Digital Art vs. Traditional art

                I found this topic in an article in the web, arguing which is better digital art or traditional art? Ever since digital art was introduced this debate has been undecided the artistic community.

            On my second year as BS in Multimedia Arts in college I’ve found out that many of my classmates have been able to know digital tools for making art without learning the basic. In fact they have been struggled learning traditional, they hate it, but I realize that if you know both the fundamentals of the two you have the advantages. Like for examples if your employer wants you to draw a logo or something without using digital tools, how are you able to do that without knowing or experiencing traditional art, right? Well it’s my opinion, I mean as of now I enjoy making traditional more. It’s not that I like it rather than digital. I want a step by step process.

            The pros of traditional art include creating authentic art. Artists work with supplies and techniques that have been used for many centuries. Artists can sell both their original creation and prints of these, with the original creation valued around 3 times the price of the copies. However, in traditional art, there is not a lot of room for mistakes, and such mistakes can be rather hard to cover up. Traditional art is also limited to the amount of supplies the artist can afford. Most art supplies of professional and semi-professional quality are rather expensive and come in small quantities.

As for digital art, there are also many pros. With digital art, there is generally an ‘undo’ button, which can erase certain steps the artist took in their creative process. This erases steps much easier than with traditional art. Digital art software also allows some ‘shortcuts’ for artists, where they can easily change colors of their images or switch the direction their image is facing. Also, artists have an unlimited amount of styles they can use (such as “watercolor” or “acrylic” options in art software). There are also many cons when it comes to digital images. For one, art software, art tablets, and computers are rather expensive, especially when an artist is looking for very high-tech supplies. There is also no exact original copy of the digital art, so digital artists don’t have much price variants when it comes to selling their work. In addition to that, since most work is stored on a hard drive, it is very easy for works to be lost permanently. Artists also have to fight with their technical supplies to get them to work properly. Repairs to computers or artist tablets are often expensive.

http://www.icademyglobe.org/article.php?id=1139

In my opinion I suppose that in art nowadays many artist have become more and more dependent on computers but we need traditional as fundamentals, though no art is better than the other. It’s all art, artist should explore all forms of art, whether it’s traditional or digital. They said that “A computer in the hands of a skilled artist can be potentially be like Mozart in front a piano”.