Digital art has evolved significantly, beginning with mechanical devices in the 1950s and advancing into the 1980s when personal computers became widely available. This form of art has become more accessible, enabling aspiring artists to create with various software tools, including Photoshop and Illustrator. Key figures in digital art include Vera Molnar, and significant milestones such as the first major digital art auction in the UK in 2014 demonstrate the medium's growing importance.

1. DIGITAL ART

2. What is Digital Art?
Digital art is the evolution of art. In this form of art
the artist works mainly with digital technology as an
essential part of their art piece.

3. Traditional Art

4. The Journey of Art
The artists of 1950
used mechanical
devices and analogue
computers to create
their art pieces.
In 1952 Ben Laposky
used an oscilloscope to
manipulate electronic
waves from a
fluorescent screen.
He called it 'Oscillon

5. The Journey of Art
Computers were very
expensive in the 1960’s
Only research
laboratories, universities
and large corporations
could afford them.
Regardless of these
constraints, when the
computer came into
existence that’s when
digital art started

6. The Journey of Art
1970’s, other than artists with
mathematic and scientific
backgrounds joined the scene.
They begun to teach themselves
to program rather than simply
relying on computer programmes.

7. The Journey of Art
The growth of the
digital age started in
the 1980’s. Computers
were affordable and
easily available to most.
Digital art had began
its evolution.
Richard Amsel's original illustration of former first lady Nancy
Reagan,

8. The Journey of Art
In 1990’s
digital art was
being used on
a day to day
basis by
artists .
There were
software tools
such as
Photoshop which
took digital art to
a different level.

9. The Journey of Art
Art has clearly evolved and come a long way
from mechanical devices and analogue
computers. It is a lot easier to be an artist or
learn the skills. YouTube tutorials, art
classes, digital art software's etc. make it
something everyone passionate about it can
try.
It only gets better and easier from here on!

10. Top Rated Essential Software’s for Digital Art
1. Photoshop 6. Cinema 4D
2. Illustrator 7. Mari 2
3. 3ds Max 8. Unity Pro
4. Flash Professional 9. ZBrush 4R6
5. Painter x3 10. Toon Boom Studio 8

11. Facts about Digital Art
One of the pioneers
of computer art is
Vera Molnar. A
French artist who
invented the
"Machine
Imaginaire.”
It transformed
different geometric
shapes and self
invented

12. Facts about Digital Art
In 2008 David
Thorne sold this art
work of a seven
legged spider on
eBay for $10,000 for
the drawing.

13. Facts about Digital Art
UK held its first
Major Digital Art
Auction in July
2014 with 23
works by 23
artists estimated to
be worth
£53,600 –
£75,150

14. Facts about Digital Art
Picasso could
draw before he
could walk, and
his first word
was the Spanish
word for pencil.

15. Facts about Digital Art
Most of the
first digital
artist’s in the
early 70’s and
80’s had a
background in
computer
science or
maths.

16. 3 Digital Art Pieces

17. Links
• http://www.speyertherapie.info/digital-art-woman-frogs-hd-desktop-backgrounds-wallpaper
• http://www.cruzine.com/2012/09/13/digital-art-moe-pike-soe/
• http://walls4joy.com/wallpaper/307911-arms-digital-art-pointing
• http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2010/07/keeping-with-tradition-%E2%80%93-29-beautiful-traditional-drawings-and-paintings/
• http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/418/sevenlegspider.jpg
• http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~gfarr/tour/
• http://hdw.eweb4.com/search/picasso/
• http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bayer-chromatic-twist-p04034
• http://adammcdaniel.com/RichardAmsel_News_Amsel1.html
• http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/156110-A-bit-about-digital-art-and-dynamic-painting