The new age of technology is adding all sorts of options that never existed before to new artists. For example, there are now devices called “WACOM” that allows artists to interact with the computer in an entirely new way.
The History of Technical Visual Art
In the beginning days of the development of computers, the first art programs were all extremely simple. In some cases you were limited as to the colors you could use, and the texture options. Many of them only allowed you to use the keyboard arrows to create lines.
As technology developed, the mouse became something that was usable. You now had greater control over how lines appeared on the screen. The free movement of the mouse with your hand was a much better mimic for a pencil on the page then mashing a computer keyboard with your fingers.
But the mouse still wasn’t really the same thing as drawing with a pen.
New Tech – The WACOM explained
New options like the WACOM, or touch screens in general allow for a variety of new possibilities. So called “digital pens” mean that you can have something that looks just like a pen, and a tablet that has the feel of a pad of paper. You can draw using the pen on the pad just like you would on a regular pad of paper. The same feel means that artists who are classically trained will be able to get used to this way of drawing digitally much easier than trying to learn to make do with a mouse.
So, after an artist gets used to doing things through a digital pen, they will realize the vast number of additional options that digital art affords. You have many additional options at that point. For example, you can paste in art from the outside to work with. If you have other art on your computer that you want to work with, that can be imported into your current project. You can make alterations to the any existing work that way.
You can also do things with a digital piece that would be much harder to do quickly with a more traditional piece. You can instantly turn the entire piece upside down, or turn it 90 degrees in any directions. You can flip it backwards; you can change the colors of all the lines you’ve previously made. You can change the background, you can copy a small section of something you’ve drawn and the paste it in to other parts of the piece many multiple times without having to repeat the same small drawing over and over again.
You can put in text in many thousands of different fonts, and so on.
Overall
In the end, the vast number of options digital devices gives the artist in art often makes the changeover very much worthwhile. And that’s not even counting how much easier it is to upload something you’ve drawn to social networks and websites where everyone else can see them. This is quite a bit harder with paper.
