DIGITAL vs TRADITIONAL


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4:48pm Jan 20 2013 (last edited on 4:48pm Jan 20 2013)

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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. 



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8:55pm Jan 21 2013

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This reply might be a little half-assed, sorry!

I'm totally with you on the opinion that neither is better than the other. I become really disappointed when ads for contests or commissions say 'digital only'. I know that digital art is often preferred because it's easier to put on profiles or pages, but you can edit traditional art to fit on pages. I'll use Yoshi's art as an example because sobs I love her art. Also this was art for a Res user. tle="" target="">Link!
I really like traditional art because I love the way the texture looks sometimes. Textures can be added in photoshop and whatnot, but they look weird sometimes because of their exact placement and pattern.
Digital is great because it's easier to be clean, but meh.

I feel like I got too off topic, sorry.



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8:35am Jan 22 2013

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It's not off topic at all. I agree with you.  Photoshop textures look kind of weird. Textures in traditional art always look right because its in the real world and obeys the laws of nature. The materials react to one another and look great. You can't really do that in digital, it's too controlled an environment. 

I also think some materials make portraying certain moods or ideas better. The line and material can be symbolic or help portray something. It's not always about the subject. 



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5:21pm Jan 24 2013

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I draw traditional quite well, I'm trying digital though. But I find it very anoying and time consuming. Though digital does look better, traditional gives off better texture and can often cost less. *glares at photoshop*
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3:09am Jan 25 2013

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I like to swap between the two. I think you should as well kewlgurl. I find that I draft faster using pen and paper. So I don't go through all the cumbersome part of drafting in photoshop. Don't really force yourself to work with your tool. For example, I'm not very good at line art, but it's a lot quicker than the alternative (digital painting). So I use a fountain pen to create my line ar and colour in using photoshop. It looks quite nice but then ends up not really being digital. Does it matter? No.

Traditional art can look equally as good when on the computer provided you have the right knowledge and tools (oh isn't it the same with digital?). I could teach you how to edit sketches on photoshop to make them look nicer



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3:48pm Jan 25 2013

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I would like to point out that before electricity was even discovered, people used Traditional art-that's why it's called "TRADITIONAL" in the first place. Cave paintings, the Chinese inventing paper-I myself am a rather talented traditional work artist, and I find it frustrating that so few people view my traditional work versus digital work. You can do so many things with traditional art, and like you stated previously, you can literally use ANYTHING to make artwork in the physical world, whereas with digital art you can only do so much. You can't make sculptures with digital art, can you? Sure, you can make "3-D" Objects, but there is no true 3-Dimensional artwork in the digital world-it's all just different colored pixels upon a flat plane that give the illusion of three dimensions. I stand by my work, and while there is a point at which digital art deserves respect, I would have to say that Traditional art will always be my preferred style of artwork.



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@ Ping, Really? Thanks, PM me about it!
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7:27pm Feb 1 2013

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I agree that neither is better than the others if you have the tools, skills, and resources. On Res, I prefer digital for a few key reasons, but if they can be gone around then I'm all up to see some fancy pencil work.
One, I like transparency. I use the art I get on petpages, graphics, etc. and it's nice to not have to remove a paper background by hand.
Of course, this won't matter if the upload quality is good enough. Sadly, not everyone has a top notch scanner that can make a good background on the image that would be easy to remove, anyway.
Thirdly, sometimes things are more vibrant, detailed, etc. in digital. Not always, but it just seems to be the trend among digital and traditional artists.

I myself can't draw worth poo either way but these are always my thoughts when purchasing art for whatever I'm in the mood for <3



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5:49am Feb 5 2013

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I consider clean, well-shaded transparent background digital art pieces as.. objects.
Sort of. Useful, easy-to-place anywhere, just.. simple, pretty objects. Really hard to explain, rofl.
I love traditional work as well, i love how pencil works on paper when you doodle and draw with it. I just.. somehow unconsciously think that digital art are items. I dunno.
 //sucks @ explaining >_>"





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