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Feb 2016

When I draw traditionally, its much more different than how I draw digitally. Like the style is pretty much completely different. I love drawing using both mediums , although I find that I favor my traditional work over digital works.

What about you? Do you have a significant difference between the two mediums?
Do you have any examples?

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completely different?
idk for me the differences between trad and digi ends up just being the natural difference between the tools. i still draw the same either way.

My style doesn't change - I just do stuff differently because, well, I don't have an undo-button, and I have to be more careful with my lines and stuff.

Examples:

This one is done with watercolours and coloured ink on watercolour paper (it was a gift for a friend's birthday).

This one is all digital:

They look different because they're different mediums - the same way an oil painting and a watercolour painting would look different - but my style is still the same as far as anatomy and lineweight and stuff goes.

My traditional stuff tends to be a lot messier than my digital stuff, but stylistically there isn't a whole lot of difference. I hardly draw much traditionally anymore, because I feel more in control when I draw digitally.

Here's some digital art:

And uh, (digs around for some recent traditional art) the most recent thing I can find is this:

I am way too messy when it comes to traditional stuff, which only shines in my hw and not in personal work >> I like digital over traditional bc its too much trouble for me to get the exact color I want with traditional mediums...and I'm also a super impatient person.

However, stylistically there is not much difference, I'd say? It looks roughly the same most of the time

here are samples

and digital

My digital and traditional work looks a whole lot different.

I can't do this kind of art (this is my latest digital artwork, btw) in traditional. I just can't get the same precision in traditional. I'm also having a hard time to control the paints especially watercolors.
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Trust me, I tried. T_T

I still have that ambition that my traditional painting and digital painting will level out but it'll probably take me 20 years.

When it comes to ink sketches though my digital and traditional are close enough.

here's another comparison
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Completely different
(digital)

(Traditional - WIP no tone, no panel lines)

Honestly, working digitally pains my wrist and is much more annoying line precision wise. Traditional inking lets me add details much easier. I generally use the computer now only for toning, lettering and finishing touches. Everything else I'll leave with my own bare hands.
(plus, on traditional, I seem to have more fun with drawing in lines to create texture, instead of just splatting stuff on digitally).

Stylistically, they are now back to being similar, because I use my traditional pencils for the foundation of both. I only ink, shade and color digitally.

As far as finished pieces go, the digital shading/coloring has such an advantage over traditional, that my finished digitals are far more polished and 3D looking.

For my traditional and digital painting are really different. First for the canvas size, in traditional painting I can paint with "all the arm"with very longs strokes... I can´t make it in digital painting no matter how big is the tablet, also in digital I can´t "feel" the materials (paint, brushes, canvans, mediums, etc etc) and my traditional works are a little bit more realistic, and digitals are more cartoonish. So, examples!

Traditional stuff

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And digitals

Here's a traditional pencil drawing

(I scanned it in and put a grey tone, but that's the only digital part about it)

And here's a completely digital sketch of the same character

I prefer the look of the traditional because the pencil strokes are more "grainy" looking, and I can get more subtle with the details. Nothing changes style-wise.

The 1st pic is my line work- traditional(inking by microns). It's slightly rough, but controlled enough where I feel I have a certain "crispness/sharpness" to my line work.

The 2nd pic was inked digitally. My style still holds the same, but I have to use other techniques as how I cant quite draw digitally the way that I do traditionally. Still, I try to make it work...I feel I'm getting there digitally.

Although I don't have any examples at the moment, I feel like with traditional, I'm much more in control with the details of linewidth, penciling, and motion. However, If I make too many mistakes, I've ruined more than my fair share of pieces of paper.
With digital, it definitely costs less, and I can fix more of my mistakes without any pressure.
I've yet to go all out with traditional though, but I just got some new calligraphy and comic ink pens. I just need a desk that I can use it all on and start practicing. I even have a light board and stuff! Gaaaaaah I'm so anxious to get started on making stuff!

Hey.
I use both techniques.
I put a comparison below. Page 15 and page 16 of my comics Gloomy Piest1
Page 15 - traditonal - pencil, ink and paint. Color and effects in Photoshop
Page 16 - digital - tablet, sketchbook pro and Photoshop.
As you can see there is no much difference .

Traditional art takes me a little more time and I need to buy drawing tools. At the end I get oryginal comics page I can sell or give to a friend. Digital art doesn't exist physically but is cheaper and a bit faster to draw.

Traditional is more fun and I'm less shy about doing things I'd feel scared to approach on my tablet.

It feels a lot more personal, you can feel the paper, the pencil, and everything.

I like drawing and inking traditionally and coloring digitally. I feel it's easier for me to sketch traditionally then it is digitally. Style wise, it's not much of a difference besides how I color.