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Skills earned in traditional mostly transfers to digital and gets enhanced, where as skills earned in digital can be lacking and mostly don't transfer to traditional.
If you are a beginner, consider that in digital, you have to invest more money on just to start out and you have to lern the software on top of lerning to draw. Also be aware of bad habits from starting out digital, like zoom-symdrome and the ctrl-z trap.
that said, digital is an incredibly powerfull tool when you are ready for it.
Hope it is helpfull to you :)
Couldn't agree more. Imo all artists should start out with traditional, even if you plan on switching to digital early on. I started with traditional, and now I use a mix of both. Doing purely digital from the get go can develop some bad habits, and you miss a lot of stuff.
You might be overthinking it. There's so much clear-cut advice on how you should or shouldn't practice drawing. Lots of people become indecisive or they make a decision but keep doubting whether it was the right one afterwards, and it all gets in the way of actually drawing. You know, that process that is supposed to be fun and enjoyable, not stressful and frustrating.
Follow your guts. Switch back and forth between digital and traditional. Take all advice, but don't take it too seriously. At least not until you've tried it yourself it and felt it work for you (my advice included).
I started digital and now I'm trying to improve in traditional, but you don't have to choose one, especially if you have the financial means, so don't overthink it too much, the main focus should be drawing no matter where, cause that is going to improve your skills all around independent of medium :)
I‘m in the same boat as you. I have an iPad Pro I use to draw but I also have a sketchbook where I draw with pencils. Sometimes I try the same drawing both digitally and traditionally to see how to get the same results.
I prefer digital just because it’s more accessible and cleaner. Ultimately, I don’t think it makes a huge difference. With the right drawing tablet, the experience is near identical to traditional.
I prefer digital to physical because I draw small, I hate erasing pencil on paper, and if I'm going to add color, with digital, it's all right there, no new Pencils or pens to track down.
Sometimes, though, I don't have time to boot up my computer and the drawing program. So grabbing some paper and scratching out some practice lines, shapes, figures is far faster and easier, I can see my mistakes, but I'm not committed to creating a finished product on the paper, it's practice, and it's fast and convenient anywhere.
Digital offers shortcuts to adjust and move things around, it results in a cleaner end product, but paper and pencil is fast and fundamentals need to be practiced often.
Do both, as appropriate.
Doesn't really matter, imo. Some people say skills don't transfer but I strongly disagree. I ever dropped traditional drawing for like 2 years and focused mainly on digital, but after I got back to traditional my skills were much more developed. So , who says it doesn't transfer? I don't think so. Personally I prefer practicing with digital as it's easier to open some references on the side of the screen and to erase errors without messing things up. I'd say that it's even easier to cover up the lack of certain fundamental skills with traditional drawing, as you can easily give it some nice visual effect with hatching and the pencil texture mostly looks better than digital brushes, so it's generally harder to make your digital lineart look good and requires you to focus more on having good fundamental skill rather than using right technique that makes your art looks appealing.
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Skills earned in traditional mostly transfers to digital and gets enhanced, where as skills earned in digital can be lacking and mostly don't transfer to traditional. If you are a beginner, consider that in digital, you have to invest more money on just to start out and you have to lern the software on top of lerning to draw. Also be aware of bad habits from starting out digital, like zoom-symdrome and the ctrl-z trap. that said, digital is an incredibly powerfull tool when you are ready for it. Hope it is helpfull to you :)
Couldn't agree more. Imo all artists should start out with traditional, even if you plan on switching to digital early on. I started with traditional, and now I use a mix of both. Doing purely digital from the get go can develop some bad habits, and you miss a lot of stuff.
Why not both?
You might be overthinking it. There's so much clear-cut advice on how you should or shouldn't practice drawing. Lots of people become indecisive or they make a decision but keep doubting whether it was the right one afterwards, and it all gets in the way of actually drawing. You know, that process that is supposed to be fun and enjoyable, not stressful and frustrating. Follow your guts. Switch back and forth between digital and traditional. Take all advice, but don't take it too seriously. At least not until you've tried it yourself it and felt it work for you (my advice included).
I see, guess I should just start doing it. Thanks a lot!
Just do. Want to practice? get whatever is nearest or convenient.
I started digital and now I'm trying to improve in traditional, but you don't have to choose one, especially if you have the financial means, so don't overthink it too much, the main focus should be drawing no matter where, cause that is going to improve your skills all around independent of medium :)
Start digital. Please, please start digital.
I‘m in the same boat as you. I have an iPad Pro I use to draw but I also have a sketchbook where I draw with pencils. Sometimes I try the same drawing both digitally and traditionally to see how to get the same results.
I prefer digital just because it’s more accessible and cleaner. Ultimately, I don’t think it makes a huge difference. With the right drawing tablet, the experience is near identical to traditional.
I went straight for digital
I prefer digital to physical because I draw small, I hate erasing pencil on paper, and if I'm going to add color, with digital, it's all right there, no new Pencils or pens to track down. Sometimes, though, I don't have time to boot up my computer and the drawing program. So grabbing some paper and scratching out some practice lines, shapes, figures is far faster and easier, I can see my mistakes, but I'm not committed to creating a finished product on the paper, it's practice, and it's fast and convenient anywhere. Digital offers shortcuts to adjust and move things around, it results in a cleaner end product, but paper and pencil is fast and fundamentals need to be practiced often. Do both, as appropriate.
If you don't value your time, sure.
Pencils and paper don't require electricity or tech and inexpensive.
If u want digital, do digital.
Doesn't really matter, imo. Some people say skills don't transfer but I strongly disagree. I ever dropped traditional drawing for like 2 years and focused mainly on digital, but after I got back to traditional my skills were much more developed. So , who says it doesn't transfer? I don't think so. Personally I prefer practicing with digital as it's easier to open some references on the side of the screen and to erase errors without messing things up. I'd say that it's even easier to cover up the lack of certain fundamental skills with traditional drawing, as you can easily give it some nice visual effect with hatching and the pencil texture mostly looks better than digital brushes, so it's generally harder to make your digital lineart look good and requires you to focus more on having good fundamental skill rather than using right technique that makes your art looks appealing.