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Digital painting
Establishes a painterly medium built with digital brushwork, color layers, and tone.
Preset / Digital painting illustration
Digital painting illustration
Creates painterly illustration that communicates content or ideas in a digital drawing environment.
Valley with a river and mountain ranges
Both languages share the English example images. Japanese prompts are the recorded translations.
It combines the painterly medium of digital brushwork, color layers, and tone with illustration's role of communicating content or ideas. It does not mean photo editing, 3D rendering, a particular application or brush, or every kind of digital illustration.
Five examples
1 — Medium-sized dog
Open image ↗2 — Cat
Open image ↗3 — Teenage boy
Open image ↗4 — Unoccupied interior
Open image ↗5 — Valley with a river and mountain ranges
Open image ↗Understand the combination
Why these elements work together
Digital painting defines the painterly production medium and illustration defines the image's communicative role, making a concrete painterly digital-illustration treatment.
Conditions and adjustments
Scope · Includes
artwork using digital brushwork and color layers to communicate content
Scope · Includes
explanatory or narrative imagery retaining a painterly surface
Scope · Excludes
images intended only as photo editing
Scope · Excludes
3D modeling or rendering specifications
Scope · Excludes
illustration composed only of vector shapes
Scope · Excludes
reproduction of a particular application interface
Application · Includes
when an image should communicate content while retaining a digital drawing feel
Application · Excludes
when photographic realism alone is the primary goal
Application · Excludes
when the production process of a three-dimensional model must be shown
Includes
when an image should communicate content while retaining a digital drawing feel
Excludes
when photographic realism alone is the primary goal
Excludes
when the production process of a three-dimensional model must be shown
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