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I was just browisng DA, as you do when you're bored off your wits, and I came across a comment that someone had posted on someone else's profile. They were basically saying that digital art is cheating and it just isnt the same as traditional art. I mean, i know everyone is entitled to their own opinion and all, but I was a little annoyed to see this comment, implying that digital art is so much easier in comparison to traditional.  Of course, i was annoyed because as a digital artist, i know how hard it can be to try and produce something that looks good. Its not like we press all these shortcut keys and BAM the picture is done. It takes a lot of hard work.

Sure, digital artists have tools like blenders and layers, which i do admit, is making art a little easier, but you've still got to learn how to use the tools, which in itself can be hard enough. Whether you've got a tablet or a mouse, you still have to sketch the image, lineart it and then colour it and a lot of the prcesses are the same, to me it seems that traditional art and digital art are very similar, though sometimes i do look at things that are done traditionally and go "how the hell'd they manage that?!" but i also work traditonally. It's just a matter of teaching yourself the processes and things.

So, yeah I do get a bit annoyed when I see people say that digital art is cheating, because i dont think it is. In fact, i think digital art opens up a lot of options in things like colour because of the range of colours a computer can produce vs one a person can produce, and things like being able to change the opacity really help as well.

Don't get me rwong, i'm not saying digital art is HARDER than traditional art, because it isnt...having done both before, i can safely say that my opinion is that they are both roughly as hard as each other, and i love doing both very much. I'd love to be able to work with watercolour like a lot of traditional artists can do, and i'm still learning the ins and outs of markers, but essentially traditional is a) lots of fun and b) similar to a lot of the processes used in digital art.

I also really love looking at both digital and traditional arts.

I actually saw a really funny mock tutorial once about how most people think its way easy to do digital art that basically summed up exactly what it was i'm trying to say, but i don't know if the artist still has it in her gallery/scraps/whatever.

So, long story short, digital art is not cheating, but that doesn't mean i don't value the time and effort put into traditional pieces. It just sucks that some people who work as traditional only media view digital artists as cheaters and to me that sort of says they don't think of digital artists as real artists. (I know it was never actually said, but to me it seems implied)
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Oh yeah, digital art is sooooooo easy, I just press two buttons and hey! A Rubens appeared!

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If it is that easy... Well, let's see'em doing something like that masterpiece. C'mon, is only digital work after all...

In my opinion, Digital tools are only that: Tools. They're advantage is that is a extremely versatile tool. But the computer doesn't draw for you, if you're not good with traditional media you won't be with digital ones either. It is rumored that a Spanish painter called Joaquín Sorolla said once: "If you paint well, you can paint even with shit". Dunno if he said such a thing, but is a big, ultimate truth.