With so many different ways to express art in today’s technology geared society, it is only logical that digital art would soon be a mass movement in itself. With the right editing tools, one could theoretically tell a story through a picture, or atleast create an interesting enough image for the viewer to imagine a story. This can be done through colors, patterns, substitution, etc…all while still having an underlying meaning.
A good example of how colors can be used to make a rather simple picture or scene come to life is by having the entire photo in black and white. Then, by leaving the color in on certain objects or areas…you are drawing attention and putting a sense of importance on an object.
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This idea of drawing attention can also be seen in other commercial ads where colors or patterns are used to draw attention to a product. In this particular instance, the color red takes control and the viewer as well as the person in the picture is drawn to that direction . While this piece of digital art isn’t exactly making an obvious statement, it leaves it open to interpretation for other people.
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My favorite piece of digital art that I have found is one that uses subsitution in terms of changing the heads of human bodies to animal heads. To me, this displays how humans can be dangerous and how we will attack one another like different animals. We, as human beings, forget that we are all the same and should be helping each other out to advance one another, but we tend to tear each other apart to get ahead.
Of course there will always be competition and people say “human nature is to be dangerous”, but with our advanced minds and our ability to actually be rational and think….I hope that one can be inspired from such a piece of just like I was. Either that or the artist just thought it would be cool to put a tiger and a bunny caged in with human bodies…
wow the second image is really graphic. i agree that the different colors help illuminate the subject or what the story is. I have seen that quite a bit recently. With photoshop so popular many if not anyone can tell the story by allowing the picture to be predominantly black and white with a glimpse of color when needed. Digital art gives new ways to expression.
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In this post, I was most struck by your statement, “With the right editing tools, one could theoretically tell a story through a picture, or atleast create an interesting enough image for the viewer to imagine a story. This can be done through colors, patterns, substitution, etc…all while still having an underlying meaning.”
How does this differ from analog art forms? What about the use of color has changed with digital tools?
I believe that analog art forms have their own way of telling a story as well, but a piece of digital art, in some cases, may be easier to create than painting or sculpting the message. If someone in today’s society wanted to tell a story of how humans are vicious creatures underneath our complex, they would have a harder time of being in the right place at the right time in order to capture that side. Painting or sculpting could be easier, but chances are…unless you have a clear cut painting/sculpture that represents what you are trying to show people…you will end up having a very obscure piece of art that might not convey the thoughts, or even close to the thoughts, the creator had in mind. Color tools have made certain pieces of art stand out from the rest just by carefully changing the colors to certain objects or areas in a picture. The use of color can be all the difference…an example being Andy Warhol.