Acclaimed comic book artist Dave Gibbons is giving his support to a competition for electronic artists.
The Digital Artist 2009 competition is broken into 13 categories, including graphic design, animation, and videogame arts.
There are also five "Rising Star" awards for artists under 25 years old.
Prize details have yet to be announced but will include cash prizes, hardware and software as well as an opportunity to showcase the winning work.
Entries to the competition, which runs until 31 August 2009, have to be submitted through a website which will also include news and debates about digital arts.
There will be a range of digital art master classes across the UK, with leading practitioners - including Gibbons - offering beginners and more experienced digital artists an opportunity to learn from the experts.
Gibbons, who has been using computers in his own work for more than 15 years, helped launch the competition at a London art gallery, expressed his support for the current generation of digital artists, saying he is astounded at the work they are creating"We used to say that the the unfortunate thing was that the people who knew how to use the technology weren't artists and the artists didn't know how to use technology", he told the BBC.
"But over the years that's changed. The people working in graphics now aren't from the previous age of man - like I am - they're people who have always used computers."
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