Digital & Traditional Art

In this task, we were told to discuss as to how the modern art of nowadays is different from the art or designs from back then which root as the 'traditional' and how programs like Photoshop and the likes have affected designs.

From my understanding, 

Traditional Art :  is the use of media that does not require any technology, a graphics program but consists more of items such as paint, crayons, pencils, paper etc. These elements to bring out the 'rawness' of a design.

Digital Art : by the name, Digital, its easy to tell it uses software i.e Photoshop, Illustrator etc to bring out a design. This is how the days of today are being done. People can now draw on the PC without paper and even color and bring it to life without any stress just by clicking, drawing using the program tools.

But both descriptions are art. I say this because we still bring out a design, either by traditional form or digital. One will still have a piece of work that will be appreciated. Just the method which will matter as some would say the digital lacks 'creativity' or took less time to finish than traditional if given same task to do e.g a drawing of something.

Examples of these types of arts are shown below : 

Fig. 1

Fig. 2

As we can see from the above pictures, these are hand drawn images. The shades on them give them that artistic look that they have. 

In comparison with these drawings, the type of shading, lining in Fig 1 is different from Fig 2. This can shown by the quality of work that is shown, Fig 1 gives that professional look by paying attention to detail where as Fig 2 has that rough look where the artist was sketching something fast, with reoccurring lines and quick shading.

With digital art, as we know uses these programs that us programs use, Photoshop, Illustrator etc to come up with these cool graphics. Using reference with the traditional art images, i searched for similar art but in digital form to showcase how one can add even more detail by use of the program.

Fig. 1.1

Fig. 2.1

From the images above, it is easy to tell that these pictures have been given a digital enhancement. The amount of detail in Fig 1.1 with adding scenery, clouds, floating highlands, all those are digitally done to give the effect the artist is looking for. As well as giving it a 3D feel and make it look real life but in the sense of being animation. In Fig 2.1 we see more detail, color, and the realism in the image by the details in the eyes, different shades of it, the contour of shading down the lines and everything. If you look closely, it is not 100% sharp as such and could have been given a painting type of feel in the editing software.

With both traditional and digital art being compared and can see the difference in both and how designers may start off by drawing just by using normal materials like pencils and such then move on and finish the art in a program to give it more detail and feel to their design.