Metruis wrote:
And... yeah... even though I agree 'different strokes for different folks', I entirely disagree that 'Photoshop can emulate any other drawing tool'. No, it can't. (Photoshop is equally a pain in the arse and it takes forever to figure out how to get the effects of different medias and the right brushes for these, anyway. ><) There's a distinct look to digital art and it can NEVER, never replace traditional. If you've ever spent time with watercolors or pencils and loved them, you'd understand. Photoshop can simply not replace the look and feel of using your hands to create art. It can create some damn good art, sure. It can create a lot more variety than my choice for inking, which is the same as yours. But it can't emulate everything, and not with the same detail and gritty and accidental colors mixing together and spilling ink and ending up with cool blotches chaoticness of traditional art.
Corel Painter can emulate most of drawing or painting techniques that any of us will ever deal with. It's a difficult tool to master, though the original techniques are too.
And when it comes to convenience... a paper can't crash. And corrupt your save. >< Whooops.
It can crumple. Ink can smudge. You can spill coffee on it. Ink of less quality can pale with time, or paper can absorb damp from the air. If anything, I think that computer variant is more reliable.
There is usually a distinct look of digital art, although I think that it's up to skills and actual intention of the artist - I've seen very skillful people being able, using Painter, to draw and paint art that is impossible to distinct from that made on paper. But artists who ink digitally usually like that modern digital look and that's really what they're going for.
For me, drawing on paper is generally a more pleasurable passtime, since I already spend a lot of time in front of computer on my job, and since the whole feel cannot be emulated by computer.
Drawing on computer is, however, more convenient, what with undo and zoom and many drawing techniques being readily available (as oposed to going to shop and buying tools that aren't always cheap).
Undoing is so much better, though, it's much faster and it can get rid of only your last brush stroke, as opposed to "an area of your drawing". Once you undo you can't ever go back (that's kind of ironic).
Of course techically you could get one of those eraseable pens or use whiteout.
Well, that any many other things: eraser might erase your pencil, but not the scratches it leaves on the paper. Some people dig pencil in so deeply that not all pencils can be erased. Also erasers leave those annoying crumbes of rubber, unless they're kneadders, and kneaders, again, melt during hot days. During erasing, one risks to crumple the paper, smudge the ink, or simply forget to erase some lines, which he only notices when he's already scanned it (that happens to me often). And of course, when you make a mistake in ink, you have to dig out your tempera tube or whatever you use. I specially like how, after I've inked, I can get rid of entire pencils just by erasing the layer.
