What makes digital art really digital?

~Blubjee Dec 12, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Hello,

For a school project about digital art, I was wondering.. What makes digital art really digital? It is mostly traditional media 'converted' to a digital form. 3D modeling can be compared to sculpting, drawing on a tablet is a lot like drawing.. And so on. You use traditional techniques on a digital platform.

But what makes digital art really digital, since it contains a lot of traditional influences?

I'm curious what you guys think about this ^^

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~TheArtOfCBYoung Dec 19, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It's just a tool or a medium. Painting with oils and painting with acrylics is still painting; just like drawing with a tablet is still drawing. Digital art is just regular art done in a digital medium.

~Black-Allison Dec 18, 2012

It is meant to exist on a digital plane or created digitally. But there's a lot of blurry spots as I'm sure you know, things that were digitally enhanced or finished or digital models printed out in plastic with a 3D printer.

~DanimationArts Dec 18, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I believe digital art needs to be taken as a medium, a tool, rather than a genre ^^

~keoni29 Dec 18, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

True digital art to me is an artform which cannot exist without computer technology. Vector art can be done manually, sculpting: same thing. Computer generated images (fractals) such as this one is true digital art.
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No human can reproduce this amount of detail manually (and not be bored in the process...)

~pure-in-heart Dec 17, 2012 Student Filmographer

For one it consists of pixels as opposed to clay or oil paints, etc... And until you print it, you don't actually have a physical copy of your artwork, it only exists in virtual world, I mean computer screen, excuse me

~TheCheshirePanda Dec 15, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Digital art is any art created through the digital platform.

*Canaro Dec 15, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is "clean". Digital art generally looks cleaner than traditional. You can achieve the clean look with every medium of course, and you can make a 100% digital picture really messy. But to make a traditional painting look clean, you still have to get your hands dirty, and making a messy digital picture requires no dirty hands at all. So this is my association. It's more because of the method, less because of the result.

=vintagecalculator Dec 14, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Digital art is art done digitally, of course. It doesn't matter if you're painting with a program that imitates a traditional look, because just looking traditional doesn't make it such.

~delusionalHamster Dec 14, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

You use your digits to make it.

=DamaiMikaz Dec 13, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It's made with the help of a computer

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