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Yanno those little kids at the doctors office that yell and scream about getting a shot? And its really not THAT bad but they've gotten really worked up and no ammount of anything will help them and they just cannot calm down? That how I am with digital media! :D I yell and scream and demand my traditionals and in general throw a huge tantrum and at the end, I have to be bribed with a trip to the toy store (aka the art supply store) and then, only then, will I calm down long enough to get my shot. er. work in digital.
First thing I've ever tried to do in Painter. It's my deer skull and his name is Agamemnon. This thing nearly send me over the edge. Now, my friend Lara is using me as the subject for one of her final papers. "Sparky: Harmeless Bufoon or Psychotic Twig About to Snap?" Also in response to the agony this piece caused me, my dad went out and actually bought me a a legit copy of the program so I can practice since I'll need to know it in a progressively digital art world. And then I cried. XD
... *stabs computer*
First thing I've ever tried to do in Painter. It's my deer skull and his name is Agamemnon. This thing nearly send me over the edge. Now, my friend Lara is using me as the subject for one of her final papers. "Sparky: Harmeless Bufoon or Psychotic Twig About to Snap?" Also in response to the agony this piece caused me, my dad went out and actually bought me a a legit copy of the program so I can practice since I'll need to know it in a progressively digital art world. And then I cried. XD
... *stabs computer*
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I really can't stomach working digitally, though I have tried. Never have been able to. In my heyday I worked long hours-per-square-inch with colored pencils and turp and powdered pigments to mimic everything from watercolor to airbrush techniques. Tedious, tedious, tedious. It pains me somehow to see the same thing done with three mouse clicks and a filter selection.
At the end of the day, I have an item in my hand that contains my blood, sweat and tears, it has errors (no undo button), it has smudges, it has places where the grain of the paper is practically gone from erasing and reworking...And it is real. I can make prints of it, but there is one original which is of higher quality than any print reproduction ever will be. If it is lost or damaged, I cannot simply print out another to replace it.
The digital artist hasn't got such a thing. You can't look at his/her work and see how much effort and time was spent on a difficult spot. All the mistakes have been undone. If something is spilled on it, if it is burnt in a house fire, if sunlight erodes out all the pigment, a new one can be printed with a few clicks of the mouse. It has no soul, somehow, and while i can appreciate its beauty, it lacks the mistakes and the painstaking history of trial and error brush strokes within it that a piece done with non-digital media has...A map, if you will, of how the artist achieved the final result. I couldn't stand it, myself, but apparently this appeals to a lot of people. I may go and do it again, but first I have to get my hand back in with real media.
I am not knocking visual _artists_. One must first conceive the image, and that itself can be an achievement. Then one must render it with whatever tools. One might even suggest that the person who knows how to achieve an affect with a few menu selections is the better artist than the person who has to struggle to figure it out with real media.
But it just isn't the same to me.
At the end of the day, I have an item in my hand that contains my blood, sweat and tears, it has errors (no undo button), it has smudges, it has places where the grain of the paper is practically gone from erasing and reworking...And it is real. I can make prints of it, but there is one original which is of higher quality than any print reproduction ever will be. If it is lost or damaged, I cannot simply print out another to replace it.
The digital artist hasn't got such a thing. You can't look at his/her work and see how much effort and time was spent on a difficult spot. All the mistakes have been undone. If something is spilled on it, if it is burnt in a house fire, if sunlight erodes out all the pigment, a new one can be printed with a few clicks of the mouse. It has no soul, somehow, and while i can appreciate its beauty, it lacks the mistakes and the painstaking history of trial and error brush strokes within it that a piece done with non-digital media has...A map, if you will, of how the artist achieved the final result. I couldn't stand it, myself, but apparently this appeals to a lot of people. I may go and do it again, but first I have to get my hand back in with real media.
I am not knocking visual _artists_. One must first conceive the image, and that itself can be an achievement. Then one must render it with whatever tools. One might even suggest that the person who knows how to achieve an affect with a few menu selections is the better artist than the person who has to struggle to figure it out with real media.
But it just isn't the same to me.
I hear you.
I love to embrace my traditional media just as I embrace my digital.
Same goes with photography... it's good to take out the ol' Nikon every-once in a while and take some ol-fashioned b&w photos. Developing them yourself gives you a further sense of gratification.
I love to embrace my traditional media just as I embrace my digital.
Same goes with photography... it's good to take out the ol' Nikon every-once in a while and take some ol-fashioned b&w photos. Developing them yourself gives you a further sense of gratification.
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