A Bit About Digital Art
A tip on a what a good digital table should have: The idea of using a graphic tablet as a digital artist is to simulate the freedom and ease of use that one has when using natural materials such as paint brush and pencil. To this end, any graphics tablet you purchase must have a good range of pressure sensitivity in the drawing surface of your graphics tablet. High pressure sensitivity of, at least, 1024 levels is really a must.This sensitivity allows you to control a number of important points when drawing and painting on the screen. Color and line thickness, which is simply by pressing the stylus more or less heavily, thus mimicking drawing with an actual pen, are all determined by the sensitivity of the graphics tablet. It is frustrating trying to do delicate detailed work with a tablet when its sensitivity is just not up to the job. Pencil and brush strokes that tapper off and fade out are only possible with a digital tablet with a high sensitivity.
Problems, problems…The digital art format raises some specific difficulties for digital artists as well as art dealers. The most prominent is: How to protect the numerical uniqueness of an artwork, if the source is stored in single digits in a computer and can be exactly and infinitely reproduced? Other typical problems are: How to match the colors of the projection accurately with those on the computer monitor, and how to sufficiently increase the length and width dimensions of the work without distorting lines and forms and without the file becoming unmanageable. A problem of an entirely different nature stems from the relative ease to copy-and-paste in the digital working space, which occasionally raises questions about copyright or about to what extent the artwork is a form of self-expression!
Photographers take note: One style of photography that might particularly appeal to a digital artist is HDR. High Dynamic Range images have a lot more detail than usual, giving them a surreal, graphical quality. The main job of creating these photographs is actually done on a computer using dedicated software, however, you need to start with at least 3 images of exactly the same scene, but with different exposures.
Get displayed in Austin! The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA), located in Austin, Texas, is the first museum dedicated exclusively to the display of digital art. AMODA was founded in 1997 by Harold Chaput, Samantha Krukowski and Chris Rankin in response to the abundance of digital art in the local scene and the absence of venues for such art. AMODA has not only presented local artwork, but has brought digital art and digital artists from around the globe to Austin. By putting local and global works and acts next to each other, AMODA has contributed to the already growing digital art and music scene in Austin, while gaining recognition around the world as an important museum that has shaped the definition of digital art. | 