Digital & Traditional Art
Digital is "Equal"
What you'll learn
- What Digital and Traditional art is
- Advantages of Digital & Traditional art
- Disadvantages of Digital & Traditional art
- The Skills need in both Mediums to produce well- made art
What is Digital & Traditional art
- Traditional Art is the term used to describe work using paper, canvases, wood, etc. with paints, pencils, ink ,pastels, charcoal among many other things.
- Digital Art refers to the work done in a drawing program on a computer, using a mouse and keyboard or drawing tablet.
Advantages of Traditional & Digital Art
Some advantages of Traditional art are:
- accessibility
- control
- Can be done just about anywhere
- Larger variety of color range
- The accessibility of tools
- Ability to easily fix an error
Disadvantages of Digital & Traditional Art
Some Disadvantages of Traditional
- Cost of materials
- Overall mess of the medium ex.( Cluttering & Spills)
- Difficulty in fixing a mistake late in the process
- Hardware damage or loss of equipment
- Software errors
- Cost to fix hardware damage
Skills needed for both Mediums
Some Skills needed for Digital Art
- Knowing what specific tools are used for.
- Learning how to use and adjust layers and layer masks and effects.
- Learning the techniques for the different areas.
- Knowing what tools can be used with different areas.
- Learning proportion
- Using careful color selection
- knowing how to add shade or tone to a piece
My Mentor
- Name: Lisa Place
- Occupation: Multimedia teacher at Bunn High School
- She helped me by reminding me of techniques previously learned from her class, and helping me create custom brushes for Photoshop.
My Product & Tools used
Product
- My product is A digital piece of artwork and a few traditional pieces of artwork.
- I chose to do more traditional work due to me being more familiar with the medium.
Tools: Traditional
- Paper: Canson 9x12 in. 140lb pressed watercolor paper
- Pencils: 0.5 mm H.B & 0.7 mm H.B
- Paint: Simply Watercolor 24x12 ml color
- Program: Photoshop CC 2015
- Tablet: UGEE model: M1000 wireless stylus
My Strengths
- Passionate about the subject.
- Determined to get the project done.
- Enjoyed the process of making the products
My Weaknesses
- I still need practice with my tablet and drawing program.
- I kept redoing pieces of the project.
- Over working my wrist, causing me to take longer breaks
Obstacles Faced
- The first traditional work was damaged via ink spill and deemed unusable.
- My computer at home would not work properly with my tablet, so I had to do all the digital work after school.
- It took some time to get my drivers for my tablet installed on a student accessible computer.
- Difficulty meeting with my mentor when we both were available.
- I had a period of art block that lasted two weeks.
What I Learned
- I learned how to keep a steady pace when it came to doing my artwork.
- The importance of deadlines.
- Learned how to use techniques, create brushes and layer effects to help with my work in Photoshop.
- Taking notes, and observing other artist that I follow really helped me with the process.