We can use various devices and Graphic Design and Digital Arts both software to make digital art. Sketch pad, required the same artistic every drawing tablets, mac point, adobe are a few of them. and painting artist needs to have. There is a If you don’t know traditional drawings, it difference in the result, Digital artists only doesn’t matter you don’t know it. But it’s share their work only via digital media, and good if you know. It’s because it will help Graphic designers often also produce graphics you to improve your art techniques in for Newsletters and magazines. We shouldn’t digital art. There are few techniques in think not only about Digital Art but also about digital art. Photography, painting, digital traditionalarttoo.Theyoungergenerationfinds collage, 3d digitalprinting, and opens new doors in this field day by day. algorithmic, mixed media are few of them. These few techniques will help you “Architecture, to make your art better, gorgeous. of all the Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk sketchbook, arts, is the one Asropad Designer, Affinity Designer are which acts the the best apps for digital art. In July 1985, most slowly, Andy Warhol created digital art using a but the most Commodore Amiga where the computer surely, on the was publicly introduced at the Lincoln soul. Center. An image of Debbie Harry was captured in monochrome from a video camera and digitized into a graphics program called PRO PAINT. Warhol manipulated the image adding colour by using flood fills. Artworks are considered digital painting when created similarly to non-digital paintings but using software on a computer platform and digitally outputting the resulting image as paint- ed on canvas. Digital art can easily do on your both IOS and ANDROID phone. Procreate Pocket is an app that you can do digital art on a mobile phone. Art E-Magazine | 40
S . V.P. D asu npr iy a 1 2 M 7 VIDEO EDITING WITH VIDEO EDITING ADOBE PREMIER PRO Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application developed by Adobe Inc. and published as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud licensing program. It is a widely used software application for video editing on Mac OS or Windows computers. Premiere Pro is used for editing videos, commercials and oth- er films, television, and online videos. It is a comprehensive video editing software application and is also available as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud set of applications. Premiere Pro is often used in conjunction with After Effects and Photoshop on creative projects. Understanding the workspace The following diagram shows a breakdown of the Premiere Pro interface: 41 | Art E-Magazine
TUTORIAL 1. Panel Dock - Displays the assets (video clips, audio clips, images, etc.)that you will import to use in your movie. 2. Source Monitor - Allows you to make adjustments to individual clips . 3. Program Monitor - Allows you to view your project as it plays. 4. Timeline Panel - Video clips and other assets are placed on the Timeline and can then be rearranged, layered, trimmed, and edited in multiple ways. An asset is not part of a movie until it is placed on the Timeline. 5. Tools Panel - Holds tools that can be used to edit a video or audio clipthat has been placed on the Timeline. Each of the panels also has a panel menu. The panel menu icon is located on each panel’s tab. The panel menus give us additional options for working with a specific panel, and the menu button only displays when a specific tab is active. Understanding the tools panel Art E-Magazine | 42
All of our tools can be found in our Tools Panel, and most tools can be accessed with hotkeys. Some tool icons are drop-downs (look for the arrowhead in the lower-right corner of the icon to access everything) • The Selection tool allows you to select and move (unlocked) clips in the timeline. It can also be used to trim clips by clicking and dragging on the end of a clip. • The Track Select Forward tool allows you to select all (unlocked) clips after your selection. This is useful for making major changes in your edit. • The Ripple Edit is a trim tool used to trim a clip and “ripple” the rest of the clips in the timeline. • The Rolling Edit tool allows you to extend a clip into an adjacent clip by overlapping. • The Rate Stretch tool edits a clip by adjusting the speed of the clip. • The Blade tool allows you to split a clip wherever you click. • The Slip tool allows you to maintain a clip’s duration, but change which part of the source is being displayed. • Slide tool moves a clip while trimming and extending adjacent clips to compensate for the move. • Pen tool is used to draw keyframes in the timeline, or add points to an effect’s mask. • Rectangle and Ellipse tools are used to create a new motion graphic layer. • Hand tool can be used to drag the timeline or Source/Program Monitor viewport around. • Zoom tool is used to zoom into parts of the timeline. • Type tool can be used to add a new text layer. 43 | Art E-Magazine
Exporting a project To export a video in Premiere Pro, go to File>Export>Media. You could also press the shortcut key Ctrl + M on PC or Cmd + M on Mac. Make sure the sequence you want to export is select- ed when you do this. This will bring up your Export Settings window. Selecting Export simply exports the sequence right from that win- dow. You won’t be able to use Premiere Pro while it’s exporting this way. Art E-Magazine | 44
