What you should know about Digital Art

Digital art is artwork that is created using technology either purely or partially. This can involve art forms such as painting, drawing, photography, videography, sculpting, and illustrations. To get a deeper understanding of digital art, it's important to know the differences between digital and traditional art. Compared to digital art, traditional art is bound to a physical art piece. With digital art the reproduction of the original piece is normally print or digital, if there is a original piece. Because digital art differs from traditional art, it's common for questions to arise about whether it's real art. The answer is yes, digital art counts as real art, it's just created differently!

Within history, the first forms of digital art was created around the 1960's, which came with new innovative exploration with technology. As time progressed and we get to the 1980s there was the implementation of photography with computer technology and the creation of animations. Some significant technology innovations around this time involves the release of Adobe Photoshop which is a commonly used tool for digital art today.

Reasons individuals may chose to create art digitally involves how fast it is to work with the tools that may be required, such as a computer or phone. Theres also a huge array of creative forms and techniques you can choose from digitally that may be harder to implement physically. Digital art is also great for those who may need certain accessibility requirements.