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  • 08-12-2007 10:47am
    #1
    sineadw
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    Hi all. I'm gonna post this in both the Digital Art and photography forums. Hope that's ok...

    I have a college assignment due in on Friday (gah!) that I'm struggling with a bit. Here's the brief:

    You must collect 10 examples of contemporary digital artwork. They must be both technically and artistically strong. Pick 5 of the 10 images and briefly discuss the following points for each:

    Is there commercial motivation? If so, who is the target audience?
    Is it produced for artistic reasons? eg with no commercial restraints or objectives.

    You must record your observations and opinions on style and technique.

    Ok so I'm strong on opinions on my own photography (I'd like to think :rolleyes:) but I've never studied art or design, and TBH I'm having trouble telling a good image from a bad one. I know I know.. how long is a piece of string... I was hoping you good people would be able to point me in the direction of some decent digital artists' websites. There's soooooo much online I'm feeling swamped. And any other suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated.

    The course itself focusses on Photoshop and Illustrator for producing digital art BTW, but I don't think the brief ties me strictly to either. I asked about using purely photographic images and its a no no - the work can be photography based but must be digitally manipulated.

    Ta muchly


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  • #2
    City-Exile
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    Have you seen this?

    I'd consider that to be one example.
    This could also be an example...


  • #3
    sineadw
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    Yep I got the Giselle one :) How the heck was that achieved does anyone know? Any idea who the artist is in the second one? I like that! I think I need to credit the artist (although it doesn't actually state that in the brief...)


  • #4
    City-Exile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭City-Exile


    sineadw wrote: »
    Any idea who the artist is in the second one? I like that! I think I need to credit the artist (although it doesn't actually state that in the brief...)

    Felicity Rogers.


  • #5
    elven
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    First hit on 'digital art' in google gets you http://digitalart.org/ and, well, you could look through that all day. But in terms of actually picking something that you can talk about the technique and have an opinion on it, hmmm... maybe you want to go with a manipulated photo then you could talk about the photoshop and the conflict between the realism of the photos and the actual scene.

    There's this one: http://digitalart.org/art/30532/photo-manipulations/virus/

    I think there should be plenty in there to pull apart, it could be used in an editorial capacity - in fact new scientist use a lot of stuff like that to illustrate their articles.

    Then there's: http://digitalart.org/art/58059/photo-manipulations/drifting/

    I'd say that one is more art based, I'm sure you could waffle on about the concept behind it for a while. just something to get started :)


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