice, the better choice, and the hard choice, for me...
... to be honest it is my plan, so one day I most certainly will use oils!
Anyway, I just thought I'd mention these things in the hope they might be helpful to you as you begin to work with real paint.
Happy painting.
Rob