Digital painting

Digital painting is the creation of imagery on a computer, using pixels (picture elements) which are assigned a color.

Created in 1963 by Ivan Sutherland, a grad student at MIT, Sketchpad allowed the user to manipulate objects on a cathode-ray tube (CRT).

[4] Much of MacPaint's universal success was attributed to the release of the first Macintosh computer equipped with another program called MacWrite.

It was the first personal computer with a graphical user interface and lost much of the bulky size of its predecessor, the Lisa.

Illustrator introduced the uses of Bezier curves, which allowed the user to be incredibly detailed in their vector drawings.

Speed of response, quality of color, and the ability to save to a file or print are similar in either media.

An artist drawing on a graphics tablet in 2014
"Alice in Wonderland", a 2010 digital painting by David Revoy , depicting some elements and characters from the 1865 novel .
Many artists prefer using graphics tablets to create digital paintings instead of using a mouse.