Digital Art

Techinques

• Pantograms

A panto gram is were you use a stylus and draw on the left and on the right it copys and enlarges perfectly.

• Lithography

A painting technique that can be reproduced quictly to the same quality as the original.

• Graphic Artwork

Drawing over a piece of artwork such as a photograph on a computer.

• Equations/Codes

Some digital art is produced by a series of mathematical equations and codes such as Michael Noll.

• Digital Manipulation

Combining images digitally such as Lillian Schwartz.

Research

Artist's have cheated by using digital means for years such as artists using camera obscura/lucida's as well as pantograms this the start of digital art. Alot like photography digital art came into it's own category of art when artists began using computers and digital aids such as a stylus this made it possible to draw an image onto a computer screen, this helped out with making exact copies of the originals quickly and precisely. As computers developed more ways of creating art became apparent such as digital manipulating images such and the Mona, Leo this combines both images and makes it appear they fit perfectly next to one and other, also by using codes digital artists managed to created series of lines created by codes and mathematical equations which creates a minimalistic but abstract image. Now modern art is filled with digitally produced artwork both realistic and abstract.

eBoy

eBoy is a German design company and is well know for being digital artist's who create art to capture there childhood memory's of computer games. eBoy generated this image digitally on line. eBoy is know for creating online cityscape such as Dublin which coke a cola used for an advertisement city would look like from above image's were taken of Dublin from above so they had an idea of what the city looks like to help them created the final image. other work eBoy makes is not only online but they create prints too. The company have also created ties with other design company's from around the world and are created contracted works for companies. eBoy makes there digital images by colouring the pixels that is why there work looks as if it is all created by blocks.

photography

Techniques

• Bokeh

Intentional use of blurring.

• Chiaroscuro

Dramatic use of dark and light in a piece of artwork.

• Intersection of threes

Is a grid and the center is similar to a view finder the image looks better when the subject is off center and along one of the lines.

• Cropping

This is were you remove part of the image to change the subject of the the photo such as the image of the moving car in the slide show. Cropping can also be used to remove part of an image which is not wanted.

Research

The first type of photography was to make an image appear on a piece off paper to draw by using a series of lenses these cameras where called camera obsucura and camera lucida. The reason that photography picked up is because with a camera you could capture a image or a significant moment easily rather than having to paint it. Using a camera was also useful for sculptors as the could just take a photograph of their work and show people it without having to bring the sculpture with them or show people the sculpture in person. As the years past photography became an form of art in its own right as it was made possible to alter images such as using chemicals and more recently photoshop. Photographers also started to show their images in different ways such as David Hockney started creating montages with lots of separate images similar to Jeff Wall.

Jeff Wall

Jeff walls photograph of three people walking down a street shows language of art in his photograph by capturing moments that could mean something in this photograph it is showing racism. Jeff wall is Canadian who sells his pieces of work for great amounts of money. Some of the skills he uses in his work is depth of field as the focus of the image is close to the lens but the photograph carries on down the street as well as bokeh to focus on the couple and the other person stood to the left , Jeff wall also uses the rule of thirds as the people are stood in the intersections this photograph was taken in North America. This image is also made up of lots of smaller image as his usually exhibits his work at a large scale, each part of the image is taken with a 8x10 camera.