An exhibition offers a glimpse of Vera Molnar’s career, from post-Constructivist abstraction to her use of a computer to make drawings.

Drawing on this database, the computer was subsequently able to create its own sketches of the photographed faces, in the style of each of the seven artists.

These students were chosen by a panel of teachers in the specialties of computer drawing and painting, photography, and graphic design and digital illustration.

The school requires hand drawing alongside its digital skill requirements. “I think people have preconceived notions that perhaps drawing is fading away and giving up to the computer and digital ...

Computer science fields are dominated by men, but at Santa Barbara High School, Wood says putting programming in the art context makes it more attractive to a wide variety of students.

See the 59 nominees in the specialties of computer drawing and painting, graphic design and digital illustration, and photography.