Why mobile wallpapers are the new digital art

You have multiple ways to express yourself. Whether it is through the way you dress, the way you speak, and the way you move in general. But expressing yourself can also be done through creativity like art. This week’s blog is about how you can turn an idea into something very creative that speaks about you as an individual and why wallpapers has become the new member in the monarchy of art.

Creative thinking

Being a creative person is not something that you were given by your birth, it is a skill that can be learned. Also having a creative mindset is good for the health as well. Studies have shown that creativity and visualization helps improving the focus and enhance positive emotions. Every artwork cannot be planned, it is something that comes from an idea. When you have the idea, you need to visualize it as a whole picture and reflect on it like: “does this make sense when someone looks at it?” or “is this something that speaks about my personality?”.

Once the idea is in place, the process of creating the art has to start. Here you have to think about the technique you want to use. The traditional ways like a big canvas and a brush or drawings on a big piece of paper is a good way to initiate the work, but in todays digital world you have the option to make digital drawings. For most people this requires a bit of research and learning but it is not rocket science, and when you have learn it, it is pretty straight forward. The most difficult thing about this technique is that you need to create ideas all the time. This require that you think outside of the box and wisely, because the idea has to make sense when other people are looking at the work at the end.

The method

There are many options when it comes to creating digital art like the google Snapseed or Facetune. Softwares like these are free of charge and also photography based, which makes them a great option if you like to take photos and edit them as a beginner. The company Adobe has the most known and used professional editing and art creating software like Photoshop, Lightroom, and Illustrator.

When you consider everything wrote above, wallpapers are pretty much a piece of digital art. Whether it is a beautiful shoot you took and you edited it through some of the software mentioned above or a beautiful drawing, you can use it as a wallpaper. It is a one creative idea that leads to creative work through software, and that you later can put on a screen. What makes wallpapers unique compared to other types of digital art like regular drawings or paintings, and why we believe it is a new type of digital art, is the fact that they are a hybrid. This means that the artwork can either be static or live, you can have a live wallpaper of a moving car but you can also have a static version where the car doesn’t move, either way the possibilities are big and the choice is up to you.