Computer Painting

Computer artists have since the invention of the personal computer, reinvented different forms of artistic expression. Consider the ascii art:

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/2695/links.htm

http://artpacks.acid.org/

http://www.chris.com/ascii_art_menu.html

Through the world wide web artists can publish their work instantly, here is a list of sites from ca. 1998-nov:

http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/

http://www.bmacleod.com/brycelobby.html

http://www.3dluvr.com/deemon/gallery.htm

To create computer graphics there are a huge number of programs, from commercial and noncommercial sources:

CorelDRAW (vector based) Photoshop (image based) GIMP (image based)