digital-art

# Digital Art Digital art uses computational tools as the primary medium of creation. The fundamental art principles -- observation, composition, color, value, form -- remain unchanged; what changes is the material substrate. A digital painter still needs to understand value structure (drawing-observation skill, Technique 6) and color relativity (color-theory skill), but executes with pressure-sensitive stylus on a tablet instead of brush on canvas. This skill covers the major digital art modalities, their relationship to traditional practice, and the specific technical and conceptual issues unique to digital creation. **Agent affinity:** hokusai (composition and printmaking as precursor to reproducible art), albers (systematic color investigation in digital color spaces) **Concept IDs:** art-materials-making, art-creative-process-portfolio ## Digital Art Modalities | # | Modality | Tools | Traditional parallel | Key difference | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | Digital painting | Photoshop, Procreate, Krita, Clip Studio Paint | Oil/acrylic painting | Infinite undo, layers, non-destructive editing | | 2 | Vector illustration | Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity Designer | Pen and ink, graphic design | Resolution-independent, mathematically defined curves | | 3 | Photo manipulation | Photoshop, GIMP, Affinity Photo | Darkroom techniques, collage | Non-destructive, compositing, masking | | 4 | 3D modeling/rendering | Blender, ZBrush, Maya, Cinema 4D | Sculpture, architectural mode...