Digital Art

Digital art is made using technology instead of traditional art supplies. Artists draw on tablets, paint with computer programs, and create 3D models on screens. Video games, animated movies, and phone apps all use digital art. You can undo mistakes with one click and try colors without wasting paint. Digital art has become one of the most popular forms of art in the world today.

Tools of Digital Art

Digital artists use special tools. A drawing tablet lets you draw on a pad with a pen that shows up on the screen. Programs like Photoshop and Procreate have digital brushes, pencils, and paints. Some artists use 3D programs to build objects that look real. Others create animations by drawing many pictures that play like a movie. The tools keep getting better every year.

Digital Art Everywhere

You see digital art every day without even thinking about it. The characters in animated movies like those from Pixar are digital art. Video game worlds are designed by digital artists. Emojis, website designs, and even the pictures in many books are made digitally. Some digital artists create art that exists only online. Digital art has opened up creative possibilities that traditional art never could.

Fun Facts

• The first computer art was made in the 1960s, when computers were as big as entire rooms.
• Pixar's first fully computer-animated movie, Toy Story, came out in 1995.
• Some digital artists use virtual reality headsets to paint in 3D space, walking around inside their own artwork.

Did You Know?

A digital artwork was once sold for over 69 million dollars, making it one of the most expensive artworks ever sold by a living artist!