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In a world that's digitally yours

Some interesting sites for digital art lovers

If you love to dabble and churn out creative stuffs with works of art and photographs on your computer, then you belong to the world of digital artists. It's a niche community in the technology world. Check these sites to know more about the medium.

Digital Art

http://digitalart.org/

Digital Art is an online gallery of digital art and has close to 20,000 works of digital art on display. It is an online platform where artists of various standings, ranging from budding artists to accomplished masters, come together and display their work. It allows members to interact with one another and improve upon their art. The feedback mechanism sends regular feedback, comments and queries to all the artists who have their works on display. Membership is through registration. The basic membership being free, one can also opt for a premium membership by paying $ 3.45 per month that gives them additional benefits like a customised email id, a custom title and an ad-free web interface.

Blue 'S'Fear

www.bluesfear.com

Bluesfear is an art and web development community that features art galleries and tutorials submitted by artists. The art galleries are bifurcated into two sections - Battle Art and Art Packs. The former involves an artists' competition while the latter is a general art gallery displaying art under various genres.

The highlight of this site is the tutorial packs it has to offer. It has over 300 tutorials on various subjects that include Photoshop, Flash, 3D Studio Max and more. This site could be very useful for budding artists.

Digital Art Museum

www.dam. org/intro.htm

Digital Art Museum is a very scientifically executed digital art website. It delves into the history of digital art from the nascent stage of technology independence of the 50's to the technologically driven era of today. It also has a collection of essays penned by masters in the field of digital art archived chronologically.

The online museum has exhibitions displaying the works of the artists in the digital media. The site also has personal profiles of artists across the globe and a page dedicated to latest news in the field.

Digital Artist

http://www.cgsociety.org/

The Computer Graphics Society is a global organisation for creative digital artists. It provides information on various topics dealing with digital art, computer graphics, animation and digital visual effects. Its online discussion forum - CGTalk is, arguably, one of the largest online discussion forums for digital artists. The interface reflects the graphical superiority that the site claims in terms of people and works associated with it.

L.S. ROHIT

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