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Return of the MOST TIRED Thing to Post in Art Discussion |
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Digital versus traditional rears its ugly head again, and the regulars still come up with new things to say.
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x Oni x and I'm sure most people will agree with this, doing something by hand is way more satisfying and (through personal experince) are able to control your tools better, also the fact that you dont have a ctrl z or a delete button makes you consider your line and colour alot more than than in the digital realm.
I know you're just using that "doing something by hand" phrase as a qualifier for traditional media pieces, but I draw digital "by hand" on my tablet. Honestly, it's not more satisfying for me. I don't experience a difference in control, planning, or process. My approach to digital painting is the same approach I use in oil or acrylic painting, except I don't need rags, turp, linseed oil, glazes, and drying time for one versus the other, and digital is faster. If something's screwy, it's just a matter of painting over.
I think the point that people are just trying to make is that, digital gets a lot of crap when it's just another medium. Lots of skilled artists who use digital media are lumped in with crap artists who use the same medium, as if the advantages of the medium are somehow cheating when the skilled artists very clearly know how to draw, digital or not. That's as absurd as saying pencils are a garbage medium because crap artists also use pencils.
Not blowing up at you in particular, btw, Oni. ^~
We're also sick of repeating ourselves to the next mob of mewling little kidlets who don't get asspatted because they're not adept in the digital aspect of art and yet want their shitty scans to be showcased in a digital realm, and think it's the medium's fault that people produce the same sparkling pile of poo that fools the masses just because colors are brighter or clearer in one versus the other.
Why not get down on the artists who actually suck, for once? Instead of insulting an entire medium and its users by asserting all of these reasons why we're not "real" artists, why doesn't someone prove how "easy" the digital mediums are and produce the best damned digital work EVER and show their theory that digital is just so butt-simple and soulless, in action?
There's a reason. It's untrue.
And then as a reactionary measure, when this type looks on the Internet for art, they're somehow convinced that paint is dying? How the hell can this be when half the time members of this forum profess undying love for ink or Pilot Hi-Tec Cs in every color ever, or Copic/Prismacolor markers? Gee, a majority of digital artwork displayed somewhere digital, and at the very place where it is made and also made for optimal display. Sound the damned alarms.
When the hell did a tool that makes something more efficient become a "step back"? If that's true we'd all better mix our own paints from scratch and not use rulers to calculate orthoganals in linear perspective, and erasing? ******** that, that's the devil. You'd better know how to draw it right the first time or you're just taking a "step back." Should I talk down to people who do preliminary pencil sketches before doing a watercolor piece, too? That's way too easy. What if you want to crop your paper to fix a crap composition? Cheaters, all of them! I'd better kick my lightbox in half while I'm at it.
If we're gonna talk about a "step back", the only real step back I've experienced this week is a warping canvas board that's causing me to redo the damned piece on wood. Mixing is a step back, when I'm in a groove. Running out of paint and having to wait for the art store to open to buy more titanium white is a step back.
In a short period of my life I must have reiterated hundreds of times (my own damned fault) that infinite undos does not equal a free pass for awesome. You still suck as much as you ever did on paper, but in this case the even coloring that a paint bucket fill provides masks some aspect of incompetence for people who wouldn't know good art if it raped their mom in the first place. People who know the mediums intimately, though, can see right through it. Paint bucket and infinite undos does not hide the fact that if someone fails at drawing a foot or a box (WOW, yes, I've seen so much fail at just drawing a damned box even in this glorious do-it-all-for-you medium).
It's perfectly okay to like a medium better than another, even because of some romanticized notion that touching artwork is a beautiful experience full of rainbow farts and sparkles, but the second someone says one is more legitimate than the other, he/she is just ignorant and should perhaps develop some perception skills.
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Photoshop has come a long way, but it still doesn't have a "Make Art" filter.
 Pink · Sun Mar 22, 2009 @ 08:33am · 0 Comments |
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