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So i hope you would have read the past article on digital art.

I gave a brief introduction about this new art medium. In this issue lets us see how a digital art is produced. Their are a many ways that can be followed to complete a digital art. Each artist has his/her own method. But the most common method is described here. Either you take a photo or you compose a theme. This is the starting point. Once you have designed the composition. see if the composition works and make a list of points a that attracts the viewer.

Now start building up the base layer with a rough sketch. Slowly add the details. Now and then make sure that you are not disturbing the composition. The process of applying the colors and fine tuning the details will be done till you are happy with the application of colors. Many people apply colors to the primary subject and then to the secondary subjects. This is one method, the other method is to complete the primary subject while working on the secondary subjects parallel. Which is the best method is a good question…. It depends on the artists needs and the demand created by the composition.

But some time to get excellent digital paintings depending upon the needs you can incorporate 3D elements in you paintings. Use any good 3D application and model the required elements, these elements can be mountains or buildings or vegetation. These elements can be either in the foreground or in the middle ground or in the background in the paintings. Once you have modeled the elements you need to add texture or the materials.  Export the final render in high resolution jpeg or png file format. Import these into you painting applications and proceed to the next step.
 
But here lies a small problem, you painting application can be either a  2D raster application or a 2D vector application. But while you bring the 3D element into your 2D application you will have to think about the lighting be applied in the 3D model. For example in your painting composition the lighting is from left to right then in the 3D model the same lighting arrangement should be followed. else you will see two sun or two source of light in your painting.
 
There are many application that can help you in composing art. But you should always remember that these software uses the most advanced algorithms and technologies, the real feel of live in your paintings can be given only by you, as an artist you need to incorporate a comedy element if required and the most important aesthetic elements. Study art work of other artists and you will learn more. Study the work of Andrew loomis, he is a real master in illustration and composition.
 
Try a google search on digital art and digital artists. Study other artists work and improve.

The more you study and practice this art more people will be will encouraged to enter into this industry. Many jobs are in hign demand in the cinema and other allied fields.

There are a set of people who think that digital art is less when compared to traditional art. Do not get discouraged by this. Any art when introduced there is always some negative feedback. Once the art movement is established then these kinds of negative feedback will reduce. Once I meet a gallery curator we were discussing about digital art and at the end of the discussion she said these are cheap paintings because you can take a print out for a few dollars.

What is more important here is how well you are able to compose a painting and use the technology for your advantage. This is the most vital issue. If you can do the same composition well in an oil painting then why use digital art as a new medium.

The main point is use the technology and compose an excellent painting.
In the next issue we will see about a few tools used by digital artists and an demo.

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Introduction:
Art has no boundaries, and every one in the world has interest in art. The magnitude of interest varies from person to person. Either way, the most important of nature in a human is to love art in any form. Art from the very beginning has evolved into many forms. And today one of the youngest player in the art market computer art or digital art.

History:
Digital art is very mature these days and in the near future you will see more extreme sophisticated softwares and many master pieces. But in the earlier period of computer evolution, bitmap and pixel art    were in common. With the advent of new technologies, bitmap got to a extreme level and many programmers implemented vector in to art. Thus, vector drawing was an innovative and extremely useful when compared to bitmap drawings. During the same period 3D graphics were also into main stream production. Many developers were playing in the market.
The innovation in 2D or in 3D will be going on since there is a steady demand for such products.

Digital art includes both 2D and 3D. And many artists are exploring this medium. One of the myth in the industry is that if you have the best software and hardware specifically designed for digital art , then you can produce excellent digital art. This is a wrong conception many people have and this is one of reason why many digital art have no quality.

Any art form should have all the quality of aesthetics and at the same time should captivate the viewer. It should be well composed and the principles of design and elements of design should be implemented. But in some rare cases I have seen a few quality digital painting where these factors are less but still it has an excellent quality and the painting get excellent feedbacks.

Technologies do help a lot in creating an excellent paintings. Great software like Adobe Photo shop, Corel Painter, Autodesk 3D Max, Autodesk Maya, Blender, pixologic zbrush are a few software to name. At the same time in the hardware section you will see ATI or Nvidia series of products which are coming with high quality rendering engine and the kind of output these products give are fantastic.

There is a beautiful product called wacom tablet. This is so fantastic that you will feel that you are painting with brush. The tablet pen is so touch sensitive that the pressure you apply is understood by the graphic software.

In the coming issue we will see more of this medium.