Digital painting an old wine in a new bottle, and a blend of computer technology, a digitizing tablet, stylus and software, is slowly replacing the old and traditional form of painting. Unlike other forms of digital art, digital painting is directly created on the computer, minimizing the use of physical media through various brushes and paint effects. The role of the digital painting program is the digital brush that is digitally styled to represent various traditional styles such as oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal pen etc. The freedom of choosing ones one brush style by using a combination of textures and shape very much helps in bridging the gap between traditional and digital painting. The production art industry solely depends on the digital painting form by using software such as Corel, Painter, Abode, Photoshop, Art Rage, GIMP, Open Canvas etc. Impressionism, realism and water color are three of the widely used form of digital painting. In spite of providing an easy platform for the artist whereby the artist can work with ease in a mess free environment, some die hard followers of traditional art painting are of the view that the digital painting is void of true character that is unique to every physically made object. In traditional painting, the nonlinear profess is predominant in that an artist has the freedom of arranging his painting in layers that can be edited independently. The lack of physicality and surface differences further limits the ability of digital painting. But the availability of certain features such as a virtual palette consisting of millions of colors, almost any size of canvas or media, the ability to take back mistakes and a multitude of two dimension and three dimension effect tools makes the digital painting technology a strong contender to that of the traditional painting.
Following are the free digital paintings ebooks or pdf tutorials available in world wide web.
- Physically-Based Modeling Techniques for Interactive Digital Painting
- Digital Painting in Photoshop By Ruddick Bloom
- A Generic Pigment Model for Digital Painting By EUROGRAPHICS
- Digital Painting With Corel Painter & Adobe Photoshop By Brad Grigor
- Varieties of Digital Painting By Alvy Ray Smith
- Texture Synthesis for Digital Painting By John Peter Lewis
- Virtual hairy brush for digital painting and calligraphy By Songhua Xu, C. M. Francis Lau, Congfu Xu and Yunhe Pan
- Digital Paint Systems Historical Overview By Alvy Ray Smith
- IntuPaint: Bridging the Gap between Physical and Digital Painting By Peter Vandoren, Tom Van Laerhoven, Luc Claesen,Johannes Taelman, Chris Raymaekers and Frank Van Reeth
- Artistic vision: Automatic Digial Painting using Computer Vision Algorithms by Bruce Gooch
- Digital matte painting TIPS & TRICKS
- .psdphotoshop
- Adobe Photoshop CS Digital Light Painting
- Painting Photographs Using Corel Painter by Ann Raine
- Seniorgiri Series: Hobbies: Digital Art