Without looking at the numbers on the apples, can you guess the programs used?

I often hear the claim that digital art is easier because the computer or the program does the work. Added to that I hear complaints form people who say “I don’t have Photoshop” as if the lack of Photoshop is a fine excuse for a lack of skill in digital rendering.

But it is not the program or the computer that makes digital paintings good, it is the skill, experience, and education of the artist. A god artist can take any medium, and after learning it can produce great works. Why? Because a good artist already has mastered the fundamentals of art such as form, shape, color theory, value, light, and they’ve already trained their brain to draw what they see. Just as it is not the pencil that enables drawing, it is not the tool that makes the beauty of the artwork, it is the hand and eye of the artist.

To prove that it is not the program, but the artist that makes all the difference in the quality of digital art a friend of mine Arshes Nei, made a series of apple paintings all done in different digital art programs. I will post the answers in my next blog.

fuckyeahvanitas:

Nature morte au gibier à plumes by Guido Mocafico

Where I work! God I love skeletons.

Six drawings of the same cow skull still life drawn in different abstract styles in oil pastel. Top left is semi-realism, the rest are what they are. All are drawn by me. You can tell that as time went on I really grew to love dripping melted teeth.

“Steamed in Maryland” by Joseph J. Correale Jr.

fuckyeahvanitas:

Vanitas Still Life by Jacques de Gheyn the Elder (1603)

fuckyeahvanitas:

Renard De Saint Andre

thedevildraws:

thedevildraws:

I often hear the claim that digital art is easier because the computer or the program does the work. Added to that I hear complaints form people who say “I don’t have Photoshop” as if the lack of Photoshop is a fine excuse for a lack of skill in digital rendering.

But it is not the program or the computer that makes digital paintings good, it is the skill, experience, and education of the artist. A god artist can take any medium, and after learning it can produce great works. Why? Because a good artist already has mastered the fundamentals of art such as form, shape, color theory, value, light, and they’ve already trained their brain to draw what they see. Just as it is not the pencil that enables drawing, it is not the tool that makes the beauty of the artwork, it is the hand and eye of the artist.

To prove that it is not the program, but the artist that makes all the difference in the quality of digital art a friend of mine Arshes Nei, made a series of apple paintings all done in different digital art programs. I will post the answers in my next blog.

Can you guess the programs used?

Now with the answers:

Unumbered top: MS Paint

1. Gimp
2. Artweaver
3. Sai Paint
4. Painter
5. Photoshop
6. ArtRage

I often hear the claim that digital art is easier because the computer or the program does the work. Added to that I hear complaints form people who say “I don’t have Photoshop” as if the lack of Photoshop is a fine excuse for a lack of skill in digital rendering.

But it is not the program or the computer that makes digital paintings good, it is the skill, experience, and education of the artist. A god artist can take any medium, and after learning it can produce great works. Why? Because a good artist already has mastered the fundamentals of art such as form, shape, color theory, value, light, and they’ve already trained their brain to draw what they see. Just as it is not the pencil that enables drawing, it is not the tool that makes the beauty of the artwork, it is the hand and eye of the artist.

To prove that it is not the program, but the artist that makes all the difference in the quality of digital art a friend of mine Arshes Nei, made a series of apple paintings all done in different digital art programs. I will post the answers in my next blog.

Can you guess the programs used?

More photographs to use as references for still life paintings.

Still life of skull and apples.

This is just some pictures I took of a still life I set up. I’m going to be using them as future reference material for a painting.