Digital drawing and painting is the artistic process of creating visuals using digital tools and software. Artists utilize specialized software like Adobe Photoshop, Procreate, Paint Tool Sai or Clip Studio Paint, along with digital drawing tablets or computers. These tools offer a diverse range of brushes, colors, and editing options for creating stunning digital artwork.
Unlike a traditional artwork, digital artwork is known for its permanence and is accommodative to any corrections needed due to its digital rendering capabilities.
Digital Art Drawing Students using IPad and laptops to draw their digital artwork
Digital painting software offers artists a versatile digital canvas for creating and refining artwork. While digital painting requires traditional painting skills, such as mastery of line, coloration, tonal variations, and perspective, artists utilize software tools to bring their visions to life. With a strong foundation in traditional drawing techniques, artists can produce realistic digital paintings with compelling 3D perspective effects.
Digital painting presents numerous benefits compared to traditional painting techniques. It enables effortless undo and redo functions and boasts a vast selection of digital brushes and effects that can be easily applied onto the artwork. Additionally, it offers the convenience of working without the requirement for physical art supplies or extensive cleanup, streamlining the entire creative process to within the software.
Explore digital artwork creation through a suite of softwares offered, and discover the one that works best for you.
Our instructor providing demonstration on digital cube drawing
This advanced technical knowledge of digital painting is invaluable for students seeking to create intricate and detailed digital artwork. By grasping the fusion of artwork and landscape design, students can produce more captivating and realistic creations. Proficiency in digital software applications is essential for students pursuing careers in creative industries relating to animation, game art and design and illustration. With these cutting-edge technologies, students can enhance their digital painting skills and techniques, positioning themselves for success in future careers within the digital art painting and design sectors.
Some of these careers that are relevant to digital art painting includes: animation, game art and design, character design etc.
Pen pressure is crucial in creating good digital art, as it gives you the option of defining the thickness and heaviness of each stroke as if you are using a real pencil! This adds the feeling of depth to your work, making it more impressive and realistic.
Introducing the Professional Manga Drawing & Digital Painting Course [12 Sessions], designed to equip students with a solid foundation in manga drawing and painting while introducing them to digital drawing and painting techniques.
As part of the 6 sessions of traditional medium, students will create artworks with markers and watercolour, with all necessary art materials provided by our studio.
Following which, the digital art segment utilizes iPad, Apple Pencil, and the Procreate application. Covering the basics of digital drawing and painting, students will learn how to use these tools to bring their manga creations to life with the help of the different tools available on the digital drawing softwares.
Manga drawing and coloured illustration students in a holiday programme for kids of 6 – 8 Years Old.
Learning Manga proportions and anatomy, the Manga drawing and coloured illustration is a fun and enriching holiday course for kids! Learning objectives is designed to accommodate the younger age group while deepening their interest in character and illustration design.
Our instructor going around to provide one-to-one guidance
Manga or known as novel comic, narrates stories through graphics. Manga is inspired by true stories and sometimes presented with some transformation, exaggerations, personification, symbolism or reflection. Manga can spark a range of emotions amongst its readers – from feeling entertained to enlightened.
Manga can also be utilised as an effective way of expressing your thoughts and emotions through art, instead of the regular text form.
The purpose of a manga artwork is to narrate stories through character illustration.
Character drawing is crucial foundation for manga drawing. This includes portrayal of head proportion, facial expressions and hairstyle to head-body proportion, character body motion and more. Learn to observe and depict a character’s choice of fashion and its presentations. Learn to present perspectives through different situations and backgrounds. Then, put all these elements together to form a unique artwork that is created by you!
Over in the recent years, career options like professional illustrators, manga cartoonist, ad designers and animators are on the rise with the rising popularity of digital painting. Certainly, digital painting knowledge gives you a headstart to a career in the creative industry. But digital painting requires traditional painting skills as digital painting artworks are not remade and they are produced through the paper and pen within the digital painting software. Digital painting provides the flexibility for any corrections required by the artist with minimal effort.
With solid foundation of line, colouration, tonal, perspectives and imagination in traditional drawing, this would help to produce digital painting artworks in a more realistic form. Hence, to create a good digital artwork, having a basic grasp of traditional artwork is just as important.
Our student working on a manga art subject of her interest
Children who start to draw at a young age are prone to draw humans in cartoon forms. Why not allow them to try Visual Art Centre’s professional Manga Drawing course? We cater to all beginners and children looking for improvement in their manga drawings – especially for those with a keen interest for character design.
Our Student practicing manga drawing features
Within the course objective, they will learn to draw human figure proportion, character dynamics, character drawing in digital form Computer Graphics Processing etc., all with the help of the myriad of digital softwares that are available in the market today.
The combination of foundational training on both traditional drawing and digital painting tools usage would produce more attractive artworks. Having skills in traditional drawing and digital painting would help to lay solid foundations for a future career as an illustrator / manga cartoonist / cinematic producer / interior designer/ fashion designer / animator / game art designer etc! Join us as we help you in leaning a step nearer to your aspirations!
Throughout the 12 sessions, your child will be engaged in:
Children who start to draw at a young age are prone to draw humans in cartoon forms. Why not allow them to try our Introduction To Digital Drawing & Painting (from 8 Years Old) Art Course in Singapore? We cater to all beginners and children from 8 YO and above that are looking for introduction about digital drawing and painting as we believe that it is easier for them to pick up the skillset at a young age.
Our young learners!
Students are to bring their own digital painting and drawing software and tools. After the 5 weeks, students will complete 2-3 of their independent art projects, and will get to familiarise themselves with the myriad of tools offered by the softwares.
Digital drawing and digital painting refers to the process of creating artwork using digital tools and software. It involves using a digital drawing tablet or a computer with specialized software such as Adobe Photoshop, Procreate, or Clip Studio Paint, which offers a wide range of brushes, colours, and other digital tools.
Throughour Digital Drawing and Painting Bootcamp, you get a hands-on experience to see which softwares works best for your digital art creation.
(commencing from the school holiday period of October, November and December 2024)
Date/Time:
Mondays and Thursdays, 3.30PM-5.45PM
Venue:
Dhoby Ghaut Studio (10 Penang Road, #01-02 Dhoby Ghaut Green, S238469)
Price: $480nett inclusive of art materials
Learning Contents & Learning Objectives:
1st Session: Define characteristics, traits, colours and accessories of your character.
2nd Session: Detailed studying of character’s anatomy, sketching of character and begin digital sketch of character.
3rd Session: Continue of digital sketch, and begin on lineart and colouring.
4th Session: Completing character’s costume design and start learning to draw/paint character’s costumes and accessories.
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Address:
10 Penang Road, #01-02 Dhoby Ghaut Green,
Singapore 238469
Exit from Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station Exit B and turn left, we are there in 30m!
Address:
AZ@Paya Lebar, 140 Paya Lebar Road, #03-04,
Singapore 409105
Exit from Macpherson MRT Station Exit A and turn left, we are right across the road, 1 minute walk away!
The art courses are available at both our Dhoby Ghaut Art Studio and MacPherson Art Studio, please choose your preferred location.
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Visual Arts Centre is an exhibition gallery and art studio at Dhoby Ghaut Green supported by the National Parks Board and the National Arts Council.
Since its initiation on 31 January 2016, the Visual Arts Centre Exhibition Gallery has hosted over two hundred international and local art and design exhibitions, boasting a diverse range of art styles and programmes.
Email:
info@visualartscentre.sg
Phone:
+65 6255 0711
+65 6733 2155
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