Kanil Deshan 9A Best DIGITAL ART DESIGNING SOFTWARES 1. Adobe Photoshop Adobe’s Photoshop has been the gold standard for image editing programs for over three decades. It allows you to create amazing illustrations, 3D artwork and much more. You can create anything you want, from posters and banners to complete websites and mobile apps. The program includes a wide range of professional tools that allow you to unleash your creativity. Moreover, with pencils, pens, markers and brushes they can create as they feel like their real-life counterparts. The latest version of Photoshop comes with many advanced features, including the “Paint Symmetry” mode, which allows you to create complex patterns on symmetrical custom axes (e.g. mandalas). 2. Corel Painter Corel’s graphic processing programs are considered to be the business’s flagship. Having the right mix of performance and features, it’s the perfect digital art software for Windows. Corel Painter’s large collec- tion of over 900 brushes includes everything from dub stencils and pattern pens to blenders and texture brushes. You can import brushes from other artists and create your own. The program comes with six new colour combinations that can be saved as sets, making colour selection effortless. It also uses guides and a grid based on the classic techniques of classical representation that allow you to create digital works of art with a unique sense of proportion. Uses mirror painting and kaleidoscope tools. With Corel Painter’s guidelines, you can quickly convert a photo into a digital painting. 45 | Art E-Magazine
3. Affinity Designer Affinity Designer’s engine can easily handle even the most complex documents and allows you to organize objects with layer groups and colour tags. An interesting feature of the program is that with one click you can create scalable works of art and enhance them with a detailed texture without interruption. Other notable features include unlimited artboards, extensive vector tools, live pixel preview, one million percent magnification, advanced grid (standard and symmetric) controls, and custom print styles. 4. Krita Although completely free, this open-source digital art software is packed with features. Krita has been developing for more than a decade. Its user interface is made up of portable panels to create custom workspaces, and you can configure shortcuts for commonly used tools. The program comes with 9 unique brush engines. The resource manager makes it easy to import brush and texture packages from other artists, and the pop-up palette allows you to quickly select colours and brushes. Krita features a “Wrap-around” mode that allows you to create textures and patterns without interruption, but the “Multi brush” tool can be used to illustrate multiple axes to achieve a kaleidoscopic effect. Other notable features include full-colour management support, PSD compatibility and brush stabilizers. 5. Rebelle 3 Rebelle 3 digital art software can mimic the charm of traditional art, such as a watercolour painting. Imitating techniques such as colour mixing and wet diffusion, allows you to create realistic acrylic and watercolour artwork without any effort. The program comes with a wide range of tools and uses the new “Drop Engine” to mimic watercolour drops. You can even “paste” the canvas to reproduce the flow effects and design custom brushes with the powerful brush maker. Rebelle 3 comes in 22 different papers, with lots of creative stencils and cover tools. The package includes new colour filters, a layer of “Masking Fluid” and 23 Photoshop blending methods. Available for both Windows and macOS, it is compatible with all standard file types such as PNG, BMP, TIF, and Layered PSD. Art E-Magazine | 46
47 | Art E-Magazine ANIMATION TUTORIAL
Introduction Yas wan Diss anaya ke 1 1 G Adobe Animate is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program developed by Adobe Inc. Animate is used to design vector graphics and animation for television series, online animation, websites, web applications, rich web applications, game development, commercials, and other interactive projects. File Formats A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. The main file format of Animate is SWF, and its full form is called Small Web Format. And there are other formats like jpg, gif, bmp, png, pct, mov, wav, avi in Adobe Animate. Opening Animate & Workspace You create and manipulate your documents and files using various elements, such as panels, bars, and windows. Any arrangement of these elements is called a workspace. The workspaces of the different applications in Adobe Creative Suite 5 share the same appearance so that you can move between the applications easily. Art E-Magazine | 48
Toolbar A toolbar is a horizontal or vertical row of clickable icons which perform specific applications. The Adobe Animate toolbar includes the tools like lasso tool, pen tool, brush tool, and bone tool to do various kinds of things. Properties Panel The properties panel in Animate lets you view settings and controls in the context of your current task or workflow. This panel has been designed with ease of use in mind, ensuring that you have access to the right controls when you need them. Color Panel The color panel displays the color values for the current foreground and background colors. Using the sliders in the Color panel, you can edit the foreground and background colors using different color models. You can also choose a foreground or background color from the spectrum of colors displayed in the color ramp at the bottom of the panel. Timeline The timeline helps order clips in a sequence, navigate the video by scrubbing your cursor across clips, and apply quick modifications like splicing and speed corrections. For more precise manipulation, however, other panels, such as the effects panel, must be used 49 | Art E-Magazine
Symbols & Tweens In animation, tweening is short for in-betweening, which is the process of drawing the frames that transition one keyframe or major pose to another. In Adobe Animate, tweening refers to the several automated processes of creating those in-betweens. Symbols are really the foundation of interactive project development. They help keep file size down, aid in organization and allow you to use ActionScript to manipulate their appearance. Saving and Exporting Files Before using any of our content on public platforms, we first need to export it to a usable format. Animate allows us to export single images, animated GIFs, video files, and more. What we’re going to be doing is looking in the File menu and here we can see the export options under Export. Art E-Magazine | 50
