So you want draw?
Firstly,
if you're new to the underground/digital art scene, then
you should read the article "What
the hell is the art scene".
There
are quite a few mediums that artists within the art scene
choose to persue, sometimes one or sometimes all of them..
Listed below are the things to get you started:
ANSI
The most common two programs in use to draw ANSI are ACiDDRAW
and TheDraw. They're both pretty easy to use.
Editors
Download
ACiDDRAW v1.2 (artpacks.acid.org)
Download
CiaDraw beta (artpacks.acid.org)
Download
TheDRaw v4.63 (artpacks.acid.org)
Resources
Learn to draw ANSI (tips)
Viewers
Download
ACiDView v4.36
(artpacks.acid.org)
Download
iCEView .66
(artpacks.acid.org)
ASCII
ASCII is pretty much drawn in the same programs ANSI artists
use to create their pieces. If you want to be pretty hardcore
about it you could create your pieces in Notepad or Microsoft
Edit.
Editors
Download
ACiDDRAW v1.2 (artpacks.acid.org)
Download
CiaDraw beta (artpacks.acid.org)
Download
TheDRaw v4.63 (artpacks.acid.org)
Resources
Learn to draw ASCII (tips)
Viewers
Download
ACiDView v4.36
(artpacks.acid.org)
Download
iCEView .66
(artpacks.acid.org)
RIP
RIP artists generally use a program called Deadpaint.
Editors
Download
Deadpaint v3.1 (artpacks.acid.org)
Download
Tombstone Artist v2.0 (artpacks.acid.org)
Viewers
Download
ACiDView v4.36
(artpacks.acid.org)
Download
iCEView .66
(artpacks.acid.org)
HIREZ
There are quite a few programs out there to create high
resolution pieces, shareware and commercial. Obviously the
commercial products are going to deliver the goods much
more easily, but you'll have to also fork out a bit of money
for them. A good shareware product is Paintshop Pro v5.0,
which has many of the features Adobe Photoshop does.
Editors
Download
Graffix 2 (artpacks.acid.org)
Download
Paintshop Pro v5.01 (artpacks.acid.org)
Or
visit Adobe
to
learn more about Photoshop v5.0
Resources
www.gimp.org
free photoshop style linux program
www.blender.nl
free proffessional 3d modelling and rendering program
for linux.
Viewers
Download
ACDSee 32 v2.3 (win95/98) (ftp.cdrom.com)
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