Digital Drawing and Painting
The lines between traditional and new media have blurred considerably with the advancement of computer drawing tools. Sophisticated software programs provide digital tools that mimic a wide variety of traditional drawing tools.
Drawing software programs used by artists include Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Sketchbook Pro, and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. There are also many free graphics software programs for beginners and students. Many artists prefer to use digital drawing tablets for drawing with the computer.
Wacom drawing tablets are one brand of many.
Sites about the history of digital drawing and painting:
V&A: History of Computer Art
Digital Art Museum: History
History of Adobe
Some sites about digital drawing and painting:
Art of Raz: Digital Drawing and Painting
Wikipedia: Computer Art
Top 10: 2014 Best Drawing Software Comparisons and Reviews
How Stuff Works: 5 Great Tablets for Drawing
Some sites with tips and tutorials about digital drawing and painting:
PsdFan: 34 Digital Painting and Drawing Tutorials
Wikihow: Make Digital Art
Instructables: Hand Drawn to Digital Illustrations
Dusty Ghost: Graphics Tablet Tutorials
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite Tutorials
Photoshop Tutorials
Some contemporary artists who work with digital drawing and painting:
Kemi Mai
World of Imagination: Gallery of Fantasy Digital Drawings
Tim Timmerman
Brad Farlow
Colin Goldberg
Tullius Heuer
Deviant Art: breathing2004