Art therapy is a psychological treatment with a use of creative art activities, involving painting, drawing, collage, sculpting, and more. As it helps people to express themselves through visual art and relief stress or mental problems, it is one of the most common psychotherapies. However, with the spread of COVID-19, art therapy found its new path for this pandemic era: digital art therapy.

The fundamental purpose of art therapy is to openly convey one’s thoughts and emotions on canvas and gain curative power. By practicing facing life difficulties with art, one can prepare upcoming hardships comfortably.

Switching to online leads to some advantages and disadvantages; the benefits of digital art therapy is having excess to extensive tools and platforms with convenience. It’s easily approachable in any environment, having additional opportunities to enhance expressions of emotions. On the other hand, one of the shortcomings is not being able to invent mistakes and allow one’s creativity to thrive. Moreover, since physical paintings figuratively symbolize finite lives as both are not adjustable, digital drawings are relatively limited to represent the mechanisms of human lives and hit the ultimate goal of art therapy.

Despite considering few concerns, the potential of digital art therapy is undeniable that it is a highly qualified alternative to the traditional art therapy of the day. With people being proficient in digital media and having unbounded imagination to create art, digital art therapy is a suitable method harmonizing art and science in this pandemic period.

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