Totally true!!
...unless you do a lot of drawing, you want to do multiple media types (pencil, pen, color pencil, watercolor, paint, etc.), larger canvas, etc.
Non-digital art can get expensive FAST.
Exactly. Also, with digital art, you can undo. How many drawings get ruined by one misstroke? With digital, you can keep redoing that stroke until you get it right.
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Sure, but does Mom need all that software?
U can always tell digital only artists, they overwork everything. And digital art tends to look all the same, because of software limitations. Drawings look better with confident strokes. U only learn that by ruining lots of drawings. And if one is learning to draw- an undo button will become a crutch. I use digital because it's faster for commercial art. But is it better for art? No way. I would much rather use traditional rather than digital media. It's Much more affordable and enjoyable. Pencil and paper is cheap. So is water colors. I could paint for a decade for the cost of one iPad Pro. I have over a grand into mine, that's allot of art supplies.
The iPad pencil feels nothing like a real pencil. I use pencils everyday. And there is a digital disconnect and parallax with digital devices. iPad lacks an a analogue feel- Wacom does this much better- imo. The things holding the pro back is the software and low end hardware specs (fine for hobby drawing- lacking for commercial art). But not everyone needs full photoshop or sketchbook pro.
Drawing apps are far superior on Windows. But few really care or need those capabilities. Simplicity wins for hobby artists.
That said, iPad is one of the best digital drawing experiences. It's defiantly a little bit better than n-trig (surface) and almost was good as Wacom in my personal experience. The iPad is defiantly the best low end solution available, I just miss my favorite art programs.