About Digital Painting
The prototype of the digital paint tool for personal computers first appeared in 1975, and Microsoft Windows 3.1 released in 1991 was equipped with "Paint Brush" as an accessory software. This tool was at the level of so-called "children's drawing software," but over the next 30 years, digital painting tools have evolved dramatically. At the same time as this "paint brush", the photo editing tool "Photoshop" appeared, the concept of layers was established, and layer composition (multiple exposure) became possible. With the advent of these two digital tools, painters are now able to perform a variety of painting techniques that exist or go beyond the real world on a regular PC. In addition, touch panels have become widespread along with smartphones. In the early 2000s, I used to draw with a mouse, but I gave up on digital drawing because I was frustrated that I couldn't draw a line where I wanted to draw. Compared to the digital tools of those days, the performance of today's tools has improved significantly. For example, LCD tablets with a maximum size of 32 inches (854 x 506 mm) are commercially available, and you can draw directly on a large piece of paper. You can draw with the feeling of drawing. Of course, it can be enlarged during drawing, so ultra-high-definition drawing at the dot level is also possible.
I think that the appearance of digital tools is similar to the situation when tubed paints appeared in the 1800s. Considering the time and effort of mixing pigments and oils to make paints and applying them, it was quite natural for oil paints to become tubed paints. Until then, paints that could only be used by painters can now be used by almost anyone at any time. If you simply consider image production without considering the texture of the material and the expressiveness and substance of the color, the digital paint tool can improve the workability more than comparable to the paint tube. For these reasons, it is expected that digital painting tools will evolve further in the direction we desire and become more generalized in the future.
By the way, let's think a little about the case where digital images are considered as a means of expressing art. For example, a realistic work drawn on a canvas using paint is uniform down to the atomic level of the paint, so it can be expanded to any extent. That is, a real work has an almost infinite amount of information, but a digital work does not have an amount of information higher than a predetermined resolution. Therefore, at present, it is often recognized that the substance of digital works is weaker than that of realistic paintings, and the value of digital works is underestimated, regardless of the content and meaning of the paintings. I think it is often done. That is, a real work has an almost infinite amount of information, but a digital work does not have an amount of information higher than a predetermined resolution. Therefore, at present, it is often recognized that the substance of digital works is weaker than that of realistic paintings, and the value of digital works is underestimated, regardless of the content and meaning of the paintings. I think it is often done. In fact, I've heard that digitally produced and printed works are often classified in the print category in competitions. I think the idea is to treat digital data as a version.
On the other hand, we need to consider another aspect of digital art. That is the power of transmission. Now that SNS is widespread worldwide, if you post a digital work, you can instantly send it to people on the other side of the globe. Now that SNS is widespread worldwide, if you post a digital work, you can instantly send it to people on the other side of the globe. Since it is easy to spread, the transmission power is overwhelming. I think it is very characteristic that you can send images directly instead of sending what you have drawn as photographs. Due to its craftsmanship and substance, works drawn with paint can deliver various messages to people who see them directly, but since there is no choice but to limit them, the power of transmission is that of digital art. I think it is a point that should be recognized as a feature.
The evolution of digital technology since the end of the 20th century is still in its infancy, and we are now living in the midst of this great swell of digital technology. In the future, especially when it comes to painting, I believe that digital painting, which has taken the ultimate essence out of the human nature of drawing something on a blank sheet of paper or a wall, will further develop universally, and the time may come when the word "painting" will refer to something drawn digitally.