Digital Painting

Painting and craftsmanship have been a very popular culture among the Bhutanese for centuries. Lha-zho, also known as the art of painting, has been practiced for many generations. These traditional paintings are commonly found on walls, flags, canvas, wood and many other materials.

However, in order to keep up with the modernizing countries around the glove, young Bhutanese artist have been generally attracted by the concept of digital painting. Due to the popular culture of Animation we have found many individuals that have opted for digital art.

What is digital painting?

Digital painting is an art from using computer software, a graphic tablet and a stylus pen. It is a very popular means of painting as of right now due to its ease of use and an diverse library, to pick and implement tools or brushes for free.

Why is digital painting practiced more?

From a survey conducted with 83 young artist.

- It is in demand in various career paths and it is vastly influential. ‘Anime’ a very common show that is overwhelmingly popular with a huge fanbase generally influences these digital styled paintings.

What are the common platforms used by the Bhutanese artist right now?

1. Krita.

Krita is a free painting software that has a variety of brushes and canvas to choose from. It is supported in all three operating system like windows, apple and linux. It has all the features to create, animate or model designs to, due to it being completely free, 74% of the Bhutanese are currently using krita as a tool for painting.

2. Procreate.

Procreate is an app that comes with any apple product. The app has features that allows the user to paint with ease. Many logo design and character modeling have been created using this software. The only downside of this app is that it only supports apple and therefore many do not have access to use this wonderful app. As of right now only 7% of the artist use procreate for painting.

3. Adobe photoshop painting.

A tool that is currently the standard accepted by multinational companies. The app is a beast when it comes to features and vast libraries. It not only supports all the three operating system, but it is also compatible with mobile phones. 10% of Bhutanese uses this app as of right now. However the app is not free and therefore only dedicated artist use this app.