digital illustration

Screen-made visual art

Digital illustration is artwork created using software rather than traditional physical media like paint or pencil.

Artists use drawing tablets, styluses, and programs to produce images for books, games, advertisements, and online content.

The medium allows unlimited revision and layering: She specializes in digital illustration for children's books.

Distinguished from digital art more broadly, illustration typically serves a narrative or commercial purpose.

Related

digital canvas · CorelDRAW · graphic design · comic art · palette · mixed media · rendering · pixel art · Photoshop · layering · character design · line art · masking · undo button · blend · color · animation · shading techniques

Categories
Opposites
medium/technology

digital illustrationoil painting

Art made with linseed-bound pigments

watercolor painting · pencil drawing · ink drawing · charcoal drawing · fresco

process/method

digital illustrationbrushwork

Painter's stroke method

pen and ink · impasto · handcraft · freehand drawing

artifact status

digital illustrationcanvas painting

Art on stretched fabric

Family

digit, illustrate, illustration

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G