yea I think that's a good chunk of it. the general impression seems to be that people think it's easier to draw on the computer but imo it's just a different media and some media are easier to handle than others. eg I find watercolour so much easier than say poster paints. and just because watercolour is a different, perhaps easier to learn skillset than oils or acrylics doesn't automatically mean oil paintings > watercolours.
and yeaa that's the mentality I have but I think in general most people (i.e. the general public and artsy fartsy types) think only traditional art is good enough to be 'fine' :/
well i think digital art communities online generally respect good art in all media :) I was thinking more of art people / communities / galleries irl.
I dunno I'm wired in favour of fairness and acknowledgement of hard work so it annoys me that I perceive this bias and I'm trying to convinve myself otherwise.
eeeeeee SO lovely. so, so lovely. he's got beautiful ankles heh~
people who think that way are stuck in the late 90s, early 2000's... programs have gotten so advanced that it doesn't make sense to say that true artistic skill isn't required to make good art through a digital medium. besides, many traditional techniques are employed in digital painting too... those analog purists should do a bit of research before they bash something they know so little about. :/
yeaa it's not really analog purists though, it's more like the general perception of say comics as lowbrow and fine art as highbrow, and people seem more comfortable/accepting of digital tools to make comics / illustrations / designs for hire rather than fine art for arts' sake. so in the end it seems to me that all drawings in digital media have this very commercial aura around them and maybe that's why it's not accepted as real art :/
iunno like kidkid says I wish people would see that it's just a tool :///
I think that a lot of people consider traditional art "better" than digital art because it can be a lot more time-consuming to achieve the same effects with traditional mediums that you could using a digital art program. At the very least it's considerably more time-consuming and there's often much less room for mistakes. Still, it takes skill to produce a good piece of work either way, and being good as traditional art doesn't necessarily mean a person is good at digital art, so people really shouldn't look down on either one.
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and yeaa that's the mentality I have but I think in general most people (i.e. the general public and artsy fartsy types) think only traditional art is good enough to be 'fine' :/
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I dunno I'm wired in favour of fairness and acknowledgement of hard work so it annoys me that I perceive this bias and I'm trying to convinve myself otherwise.
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people who think that way are stuck in the late 90s, early 2000's... programs have gotten so advanced that it doesn't make sense to say that true artistic skill isn't required to make good art through a digital medium. besides, many traditional techniques are employed in digital painting too... those analog purists should do a bit of research before they bash something they know so little about. :/
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iunno like kidkid says I wish people would see that it's just a tool :///
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I think that a lot of people consider traditional art "better" than digital art because it can be a lot more time-consuming to achieve the same effects with traditional mediums that you could using a digital art program. At the very least it's considerably more time-consuming and there's often much less room for mistakes. Still, it takes skill to produce a good piece of work either way, and being good as traditional art doesn't necessarily mean a person is good at digital art, so people really shouldn't look down on either one.
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