Vector Illustrations – A Modern Form of Digital Painting
The development of digital technologies caused changes in many spheres of human life. The entire industries developed, and new forms of business, communication, and, of course, art emerged. Vector illustrations represent one of the modern forms of digital art, which is now widely spread around the globe. Leo Blanchette, Catalina Estrada, Petra Stefankova, and J. Otto Seibold are only some of the representatives of modern artists, who chose vector illustration technique and gained worldwide fame.
At the very basic level, vector illustration is a technique, where an image is nothing but a graphical representation of some complex mathematical formula, which predefines the size, color, position of every point, line, curve, or shape and thus builds a visual image on a computer display. The mathematical component makes vector illustrations a very specific form of art with unique and very distinct characteristics. Actually, vector illustrations offer the audience a fusion of human creativity and imagination with the scrupulousness and accurateness of machines and digital techniques. Vector illustrations create virtually unlimited environment for the art process. That is why we can now enjoy vector graphics of multiple styles, from cartoons to posters, and to conceptual surrealistic art masterpieces.