Digital Evolution?

So I wonder lately about my art. I love traditional work. I love doing it. I love watercolors, using markers, my colored pencils… but I’m finding that I’ve been drawing digitally almost exclusively. I don’t know how this reflects on me as an artist and how I’ll be viewed.
I’ve heard people looking down on artists who draw digitally and even though I expect to work traditionally still, I don’t see myself going back to sketchbooks the way I used to.

I love my tablet PC. I use it as my notebooks, sketchbooks… it’s just so versatile. You see, I’m a perfectionist, really. If I don’t like the way my handwriting looks, I have to re-do the entire page. If I draw a sketch and something looks off, I have to use a brand new page. I don’t have this problem with my tablet. If I like the way I draw, say, an eye, but the proportions on the face are wrong, all I would have to o is select and move it where it belongs, where I would previously erase over and over and eventually give up and turn the page. Honestly it’s a much more green method to drawing. I waste less paper and I feel like my art is much better, to be honest. I can also reserve my good paper for my paintings by using print outs and my art projector…it’s all good, if you ask me.

So why do “real artists” gripe so much about people doing digital art not doing it “correctly”. Work is still done, isn’t it? A piece is still drawn, and a statement is still made. So what’s the deal?

What are your opinions of this change in art in a fast-growing digital age? Are artists who draw exclusively digital not real artists?

Today's update!

Today you get an actual full pic update on my Cailey piece, likely going to be yet another char sheet I'll end up never finishing. Oh, well.

Part 2!

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Latest work!

I've been working hard lately around the whole moving thing. Unfortunately, the lack of Internet makes me realize how different my pieces turn out when I have references. I've got two more works in mind and then I'll probably start coloring a bunch of pics I've been holding off on. The Roxie pic also may be done in a watercolor variant, but I haven't decided yet. Anyway! Latest works!




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I get distracted easily...

So, the big contest is done and I'm getting back to things after the holidays. I've been arranging things for my Etsy store and back to doing some drawing done; concept art and ideas mostly. Also still doing some Poser when I'm in the mood.

All around being productive when I'm able to be. Goooooood stuff.


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Heh...

I really need to get into habit of taking screens of my WIPs and update this blog more often. Honestly, I'm the type of person who means to do things and then gets caught up in the everyday and forgets. Or I just can't think of things to post. I'm going to try to get better at this. I keep trying to get myself set up on a schedule...certain days work on 3D, others work on drawing and coloring, another day for comics...and a time everyday to sketch. So far I decide to do a certain project and get far too involved in it that before I know it 18 hours have passed and I want to finish the project so badly that I get angrily determined to finish it.

Anyway...I've been working pretty hard on a number of projects lately. Some drawings, trying to finish coloring other things, to using Poser, doing some 3D designs...I seriously try too hard sometimes.

I participated in 24 Hour Comic Day a week back. Unfortunately, I only made it 12 hours in before my fatigue set in(and I payed for it for 2 days later). My comic also only made it to 18 pages, but I did manage to pencil 15 pages in that 12 hours which blows my previous record of 7 penciled pages in 15 hours out of the water! I'm currently inking it and will post it here as soon as I'm finished!

I'm also working on trying to set up an extended desktop so I can broadcast a UStream directly from my computer screen! I'll also keep you all updated on that here(a well as on DA, Facebook, and Twitter).

Other than that, things are going along as best they can. I, unfortunately, lost feeling and reflex in my ankle a few weeks back which makes it difficult to walk, so my mood has sot of declined because of my frustration wit that. With being a new Godmommy to my best friend's baby boy, I'm sure things aren't going to let up anytime soon. That's life, though, I suppose. :)

Anyway, back to the drawing board!

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I will be updating soon. I've been busy and haven't forgotten this. Just been kinda forgetting the internets in general. Haaa~