Traditioinal Sketch VS Digital Sketch

Traditional Sketch

Traditional sketch means the basic sketch drawn using hands. It is usually the first thing fresh artist learn when they begin their drawing. Starting from basic shapes and advancing to more complicated forms, they learn to use the pen to quickly express their drawings. Hand sketching is best suited to the early stages of the drawing process. It allows you to quickly draw your ideas out, do overall thinking and convey all your ideas with your hands. Being able to spread out all your sketches and ideas on paper can really help you make different drawing concepts and decisions (Cheung, 2011).

Digital Sketch

Nowadays, it is easily spotted that artists are beginning to use design softwares and digital tablets to do their skecthes. Digital sketching is useful for creating nice presentation sketches. Artist can create exciting and colorful sketches and renderings with the help of the resizing or recoloring system, the sketches done can be very clean and well polished.  Of course digital sketching can also be used for quick doodling and roughing out ideas as well, but still the traditional way is still mostly prefered (Cheung, 2011).

Photoshop, a most common software artists use.

Sketchbook Pro.

Traditional Sketch vs Digital Sketch:

1. The traditional way is faster than the digital way. To use the digital software's, the artist should be wary of how the software works.
2. It is more impressive to hand sketch your ideas rather than using the digital softwares. Traditional sketches lets people communicate clearly and with flair with pen and paper. Besides it is handy in a way that artists can directly jot down what they have in mind.
3. Digital Sketches are clean and visually exciting. As for the traditional way, the sketches are messy at times and might be hard to distinguish individual ideas.
4. The digital software's can be relatively expensive, take Photoshop as an example, it costs around hundreds AUD to get the whole thing. As for Sketchbook Pro, it costs around 80 AUD.

Overall, each type of sketch - traditional and digital, have different uses. It depends on how the artist views which way would suit them while they are doing their sketches. However, the traditional sketching is still an important skill as it forms the basis for digital sketching. It would be better if the artist gets use to using pen and paper for sketching before trying to move on to digital sketching, because the digital way would be much more frustrating (Cheung, 2011). 

Reference:

Cheung, A. (2011). Traditional vs. Digital Sketching. http://idcreatures.com/articles/traditional-vs-digital-sketching/

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