6 Reasons to Put That Stylus Down.
Those new fangled electronic-art-making-devices are all the rave with the youths! They’re fast, give you all the power of the rainbow, and have flashy filters besides.
Now, it matters not if your artwork is made of pixels, graphite, or macaroni good heavens - but in terms of traditional and digital, there is a clear winner which is better for learning.
Computer based art programs are a bit TOO powerful, and they can teach you some pretty bad habits that can be difficult to “undo.”
Why You Should Learn With Traditional Media Instead.
1. Holds You to a Higher Standard
2. Organizes Your Process
3. Gets You to Focus On What’s Important
4. Makes Your Digital Art Better
5. Lets You Focus
6. Is More Fun
1. Holds You to a Higher Standard
Decisions ought to have consequences - and there’s a good reason for it! The ability to click “undo” at any moment, also means you can be as negligent as you choose.
Erasing traditional tools requires effort, and is never absolute. Graphite holds you to a higher standard, and traditional paper accepts no careless scribbles!
2. Organizes Your Process
Your digital art making process can be messy, and haphazard.
But when you have the limitations of newton’s good laws of physics, you must take care to plan an orderly step-by-step process.
3. Gets You to Focus On What’s Important
Access to every art tool in the world at the same time is not really an advantage.
When you use only the humble pencil, your focus is on ‘good art making’, not the flashy tools and effects.
4. Makes Your Digital Art Better
Why is it that photoshop brushes have names like, “pencil,” “sumi ink,” and “oil brush…?” Because digital art is modeled after traditional art, of course. Digital art wants to be traditional art when it grows up. In fact, the hallmark of a good digital drawing is when it doesn’t look digital at all!
Understand how these so-called “brushes” work, by going straight to the source.
5. Lets You Focus
In a world rife with funny Tiktok dances and popup banner notifications, digital devices are doing you no favors.
When learning calls, it demands all other priorities be set to silent.
6. Is More Fun
You’re a human (you selected all the photos with the vehicles, right?), and therefore you have a lizard brain. Evolution has selected you to be happiest in the tactile world.
🧠 Your biology + ✏️ working with real world art materials = ✨ magicka
Not to mention, you get to keep a sweet physical artifact after you’ve finished. Digital macaroni art painted on your tablet for your mom just doesn’t hit the same.
So Now, If You’re Ready…
Glue some macaroni to your iPad screen with extreme prejudice, and go pick up some good old fashioned mineral based pencils!
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