Thank you for your welcome and your thoughts.
My own work is mainly traditional oil painting, but I am very interested in how digital tools can expand artistic expression.
I look forward to learning from the community and exchanging ideas.
Best regards,
Petros Thanos
I agree with what @sooz wrote, and I would add that digital art can represent a true revolution for artists, provided it is not reduced to a mere simulation of traditional media. Krita offers endless possibilities for experimentation and for creating custom tools tailored to the artist. We need to make an effort and approach the creative process with a new mindset. This does not mean denying traditional art at all, but rather expanding the expressive potential enabled by these new technologies. I believe we are only at the beginning of this exploratory journey, and that in the future, more and more artists will experiment with new techniques and new forms of expression.
Hi @petros_thanos,
I believe there will always be room for new artistic movements because they are inherently tied to the profound changes, for better or worse, in our civilization. Art is the only channel through which we can express who we are; our feelings; our fears; our anxieties; and our hopes. It is a powerful language that will always adopt new mediums to satisfy the need to communicate. I often think about that wonderful moment when one of our ancestors picked up a piece of charcoal and, for the first time in history, left a mark on stone. Today, platforms like Krita offer us the opportunity to continue that journey and discover a form of art that, at this moment, we cannot even imagine.
Do you see anything distinctive in the relationship between realism, emotion and expressionism in this work
Realism is hinted at in the face glimpsed at the center of the work, which struggles to emerge as a recognizable point of identity.
The emotion stems from the figure’s gaze, from the duality and restlessness generated by the vertical division of the face. One perceives a profound conflict of some kind.
Expressionism is found in the space surrounding the subject, which is not a simple background but an expansion of emotion. Every element surrounding the face is like pure energy, not form, a visual manifestation of an inner turmoil.
Ultimately, realism provides the subject, emotion provides the cause, while expressionism represents the language to tell the story. This image is the perfect example of how art does not always aim to reproduce the visible, but is capable of giving “shape” to the invisible, so as to capture an intensity otherwise inexpressible.
This conversation was moved into its own thread as it was off topic.
When someone who only draws with pencils would ask you if working with oil paints can expand artistic expression, what would you tell them?
Digital is basically just another medium using other materials. The things you can do with it are for the most part not fundamentally different than with traditional painting. Some things are better some are worse. Some things are quicker, some things more difficult. Like every art medium it has its limits.
Speaking of digital tools, have you heard that @Birath founded the private Facebook group for Swedish digital artists Digitala Penslar? If you’d like to use PixiEditor in addition to Krita, then I suppose you could find or start a similar group to what he founded, but for the Greek language.
I have about the same view as Takiro already expressed; digital is but another medium. It has drawbacks and benefits.
I think it might be more difficult to have the medium take an unplanned direction, in a way. Like with watercolor the paint mixes and moves on it’s own if you let it, with oil or acrylics you can use plastic wrap or stamps or physical non-art materials and there can be a randomness in it that I think digital has a hard time replicate. Yes, we can use stamps and overlays and stuff, but its still rather..precise.
Just getting a live texture feel is one of the things I struggle with when painting; it comes almost for free with physical paint and paper. And while Kritas brush engine is amazing and really comes close - it’s still a bit more difficult to get with digital. I need to work a little harder for it.
That said, there’s also benefits - not having the desk full of paint to clean up is one 
But also to be able to work in layers, having the ability to zoom or completely change how the “paint” behaves etc, and digital can allow completely different methods as well, with photomanipulation and mixing.
I sketch, paint with oils, pastels and watercolor, experiment with clay, gouache, acrylics, papier mache and whatever I can get my hands on. And also digital. To me, there doesn’t seem to be more difference between let’s say Krita and oil painting, compared to between graphite drawing and watercolor. It’s different mediums but largely he same base. Same light, perspective, color choosing, composition etc.
I always though digital art was just another form of art in general like how there’s pastels, oil paints, graphite, charcoal, watercolors, and other mediums available. In my case, digital art is basically a flat line while for other media it it more enjoyable to use. There’s something about the lack of tactile feedback digital screens on a pad has compared to drawing paper or a canvas. Also with the cost of computer parts right now, the ability of me to get more of that sweet RAM is lower than me having an alligator as a pet.
I have been watching a bunch of Bob Ross stuff at night to fall asleep to and recently oil paints has been my latest media phase. I have different media but I go through phases and switch between them. Sometimes it’s ink & wash, graphite, oil pastels, or charcoal. I also get monthly SketchBox stuff so there’s that monthly throw of some new supplies thrown in. This month was Oilac paints from Rockwell that’s based in Canada (Hello my fellow Canadians 
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