Digital painting as a practice to traditional?
3yr
Joe Santos
I have an iPad and an Intuos M. Long time ago, I used to digital paint. I was always quite bad at painting traditional probably because I never really tried it but it is what excites me nowadays, regarding art.
That said... do you think that digital painting helps out with gouache / oil painting for example?
Sometimes I want to quickly "paint-sketch" something and gouache / oil painting isn't something that you can have with you at all times like an iPad or it isn't as easy / fast as opening an app on the computer, paint something and close it.
Do you think digital painting could help me with traditional painting or are they such different mediums that the knowledge isn't that transferable? I was thinking on maybe having swatches for the primary colors or white and black in case i'm painting only values and then use some kind of 50% to mix them, try to mimic the real process...
3yr
I think it's very helpful. First thing is speed. You can paint so much more in digital, so you get a lot more mileage that way. The principles are the same in digital or traditional, such as value relationship and color theory. The only thing you don't get is color mixing and how to control the consistency of colors and paint brush stroke, but there are so many other things that are highly transferrable.
Many times I would even scan my traditional painting/drawing and revise it to multiple versions digitally just to see what I could've done better or differently. I'm much more timid in traditional media because the cost is "screwing up" is so high.
