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FACES OF ART
DIGITAL EDITION
Yesenia Barrios Photo Manipulations Portfolio An invitation to the digital art world
Female Models Eyes Everyday objects Music inspired pieces Wallpapers Photo Manipulations Illustrations Cover: Release Your Fears By: MusArtLit
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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_art, Artsnova: http://www.artsnova.com/digital-tools.html Digital Art For All: http://www.digitalartforall.com / DeviantArt: http://www.deviantart.com/ Art quotes: http://www.brainyquote.com/ EnzyneMark (free content article directory) http://software.ezinemark.com/
Special thanks to: Agmen12: Itzia for helping find the talents displayed trough the magazine http://agmen12.deviantart.com/ AnzonyD: Antonio for conducting the interview on the featured artist http://anzonyd.deviantart.com/
acg3fly: Alfredo from Mexico http://acg3fly.deviantart.com/
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Kurau Phantomhive from Mexico Enjoy the little things http://kurau-phantomhive.deviantart.com/
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Ash-3xpired: Ashraf E. Shalaby from Egypt Really fears the future ! http://ash-3xpired.deviantart.com/
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MusArtLit: Yesenia Barrios from Mexico Self taught artist... http://musartlit.deviantart.com/
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electrifried: Jakki from Australia http://electrifried.deviantart.com/
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=IrvingGFM: Irving Gerardo Ferral Moctezuma from Mexico Art is not a thing; it is a way http://irvinggfm.deviantart.com/
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DIGITAL
art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process. Since the 1970s, various names have been used to describe the process including computer art and multimedia art, and digital art is itself placed under the larger umbrella term new media art.
Miar-bolito vectorial by: acg3fly wallpaper created on Photoshop for ipad, PSP, and iphone.
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Entrelazado Floral Negro wallpaper by: acg3fly for ipad, PSP, and iphone.
DREAM wallpaper by: acg3fly Photoshop & Xara 3D
Fantasmita Jaloguin by: acg3fly; Haloween wallpaper
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techniques of digital art are used extensively by the mainstream media. Digital art can be purely computer-generated (such as fractals and algorithmic art) or taken from other sources, such as a scanned photograph or an image drawn using vector graphics software using a mouse or graphics tablet. Desktop wallpapers are a very common way to express creativity. From nature shots, vectors, and drawings made with devices such as tablets. Wallpapers are very easy to find, there are many websites where they are available for free download for many different devices such as mp3 players, cellphones, portable game consoles, etc. Also interactive and animated wallpapers are very common. Rayas multicolor by: acg3fly
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Released by: Kurau-Phantomhive Digital Art/Photomanipulation
PHOTO MANIPULATION
(also called Photoshopping or --before the rise of Photoshop software-- airbrushing) is the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception (in contrast to mere enhancement or correction), through analog or digital means.
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The Witness by: Kurau-Phantomhive Digital Art/Photomanipulation
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ne of the most exciting aspects of the digital art creation process is the wide variety of tools at the artist’s disposal. When you couple the variety of tools with the fact that any mixture of these tools can be used collectively to create art, the result is that the digital artist is far more liberated and free to explore than his traditional art counterparts.
• Adobe Photoshop: graphics editing program. • Apopyhsis: an open source fractal flame editor and renderer for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. • CorelDRAW: vector graphics editor • LightWave: software package used for redering 3D images, both animated and static. • Paint Tool Sai: SAI is a lightweight painting application. • Inkscape: drawing program similar to Adobe Illustrator. • Seashore: image editor for Mac. It is a bitmap editor. • GIMP: GNU Image Manipulation Program. • Blender: 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. • Scratch: programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web. • SketchUp: is a powerful yet easy to use 3D software tool that allows one to build and modify 3D models quickly and very easily. • ArtRage: ‘the easy to use, stylish painting software for Windows and Mac OS X!’. • Adobe InDesign: software application It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books. • Xara Photo & Graphic Desiger: 2D vector graphics editor. • Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio Max: 3D computer graphics software for making 3D animations, models, and images. And the list keeps going.
