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Digital Art has fundamentally become an age of its own through the expansion of technology and the internet. The functionality technology has introduced allowed Digital Art to become an age all its own with a movement and a dominant mindset. The Digital Art mindset is described as “a time when the prevailing mindset is that anything’s possible, anything goes” (Leibowitz 2). With this mindset, the functionality with Digital Art is limitless. Not only are the physical tools of Digital Art expansive (software, mobile devices, touchscreen drawing), but also access to the wealth of art history and art movements are at the artist’s fingertips. Digital Art brings a diverse range of new functionality to artists.
Along with the expansive functionality of Digital Art, the materials used are very environmentally friendly. Historically art has used a variety of different materials including: paper, papyrus, collapsible metal tubes, oil and paint thinner, powered paint colors, photographs and more (Leibowitz 2). The new materials used in Digital Art, software and technology are far more environmentally friendly and sustainable. For example, an artist can practice drawing and scrapping thousands of designs without ever discarding a single piece of paper using Digital Art. Use of Digital Art materials allow an artist to digitally “recycle” their artistic supplies in unlimited amounts – the amount is completely dependent on the power source used to support the digital device.
In addition to the environmentally friendly material used in Digital Art, the production time for art pieces is much faster. In many ways Digital Art has the capability to be completed much more quickly than traditional art forms because of the ease of use. For example, when the Digital Artist needs to change a color on their digital paintbrush there is not the traditional paint removal processes; instead the color is switched with a click of a button and the Digital Artists is proceeding with their masterpiece. Also, artists are able to collaborate more quickly through Digital Art than through traditional art. The internet provides an online platform where artists from all over the world can work together.
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Works Cited
Leibowitz, David S. Mobile Digital Art: Using the Ipad and Iphone As Creative Tools. Burlington: Focal Press, 2013. Print.
