Digital Vs. Real Paintings

With advancing technology, every facet of our day to day life is changing. Similarly the world of art has been evolving since the introduction of digital painting. It is one of the latest methods, gaining popularity among artists.

It enables artists to create paintings, animations, illustrations etc using softwares. These programs have all the required tools like brushes, pens, pencils, colours, acrylics etc which are used in traditional paintings. These softwares provide amazing graphic effects; software developers are trying best to imitate the real art materials.

Digital painting-

• All an artist need is, a laptop or graphic tablet and some printing material. It makes digital painting less chaotic. Extra space for storing art materials is not required.

• Paintings are created in layers which helps artist to fix the mistakes easily. Stokes can be undone without leaving any trace of error. In real paintings, mistakes are difficult to fix or in some cases artworks have to be started all over again.

• Compared to traditional ways, digital painting is less expensive. Professional artists use high quality paints and materials on regular basis that can even cost more than a high-end laptop or software.

Real painting-

• Physical artworks become priceless whenever an artist comes up with an exceptional idea; these painting are almost impossible to replicate whereas with digital paintings you can create infinite copies.

• It is more effective way to create realistic paintings which is almost impossible with digital methods.

• You can touch real paintings, feel its texture. They look more natural. Digital paintings have no surface or texture.

Both styles require precision, skill and practice to create great artworks. However, learning digital painting is comparatively easy as in traditional paintings there are many styles and mediums to learn.

Need of digitalising art

Today, the most important need of business world is branding and advertising. The digital art and graphics is the only possible way of doing it. Making attractive fonts, designes, characters etc is all done through softwares. Digital art reaches the maximum number of people and can gain praise from vast number of people. The art style is as important as traditional art. It is like another medium of presentation of art. For example, once oil painting was considered new and modern but in today's world it has become enough old to be considered as traditional. The world evolves and the art forms will also evolve with time. But that does not means old ways are forgotten. Styles of art will always keep evolving but great ideas and talents will always be embraced.