Why do so many people prefer digital art?
It's a down right shame in my opinion. People who have great skills with the pencil don't get as much cred as people who know how to use the computer for art. Really, in my opinion none of them is better than the other. Just for the record, I'm not a traditional artist that is sore or scorned. I (used to) mainly use photoshop*. If anyone has talked to me about art in the last 5 years on res, I would have told everyone not to abandon the pencil and paper and to use everything you could get your hands on.
What I feel, as a young growing artist is that we shouldn't limit ourselves so early in the game. With traditional you can use anything: pencil, charcoal, watercolour, paint, string, leaves, dirt, ketchup, rocks, bicycles. ANYTHING. With digital art, you've only got the tools that a programmer handed to you. I understand that we are on the internet and it's easier to appreciate a piece of digital art; merely because it hasn't gone through a scanner and is in the exact condition the artist intends it to be. But that isn't great. We're a community, support what people do. Don't tell them to follow everyone else. We're leaving some people behind as they're getting ignored. You've got to be brave to stick to something that has no recognition and it's sad.
I kind of want to hear other people's opinion on this. This is just what I'm feeling, seeing competitions say 'digital preferred' or 'no traditional art'. I just get an overall feeling that more support is given to those who use a computer. I see a lot of people with quite nice traditional art go 'I've got to learn how to do digital' and that's kind of sad oAo
*Just so you know, I didn't stop using photoshop because I fell out of love with it. It's just that I'm in university now and that photoshop holds little value in an (at least this one) architecture school. Also, I have been exploring other materials and more lateral/conceptual work where the material is symbolic.