Stairs to Darkness by: Kurau-Phantomhive Digital Art Photomanipulation
The Keeper by; Kurau-Phantomhive Digital Art/Photomanipulation
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ne of the most comon ways to do a photo manipulation is with perhaps the most heard of software Adobe Phooshop. Hence the term Photoshopping. In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, an Industrial Light & Magic employee, who recommended that Thomas turn it into a fullfledged image editing program. Later that year, Thomas renamed his program Photoshop and worked out a short-term deal with scanner manufacturer Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner; a “total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped” this way.
Worlds apart .. by: =Ash-3xpired Digital Art / Photomanipulation
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hotoshop has been a useful tool for graphic designers to create artwork conveniently and aesthetically. For example, design studios can use Photoshop in order to visualize their take on an initial concept and then move onto different media to complete the concept.
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I’ll soon be gone by: =Ash-3xpired Digital Art / Photomanipulation
Hardware Used in the Digital Art Creation Process The computer hardware platform consists on operating system from Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and Mac. The devices used such as: • Printers • Scanners • Digital Tablets • Digital cameras • Desktop computers as well as Laptops
Hope II by: =Ash-3xpired Digital Art / Photomanipulation
Syria Tribute.. by: =Ash-3xpired Digital Art / Photomanipulation
Army of me.. by: =Ash-3xpired Digital Art / Photomanipulation
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esenia Barrios. A 25 year old hailing from Mexico. Believe or not, but young Ms Barrios has been creating art since the tender age of 15. If not for her will to draw and create I might not have had the pleasure of being introduced to Yesenia. Since she was a teen she has been painfully suffering and as you can tell from her pieces she voices herself through her magnificent creations. Even as she was very depressed she managed to pull through, one of her ways was drawing for her friends seeing as not many other had acquired the skills to draw free hand. An amazing artist that has beat the odds for so many years and has evolved to make the unique pieces she makes today. The artist really put herself into her pieces. Her personality really shows from head to toe. She isn’t afraid to voice what she feels within. Look at how the crow flies out revealing some physical faults. Even as she is beautiful as all of us she has her darkness that is within. I can imagine the artist personality is linked to this young woman like a sister. What you see is what you get. There is nothing to hide and everything will be revealed as for as long as you are willing to see, inside and out. This is only one of the many wonderful pieces she has created. Wonderful yet elegant, and original..
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How would you say you connect with you artwork other than creating it? I connect with it in a personal level because all my art represent things that have happened to me, issues that have happened to people I know, issues that are happening in the world right now, is my way to tell my story, weather if is a piece dedicated to a friend, or a piece that is about violence in the streets, everything is related and connected to my life because this is the world we live in and art is the perfect way to let all of my feelings out to let my voice be heard and to make a stand. 9
What is your strongest motivation?
To be able to help and reach out to people with my art, thus the purpose of this magazine I want the world to know we are here and that art is much more than a hobby, is a lifestyle is what we are, breathe and live everyday. Not because we are not famous and our pieces do not hang in the wall of a gallery or museum doesn’t mean is pointless. Art requires a great amount of knowledge and skill. I haven’t had the chance to attend a university, everything I know is because I have very skilled friends who have help me to better myself, I do research, read, watch tutorials, etc. and of course I am not still at the level I hope to be one day I am not even close but I want everyone to know that art is very important not only to us that we make it but to everyone else as well.
How did you get started? I got started into art when i was 15 years old, i used to live with my mom in a very small apartment and it had a walk in closet not as big but there was enough space for me to pass my days there, my 2 brothers used to collect trading cards and one day I was sitting in the closet, one of their cards was on the floor. I stared at it for about half hour if not more thinking to myself “I can draw that!!� so I got a piece of paper and pencil and I drew it to my surprise it looked exactly like the original; and in that moment right there and then when i saw the finished drawing i knew I had a purpose in life. Been doing art since then.
What are your usual hobbies? to go to the movies, listen to music, watch cooking shows and documentaries lots of documentaries.
Is some of your work inspired by a lost or a broken heart? No, none of my pieces are, well not the way i look at them, everyone sees art in a very different way.
