What is Digital Art?
Digital art is artwork created digitally, using virtual computer programs instead of physical tools like pencil, pen, paint, and so on.
Sometimes, digital art refers to using applications that emulate traditional media, such as Krita, Clip Studio Paint, and Corel Painter. These applications have "brushes" that emulate the appearance of real-life pencils, pen, oil paint, watercolors, crayons, and so on. Although they can be operated with a mouse, professional digital artists typically will use a drawing tablet with them that allows them to draw using a physical digital pen called a "stylus."
Digital art may also refer to artwork that doesn't try to emulate traditional media, in which case it often gets a specific label. For more information, see:
The term "digital art" is used mainly to refer to visual arts. That is, drawings, illustrations, paintings, sketches, images in generals. There are many art forms, such as writing as an art, performance art, music as an art, etc., that aren't included when we talk about "digital art." For example, we would say "digital music" instead. Even when video-games are considered an art form, they're called "an art form" in general, and not a specific game "a piece of digital art." A game may contain digital art in it, but only if we're talking about its graphics. A text-only game, like Nethack, is never said to contain digital art because it can only contain writing.
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