Knowra Digital painting Digital painting Digital painting creates painted images with software and digital input devices, using virtual brushes, colors, and surfaces instead of or alongside physical materials.
Raster graphics : Images represented as grids of pixels, each storing color information. Most digital paintings are raster images whose detail depends on pixel resolution.
Digital illustration : The creation of images with digital tools for communication, storytelling, or decoration. Digital painting is a common way to make digitally illustrated images.
Traditional painting : The making of images with physical pigments applied to surfaces using tools such as brushes. It uses material pigments and surfaces rather than purely virtual ones.
Sketchpad : Ivan Sutherland's 1963 interactive computer graphics system for drawing and manipulating geometric figures. It demonstrated direct computer drawing decades before modern painting software.
Color theory : The study of how colors are perceived, organized, combined, and used. Digital palettes draw on principles of hue, contrast, harmony, and perception.
Digital brush : A software tool that simulates a mark-making instrument through configurable shape, texture, opacity, and dynamics. Brush settings determine how a virtual stroke responds and appears.
Concept art : Visual development work that explores designs for films, games, and other projects. Painters use digital tools to rapidly develop characters, settings, and objects.
Oil painting : A painting technique that suspends pigments in drying oil, commonly on canvas or panel. Its drying time and paint handling differ sharply from software-based undo and blending.
SuperPaint : A pioneering 1970s computer graphics system developed at Xerox PARC for painting and image compositing. It established early techniques for digital painting and layered image work.
RGB color model : An additive color model that creates colors by combining red, green, and blue light. Displays render digital paintings by mixing red, green, and blue light.
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