DIGITAL ART Be drawn to IN SRI LANKA “ for it im In this world which we live in today, almost everything is digitalized. We use There are many types of computers to check our mail, smartphones digital art in Sri Lanka. to communicate with each other, read Fractal/Algorithmicart,dynamic books, collect information, send painting, 2D computer photos and videos to each other using social graphics, 3D computer graphics, Pixel Art, Digital Photography,PhotoPainting,etc. media, and many more. Like many things are digitalizing, art has also started going digital. Younger generations have grown up with digital arts. We can use a lot of software to make digital arts. Art is one of the major fields that changed with considerable matters. Pramod Nanayakkara 8M Digital art is an artistic work or practise that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process. Since 1960 various names have been used to describe the process including comput- er art and multimedia art. Digital art is itself placed under the large umbrella term new media art. With the world becoming more and more digital how people experience art and how artists create art has become more and more adaptive to digital methods and experiences. Nowadays Sri Lankans also turn to art with tech equipment platforms. 51 | Art E-Magazine
o the visual arts can expand your magination times. Digital art is a real art. While digital art might be considered cheating by some artists, the truth is that to create a unique piece of art by digital means requires just as much thought skill and effort as traditional art. Drawing digitally takes as much effort to learn as drawing traditionally. Digitalpaint- ing is a new trend in Sri Lanka. It is a good avenue to generate revenue. Most of the digital artists in Sri Lanka create their paintings or digital arts for export purposes. There are famous Sri Lankan digital artists as well. Isu- ri Dayarathne, Fire Rahman, Sachi Ediriweera, and Leavan Balasuriya are leading digital art- ists in Sri Lanka.There are digital art groups in Colombo as well. Citizens Development Business Fi- nance PLC (CDB) launched ‘CDB Rankati Siththam Roo 2021’ in commemoration of World Children’s Day to inspire young minds to express themselves. The initia- tive was concluded recently via a Facebook live stream. The participant’s submissions for the islandwide Digital Art Competition were exhibited, followed by an inter- active session for the children. Art E-Magazine | 52
FUTURE OF DIGITAL ARTS 53 | Art E-Magazine
Digital Arts are based on The combination of digital arts and VR technology. Therefore, when technology in this way will help technology improves day by comrades to reach great enjoyment and day, the digital arts will develop to understand the deep ideas simply. automatically. Thus,we can expect As digital art reaches its peak great success in digital arts in the people will revert to the feeling they can future. It will help not only to increase touch. Why? Because social the enjoyment of the people but also media will continue to drive the art world. And to change human emotions positively. people are more prone to share AI technology has done an personal experiences on social eye-catching role in computer media than they are to share something technology. In the future, this will generic they found in a digital world. affect the digital arts. Artificial When we talk about the Intelligence is a field that is very future of digital arts we should pay important in digital art. With the attention to the topic “How will digital arts increasing computing power of advance in the future?” The experts hope machines, computers can create digital art gains acceptance and and learn to understand new and eventually becomes accessible using platforms complex images.The future of dig- like Spotify and iTunes. Finally, digital arts ital art can make machines more will inevitably advance and improve in the human. The use of AI technology years to come, creating stronger demand. is still limited, but it can be used to Developing a user person is easy. create AI creations in the future. Art clearly has a future that contin- Arosha Akash 11E ues to branch into new forms, in- cluding continuing to integrate new technology. Both Virtual Reality and AugmentedRealityofferexcellentwaysto create immersive work, where the viewer can experience the artwork utilizing a headset or phone. Art E-Magazine | 54
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ACROSS 1) It is a major comprehensive 3D printing type that involves heating the material to produce high resolution items. 2) A digital illustration app widely used by the professionals. 6) ____ Johansson is famous for his surreal images created by recombining photo- graphs and other materials. 10) GIMP is a ______ graphics editor with a full featured set of tools for digital photo manipulation and creating 3D graphics. 11) Maya is a 3D graphics design software developed and owned by ________ Inc 12) The first digital colour photograph published was captured by the physicist _______ Francis Tompsett. 14) A popular software company which develops software for works in digital arts field. 15) The graphic visual representations of information, data, or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly. 17) Graphics created using GIMP are made up of a large amount of ______. 18) CorelDRAW is a ______ graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation. 19) An open-source digital art software features a “Wrap-around” mode that allows you to create textures and patterns without interruption. DOWN 1) Charles Hull invented the _________________. 3) A familiar device in digital arts field. 4) The art of arranging letters in a visually appealing way. 5) The printing time of any 3D creation depends on size, material and the __________. 7) Steven _________ is a well-known digital artist for his amazing “combophotos”. 8)The most popular image editing software designed by Adobe Inc. which invents “Paint Symmetry” in its latest version. 9) In 1957, Mr. Russell Krisch produced the first digital _____. 13) An essential electronic device when creating digital videos. 16) The proper use of ______is vital when creating eye catching infographics. 58 | Art E-Magazine
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