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Do you have an idea for our next weekly poll? Let us know!
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Poll (May 30, 2005) |
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Do you ever make analog art? You know, the old school stuff that gets your hands dirty. (139 votes)
 (74%) Yes
(26%) No
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Marit Wikström Pixel Pusher 
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The main thing that I use is real media, not digital. I just got my tablet up a few days ago though, so I never really got the chance to do digital before, except in a class that lasted a few weeks...digital art is cleaner, although I plan to have the real stuff as my main thing still;).
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Olivier Heban Pixel Pusher
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I think using a tablet on a digital paper is the same thing that using a real pen on a real paper. Skills are the same. If you dont know how to draw, computer never help you. I'll be really surprised if digital artist never sketch on lost paper. Real paper. Art is in my head, in my life, in my dreams. I'm using computer because i can catch more ideas than before. it's just a different way. We're talking about art, well... you have just to remember that art is more a felling than a skill. When you truly feel the art, you feel great, do you? Why do we need to prove (impose?) which way is the best?
Sorry for my english, its not my first language. I just hope you understand that art is the answer.
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Jim Reed JPEG Jedi 
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Personally I don't touch either. Like smoking and twinkies, and smoking twinkies, I think art is bad for your health.
So far as analog vs digital and "being a true artist" is concerned, I think we are all overlooking the social aspect of the matter. Being a "true artist" means going to gallery openings, havings massively overpriced works on display, getting your photo in the newspaper while smiling next to some black beret wearing academician, getting interviewed in Interview - and don't forget painting with earthy and possibly unseemly materials to massive acclaim although no one truly understands why.
Digital Artists are like the illustrators of old, Paul Klee could never do the work Norman Rockwell did, yet Norman could easily knock off a Klee like piece in an afternoon - yet who is called "artist?" Digital Art is hobbled by its outlets ( magazine covers, cd covers, book covers, etc) which are far too functional for the world of art. It also lacks rarity (sorry, no ink jet printouts will ever be auctioned by Sothebys); however, to judge the effectiveness of each method's ability to produce good art work you have to compare the best (not the worst) - and when it comes down to this, digital art out paces analog art by parsecs.
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Lily JPEG Jedi 
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amen!! is right!!!
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H-Rod
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AMEN!
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BlackWolf Pixel Pusher
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Its an old thing to talk about what is really dying and what is still going strong. people still read books even when the internet is getting in every home. Photography is an art in its own territory, just as digital art is. George Lucas still need people to make a sketches on interesting sar ships......it is difficult to find a starship out there an take a picture of it. I still paint with oil and getting my hands derty, because it fills my artistic hunger the way digital pixels wont do.....not for yet.
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Sketchelangelo Pixel Pusher
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Maybe it's just me... But is digital art dying? I feel photography is taking over almost every art field - but digital art especially. I'm still seeing more analog art than digital art in this world. I'm seeing lots of graphic design, yes, but not painterly work done on the computer. Perhaps society and the art community just won't accept that form of painting. At once I believed 'cheating' in digital art was like 'cheating' in electronic music. I now think differently. Digital art hasn't become its own entity. It is simply trying to reproduce the feel and style of tradition art, or analog art, as opposed to creating its own style. The only non-conformist thing I've seen is the sh*tty amateur renderings of boxes and trees in 3D programs. Besides that, it seems to be nothing more than a wannabe art.
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Patrick Jones
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What you've said to justify yourself is basically what I was saying. But if that's what you actually meant in the first place, then yeah it makes sense. But I'd have to disagree with you about the computer taking most of the work out of it. I'm sick of people taking that attitude when they see a piece of digital art. It takes just as much skill and effort to make a good piece of digital art as it does to make something traditionally. If you rely too heavily on a lot of the effects available with digital technology, chances are your work is going to look like crap. The only difference with working digitally compared to traditionally is that you save time cleaning up materials and mess when you're done at the end of the day. The amount of effort that goes into the work itself is the same either way, it's just a different process that ends with different results.
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H-Rod
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You can do what you like. Let me make myself clearer, I should have posted this first. If you create art work in all forms and media, you are the Barry Bonds of art. On the other hand, if all your artwork is done solely on the computer then your a digital artist. Happy now? no need to get offended. I just think, NO, I believe if the computer does half the work, then there is a problem. I'm not downing anybody on this site, but I can guarantee you that the majority started the old fashioned way and most still do analog when they can't get to a computer. It's all about fundamentals. And about that comment you made about third grade drwings, I happen to know some REALLY GOOD third grade artists.
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Steve "Gliebster" Gliebe The Big Cheese 
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Oh, okay. Here's what I've decided to do. I am going to take all of the art offline. After that, I'll send a mass e-mail message to 11,000 members informing them that there is a possibility that they may or may not be real artists. Then, I will inform them that they must fax a piece of artwork done either with pencil, crayons or markers. All art will be back online when the walls of my house are completely covered with third grade drawings.
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