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Faint Artist Grumbling
Nov. 26th, 2017 03:44 pmI still can't believe there's a traditional vs digital art debate happening. Like, this is a real debate that has people getting heated and angry at each other because apparently they have nothing better to do in their daily lives. My friends, my pals, my buds....just...pet a dog. Eat an apple. Bask in the sunshine. There are better things to get worked up over.
Each medium has its own advantages and disadvantages...Doing lots of traditional art can help speed up your process by ensuring you start to spot mistakes before they happen, and you introduce an element of 'randomness', particularly when working with mediums like watercolour, as you can't be sure how they spread. You'll often learn to work with mistakes. Digital art can really speed up value studies, bigger pieces and sorting things out before they go wrong, especially if it's just something that needs to be moved rather than completely redrawing it. It's just...such a non-argument. They're both good. You can make art with both. You can fix mistakes in traditional (maybe takes more time but you can) or you can work with them in digital.
BUT, and this is a big but, blaming either medium for you not improving is...just...inane. It's worthless. The mediums can certainly help, like I much prefer digital value studies, but ultimately you can use different techniques and studies and drawing with...pretty much anything. You could improve with ketchup. Improvement is all on you. You'll find certain ways you like to work, and they'll often be influenced by your resources (whether that's space, time, health complaints ect.) but the fundamentals...you gotta build them up yourself. No ifs, ands or buts about it.
Each medium has its own advantages and disadvantages...Doing lots of traditional art can help speed up your process by ensuring you start to spot mistakes before they happen, and you introduce an element of 'randomness', particularly when working with mediums like watercolour, as you can't be sure how they spread. You'll often learn to work with mistakes. Digital art can really speed up value studies, bigger pieces and sorting things out before they go wrong, especially if it's just something that needs to be moved rather than completely redrawing it. It's just...such a non-argument. They're both good. You can make art with both. You can fix mistakes in traditional (maybe takes more time but you can) or you can work with them in digital.
BUT, and this is a big but, blaming either medium for you not improving is...just...inane. It's worthless. The mediums can certainly help, like I much prefer digital value studies, but ultimately you can use different techniques and studies and drawing with...pretty much anything. You could improve with ketchup. Improvement is all on you. You'll find certain ways you like to work, and they'll often be influenced by your resources (whether that's space, time, health complaints ect.) but the fundamentals...you gotta build them up yourself. No ifs, ands or buts about it.