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Would you say some of your work speaks of your past pain or depressive states? Yes it does, if not all of it, when you suffer from depression you need to have something that gives meaning to your life, something that gives you a purpose. Art in general, learning about it it’s history, branches, artists, etc...All that gives a special character to my life and when i am depressed the most is when i create the most, is like depression helps me make my pictures it gives me some kind of weird inspiration and of course a different approach to life and people. What do you fear? Failure is one of my main fears. When it hits me is very hard for me to go back up this might be due to my depression and low self esteem, is a whole deal of encouragement that i have to put in myself that i don’t know where to find it, therefore many times i let failure to control my life. Are you afraid to present yourself to the world like you present your art or would you mask it and just let your art be your personality? In some aspects of my life i am terrified to show myself to the world. For example of my piece Scars, i will not scream to the world that i harm myself i would be locked in a mad house (well i am kind of admitting it here and now) because the society we live in does not understand the amount of pain and desperation someone is in when the self harming happens, and continues for years. And on the other hand i will openly accept i do not condone the hunting of elephants because of their ivory like in my piece Hunted. Not everything about my life is easy to share there is just not enough understanding,I let my art speak for me. Does your body contain any physical scars? Do any of you pieces display those scars for you in secret? Yes my body does have scars and i am ashamed to admit i was the cause of them, i fell into a bottomless pit, i needed to know if i was still alive. Few of my pieces do showcase the scars that i hide in my body, the name of one of them is Scars.
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Have your friends ever lead to any of your pieces? Yes they have, Birth day presents, another one of my friends is trying to assemble a Metal band and i made the logo for the band and some other posters as well. But there is one particular piece i made that I dedicate it to one of my friends is about smoking. The piece is call Smoked. I wanted to show how bad smoking is, she is very smart university degree and all that but the only dumb thing she does is smoking, so when i showed her the piece she said “I will never quit smoking” maybe another million pieces will do. In a religious sense where do you stand? When i was a kid i did believe in God, well mostly on his anger, i was being raised a catholic and unfortunately that is what mostly the church teaches you, to fear God instead of embracing the beautiful things he has given us. I was enrolled in a catholic school, going to church every Sunday as well, but as you grow up you start to notice things you did not when child I often asked myself “Why does God let all the pain and suffering in the world to happen, if he is the creator of heaven and earth why doesn’t he stop it?” Why doesn’t he stops my suffering...I always grew up with those questions in my mind. I am more focused on science now i love it fascinates me, but if there is one God almighty up there watching me then i just hope that my good deeds are enough to make up for my mistakes, if not then i will have to beg for forgiveness. Do you agree with the standing with politics today? Politics is a very complex machine, yes it has it’s failures, but i do believe that we all need a set of rules and people who can create this rules in order to have a successful society. But when these rulers exceed the limit on what is right, there is when the problems start. Unfortunately power is a very powerful weapon it has been since the dawn of time, and because of this weapon the ruled suffers. Because it has always seem that the more power a human being acquires the more rotten it becomes, only seeking for more power. If you could change something about politics what would change? I guess that would be to focus more in local affairs, make sure that my people was well and happy. 12
Light Up by: =IrvingGFM
Digital Art / Photomanipulation
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igital art has increased the available variety of artworks and artistic possibilities: starting with simple digital photography, moving through images which react to the physical presence of a viewer and finally reaching virtual reality, like the CAVE. It is interesting that art came to the world of computers and not vice versa. Perhaps this is because almost all the pioneers of Digital art are primarily scientists, who dared to make science fiction real. Benjamin Laposky, an American mathematician and artist, is widely considered the founder of Digital art. He first created a graphic image using an analog computer. In 1953 he presented his works “Oscillons” (or “Electronic Abstractions”), which were a real breakthrough in the middle of previous century. Herbert W. Franke, an Austrian scientist and science fiction writer, besides drawing images with an oscillogram, wrote the first art book about computer graphics - “Computer Graphics - Computer Art”.
But some people continue to say that digital art is not a real art form, and we can’t compare Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, for example, with Maurice Benayoun’s interactive installation ‘World Skin.’ Of course we cannot compare these artworks, but don’t you think that if Leonardo were alive in the 21st century he wouldn’t try at least Photoshop? And that Mozart would have a go at writing music in Abelton? What we don’t know is what impact that would have had on their masterpieces – but there’s no reason to believe it would have constrained them. On the contrary, there would have been greater options available – as there are to us today.
