Learn digital painting!

Digital painting is convenient and intuitive. Learn to paint on your digital device, this course follows Color Theory 101 and is part of our series on Paint, Color, and Composition from our Diploma program. This course can be taken individually for recreation, or for diploma credit.

Learn to do Digital painting is a relatively new but already established art form. It’s a medium that typically combines a computer, a graphics tablet, and software of choice. The artist uses painting and drawing techniques with the stylus that comes with the graphics tablet to create 2D paintings within digital art software. There are multiple techniques and tools that are utilized by digital artists, the first being digital brushes.

In conclusion, you should still try out traditional paint and canvas, there is nothing like it! Meanwhile, you can learn digital painting by experimenting on the Ipad. As long as you have battery life you can paint anywhere!

 These come standard with all digital art programs but users can create their own, altering their shape, texture, size, and transfer.^[3] Many of these brushes are created to represent traditional styles like oils, acrylics, pastels, charcoal, and airbrushing, but not all.^[4] Other effective tools include layers, lasso tools, shapes, and masks. Digital painting has evolved to not just mimic traditional art styles but fully become its own technique. Learn on your device  in addition to traditional painting.

Some of the topics covered in this course to learn digital painting are:

• Introduction to painting with an IPad or other digital hardware
• Master copy matching brushstrokes with Van Gogh
• Matching brushstrokes, Sargent
• Plein air
• Garden/patio paint sketch
• Urban and Natural Landscape
• Painting from Photos