This medium offers features such as: reverting actions, modifying content, colour palettes, layering, and sharing.
Drawing is a form of artistic expression. It entails utilising tools to make marks on a flat surface. Historically, artists relied on traditional media like pencils, charcoal or ink. However today I utilise a pen display along with graphic design software.
I had a background in science. Which included sketching fossils, crafting maps, and coding for computers. In the present I create art using digital tools. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) has opened up creativity for everyone!
I acquired a handheld computer equipped with a plotter. My subsequent computer was a Mac. It featured a graphical interface and a printer. Now I also input spatial data with a stylus to produce images, effectively digitising geometry.
I utilise layering techniques. And each piece of my digital artwork is unique. Initially I worked with the raster graphics program MyPaint. Since then, I have switched to the vector graphics software Inkscape. These are methods for graphic representation.
Raster graphics
A bitmap is an array of tiny pixels. Most Internet images are raster. This format is compatible, easy, compressible, detailed, and applicable. It's good for digital painting. But pixelation loses quality when scaled up. And high resolution file size can be large.
Vector graphics
Vector images are made of mathematical shapes. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) uses shapes, paths, text, and styles. Vectors are scalable; they are visual elements. Geometric primitives are points, lines, paths, polygons, rectangles, ellipses, arcs, Bézier curves, and splines. Points, lines and curves are fundamental geometric objects. Joining line segments forms a polygon. Commands define a primitive, specify coordinates, and set additional properties. Vector graphics make clean illustrations. Simple graphics have small file size. This format is ideal for printing.