Are there any non-digital artists here?

amberwingart

Hey everyone,

I'm just curious if there are any other non-digital artists here...Looking through the forums, it looks like I might be the only one! lol I work in pastels and graphite...Any others who work in traditional mediums?

Bobby Aquitania

@amberwingart I used to work in all of them... but I got tired of cleaning up. Actually I just always wanted to learn digital. But I think a lot of people here do both... (EDIT last thing I did traditionally, pen & ink, last June...)

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Lydia M

I do traditional stuff too but keep it digital on here because I recently moved and my big art desk is in storage. No room really to spread out all those supplies.

Rob Smith

75% of my work is traditionally crafted. I'm currently working to improve my digital skills. There can be a happy union of traditional/digital to be had as well.

Stephanie Hider

I am new to digital and am finding it a challenge to make it not look digital if that makes sense. But I haven't drawn or painted traditional for many years so I am trying to play catch up. I stopped painting because having it strung all out with a lil one was bad. Now I just don't want the mess.

amberwingart

It's good to know there are others here! Working traditionally does take longer and make it harder to make changes, but I don't want to start working digitally or I'm afraid I'll get frustrated when I work traditionally... I'm wondering if most illustration clients require digital work, though...

amberwingart

@gimmehummus I love these!!

amberwingart

@Damien-Rambacher These are beautiful...Your style reminds me of the illustrator for Whinnie the Pooh! (The writer was Milne, right? I don't know the illustrator's name, though).

Chris Perry

Yes I am trained in traditional media. I still use graphite and Prisma Color pencils. I dabble in collage and then will finish it up in Photoshop.

NoWayMe

My favorite medium is also pastels! Recently I am doing more digital stuff simply because I'm away from home a lot and I don't have access to my pastels. I also want to be able to work digitaly to be more versatile. But the first (and only for now!) children book I illustrated was done entirely in soft pastels!

MOO

I'm purely traditional so far. On here I have used ink and watercolor mainly but I do some acrylic painitng and drawing otherwise.

Suzy Heitz

@amberwingart Hi! Amber, I haven't gone over to the dark side yet. Still working in acrylics, watercolor, color pencil, graphite, etc.

amberwingart

It's good to know I'm not the only one here! Do all of you have sketchbooks here?

amberwingart

@NoWayMe Ooh, a fellow pastel artist! That's so good to hear that you've done a book in pastels - that's the one concern I've had in sticking with a traditional medium. Do you have a sketchbook here at SVS?

Chris Perry

If you go to http://chrisperrydraws.webs.com/ you can see stuff I do with oil pastels... and chickens.