On a lighter note...

[teddog]

Now that I'm enjoying the excitment of having a tablet again... I need to field a warm and fuzzy question to the other artists and designers here.

Photoshop. It's a tool that was originally designed to edit existing images.

And yet, we use it to create art.

Isn't that the most awesome thing EVER?!

(Note - in high school I was forever amused that despite how advanced our world has become, we still created art by rubbing pigments against surfaces. So... yeah...)

Comments

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

::laughs:: It totally is.

[lee-in-limbo.livejournal.com]

I do more work in Illustrator today than I do Photoshop, but I still use Photoshop pretty regularly. I intend on doing a fair bit more with it in the near future, when I finally start cartooning my Zoe strip.

Lee.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Illustrator is a lot of fun too, because the vectors give clean, sharp lines. It has a much steeper learning curve, but the results are worth it.

However, Illustrator was designed as a drawing tool. I'm just musing about how Photoshop has been hijacked by people creating art on computers. Heck, I even had a college professor who would rally about how "Photoshop is not for drawing! You draw in Illustrator and import into Photoshop to do design work! This is the right way to do things"

[lee-in-limbo.livejournal.com]

Heck, you're supposed to do your design work in Illustrator, because it produces cleaner text (although for anything more than a single page, you're really supposed to be using InDesign or Quark). Photoshop is strictly supposed to be a photo retouch tool. Still, it's a fantastic artistic tool. It amuses me too how sometimes these things take on a life of their own.

Lee.

[mbehemoth.livejournal.com]

Despite how far technology has come there are certain aspects of Acrylics and Oils that can't be fully reproduced in digital painting programs. That being said its become absolutely amazing what they can do. My best friend from High School uses Illustrator and another non adobe paint program.

Here's his stuff

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying that digital art is going to replace physical media. Digital art has it's own look and feel and much how I wouldn't use watercolours to recreate the look of oil, I wouldn't use digital art to replace oil. I think someone in the animation business once said about digital art that "You don't force the idea to fit the media. You pick a media that fits the story."

I'm more amused that artists have hijacked what's really a photo editing program. I'd like to say that it's akin to the Dadaists, but Dadaists didn't draw anime girls with big boobs and the digital art movement doesn't really have any collective thought behind it. :(