Back in the dim dark ages I did a little oil painting and a fair amount of pen n ink work. I am relatively new to the digital world, I guess, but it is SOOOOOOO much better. I fell into 3D in a big way but am now moving into 2D and photoshop.
Where’s the undo button when you are painting?
Where’s the copy/paste?
I just wish I had a wacom tablet :sad:
i still do oil paintings and watercolors. i have a fine arts degree and all that junk.
right now most of my stuff is computer and 3d. there’s something about oil paint that just rules so much.
I’m student in cg and i have a lot of traditional course this year, we must try the maximum of techniques to developp artistic capabilities but we got mainly watercolor and acrylic for painting, i must admit watercolor is not so bad, we can make pretty nice things like skies and rough design…
I agree with the fact that it’s an expensive practice 
When you come with nothing and you got the list with brushes, paint,papers etc… ouch it hurts :\
Cg isn’t exactly cheap either (a whole lot more than any amount I ever spent on art supplies…)
pc 1000$… 3d package~3000 etc etc
when’s the last time you spent 4k on paint and brushes? FYI it’s all relative you can make decent stuff with the children’s watercolor’s sets and a couple of decent brushes…spending under 10$ on that plus paper
I don’t think so, buying the material is expensive at first (when you get all the hardware). When you have all the tools you need, the only somewhat pricey stuff is the paper/boards and canvas.
I tried it last year, but it didn’t really worked out the way I had planned. the paint ended up everywhere but on the canvas, and thats why I prefer digital. You have an undo button 
I’ve been thinking about giving it another try, though.
I do create art the trditional way sometimes. I use colored pencils and markers, and there are times that i combine the traditional and digital. i draw something, scan it, and add a few extra “special effects” with the computer, like lensflares and texture. it’s fun to see in how many ways you can combine the best of both worlds this way, I really recommend it!
I have an experince at drawing with pincel and drawing on a canves with acrilic … I dont know if that what you mean … but it need paichants 
I’m more of an analog artist too, currently finishing my B.F.A. already completed my drawing concentration and now taking the last painting credits required to finish the paining concentration…
Digital is super fun though, no mess! and you don’t swallow chemicals…
I used to make traditional paintings mainly with gouache and water painting 8 to 10 years back. Too bad I gave it up.
Also trad here. I draw a good bit and the classes that have helped me the most are life figure drawing. That class helps you plenty imo. Once you have the idea of gesture you can gesture everything in the world and later detail it. I use to go into details first all the time and my works ended up badly. Figure drawing is a course to take. Another class is color theory. Color theory really helps you understand how colors act side by side and also helps you on setting up a composition based on color. Atm I do not have space for much trad so I paint mostly on my PC… Which is good I needed more practice painting in digital.
On top of the digital stuff I do, I try to put in a few hours on my watercolors every single week. I buy good paper, I buy decent brushes, I pay for classes… and the price of painting still doesn’t apporach the cost of my computer, wacom tablet, etcetera.
I like that watercolors forces me to think in a different way than Photoshop does. And when I’m all done, there’s a really cool feeling you get from holding in yourt hands the single, solitary copy of a piece, not one of an infinite possible number of hard-copies. Makes me appreciate the piece more. (You can sell it for more, too! )
-mike
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