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He’ll Be Always There by: =IrvingGFM Digital Art / Photomanipulation
Where is the Faith? by: =IrvingGFM Digital Art / Photomanipulation
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hough technically the term may be applied to art done using other media or processes and merely scanned in, it is usually reserved for art that has been non-trivially modified by a computing process (such as a computer program, microcontroller or any electronic system capable of interpreting an input to create an output); digitized text data and raw audio and video recordings are not usually considered digital art in themselves, but can be part of the larger project of computer art and information art. Artworks are considered digital painting when created in similar fashion to non-digital paintings but using software on a computer platform and digitally outputting the resulting image as painted on canvas. Andy Warhol created digital art using a Commodore Amiga where the computer was publicly introduced at the Lincoln Center, New York in July 1985. An image of Debbie Harry was captured in monochrome from a video camera and digitized into a graphics program called ProPaint. Warhol manipulated the image adding colour by using flood fills. By the mid-1960s, most individuals involved in the creation of computer art were in fact engineers and scientists because they had access to the only computing resources available at university scientific research labs. Many artists tentatively began to explore the emerging computing technology for use as a creative tool. In the summer of 1962, Dr. A. Michael Noll programmed a digital computer at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey to generate visual patterns solely for artistic purposes .His later computer-generated patterns simulated paintings by Piet Mondrian and Bridget Riley and become classics. Noll also used the patterns to investigate aesthetic preferences in the mid 1960s.
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DIGITAL ILLUSTRATIONS
Computer illustration or digital illustration is the use of digital tools to produce images under the direct manipulation of the artist, usually through a pointing device such as a tablet or a mouse. Moonflower by: *electrifried Digital Art / Drawings / Illustrations
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ne of the most popular software to make digital illustrations is Adobe Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator is the leading vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. The latest version, Illustrator CS6, is the sixteenth generation in the product line. Adobe Illustrator was first developed for the Apple Macintosh in December 1986 (shipping in January 1987) as a commercialization of Adobe’s in-house font development software and PostScript file format. There are two main types of tools used for digital illustration.
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itmapped(also known as “raster”)Bitmap applications are commonly called “painting” programs, while vector applications are called “drawing” programs. These terms reflect the difference in look-and-feel between the images created in each type of program. With a bitmap application, the content is stored digitally in fixed rows and columns of pixels, which can be created in separate layers for more easily isolating and manipulating different parts of the image. A bitmap image contains information about each pixel’s hue (color), luminance (brightness), and saturation (intensity of color). When the pointing device moves over an area of the image, new colors and values are applied to the underlying pixels. Painting tools allow the easy creation of “fuzzy” imagery, including effects such as glows and soft shadows, and textures such as fur, velvet, stone and skin, and are heavily used in photo-retouching. 15
Astronomical Cotton Candy by: *electrifried Digital Art / Drawings / Illustrations
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ith vector-based tools, the content is stored digitally as resolution-independent mathematical formulae describing lines (open paths), shapes (closed paths), and color fills, strokes or gradients. Vector paths are constructed of anchor points and path seg ments by using the pointing device to click and drag. Drawing tools typically create precise lines, shapes and patterns with well-defined edges and are superb for working with complex constructions such as maps and typography. Digital illustrations may include both raster and vector graphics in the same work. A bitmap image file may be saved in a format which embeds a layer of vector information, and vector image file may include imported bitmap images.
Gossamer by: *electrifried Digital Art / Drawings / Illustrations Alone Together by: *electrifried Digital Art / Drawings / Illustrations
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igital illustration is very popular nowadays and is used in various areas. It is used for graphical designing, web design and software design. These illustrations are widely used for comic books, websites, T-shirts and posters. They are also important for making animations and editing pictures for magazines and newspapers. The most common software for digital illustration is Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.
Where the land meets the sky by: *electrifried Digital Art / Drawings / Illustrations
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. Pablo Picasso
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have. Andy Warhol
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Thank you to all the artists who kindly accepted to be displayed here.
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igital art has come a long way, from it’s humble beginnings to today’s most popular and complex video games. Weather as a hobby or as a carrear, digital art will continue growing and opening new ways of viewing and making art.