Digital Fine Art Techniques.

Richard Davies is a freelance digital designer and illustrator that has been in the business for the last decade, predominantly working with print and corporate identity. His skills range from graphic design, illustration and typography. The software primarily used to create art like this is Adobe Photoshop.  Photoshop is a raster graphics editor, which is used on a wide platform across the globe. There are many different techniques and outcomes involved with Photoshop, one of these is Digital Fine Art painting/drawing such as Richard's work. Photoshop works in layers building up to create an image. This is done using vector and bitmap tools, you can also download a multitude of extensions for brushes, textures and other things which all help in creating unique digital art.

Another approach to Adobe Photoshop is creating 'Gifs'



This Gif created by Lilli Carre is made up of different frames with each drawing in a different position each time so it creates a moving image it's also on 'loop' which means it has no distinctive end, it goes on constantly. This type of animation can also be created on Adobe Flash Professional or as it is now called Adobe Animate.

Adobe Flash/Animate is a multimedia and software platform used for creating vector graphics, animation, browser games, rich Internet applications, desktop applications, mobile applications and mobile games. Flash/Animate displays text, vector and raster graphics to provide animations, video games and applications. It allows streaming of audio and video, and can capture mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera input.

As well as gifs, you can create normal animations, for example animating objects, drawings, videos, anything. You can also create Animated films or mini TV shows such as Toy story, Animal creatures, and so on.

This can also be done using Adobe Premiere.



 Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application, which can be used to create stop motion video or even a whole film.

To create a gif you would have to edit a short video and then use Adobe Bridge to convert the video frames in to photoshop layers to produce the gif in photoshop.




Pez is an example of stop motion video which you can create in Adobe Premiere:

This is one of his popular short films called 'Western Spaghetti' created in a very unique way. He takes everyday objects and using stop motion creates a film with them.